What is our primary use case?
Splunk SOAR can be deployed on the cloud, on-premise, and hybrid. If you want to put it to your cellphone or public cloud to use cloud services, such as Amazon AWS or Google Cloud Platform it is possible.
The main usage is for security monitoring, insider threat protection, user and entity behavioral analytics (UEBA), Security orchestration, automation, privileged user and account protection, and security against attacks, such as phishing and advanced malware attacks.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature of Splunk SOAR that stands out is it has a great SOAR. The automation and orchestration module is highly mature. A lot of use cases are on user entity and behavioral analytics (UEBA), which is artificial intelligence and machine learning-based (AIML).
What needs improvement?
Splunk SOAR can improve IoT/OT security-related case studies or your use cases. Their integration with identity and access management (IAM) solutions is a bit shaky. They don't have good integration with a lot of IAM solutions. They do have good capability in terms of user access management internally, but even with privileged user access, they have a good module. However, if they have to integrate with solutions, such as CyberArk or IBM IAM solutions they are lacking, the visibility of user access is not that much.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Splunk SOAR for approximately 10 years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability of Splunk SOAR is good.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Splunk SOAR is highly scalable.
How are customer service and support?
I rate the support from Splunk SOAR a three out of five.
The support knowledge of use cases from the telecom industry, and IoT industry are good. They're good at accommodating normal IT use cases, but when it comes to operating our OT devices, or telecom-related use cases, they're not really flexible or good at it. In terms of developing use cases for them, they are not that good. For example, if they are approached by some vendor and they say, "Devise up some use cases for Nokia and Huawei", these are our basic telecom providers, it's really difficult for Splunk SOAR to make use cases for them. They're good at IT, but they're not good at OT and IoT.
How was the initial setup?
Splunk SOAR is easy to deploy. It has a lot of already built-in use cases, and it is very easy to customize. For the deployment of Splunk SOAR, it takes approximately two engineers. For a medium complexity, 3000 DPS-sized deployments, it will take a half month. If there are a lot of custom use cases, you can add another month for those customizations to be completed.
What about the implementation team?
We need approximately four to five engineers for maintenance for a dedicated sizing. If you are going for a shared model, then two to three engineers would be sufficient. Both have 24 hours a day seven days a week operating windows.
What was our ROI?
I won't say ROI's not there for Splunk SOAR. It's a value-for-money solution, but if they charge less, then it will bring more value. Currently, the ROI is flat, you will hardly have an ROI.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Splunk SOAR follows very flat pricing and most of the time it's very high when compared to the other competitors. They can improve their pricing. The licensing model is a subscription and is consumption-based.
What other advice do I have?
I rate Splunk SOAR an eight out of ten.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.