Find and stop emergent threats with Splunk
Splunk Enterprise Security helps customers reduce alert fatigue, speed up security outcomes, significantly minimize risk, and drive resilience for the agentic AI era.
ES Essentials | ES Premier | |
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What’s included | ||
Security monitoring Monitor across on-prem, hybrid, and multi-cloud in real time to spot threats early and reduce risk. |
✓ | ✓ |
Threat detection *In Alpha where available |
✓ | ✓ |
Threat investigation Uncover the details of any threat using an integrated platform that combines advanced search, correlation, and analytics to enable collaboration and efficient workflows. |
✓ | ✓ |
Threat hunting Leverage powerful search, correlation, analytics, and threat intelligence enrichment to uncover hidden and emerging threats. |
✓ | ✓ |
Automation Automate tasks, orchestrate workflows, and run customizable playbooks with SOAR available to every analyst. |
✓ | |
Insider threat detection Spot insider threats early with real-time monitoring and advanced machine learning to flag anomalies and trigger high-fidelity alerts. |
✓ | |
Data management and federation* *May incur in additional costs |
✓ | ✓ |
Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) is an integrated threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR) platform that streamlines security workflows into a unified experience. It integrates capabilities like security information and event management (SIEM), agentic AI and SOAR for automation, UEBA, and AI/ML for improving detection accuracy and response speed.
By bringing these capabilities into a single interface, Enterprise Security reduces inefficiencies, eliminates tool silos, and ensures that SOC teams can detect, investigate, and respond to threats more effectively.
Switching to ES Premier delivers immediate, tangible benefits to current Splunk customers. These include:
By adopting ES Premier now, customers can reduce operational inefficiencies, scale their security operations, and take advantage of the latest AI-driven capabilities.
*Controlled availability where available.
As for today, Enterprise Security currently has two versions of editions that customers can choose from: Essentials and Premier. ES Essentials offers not only the well-known SIEM, but also AI Assistant for Security (AIA), and Detection Studio when available.
Splunk Enterprise Security Essentials is a security information and event management (SIEM) solution that has been a leader in the market for over a decade. Meanwhile, Splunk Enterprise Security Premier extends beyond the capabilities of solely SIEM. ES Premier is a new unified platform for threat detection, investigation, and response that brings together SIEM, UEBA, SOAR, and AI capabilities — all built into a single platform to address today’s rapidly evolving security landscape.
Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) leverages agentic AI to boost security operations center (SOC) team efficiency by automating routine, low-complexity tasks through progressive autonomy. This approach allows SOC teams to gradually increase AI’s role — ranging from fully automated actions to AI suggestions requiring approval — while maintaining human oversight.
ES includes advanced features like malware reversing, which automatically breaks down malicious scripts line-by-line, extracts indicators of compromise, flags evasion techniques, and groups recurring behaviors to speed up analysis. Additionally, there is a triaging agent that evaluates, prioritizes, and explains alerts, helping SOC teams focus on the most critical threats.
With natural language commands, SOC teams can quickly build and customize automation playbooks and detection rules without needing advanced technical skills. By streamlining alert enrichment, triage, investigation, and malware analysis, ES reduces operational burden and enables SOC analysts to focus on high-impact security tasks.