Google Security Operations vs Splunk SOAR comparison

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Google and Splunk are both solutions in the Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) category. Google is ranked #12 with an average rating of 9.0, while Splunk is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.2. Additionally, 87% of Google users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Splunk users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 29, 2026

Google Security Operations and Splunk SOAR are competitive products in the security operations category. Google Security Operations gains an edge with its seamless integration with Google Cloud services, while Splunk SOAR is recognized for its advanced orchestration capabilities and wide range of integrations.

Features: Google Security Operations offers native integration with Google Cloud, ensuring effective threat detection and response. It excels in automation capabilities and scalable cloud integration. Splunk SOAR stands out with its robust playbook development, extensive third-party integrations, and advanced threat orchestration features, appealing to organizations seeking high flexibility and functionality.

Room for Improvement: Google Security Operations could enhance its non-Google Cloud integrations and expand customization options to cater to diverse business environments. Splunk SOAR can improve by streamlining its complex setup process and enhancing user interface intuitiveness for newer users, while also optimizing resource utilization, particularly in its AI engine.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Google Security Operations offers straightforward deployment, particularly beneficial for Google Cloud users, alongside reliable customer support. Splunk SOAR, while offering excellent support, presents a more complex setup given its extensive customization potential, which may appeal to those with specific organizational needs.

Pricing and ROI: Google Security Operations is considered to have competitive pricing for Google Cloud users, leading to a favorable ROI with its integrated services. Splunk SOAR requires a higher initial investment but promises long-term ROI through its comprehensive feature set, making it a wise choice for businesses prioritizing advanced security capabilities.

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Torq

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AdityaDesai

Solutions Architect at ProArch

Automation has streamlined multi-tenant SOC workflows and improves alert handling efficiency

Although the reporting within Torq is not that great, we did ask for many features regarding reporting in Torq, but due to some platform constraints, they could not make the whole dataset available for us to be used in reporting. Except for that, we used some basic reporting. When I used Torq, it was indeed in the early stages of AI capabilities. Only a few customers were allowed to use it, and we were among them. It functioned well as long as we summarized the data properly. If you input garbage, you would get garbage out. Thus, we had to do significant fine-tuning regarding what data context we provided to the AI orchestrator to get meaningful results. In terms of Torq's unified platform approach to AI SOC automation and case management compared to managing multiple point solutions across my security stack, I find it case-centric. The unified view in case management is good since it provides clarity, although there are limitations regarding how many items in case management can be modified at once. Bulk operations are very limited, potentially due to their back-end database or data retrieval processes that can be improved. Regarding improvements for Torq, when we were onboarded, there were aspects we were uncertain about, such as the number of cases that could be generated, what data we could bring in, how many clients we could onboard, and similar concerns. Initially, we also lacked clarity about the number of playbooks or workflows we could build. Different triggers like system triggers, case-based triggers, and others can be employed without restrictions, but when it comes to on-demand and scheduled jobs, there is a limitation based on the subscription and pricing tier that notably caps the number of workflows we can create. No bulk editing across cases was one issue, along with limited filtering related to single grouping constraints. Additionally, the out-of-the-box case templates provided require substantial modifications before they become usable. There is also a feature in the cases for notes that cannot be searched. They are only visible through the UI, which is another area for improvement. The workflow and execution-based charges seem misleading as this was not discussed initially. I am not sure if new customers are made aware of this. It seems that workflows revolving around cases hinder functionality outside of case management, as we have many use cases needing on-demand triggers and schedules for functions like reporting or polling devices. Creating additional workflows to achieve basic functionalities raises costs significantly, which disadvantages customers. While they facilitate optimization and scaling, the support received tends to be very basic. Improvements can be made in that area as well.

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ChaitanyaKajjam

Technical Lead at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Simplified detection rules and SOAR workflows have improved compliance-focused operations

One improvement I am looking for is silent log source monitoring. If some feed or some host went offline or was not pulling any logs into Google Security Operations, I would want better visibility. Silent host monitoring would make a significant difference because it is very hard to track which host went down, and there are many false positives as a result. I think there is a lot of room for scalability improvements, particularly in the integration of third-party applications. Currently, I have to write a script and use a cloud run function to pull logs. If there were direct ingestion by simply providing an API key and some sort of client certificate, it would be much easier.

