We performed a comparison between SolarWinds Security Event Manager 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."The native integration of the Microsoft security solution has been essential because it helps reduce some false positives, especially with some of the impossible travel rules that may be configured in Microsoft 365. For some organizations, that might be benign because they're using VPNs, etc."
"The data connectors that Microsoft Sentinel provides are easy to integrate when we work with a Microsoft agent."
"Microsoft Sentinel enables you to ingest data from the entire ecosystem and that connection of data helps you to monitor critical resources and to know what's happening in the environment."
"The best functionality that you can get from Azure Sentinel is the SOAR capability. So, you can estimate any type of activity, such as when an alert was triggered or an incident was found."
"One of the most valuable features of Microsoft Sentinel is that it's cloud-based."
"It has a lot of great features."
"It is easy to implement (turn on) - does need a skilled analyst to develop queries and playbooks."
"The most valuable feature is the alert notifications, which are categorized by severity levels: informational, low, medium, and high."
"The graphical user interface is very user-friendly. SolarWinds is a hybrid solution so you can use it across many platforms."
"It's extremely easy to deploy."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the visibility into both attempted and failed logins."
"SolarWinds is easy to configure, and it provides timely alerts."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use for the end user."
"We did previously use a different solution, but SolarWinds is much better. It's easy to interact with SolarWinds. It's easy to operate, easy to configure and is generally easier compared to what we were working with before."
"The solution helps you monitor database instances, application instances, other customer application things, Linux servers, IBM servers, and Oracle servers."
"It supports high availability, which is very helpful."
"It provides a single pane of glass view, coupled with a whole security ecosystem. The ability to manage everything from a central point, including vulnerability assessments, asset management - including the services provided by the various hosts, NIDS, HIDS, etc. - provides a very efficient way of dealing with things."
"There are multiple tools for information security. The solution includes all the latest advances on the network and host intrusion detection systems."
"The most valuable feature in AT&T AlienVault USM is the reporting."
"It has allowed us to see what is happening on our servers."
"The Event Correlation and vulnerability scans have been the most useful. As a 24/7 SOC, we use the incoming alarms to give an overview of suspicious traffic going through the network. It's easy to look at the correlated events and see the broad picture of traffic for that customer. Vulnerability scans are good for providing patch and remediation guidelines to keep customer systems secure."
"It has streamlined log aggregation and analysis to meet organizational and regulatory needs."
"AlientVault has helped us in improving our visualization and incident response during cybersecurity situations."
"Any unusual behaviour, we can monitor. We have alerts set up to be sent when we receive signs of any unusual behaviour."
"For certain vendors, some of the data that Microsoft Sentinel captures is redacted due to privacy reasons."
"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."
"The reporting could be more structured."
"They're giving us the queries so we can plug them right into Sentinel. They need to have a streamlined process for updating them in the tool and knowing when things are updated and knowing when there are new detections available from Microsoft."
"If their UI was a bit more streamlined and easy to find when I need it, then that would be a great improvement."
"Sentinel could improve its ticketing and management. A few customers I have worked with liked to take the data created in Sentinel. You can make some basic efforts around that, but the customers wanted to push it to a third-party system so they could set up a proper ticketing management system, like ServiceNow, Jira, etc."
"Add more out-of-the-box connectors with other SaaS platforms/applications."
"Microsoft Sentinel is relatively expensive, and its cost should be improved."
"There are no multiple dashboards which would allow you to see information side-by-side."
"The only issue is the pricetag. SolarWinds is a costly solution."
"It won't tell you when your backups are failing, but it will give you hints when your database is running on full recovery."
"I would like to have a more customizable dashboard."
"I would like to be able to dig deeper into the visibility of events or incidents to determine whether they are malicious, such as by doing behavior analysis."
"The company had to use a third party for the implementation of the solution."
"The solution's technical support is okay, but we don't have an SLA, and sometimes the response times are very slow."
"One of the drawbacks of being so flexible is that it is also a fairly complicated software application to install, configure, and maintain."
"This solution could be easier to use."
"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."
"It was easy on PoC, but when we got to the product it was different story. We had to learn the product again and got feeling that the PoC was a different product."
"Windows log collection works with HIDS, but documentation is sparse and confusing."
"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."
"The solution is a bit complicated. It could be simplified quite a bit."
"Maybe logs are the problem, as the database query is too slow. If you want to search something, you need time to find it."
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SolarWinds Security Event Manager is ranked 21st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 24 reviews while USM Anywhere is ranked 10th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 113 reviews. SolarWinds Security Event Manager is rated 7.6, while USM Anywhere is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SolarWinds Security Event Manager writes "A comprehensive network security with robust technical capabilities, effective threat response, and centralized management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of USM Anywhere writes "Easy to use and affordable". SolarWinds Security Event Manager is most compared with ManageEngine Log360, Splunk Enterprise Security, IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Defender XDR and Wazuh, whereas USM Anywhere is most compared with Wazuh, AlienVault OSSIM, IBM Security QRadar, Splunk Enterprise Security and Rapid7 InsightIDR. See our SolarWinds Security Event Manager vs. USM Anywhere report.
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