NetWitness Platform vs Trellix Network Detection and Response comparison

The compared NetWitness and Trellix solutions aren't in the same category. NetWitness is ranked #35 in Log Management , with an average rating of 8.0, and holds a 0.4% mindshare in the category. Trellix is ranked #12 in ATP , with an average rating of 7.6, and holds a 5.4% mindshare. Additionally, 75% of NetWitness users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 97% of Trellix users who would recommend it.

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between NetWitness Platform and Trellix Network Detection and Response based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Log Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

NetWitness Platform

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (35th), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (31st)

Trellix Network Detection a...

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) (12th), Network Detection and Response (NDR) (11th)

Mindshare comparison

NetWitness Platform and Trellix Network Detection and Response aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. NetWitness Platform is designed for Log Management and holds a mindshare of 0.4%, up 0.3% compared to last year.
Trellix Network Detection and Response, on the other hand, focuses on Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), holds 5.4% mindshare, up 4.5% since last year.

Log Management

Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)

Featured Reviews

MOTASHIM Al Razi

CISO at One Bank Limited

It is a stable solution, but they should make the user interface easier to understand

The solution's initial setup takes work. We have to organize multiple paths and many features. The deployment process takes less than a week. But it takes a month to complete if we want to make the solution smarter by integrating it with various devices. I rate the process as a six out of ten.

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BiswabhanuPanda

Senior technical consultant at Hitachi Systems Micro Clinic

Offers in-depth investigation capabilities, integrates well and smoothly transitioned from a lower-capacity appliance to a higher one

The in-depth investigation capabilities are a major advantage. When the system flags something as malicious, it provides a packet capture of that activity within the environment. That helps my team quickly identify additional context that most other tools wouldn't offer – like source IP or base64 encoded data. We can also see DNS requests and other details that aren't readily available in solutions like Check Point or others that we've tried. The detection itself is solid, and their sandboxing is powerful. There's a learning curve – you need a strong grasp of OS-level changes, process forking, registry changes, and the potential impact of those. But with that knowledge, the level of information Trellix provides is far greater than what we've seen elsewhere. The real-time response capability of Trellix has been quite effective, although it's not very fast. The key is this solution's concept of 'preference zero.' They don't immediately act on a zero-day. For example, the solution has seen a piece of malware for the first time. It'll let it in, then do sandboxing. Maybe after four or five minutes, it identifies that specific file's DNX Secure Store as malicious. At that point, they update the static analysis engine, and it gets detected if anything else tries to download the same file. There is that initial 'preference zero' concept, like with Panda. You may not hold traffic in the network. That's standard in the industry; we don't do much about it. To address that, we also have endpoint solutions. We use SentinelOne in our environment, which helps us identify threats like Western Bureaus and others.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The solution is really scalable for the high-end power, enterprise customer."

"I can have enterprise security, email security, next generation firewall security log, HIDS and NIDS logs, etc. all on the same dashboard. It makes it easy to pinpoint or correlate our server to this. I can find out if there is lateral movement. This is the biggest advantage of this solution."

"The most valuable feature is the hunting ability to work in a CERT."

"The product's initial setup phase was not at all difficult."

"The most valuable feature is the security that it provides."

"Offers a good wireless feature."

"The most valuable features are the threat prediction and network forensics."

"Alerting Module: It provides real-time event processing language on all the logs/packets stream for advanced alerting, i.e., using SQL LIKE statements."

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"The product is very easy to configure."

"I also like its logging method. Its logging is very powerful and useful for forensic purposes. You can see the traffic or a specific activity or how something entered your network and where it went."

"The most valuable feature is MVX, which tests all of the files that have been received in an email."

"Improved our systems and our customers' by providing better malware protection, defense against zero-day threats, and improved network security."

"We wanted to cross-reference that activity with the network traffic just to be sure there was no lateral movement. With Trellix, we easily confirmed that there was no lateral network involvement and that nothing else was infected. It helped us correlate the events and feel confident in our containment."

"It is stable and quite protective. It has a lot of features to scan a lot of malicious things and vulnerabilities."

"The server appliance is good."

"Trellix NDR provides an essential defense by automatically responding to network incidents that firewalls may not catch."

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Cons

"The tool's integration capability isn't so great."

"I'd like to see improvement in its ease of use. It's basically unusable. It's overly complex."

"We have encountered issues with unresolved crashes."

"More customizability is required, which is something that they need to improve on."

"An area for improvement would be better automation and more inbuilt use cases."

"Log aggregation is an issue with this solution because there are a huge number of alerts in a single instance."

