NetWitness Platform vs Trellix Network Detection and Response comparison

The compared NetWitness and Trellix solutions aren't in the same category. NetWitness is ranked #37 in Log Management , with an average rating of 8.0, and holds a 0.3% mindshare in the category. Trellix is ranked #12 in ATP , with an average rating of 7.6, and holds a 5.3% 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 (37th), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (29th)

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) (10th)

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 0.3%, down 0.4% compared to last year.
Trellix Network Detection and Response, on the other hand, focuses on Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), holds 5.3% 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 most valuable feature is the ability to write rules and triggers for network communication, and then being able to investigate based on that."

"The development of use cases on the SSA console is quite user friendly. This means that the security analyst or the researcher does not have to learn another language."

"The most valuable features are the packet inspection and the automated incident response."

"The software is scalable to whatever is required, and you can also put a lot of resources in the cloud."

"The most valuable features are the integration and ease of use."

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

"Their technical support responds quickly and are knowledgable."

"What we are mainly using are the RSA concentrator, RSA Decoder, Archiver, Broker, and Log Decoder."

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"Initially, we didn't have much visibility around what is occurring at our applications lower level. For instance, if we are exposed to any malicious attacks or SQL injections. But now we've integrated FireEye with Splunk, so now we get lots of triggers based on policy content associated with FireEye. The solution has allowed for growth and improvement in our information security and security operations teams."

"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."

"Support is very helpful and responsive."

"Before FireEye, most of the times that an incident would happen nobody would be able to find out where or why the incident occurred and that the system is compromised. FireEye is a better product because if the incident already happened I know that the breach is there and that the system is compromised so we can take appropriate action to prevent anything from happening."

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

"The product has helped improve our organization by being easy to use and integrate. This saves time, trouble and money."

"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 of the solution stems from how it allows users to do the investigation part. Another important part of the product that is valuable is associated with how it gives information to users in the form of a storyline."

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Cons

"The initial setup was complex because it takes a lot of time to complete the implementation."

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

"Lots of competing products have vulnerability protection built into their products, and this solution would be improved by including that support."

"I believe that integrating the solution with other products such as Oracle would be beneficial."

"The user interface is a little bit difficult for new users and it needs to be improved."

"The system looks like it is a mix of a bunch of different systems, and nothing looked like it was quite together."

"The system architecture is complex and sometimes it’s hard to troubleshoot potential problems."

"The threat detection capability and centralizing and upgrading capability need to be improved. The threat alert capability needs to be improved as well because there is some lag time at present. They need to work on their database search too."

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"It would be very helpful if there were better integration with other solutions from other vendors, such as Fortinet and Palo Alto."

"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."

"If you want to search the hashes in the environment, you need to put in IOCs one by one, making it a very hectic job."

"Technical support could be improved."

"It is not a very secure product."

"Improvements could be achieved through greater integration capabilities with different firewall solutions. Integrating with the dashboard itself for different firewalls so users can also pull tags into their firewall dashboard."

"It doesn't connect with the cloud, advanced machine learning is not there. A known threat can be coming into the network and we would want the cloud to look up the problem. I would also like to see them develop more file replication and machine learning."

"The initial setup was complex because of the nature of our environment. When it comes to the type of applications and functions which we were looking at in terms of identifying malicious threats, there would be some level of complexity, if we were doing it right."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"We have a perpetual license, so the total cost of ownership is not very expensive. It's a good investment."

"There is a licensing fee and the customer can choose whether he wishes this to be subscription-based or perpetual."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"It is cheap."

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

"It's an expensive solution."

"The pricing is a little high."

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

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

"FireEye is comparable to other products, such as HX, but seems expensive. It may cause us to look at other products in the market."

"The tool is a bit pricey."

"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

17%

Computer Software Company

17%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

13%

Comms Service Provider

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

Company Size

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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 14% of the time

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Compared 11% of the time

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Compared 8% 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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