We performed a comparison between AlienVault OSSIM and ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Inbuilt IDS, inbuilt integration with threat intelligence platform and with vulnerability assessment modules."
"The paid version of the solution has reporting and better scalability options."
"The dashboard is the solution's most valuable aspect. It brings everything into one central point where I can actually look at it and go, "Okay, I understand what's going on.""
"The product is easy to use."
"The threat alerts it gives me from time to time on harmful code within the network, or if they are generating any network traffic, are very useful."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The initial setup was straightforward. I didn't have any problems."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the data correlation and vulnerability assessment."
"SmartConnector: Normalization parses raw logs and converts them into CEF (common event format). This is the core of the product."
"There are many features that are good for clients who are looking for a good SIEM solution. They like the ease of creating a business that is effective and impressive."
"Stable solution with good customer service support."
"The stability of ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager is good."
"I value the event correlation of this product."
"I am satisfied with the solution's stability."
"Usability is the most valuable feature. The accessibility is quite good."
"The filters and the ability to do what you want are the most valuable features. There is nothing that you cannot do in this solution. It has all the features, which makes it very dynamic."
"I don't like to work on OSSIM because it is unpredictable."
"AlienVault OSSIM should improve the deployment and make it unified like the USM."
"The documentation could be improved."
"AlienVault OSSIM is costly."
"AlienVault OSSIM could improve by having better integration with some of the newer tools."
"It takes some time. It does not give me a prompt response for any such [malicious] traffic. It takes time to get that alert from the AlienVault system."
"The solution needs more integration with cyber intelligence systems."
"When comparing AlienVault OSSIM to other solutions it looks a bit outdated. Additionally, they need to improve their integration."
"The tool should improve its UI. It also should make data more searchable."
"Customer service and support is our biggest challenge."
"The weakness in this system comes about because, with so many different logs, it is possible that the security analyst will lose information."
"Could benefit from a more modern interface."
"It would be nice if the interface were more user-friendly, with, for example, a minimal number of tabs to navigate."
"HPE ArcSight has a quite steep learning curve."
"The visualization is not very good compared to Splunk."
"The roadmap is not clear."
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AlienVault OSSIM is ranked 11th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 28 reviews while ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) is ranked 12th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 93 reviews. AlienVault OSSIM is rated 7.4, while ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of AlienVault OSSIM writes "An easy-to-scale open-source solution used for monitoring events on devices ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) writes "Allows for monitoring logs according to industry standards within ESM but has a total capacity capped at 12 TB, limiting real-time data retention periods". AlienVault OSSIM is most compared with Wazuh, Elastic Security, USM Anywhere, Splunk Enterprise Security and Microsoft Sentinel, whereas ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, Trellix ESM, ArcSight Intelligence, IBM Security QRadar and Elastic Security. See our AlienVault OSSIM vs. ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) report.
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