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Cortex XSIAM vs Devo comparison

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ROI

Sentiment score
4.3
Cortex XSIAM achieved savings over $500,000 by automating over half of detection and response, optimizing incident management.
Sentiment score
6.2
Devo provided improved ROI through cost savings and efficiency, despite some concerns over costs and support challenges.
Devo gives value to the end user and is saving compared to other products in the same category.
Principal Consultant at Syntx Sdn Bhd
In terms of return on investment with Devo, I'd say it has been costly due to the need for support and the overtime required for issues experienced at the beginning of the project.
Senior Consultant and Technical Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We achieve early identification of security incidents that could potentially breach the customer environment, which would have been costly.
Principal Technology Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.1
Cortex XSIAM technical support experiences vary, with premium support praised for expertise, while distributor-based support quality fluctuates.
Sentiment score
6.2
Customer service is responsive and proactive, but needs improvement in onboarding, documentation, and regional service consistency.
With premium support, core Palo Alto technical experts handle issues directly.
Team Lead, Security at seamlessinfotech.com
It is ineffective in terms of responding to basic queries and addressing future requirements.
Associate Director at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
I had a dedicated person allocated for supporting, and even with them, it was very good.
Cybersecurity Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
I rate the customer support a nine out of ten because of their timely technical guidance and responsiveness during the deployment and troubleshooting periods.
Cyber Security Engineer Ii (Vulnerability & Threat Management) at FICO
Both response time and support quality need attention.
Team Lead Soc at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Technical support from Devo is helpful.
Principal Consultant at Syntx Sdn Bhd
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.6
Cortex XSIAM excels in scalability and cloud deployment, though integration affects performance and some prefer more on-premises functionality.
Sentiment score
6.9
Praised for scalability, Devo efficiently manages large logs, easily expands use, but multi-tenancy features need development.
Without proper integration, scaling up with more servers is meaningless.
Associate Director at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
The SOC team is responsible for fully managing Cortex XSIAM.
Cybersecurity Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Cortex XSIAM is highly scalable.
SOC Analyst at OVELOSEC
Devo is a unified SIEM solution designed to handle growing log volumes and enterprise-scale monitoring requirements.
Cyber Security Engineer Ii (Vulnerability & Threat Management) at FICO
Devo's scalability has its challenges.
Senior Consultant and Technical Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Regarding Devo's scalability, its horizontal scalability is quite good with no significant hassle.
Principal Technology Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
Cortex XSIAM is cloud-based, reliable, with minimal maintenance, and occasional update issues are quickly resolved, enhancing performance.
Sentiment score
7.5
Devo offers reliable performance with minimal outages, praised for proactive alerts and quick incident resolution, ensuring business continuity.
The product was easy to install and set up and worked right.
Owner at Xelere
With continuous integration that the colleagues probably are doing, it is becoming better and better.
Cybersecurity Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Overall, Cortex XSIAM is stable.
SOC Analyst at OVELOSEC
It is stable and reliable for our security operations.
Cyber Security Engineer Ii (Vulnerability & Threat Management) at FICO
 

Room For Improvement

Cortex XSIAM needs better integration, usability, pricing, data management, and support for enhanced performance and flexibility.
Devo needs enhancements in support, performance, AI, customization, and documentation, focusing on data management and UI configuration.
Obtaining validation for integrations from Palo Alto takes around eight months, which is quite long.
Associate Director at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Cortex XSIAM needs improvements in terms of data onboarding, parsers, and third-party integration supports.
SOC Analyst at OVELOSEC
Cortex XSIAM is on the expensive side and requires substantial improvement in pricing.
Solutions Architect at ostec
It's hard for us to keep pace since our original use case was 250 to 500 megabytes a day, and then it became two terabytes a day.
Senior Consultant and Technical Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Integrating custom parsing and mapping for non-standard logs is essential due to compatibility challenges with various technologies.
Principal Technology Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
This is particularly evident when dealing with failed login attempts and determining true versus false positives.
Strategic Account Executive at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
 

Setup Cost

Cortex XSIAM is expensive with variable pricing, complexity in licensing, and additional costs for functionalities and resources.
Devo offers competitive, simple data ingestion-based pricing with extensive features and flexibility, despite some limitations in tier options.
The first impression is that XSIAM would be more expensive than others we tried.
Owner at Xelere
The product is very expensive.
Associate Director at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Cortex XSIAM is pretty expensive, and the licensing process is not very comfortable.
Director at MICROLOGIC NETWORKS PRIVATE LIMITED
The pricing could be simpler, and while the initial setup cost for a new instance is a bit expensive, the licensing can currently be user-based or driven by log volume, which is better if there is expansion of our user base.
Principal Technology Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The pricing of the product is reasonable if we compare it with other Gartner leading products like Splunk, LogRhythm, Microsoft Sentinel, Google SecOps.
Team Lead Soc at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
 

Valuable Features

Cortex XSIAM enhances incident response with automation, integration, and machine learning, providing comprehensive network security and threat identification.
Devo excels in real-time analytics, large data handling, customization, and third-party integration, enhancing security operations with advanced features.
The advanced visualization capabilities of the product are important for understanding security trends in an organization.
Solutions Architect at ostec
To have Cortex XSIAM available is to basically have integration of all log sources, all alerting, and so on and so forth from firewalls and different tools, to get everything in one place, and afterwards to be able to build on the information that is coming.
Cybersecurity Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
One of the valued aspects of the product is its use of artificial intelligence to detect security vulnerabilities.
Owner at Xelere
When they see a spike in a line chart for a failed login, which could be a true or false attempt, they can click that spike, and a table widget on the same active board instantly populates with raw logs of data for those specific failed logins.
Strategic Account Executive at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
When the analyst uses queries to search, it pulls the data quickly, in a second, which aids us greatly with the investigation.
Cyber Security Engineer Ii (Vulnerability & Threat Management) at FICO
It utilizes 400 days of hot data, allowing queries to run very fast and yield results quicker than other tools in terms of security and SIEM capability.
Senior Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Cortex XSIAM
Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
14th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
16
Ranking in other categories
Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) (6th), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (8th)
Devo
Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
16th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
30
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (21st), IT Operations Analytics (7th), AIOps (17th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of Cortex XSIAM is 1.4%, down from 2.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Devo is 1.2%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Cortex XSIAM1.4%
Devo1.2%
Other97.4%
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2541030 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cybersecurity Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Unified security monitoring has simplified incident response and improved automated threat handling
The firewall side can make some improvements. I know the firewall on Cortex XSIAM is based on Windows. From what I have experienced so far, I have seen that the policies you can create are actually very in-depth. I mean, you can do most of the things and a lot of integration that you actually want. So if I want to choose to send things to WildFire, for example, I can choose to send it, I can choose to not send it. This basically offers flexibility to implement Cortex XSIAM in more standardized places where you maybe have a certification. I would say that the thing that maybe needs a bit more improvement is the fact that the one with the firewall because I have seen some things there that are kind of hard to manage. You do not really have a very easy way to manage those, unless you actually know where you have put them. So it is very inflexible. In the rest, you have a lot of playbooks that you can do and you can do lots of automation, which is actually easy to manage from what I have seen from my colleagues.
Usama Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead Soc at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Advanced threat hunting has improved SOC visibility and now supports faster incident response
Devo can improve in how its connectors enhance integration with third-party tools. Devo's architecture works by having you deploy a relay server in the data center of the client side and Devo SIEM is basically on the AWS cloud. There are specific ports which are enabled on the relay server, which are 514 and 13000, 13151, 152. However, when we talk about databases and custom integrations, there are not default ports in the relay server. No default ports are defined. For JDBC drivers, the port number is 1433, but it is not in the relay server. You have to add it manually. For Oracle RDBMS, the port is 1521, and it is also not there by default. I would appreciate more third-party integrations including Fortinet and others. Machine learning models can also be improved. Playbooks in the SOAR can also be improved. Regarding playbooks for automation, we utilize playbooks for automation in SOAR for automated IOC blocking on a firewall, on a web application firewall, on DNS security, etc. The only option for us to run the playbook is to schedule the job for it. However, if I want to manually run the playbook, there is no option for doing so. This needs improvement.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Construction Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise5
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise15
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cortex XSIAM?
I did not participate in pricing discussions for Cortex XSIAM solutions, so I cannot provide a review regarding prices for this solution.
What needs improvement with Cortex XSIAM?
The firewall side can make some improvements. I know the firewall on Cortex XSIAM is based on Windows. From what I have experienced so far, I have seen that the policies you can create are actually...
What needs improvement with Devo?
In terms of improvements, I think Devo falls short with their support model, as they rely mainly on their support team in Spain. Although they do have a support team in North America, they lack kno...
What is your primary use case for Devo?
Devo is the bank's centralized log management platform that my team and I rely on the most. For centralized log management in our day-to-day work, one of the biggest data users would be our Red Hat...
 

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Sample Customers

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United States Air Force, Rubrik, SentinelOne, Critical Start, NHL, Panda Security, Telefonica, CaixaBank, OpenText, IGT, OneMain Financial, SurveyMonkey, FanDuel, H&R Block, Ulta Beauty, Manulife, Moneylion, Chime Bank, Magna International, American Express Global Business Travel
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