Overview of Splunk Enterprise Security Editions

Describes the differences between the available editions of Splunk Enterprise Security

Splunk Enterprise Security empowers SOCs to accelerate detection and response, delivering faster security outcomes and reduced risk across any environment. Built for the AI era, it delivers complete visibility and simplifies SecOps with advanced data management, native integrations across industry-leading SIEM, SOAR, UEBA, threat intelligence, and detection engineering technologies, and embedded AI to supercharge analysts.

There are currently two editions available:

Splunk Enterprise Security Essentials (General Availability)

The industry’s leading SIEM, Splunk Enterprise Security Essentials unifies threat detection, alert triage, threat intelligence, investigation, response and case management in a single platform. Now enhanced with an AI Assistant, agentic automation across the entire TDIR workflow, Splunk Enterprise Security Essentials delivers the most powerful, AI-driven SecOps analyst experience.

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Splunk Enterprise Security Premier (General Availability)

Splunk Enterprise Security Premier extends Essentials with native SOAR and UEBA, delivering the industry’s most complete AI-powered SecOps platform. Unlike traditional SOAR deployments confined to senior analysts, Premier makes automation accessible to every SOC analyst. With UEBA natively embedded, teams can quickly detect and mitigate insider threats, compromised accounts, and lateral movement, driving greater efficiency, faster response, and stronger protection across the enterprise.

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