"The initial setup is complex. There are other solutions that are easier to implement."

"The documentation is not as structured as I would like, personally, and I think that it can be improved and made much more user-friendly."

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"As far as future inclusions, it would be useful to display more threat intelligence, such as the actual area of the threat and the origin of the web crawling (Tor and Dark Web)."

"Technical support could be improved."

"The problem with FireEye is that they don't allow VM or sandbox customization. The user doesn't have control of the VMs that are inside the box. It comes from the vendor as-is. Some users like to have control of it. Like what type of Windows and what type of applications and they have zero control over this."

"FireEye Network Security should have better integration with other vendors' firewalls or proxies, such as Palo Alto and Fortinet. Files that are being submitted should happen through the API or automatically."

"The analytics could be better. It seems heavily influenced by the McAfee and FireEye integration, and that integration still isn't seamless."

"Technical packaging could be improved."

"They can maybe consider supporting some compliance standards. When we are configuring rules and policies, it can guide whether they are compliant with a particular compliance authority. In addition, if I have configured some rules that have not been used, it should give a report saying that these rules have not been used in the last three months or six months so that I disable or delete those rules."

"Certain features in Trellix Network Detection and Response, such as using AL-type commands, may initially pose a challenge for those unfamiliar with such commands. However, once users become accustomed to the system, it becomes easier to use."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Our license is for one year."

"It’s cheaper to run virtual machines in a VMware environment."

"Many clients are not able to purchase the packet capability because there is a huge amount of data, and the cost depends on the number of EPS (Events per second), as well as the number of gigabytes of data per day."

"We are on an annual license for the use of the solution."

"We have yearly licensing costs. The license fee can be based on the volume of EPS. Some organizations may have, as a gentlemanly gesture, 10,000 EPS and get a 3,000 EPS license but actually use 5,000 EPS."

"The product price was reasonable for my region and the market."

"The NetWitness Platform may be affordable only for enterprise-level customers, as it may not be within the budget of small and medium-sized businesses."

"Compared to the competition, the is price is not that high."

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"The tool is a bit pricey."

"When I compare this solution to its competitors in the market, I find that it is a little expensive."

"When you purchase FireEye Network Security NX, will need to purchase a megabit per second package. You must know your needs from day one."

"The pricing is a little high."

"We're partners with Cisco so we get a reasonable price. It's cheaper than Palo Alto in terms of licensing."

"The user fee is not as high but the maintenance fee is expensive."

"Because of what the FireEye product does, it has significantly decreased our mean time in being able to identify and detect malicious threats. The company that I work with is a very mature organization, and we have seen the meantime to analysis decrease by at least tenfold."

"There are some additional services that I understand the vendor provides, but our approach was to package all of the features that we were looking to use into the product."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

13%

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

12%

Comms Service Provider

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about NetWitness Platform?

The product's initial setup phase was not at all difficult.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetWitness Platform?

The pricing is comparable to others, and I consider the cost to be intermediate. Specific cost details are unknown to me.

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What needs improvement with NetWitness Platform?

There is currently no need for improvement in the SIEM ( /categories/security-information-and-event-management-siem ), though there could be potential enhancements by integrating with AI.

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What do you like most about FireEye Network Security?

We wanted to cross-reference that activity with the network traffic just to be sure there was no lateral movement. With Trellix, we easily confirmed that there was no lateral network involvement an...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for FireEye Network Security?

While I do not handle pricing directly, it is known that there is a variety of customers with different licensing needs, which depends on the organization's size and policy.

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What needs improvement with FireEye Network Security?

The Trellix solution could be improved by enhancing the Central Management Console for faster visibility, which would help in network detection response. Networking often involves complexity that c...

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Compared 23% of the time

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Compared 19% of the time

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Compared 12% of the time

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Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Compared 13% of the time

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Compared 10% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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Also Known As

RSA Security Analytics

FireEye Network Security, FireEye

Overview

NetWitness Platform is an evolved SIEM and threat detection and response solution that functions as a single, unified platform for ALL your security data. It features an advanced analyst workbench for triaging alerts and incidents, and it orchestrates security operations programs end to end. In short: NetWitness Platform is all you need to run an intelligent SOC.

NetWitness

Detect the undetectable and stop evasive attacks. Trellix Network Detection and Response (NDR) helps your team focus on real attacks, contain intrusions with speed and intelligence, and eliminate your cybersecurity weak points.

Trellix

Sample Customers

Los Angeles World Airports, Reply

FFRDC, Finansbank, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Investis, Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, Bank of Thailand, City of Miramar, Citizens National Bank, D-Wave Systems

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