We performed a comparison between Rapid7 InsightIDR 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."Having all monitoring, response, tracking, and mitigation tools in one dashboard provides our analysts and SOC team with a comprehensive view at a glance."
"Fortinet FortiEDR's firewalling, rule creation, monitoring, and inspection profiles are great."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the ability to customize it and to reduce its size. It lets you run in a very small window in terms of memory and resources on legacy cash registers."
"Fortinet has helped free up around 20 percent of our staff's time to help us out."
"I get alerts when scripts are detected in the environment."
"It is stable and scalable."
"Additionally, when it comes to EDR, there are more tools available to assist with client work."
"Forensics is a valuable feature of Fortinet FortiEDR."
"The technical support is a solid 10 out of 10 as they take the time to answer any questions or problems which may arise in a reasonable time frame."
"The solution is easy to use, and the interface is intuitive."
"User behavioral analytics allows us to pinpoint abnormal or suspicious behavior among millions of events every day."
"I am able to run automated actions based on the output of reports, leaving me extra time to focus on more pressing matters."
"The solution is very stable and works very well for what I need it to do."
"Features for user behavior analytics and the rules for attack review are good."
"I like that it's a cloud-based solution."
"Enables the use of honey pots, honey users, and honey files to monitor for suspicious patterns."
"It brought our logs into one place for review and set up alarms based on changes we were missing due to lack of having one place for everything to go."
"The ease of implementation is the most valuable feature."
"This solution can identify many threats inside the organization (compromised endpoints, configuration issues), as well as "outside" threats (botnets, network scanners, web-attacks, etc)."
"The best thing about AlienVault USM is it being a “Jack-of-All Trades” solution. It provides SIEM, HIDS/NIDS, FIM, NetFlow, Asset Management, Vulnerability Management, etc., under one USM platform. None of the commercial SIEM vendors like ArcSight, McAfee, etc., can boast of such a diverse feature set."
"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."
"The setup is very easy and straightforward."
"We had used previous products and found AlienVault centralized the logging for our security."
"Every activity on the firewall is recorded, and notifications are sent with this solution."
"FortiEDR can be improved by providing more detailed reporting."
"The solution should address emerging threats like SQL injection."
"Once, we had an event that was locked and blocked, but information about it came to us two or three days later."
"It takes about two business days for initial support, which is too slow in urgent situations."
"Everything with Fortinet having to do with their cloud services. They need to invest more in their internal infrastructure that they are running in the cloud. One of the things I find with their cloud environment compared to others' is that they go cheap on the equipment. So it causes some performance degradation."
"The solution is not user-friendly."
"Making the portal mobile friendly would be helpful when I am out of office."
"The solution is not stable."
"Inability to get access to compliance reports within the solution."
"Customised alert recipients need to be added to allow better first-line action and quicker response. Configurable honeypots would be a welcome addition."
"They should add more configuration and security features to it."
"I would like the ability to adjust the threshold of certain existing alerts. Currently the only option is to change the notifications or create my own alert."
"InsightIDR's integration with other solutions could be improved. Also, I'd like more control from the portal over what's happening on the endpoint side. For example, when I see an attack on an endpoint, I want to be able to stop it from the portal."
"The main problem lies in the processes within the client's operating systems."
"I feel it would greatly benefit from more supported log sources."
"The reporting is the weakest aspect. There needs to be multi-level grouping for events (for example, group by user and destination). Right now, we can do a group by user and a separate table or group by destination. But I'd be more interested in where a person was logging into instead of who was logging in or where he was logging in."
"It would be hard for any legitimate MSSP to use it."
"There are many reports included but would be nice to have better access to the data."
"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."
"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."
"The reporting aspect could be improved. While there are a lot of different options available, there are still pieces which are missing."
"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."
"I think plugin management should be self-service on AlienVault USM. The other product is self-service but on the USM side. You have to submit a ticket then AT&T creates and updates the plugins."
Rapid7 InsightIDR is ranked 10th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 30 reviews while USM Anywhere is ranked 11th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 113 reviews. Rapid7 InsightIDR is rated 8.4, while USM Anywhere is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Rapid7 InsightIDR writes "Helps in the management of compliance, secret events and information". On the other hand, the top reviewer of USM Anywhere writes "Easy to use and affordable". Rapid7 InsightIDR is most compared with Darktrace, Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk Enterprise Security, Rapid7 InsightVM and IBM Security QRadar, whereas USM Anywhere is most compared with Wazuh, AlienVault OSSIM, IBM Security QRadar, Splunk Enterprise Security and Securonix Next-Gen SIEM. See our Rapid7 InsightIDR vs. USM Anywhere report.
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