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."AlienVault OSSIM's GUI is very user-friendly."
"With AlienVault you get everything in one box."
"The paid version of the solution has reporting and better scalability options."
"The initial setup was straightforward. I didn't have any problems."
"The most valuable features of AlienVault OSSIM are vulnerability assessment, network intrusion detection system, response to critical events, and awareness of the whole network."
"AlienVault OSSIM is an enterprise solution that sells easily. It is rated highly by organizations."
"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."
"You can customize the dashboards as well as the reporting."
"It allows for a lot of out-of-the-box features: vuln scanning, HIDS/HIPS, and IDS."
"The vulnerability scanning is helpful to identify the areas that need patching or fixes installed."
"Every activity on the firewall is recorded, and notifications are sent with this solution."
"We are able to get alerts perfectly with FIM and VA features."
"Ease of deployment across various environments."
"The vulnerability manager and the file integration are very good."
"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."
"The dashboards are very descriptive and contain just the right amount of information. The activity alarms and events contain a plethora of data that is very descriptive and useful."
"I suggest more in-built rules based on modern threats and environments to make it a more competitive solution."
"The user interface needs to be friendlier across the board."
"We need more dashboards and we need more customization for dashboards."
"The incidence reporting could be better."
"When comparing AlienVault OSSIM to other solutions it looks a bit outdated. Additionally, they need to improve their integration."
"AlienVault OSSIM should improve the deployment and make it unified like the USM."
"It's so hard to configure and explore something new on it."
"The price of this solution is very high and it could be cheaper."
"I've been told that AlienVault doesn't have a full version of NES running in there, but I'm not sure if that's accurate or if my engineer made it that way. I'm not sure he was completely honest either because we had NES in the environment before. Those tools could be improved because AlienVault is a SIEM, and it added all these other features."
"Plugins could be better utilized, as some of them do not recognize all logs."
"AlienVault needs to continue to integrate with other third-party technologies that clients want to have monitored."
"The only room for improvement I can mention is the initial installation procedures. I found that the online installation instructions for the product were missing important details, they lacked necessary steps."
"This solution could be easier to use."
"Its reporting tools need improvements. It would be good if they can provide integration with other ticketing systems. Currently, we only have integration with Slack and Jira. It is also a bit slow, and its replication engine can be improved."
"I've been using it just for my own personal upskilling in terms of how the product works. At the moment, it is pretty straightforward and simple, and it is working how it is supposed to. The feedback would come once it is deployed to customer sites. They'll be using it on a more frequent basis, and that's when the feedback would come in terms of the areas in which they're facing issues or are looking for simplicity."
"Their threat intelligence platform needs to be broadened. They should integrate it with more threat intelligence platforms. For the threat feed that they get from open intelligence, I would like them to add a few premium threat intelligence platforms. They can provide a bundle in which AlienVault has the threat intelligence background of other premium products."
AlienVault OSSIM is ranked 11th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 28 reviews while USM Anywhere is ranked 13th 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, Microsoft Sentinel and Fortinet FortiSIEM, whereas USM Anywhere is most compared with Wazuh, IBM Security QRadar, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel and LogRhythm SIEM. See our AlienVault OSSIM vs. USM Anywhere report.
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