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Vikash Kushwaha

Full-Stack Software Engineer at mindpathtech

Automated playbooks have transformed incident response and now protect critical services

The biggest advantage I see from my personal experience as an integrator with Splunk SOAR is that it integrates with most of the security features among the Defenders, Microsoft Defender, firewalls, CloudWatch, and AWS security agents, as well as EC2 machines, firewalls, EDR, IAM, email security, and antivirus. It automates the security process over phishing emails and any other brute force attacks. It helps quite a lot because if 100 phishing emails were sent to a domain, a developer can only reach one, two, or five, but for hundreds of others, it actually supports better automated playbooks and provides major security. Splunk SOAR introduced some new and innovative capabilities or approaches that transformed the way my SOC operates. Splunk SOAR provides playbooks for automatic security features, such as for firewalls, phishing mails, and utilizing Defenders or virtual tools. A playbook maintains its algorithms or processes, so if any kind of security issue arises, the playbook automatically runs and handles actions such as IP blocking or resolving brute force attacks, notifying the admin about suspicious users. After implementing Splunk SOAR, the training process for my SOC team to use playbooks takes a long time during the whole integration part, as it retrieves all credentials from us, whether for an EC2 machine or any antivirus. It takes about one to two months for the team to fully sustain and know the processes of the playbooks and security, particularly for three or four individuals in the cyber security or DevOps team. Splunk SOAR significantly reduces the time spent on monotonous security tasks. In banking, insurance, or healthcare, automated services for addressing phishing emails and security threats are common. Having a manual workforce of two or three individuals can only handle five or ten security threats while Splunk SOAR automates the entire process across apps and machines, making it easier and notifying the admin about the threats. If someone tries to breach, Splunk SOAR immediately processes incoming requests, validating them and blocking any unsecured requests, which reduces a lot of time and effort. With the help of the playbook viewer, I assess the visibility provided by Splunk SOAR as very positive, especially for security purposes. If someone is attacked by 100 users, it blocks all the users, while individual developers such as myself can only handle two or three at a time. The automated process of Splunk SOAR handles all the processes concurrently, making it a game-changing solution. It helps reduce mean time to resolve (MTTR). It takes around 10 to 20 minutes to resolve one incident through the whole process and notify the admin of the issue. If there are multiple incidents, calculating the time taken for each, it generally requires around 40 to 50 minutes to resolve five incidents.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"What I appreciate most about Torq is that it is an essential part of our system."

"Torq has helped a lot regarding SOC analyst efficiency."

"If I review about 100 vendors that I might work with, Torq is definitely in the top five that gave me personally investment back, just because every bit of effort I put into Torq eventually became a workflow that gave it back to me."

"As an analyst, it has demonstrated potential to reduce workforce requirements and time needed for related activities."

"Once I started to use the system and I saw the potential, it changed all of our work in IT."

"What I liked the most about Torq is the actual workflow builder, which is really great because they offer a lot of features and convenience features that are useful for any automation engineer."

"Any request that comes in, regardless of how complex it is, I can accomplish it with Torq."

"Almost four or five hours of work is now completed in four or five minutes."

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"The most valuable feature of Siemplify is the playbooks that can be created."

"Google Security Operations helps meet all the important regulatory compliance across all verticals."

"Google SecOps is extremely useful for threat detection and hunting."

"The playbooks feature in Siemplify is crucial for automation. We've utilized both standard and custom integrations with other security operation solutions, enhancing our flexibility. The user interface is generally straightforward, although recent changes may require some adjustment and Siemplify's integrations and capabilities offer potential support for various compliance requirements."

"Without hyperbole, I have never, in my entire career, encountered a vendor or a vendor community as awesome as Siemplify. Siemplify and the Siemplify Community quite literally made it possible for our SOC to increase almost five-fold in our number of clients and number of analysts and to go from a Monday to Friday 9-5 shop to a 24/7 shop all in the span of under a year and a half and all while continually adding capabilities and improving the services we offer to our clients."

"The valuable parts of Google Security Operations include how easy it is to write parsers or detection rules, and it is well-advanced in the analytical part."

"Overall, Google SecOps is a very useful service for security operations."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is the playbook automation just because it allows us to reduce the manual actions that SOC has to handle."

"Splunk SOAR helps a lot with consolidating our networking, security, and observability tools, and we are saving almost 200 hours compared to not using Splunk SOAR."

"The most valuable features are the Splunk SOAR apps and playbooks."

"The main benefit of using Splunk SOAR is the automation, as a job that would have been very tedious for an analyst to do in terms of removing all the dashboards that haven't been used is now saving space and saving money."

"Surprisingly, the mobile app is valuable because it is very convenient for our on-call analysts to respond and get alerted to security alerts and events wherever they are. We are able to harness the power of Splunk SOAR and everything that we are doing, and we are also able to alert our on-call analysts 24/7. From their mobile phone, they can respond to those alerts."

"It's pretty easy when it comes to setting up assets. If you want to fetch emails or call a REST API, you can set up an asset and grab that information."

"Very flexible integration with other tools"

"Splunk SOAR's extensive library of pre-built integrations allows it to connect with a vast array of popular security and IT applications, streamlining workflows across our existing security stack."

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Cons

"There are some issues and bugs that I think need to be fixed, but they are currently not focused on it."

