

McAfee already plans to change the ESM platform to run on a big-data architecture in the near future, enabling the development of these lacking capabilities. It is important to consider that McAfee ESM, when compared other top SIEM technologies, lacks advanced, machine-driven analytics capabilities. It provides the security team with continuous visibility into threats and risks, and facilitates decisive analysis that can accelerate investigations and other important tasks, such as the orchestration of security patches. McAfee Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) is another top rated SIEM product that provides critical information, such as real-time visibility into all activity across systems, networks, databases and applications.

LogRhythm Threat Lifecycle Management provides not only core SIEM functions, but also includes the options of add-ons for network and host monitoring. Splunk can provide advanced analytics capabilities through several different means across its ecosystem, including built-in core search capabilities, a machine learning toolkit and several other options via third-party app providers. It can provide event and data collection, and features several analytics capabilities, search functions and visualizations. Splunk Enterprise is the primary component of the product. Splunk’s Security Intelligence Platform was also listed as a leader in Gartner’s 2017 Magic Quadrant for SIEM technologies. This is an on-premises solution available via a stand-alone or distributed architecture - SIEM as a service (QRadar on Cloud) or as co-managed QRadar in partnership with IBM Managed Security Services. IBM Security QRadar was the best-positioned leader product on Gartner’s 2017 Magic Quadrant for SIEM technologies. Here are the top 9 SIEM products of 2017:
