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 ability of all these solutions to work together natively is essential. We have an Azure subscription, including Log Analytics. This feature automatically acts as one of the security baselines and detects recommendations because it also integrates with Defender. We can pull the sysadmin logs from Azure. It's all seamless and native."
"The automation rules and playbooks are the most useful that I've seen. A number of other places segregate the automation and playbook as separate tools, whereas Microsoft is a SIEM and SOAR tool in one."
"We are able to deploy within half an hour and we only require one person to complete the implementation."
"I like the unified security console. You can close incidents using Sentinel in all other Microsoft Security portals, when it comes to incident response."
"There are some very powerful features to Sentinel, such as the integration of various connectors. We have a lot of departments that use both IaaS and SaaS services, including M365 as well as Azure services. The ability to leverage connectors into these environments allows for large-scale data injection."
"The analytics has a lot of advantages because there are 300 default use cases for rules and we can modify them per our environment. We can create other rules as well. Analytics is a useful feature."
"The initial setup is very simple and straightforward."
"I've worked on most of the top SIEM solutions, and Sentinel has an edge in most areas. For example, it has built-in SOAR capabilities, allowing you to run playbooks automatically. Other vendors typically offer SOAR as a separate licensed solution or module, but you get it free with Sentinel. In-depth incident integration is available out of the box."
"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."
"This tool is simple to use."
"SolarWinds' stability is fine. I don't think we've had any software issues."
"It's easy to build rules and actions based on the logs and event types we collect with the software."
"It performs network behavior monitoring, log monitoring, and disaster recovery monitoring."
"The solution helps me to go back in time and search for different events. For example, if you wanted to know who activated an account; you could go back in time and find out."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the visibility into both attempted and failed logins."
"The ease of implementation is the most valuable feature."
"Log-monitoring and alerting enable us to know when things happen that we need to know about."
"Reports are customized, so you can present them to executives or engineers."
"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."
"Allowed us to help our customers satisfy compliance needs around logging and monitoring."
"AlientVault has helped us in improving our visualization and incident response during cybersecurity situations."
"This solution can identify many threats inside the organization (compromised endpoints, configuration issues), as well as "outside" threats (botnets, network scanners, web-attacks, etc)."
"Vulnerability scanning helped out shortcomings of what was not patched in the past and what needed to be patched. This assisted with fine tuning the environment for compliance."
"The interface could be more user-friendly. It''s a small improvement that they could make if they wanted to."
"Azure Sentinel will be directly competing with tools such as Splunk or Qradar. These are very established kinds of a product that have been around for the last seven, eight years or more."
"There is some relatively advanced knowledge that you have to have to properly leverage Sentinel's full capabilities. I'm thinking about things like the creation of workbooks, how you do threat-hunting, and the kinds of notifications you're getting... It takes time for people to ramp up on that and develop a familiarity or expertise with it."
"If I can use Sentinel offline at home and use it on a local network, it would be great. I'm not sure if I can use Sentinel offline versus the tools I have."
"The AI capabilities must be improved."
"The solution should allow for a streamlined CI/CD procedure."
"The learning curve could be improved. I am still learning it. We were able to implement the basic features to get them up and running, but there are still so many things that I don't know about all its features. They have a lot of features that we have not been able to use or apply. If they could work on reducing the solution's learning curve, that would be good. While there is a training course held by Microsoft to learn more about this solution, there is a cost associated with it."
"The performance could be improved. If I create 15 to 20 lines for a single-use case in KQL, sometimes it takes more time to execute. If I create use cases within a certain timeline, the result will show in .01 seconds. A complex query takes more time to get results."
"The solution's technical support is okay, but we don't have an SLA, and sometimes the response times are very slow."
"I imagine we will have to develop our own reports soon, this seems to be more cumbersome."
"One of the drawbacks of being so flexible is that it is also a fairly complicated software application to install, configure, and maintain."
"Training for this solution needs to be improved, as new employees are sometimes unfamiliar with the product."
"I would like to have a more customizable dashboard."
"The product should improve the ease with which you can create event alerts. They are not as hard now but you need to have an easier way."
"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 only issue is the pricetag. SolarWinds is a costly solution."
"It would be nice to see some machine learning and monitoring of the configuration in network devices."
"As this software is in the cloud, you do not have control on updates and general changes which are happening."
"The UI and overall processes need a little bit more love. This shows in the error banners that come up when you select certain things. There isn't a day that goes by that the UI doesn't error out and I can't view events for an alarm."
"In the future, I would like to see all these features of the solution working properly."
"We've had some stability problems, not a lot, but a few. Updates seem to be the worst. That seems to be when the stability problems come up."
"The vulnerability scanning feature is one of the areas where the product has certain shortcomings and needs to improve. The tool has vulnerability scanning, but it is not that efficient."
"I feel that some areas of improvement would be vulnerability scanning. We use a separate product that seems to do a much better job."
"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 11th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 113 reviews. SolarWinds Security Event Manager is rated 7.8, 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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