We performed a comparison between AlienVault OSSIM and USM Anywhere 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."It is able to connect to an ever-growing number of platforms and systems within the Microsoft ecosystem, such as Azure Active Directory and Microsoft 365 or Office 365, as well as to external services and systems that can be brought in and managed. We can manage on-premises infrastructure. We can manage not just the things that are running in Azure in the public cloud, but through Azure Arc and the hybrid capabilities, we can monitor on-premises servers and endpoints. We can monitor VMware infrastructure, for instance, running as part of a hybrid environment."
"It has basic out-of-the-box integrations with multiple log sources."
"Free ingestion for Azure logs (with E5 licence)"
"Sentinel has features that have helped improve our security poster. It helped us in going ahead and identifying the gaps via analysis and focusing on the key elements."
"Another area where it is helping us is in creating a single dashboard for our environment. We can collect all the logs into a log analytics workset and run queries on top of it. We get all the results in the dashboard. Even a layman can understand this stuff. The way Microsoft presents it is really incredible."
"Microsoft Sentinel comes preloaded with templates for teaching and analytics rules."
"The most valuable feature is the alert notifications, which are categorized by severity levels: informational, low, medium, and high."
"I like the ability to run custom KQL queries. I don't know if that feature is specific to Sentinel. As far as I know, they are using technology built into Azure's Log Analytics app. Sentinel integrates with that, and we use this functionality heavily."
"The tool's security detection is good. It helps us with login tracking and generating reports. We aim to identify potential issues, such as brute-force attacks on user accounts or server-level anomalies. For instance, if I receive a report indicating a server is at an abnormal level, I investigate and address the issue."
"The solution is very stable. Compared to Qradar and Splunk, it's very stable."
"Better than other SIEM solutions because almost everything can be integrated."
"AlienVault OSSIM's GUI is very user-friendly."
"Its user-friendliness is the most valuable. It is very easy to use and explore. The dashboard is very well packaged and integrated. You don't have to spend a lot of time in configuring it and checking out the RPM etc. It is also free and very powerful."
"Inbuilt IDS, inbuilt integration with threat intelligence platform and with vulnerability assessment modules."
"The solution is free to use."
"The threat policies of the solution are always very advanced and the best in the market. They are very persistent in terms of keeping up with security protocols."
"Easy to use, scalable, stable, and very intuitive platform that provides protection against security threats."
"The vulnerability manager and the file integration are very good."
"AlienVault provides a checklist answer when using SIEM."
"The AlienVault solution has enabled us to create a SOC on a budget with smaller than usual staff requirements, offering a wider range of solutions for our customers."
"OTX is a great module that lets staff maintain and monitor updates regarding events in the infrastructure and takes decision to improve the security perimeter."
"The best feature of this product is the ease of use. It is extremely easy to set up and get going. This is a very useful tool for a small organization."
"Asset discovery seems to be good."
"It has powerful threat detection, incident response, and compliance management."
"We're satisfied with the comprehensiveness of the security protection. That said, we do have issues sometimes where there have been global outages and we need to raise a ticket with Microsoft."
"The solution could improve the playbooks."
"It has been a challenge with Azure Sentinel to onboard the Syslog server from FortiGate. Azure Sentinel can work better on that shift between the Syslog server and a firewall."
"The following would be a challenge for any product in the market, but we have some in-house apps in our environment... our apps were built with different parameters and the APIs for them are not present in Sentinel. We are working with Microsoft to build those custom APIs that we require. That is currently in progress."
"We do have in-built or out-of-the-box metrics that are shown on the dashboard, but it doesn't give the kind of metrics that we need from our environment whereby we need to check the meantime to detect and meantime to resolve an incident. I have to do it manually. I have to pull all the logs or all the alerts that are fed into Sentinel over a certain period. We do this on a monthly basis, so I go into Microsoft Sentinel and pull all the alerts or incidents we closed over a period of thirty days."
"When it comes to ingesting Azure native log sources, some of the log sources are specific to the subscription, and it is not always very clear."
"We've seen delays in getting the logs from third-party solutions and sometimes Microsoft products as well. It would be helpful if Microsoft created a list of the delays. That would make things more transparent for customers."
"We have been working with multiple customers, and every time we onboard a customer, we are missing an essential feature that surprisingly doesn't exist in Sentinel. We searched the forums and knowledge bases but couldn't find a solution. When you onboard new customers, you need to enable the data connectors. That part is easy, but you must create rules from scratch for every associated connector. You click "next," "next," "next," and it requires five clicks for each analytical rule. Imagine we have a customer with 150 rules."
"It's under heavy traffic. If you have heavy traffic, the system is slow."
"The incidence reporting could be better."
"Sometimes technical issues take very long to get resolved."
"The user interface could be improved."
"AlienVault OSSIM’s configuration and integration could be a little easier."
"The user interface needs to be friendlier across the board."
"The documentation could be improved."
"It's so hard to configure and explore something new on it."
"AlienVault needs to continue to integrate with other third-party technologies that clients want to have monitored."
"Search performance can be slow. The Raw Logs feature is painfully slow. And if we're talking about the newer, the Anywhere product, you can't even schedule reports on the thing. There are probably a dozen other features I'd really like to see there, but that would be one of the biggies."
"The reporting aspect could be improved. While there are a lot of different options available, there are still pieces which are missing."
"It would be hard for any legitimate MSSP to use it."
"The one thing I continue to dislike about the USM is the limitation on reports."
"It would be nice to see some machine learning and monitoring of the configuration in network devices."
"The GUI needs to improve because it's not user-friendly."
"The dashboard could be improved as well as the level of customization."
AlienVault OSSIM is ranked 14th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 27 reviews while USM Anywhere is ranked 11th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 113 reviews. AlienVault OSSIM is rated 7.4, while USM Anywhere is rated 8.4. 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 USM Anywhere writes "Easy to use and affordable". AlienVault OSSIM is most compared with Wazuh, Elastic Security, Splunk Enterprise Security, Fortinet FortiSIEM and AWS Security Hub, whereas USM Anywhere is most compared with Wazuh, IBM Security QRadar, Splunk Enterprise Security, Rapid7 InsightIDR and LogRhythm SIEM. See our AlienVault OSSIM vs. USM Anywhere report.
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