"We have MCP that we are working with our cloud security platform, and we wanted to connect this MCP to the case management."

"The case management piece, due to the platform being an automation-first tool, lacks real robust out-of-the-box case templates or good solutions for creating those without spending a lot of time doing development work, which makes the overall experience poor, honestly."

"I wish Torq's AI assistant for building templated workflows from scratch worked better; when you start with a blank slate, asking AI to help you build or template the workflow out does not go well."

"It was able to capture data but was unable to differentiate between the agent hostname we are using and the hostname that resides on the back end of the Internet."

"Even now, we have workflows that are in production that use AI steps and I get different results, making it unusable to some degree."

"Torq does extensive marketing saying that SOAR is dead and markets itself as an all-in-one solution, but this is not actually true."

"Additionally, the documentation for Torq is not very clear. Most of the information is presented in videos, which are not ideal for reading; there are mostly paragraphs and other text-based content."

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"I can give customer service a rating of six because it is very hard sometimes to keep up with the support."

"I'm inclined to say that I'd love to see some Machine Learning capabilities integrated into the platform, however, I just attended a demo this morning where Siemplify gave a sneak peek into some Machine Learning capabilities that they are currently developing and have roadmapped for release soon."

"We often encounter minor issues that could be improved, but we maintain communication with the developers and submit feature requests. Recently, I requested enhancements such as improved search functionality within playbooks and expanded options for exporting case data."

"The main improvement could be in the accuracy and detail provided in threat descriptions."

"Building the playbooks could be easier and the integration could improve. It is a difficult process, such as what API connections need to be made."

"From the improvement point of view regarding Splunk SOAR, I suggest including more types of LLM models such as autonomous AI models including Anthropic and Opus 4.6, as well as creating a playground for new users to work on these, which will significantly help solve complex problems and assist new companies in understanding how Splunk works easily."

"Creating playbooks using the solution’s playbook editor, for me, is very cumbersome. There have been instances where I have said to myself that I just don't want to use this editor. I might just use a code block and write my own code within it... The functionality in the playbook editor is 80 percent there, but that 20 percent is still lacking. They could make it more efficient."

"Improving the integration ecosystem can raise the quality of the bottom tier of the integrations so that they can work better out of the box."

"The technical support for the Splunk SIEM solution was average."

"Splunk SOAR could be improved with a more intuitive user interface, better playbooks, and more detailed documentation."

"The pricing could be a bit more reasonable. It would be great if it were feasible for smaller organizations."

"The solution must provide more AIOps to improve predictability."

"I would rate Splunk Phantom a seven out of 10."

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"It's very overpriced because it is based on the number of users. There is no bulk licensing."

"In my opinion, the price is high, but if you want good products, you have to be willing to pay for them."

"I don't know the exact price, but for my region, it is very expensive."

"While I can't confirm the exact pricing, some colleagues have mentioned that Splunk SOAR may be on the costlier side."

"We renewed it this year. This year was the first time there was a dramatic increase in the price. It was kind of non-negotiable. It was just a high increase. We had internal communications, and it was definitely a surprise to us. In a short time frame, we renewed it this year. Prices are going up everywhere, but they are not always justifiable, at least not to our eyes. The pricing this year was definitely a big shock."

"Splunk SOAR is more expensive compared to other options for SOAR."

"Splunk SOAR is moderately priced, neither cheap nor overly expensive."

"Splunk is a fast enterprise tool, but it costs too much. At the same time, it's worth what we pay, in my opinion. We can efficiently perform all the functions and tie together the data. It's the perfect tool for our needs."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

12%

Outsourcing Company

11%

Comms Service Provider

11%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Outsourcing Company

University

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Outsourcing Company

Construction Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	13

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Small Business	4
Large Enterprise	3

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Small Business	25
Midsize Enterprise	9
Large Enterprise	54

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Torq?

What has not worked as well as I hoped with Torq is related to product data management and storing data, although it ...

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What is your primary use case for Torq?

My main use case for Torq is for managing IT services and providing faster response.

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What advice do you have for others considering Torq?

I would rate Torq a 10 on a scale of 1 to 10. I chose this rating because customer service is excellent. I suggest to...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Siemplify?

The pricing for Google SecOps and Microsoft Sentinel is almost the same, with no significant differences.

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What needs improvement with Siemplify?

A potential area of improvement for Google Security Operations could be cost. I think Google has already started deve...

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What is your primary use case for Siemplify?

Google Security Operations is the main tool that my clients use for the security operations of their companies.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk Phantom?

I was not involved with the pricing, setup cost, and licensing.

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What needs improvement with Splunk Phantom?

To improve Splunk SOAR, I would suggest making it easier for integration with third-party applications without having...

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What is your primary use case for Splunk Phantom?

My main use case for Splunk SOAR is integration with third-party apps. A quick specific example of how I use Splunk S...

