Splunk vs. CrowdStrike Falcon NextGen-SIEM

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In today's rapidly evolving IT landscape where over 80% of organizations use multi-cloud environments, the potentially complicated deployment architectures from Crowdstrike can cause additional challenges. Organizations need more flexibility in their cloud strategies.

Ingesting data quickly and seamlessly into your SIEM solution is essential to facilitate rapid threat detection and close cases faster. To detect all manner of threats, a SIEM must be able to ingest and analyze all types of data.Crowdstrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM customers report that data ingestion is laborious and time-consuming, and limited to only a few data types. Likewise, data parsing is inadequate and error-prone. In many cases you may need to bring in data via another 3rd party provider in order to integrate your data.

Bring in unstructured data at petabyte-scale ready immediately for high performance investigative search and reporting needs. Filter, enrich, transform and route just the data you want from the edge or cloud into Splunk — or send to third party cloud storage. Convert logs to metrics and freely analyze and correlate data without the limitations of conventional database structures. Import reference data or trained AI & ML algorithms from relational databases, data warehouses or the data lake for a complete business view.

Crowdstrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM has limited SIEM functionality. Customers report that Crowdstrike LogScale, a major component of NG-SIEM, is a basic log management tool and doesn’t offer many compelling capabilities. Dashboards are elementary, the alert engine is weak, correlation of alerts are difficult and some customers have reported that customer support is slow to respond to help requests. Limited third-party integrations and community ecosystem means less options for SIEM functionality. If you want compliance-based reporting, you will need another solution from another vendor.

Powerful dashboards offer almost limitless customization. Analysts get comprehensive visibility with custom alerts that can be set to varying levels of granularity based on conditions such as data thresholds, trend-based conditions and behavioral pattern recognition. Risk-based alerting (RBA) can reduce alert volumes by up to 90%. And with access to Splunk's network of 2,200+ partners and Splunkbase’s 2,800+ partner and community-built apps, security teams can seamlessly integrate the SIEM with their existing tool stack.

According to CrowdStrike, 85% of data in their SIEM is endpoint and EDR data. The reality is, endpoint data is only one aspect of achieving the visibility required to stay on top of today’s threats.

Splunk Enterprise Security is recognized as a leader in the category year after year by third-party analyst firms with expertise in SIEM technology. Splunk gives customers the ability to ingest, normalize and analyze data from all enterprise sources to find any event anytime at scale. You can search and correlate across multi-cloud, on-premises, or hybrid data sources so maximum attack-surface coverage is achieved.

Since deploying Splunk, we haven’t had any critical security incidents. We’re more resilient than ever.

Sergio Gonzalez, CISO, Soriana

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Splunk vs Crowdstrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM

	Splunk Enterprise Security	Crowdstrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM
Proactively address risk	Splunk Enterprise Security risk-based alerting (RBA) enhances prioritizations by attributing risk to users and systems, mapping alerts to cybersecurity frameworks and triggering alerts when risks exceed thresholds. This reduces alert fatigue, keeping efforts focused on detecting high-fidelity threats to proactively address risk.	Crowdstrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM only provides limited capabilities for alert prioritization. In many cases users must manually sift through data to prioritize alerts. Without advanced correlations and customizable risk scoring, high-risk threats may not be addressed promptly.
Unified threat detection, investigation and response (TDIR) capabilities	Splunk Enterprise Security delivers unified threat detection, investigation and response workflows by bringing together capabilities across SIEM, security monitoring and analytics, assistive AI, risk-based alerting, threat intelligence, federated search and federated analytics, orchestration and automation (SOAR), case management and response templates aligned to industry standard frameworks — all in one package.	Crowdstrike’s offering of “Next-Gen SIEM” is a combination of Crowdstrike LogScale, a log management technology, Falcon NGAV/EDR, and Falcon Fusion (only offering just over 120 pre-built actions), and a few other tools. Other capabilities are offered as add-ons.
Curated SIEM Detections	Splunk has 1,700+ curated detections aligned to industry frameworks so you can realize value from day one. With Splunk, you get automatic security content updates delivered directly from the Splunk Threat Research Team to help you stay on top of new and emerging threats.	CrowdStrike is slowly building some curated correlation detections at the SIEM-level. Most alerting from CrowdStrike, comes from the endpoint.

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