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Overview

Torq is the enterprise AI SOC solution that effectively combines adaptive insights and automation to handle critical threats efficiently. It manages threat lifecycles, swiftly moving from triage to response, ensuring effective risk management.

Torq is designed to streamline security operations by aggregating telemetry across your security stack. It investigates significant risks and manages threats from triage to containment and remediation. This AI-driven tool enhances the capabilities of your SecOps team, allowing them to achieve more impactful results without introducing complicated processes.

What are the key features of Torq?

Adaptive Agentic Insights: Provides real-time threat intelligence tailored to specific security challenges.
Automation: Automates responses to security incidents, minimizing manual intervention requirements.
Threat Lifecycle Management: Comprehensive handling of threats from detection to remediation.
Telemetry Aggregation: Integrates data across platforms for a unified security overview.

Why consider Torq based on reviews?

Efficiency: Users notice significant reductions in time spent managing threats.
Risk Reduction: Enhanced ability to identify and address critical threats promptly.
Resource Optimization: Allows teams to allocate effort to other critical tasks by reducing manual security operations.
Scalability: Adaptable to meet the demands of growing or changing infrastructures.

In industries like finance and healthcare, Torq shows effectiveness by adapting to specific risk scenarios often encountered in these fields. Its integration with existing infrastructures makes it a valuable asset for maintaining stringent security standards, essential for protecting critical data and operations in diverse high-stakes environments.

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Google Security Operations offers a robust playbook builder and integration capabilities designed to streamline workflows and integrate seamlessly with existing systems for enhanced security management.

Google Security Operations stands out in threat detection, monitoring, and alarm management, especially when used alongside Mandiant. Its intuitive interface supports compliance requirements, and it provides customizable workflows through playbooks. Integration with multiple tools allows for automation and increased flexibility, though improvements in API connection determination and playbook search capabilities could enhance user experience. Effective in orchestrating alerts and managing security events, it is extensively used for automated response, efficient alert triage, investigation, reporting, and ticketing management, supporting over 20 use cases including real-time threat detection.

What are the Key Features of Google Security Operations?

Playbook Builder: Allows for creating customizable workflows tailored to specific scenarios.
Integration Capabilities: Facilitates connectivity with numerous tools for automation.
Threat Detection: Improves monitoring and response when combined with Mandiant's capabilities.
Simplicity in Feature Adoption: Easy incorporation of new features and workflows.

What Benefits Should You Look for in Reviews?

Workflow Efficiency: Automates triage and investigation processes for quicker security management.
Real-Time Threat Detection: Enhances monitoring effectiveness in Managed Extended Detection and Response strategies.
Flexibility: Adaptable integrations support dynamic security needs.
Compliance Support: Aids in maintaining regulatory standards with straightforward reporting features.

In industries where real-time threat response is critical, such as finance and healthcare, Google Security Operations is favored for its automation and integration capabilities. These characteristics are vital for efficiently managing complex security landscapes and maintaining compliance across sectors.

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Splunk SOAR focuses on automating security operations with seamless third-party integrations and customizable workflows, enhancing incident response and threat management.

Splunk SOAR offers robust playbook automation and powerful API connectivity, allowing organizations to streamline workflows and integrate extensively with tools like Salesforce and ServiceNow. With its capabilities in real-time data visualization and automated threat responses, it significantly enhances security and reduces manual efforts. Users appreciate the ease of creating playbooks, which reduces mean time to detect and resolve. However, attention to its integration challenges with Microsoft products, the need for more playbooks, and improved customization tools is necessary. Enhancements in the development process, visibility, scalability, and case management options are also beneficial. Improving documentation and training resources would add more depth and accessibility.

What are the top features of Splunk SOAR?

Third-party integrations: Supports extensive integration with tools like Salesforce and ServiceNow.
Playbook automation: Facilitates easy creation and management of automated workflows.
Customizable workflows: Offers Python-based customization for tailored security operations.
API connectivity: Powerful API support for seamless tool consolidation and streamlined workflows.
Data visualization: Provides real-time data visualization for enhanced situational awareness.

What benefits or ROI users should consider?

Operational efficiency: Reduces mean time to detect and resolve incidents through automation.
Manual effort reduction: Automates threat responses, minimizing manual workload in security operations.
Enhanced security: Offers end-to-end visibility and automated threat mitigation processes.
Time savings: Optimizes processes and improves response efficiency in cybersecurity operations.

Organizations implement Splunk SOAR in industries to automate tasks in Security Operation Centers, addressing incidents such as phishing, brute force, and ransomware. It integrates with third-party applications for threat intelligence enrichment, commonly deployed both on-premise and cloud, enhancing cybersecurity efforts.

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FedEx Mondelez Intenrational Check Point Trustwave Atos Cyberint Bae Systems Crowe Longwall Security Telefonica Nordea HCL

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