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We performed a comparison between Snare and SolarWinds Security Event Manager 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.
To learn more, read our detailed Snare vs. SolarWinds Security Event Manager Report (Updated: May 2024).
772,649 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Pros
"Snare has good agents, especially for Windows.""The most valuable feature of Snare is flexibility or the ability to filter all things you don't want and don't have security value.""The best thing about Snare is its format and consistency."

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"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's easy to build rules and actions based on the logs and event types we collect with the software.""The out of the box reports and dashboard. It was easy to trim down these windows to something we could quickly use.""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 SolarWinds Security Event Manager is the analysis and the knowledge about the incidence that we trace.""The most valuable feature is the reporting.""SolarWinds is easy to configure, and it provides timely alerts."

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Cons
"The solution is now developing a SIEM-like feature on Snare Central Server, but it's not complete yet.""Snare should modernize its GUI a little bit.""Users will initially find it difficult to identify the event types and installation in Snare."

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"We'd like more customization capabilities.""The only issue is the pricetag. SolarWinds is a costly solution.""It can be difficult for users who are inexperienced with the solution.""I imagine we will have to develop our own reports soon, this seems to be more cumbersome.""It won't tell you when your backups are failing, but it will give you hints when your database is running on full recovery.""The reporting could be more robust. It can be a lot more granular and that will make it a lot more useful in comparison to how it is incorporated at the moment.""SolarWinds should improve its correlation capabilities. The correlation does not automatically detect and reduce the events fast enough. You have to manually do a correlation report, which means the tool is not scalable in many ways.""Training for this solution needs to be improved, as new employees are sometimes unfamiliar with the product."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Snare has reasonable pricing."
  • "On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate Snare's pricing a four out of ten."
  • "Snare is a cheap solution because a lot of customers are using it."
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  • "Licensing is on devices, so if you have many, then this may be high."
  • "We do a yearly license renewal. For a year, the solution costs roughly $500,000 USD. There are no costs beyond this yearly fee."
  • "The pricing model would benefit from having package deals with other SolarWinds products."
  • "Licenses can only be purchased in blocks of fifty at a time."
  • "It is in the appropriate mid-range. It is not as expensive as some of the other solutions. It is also not cheap."
  • "The price of SolarWinds Security Event Manager is reasonable."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The best thing about Snare is its format and consistency.
    Top Answer:Snare is a cheap solution because a lot of customers are using it.
    Top Answer:Users will initially find it difficult to identify the event types and installation in Snare.
    Top Answer:The solution helps you monitor database instances, application instances, other customer application things, Linux servers, IBM servers, and Oracle servers.
    Top Answer:The cost is exorbitantly high. The trial version lasts for thirty days, but I found a subscription plan priced at four thousand five hundred monthly, making it thirty-one thousand two hundred and… more »
    Top Answer:One of the drawbacks of being so flexible is that it is also a fairly complicated software application to install, configure, and maintain. Standardizing the monitoring configuration is difficult, and… more »
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    Also Known As
    SolarWinds LEM, Solarwinds SIEM, TriGeo, Log and Event Manager
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    Overview

    Snare customers consistently tell us that as the financial and reputational consequences of data breaches, cyber threats like malware and ransomware and the constant risks from insider threats increase that they have urgent and ongoing requirements for maintaining regulatory compliance, auditing and managing cyber threat detection and response. They also tell us that existing solutions like SIEM are often complex to implement and maintain, require specialised technical resources or are increasingly unaffordable or variable in their pricing. As a result of these increased requirements Prophecy International has created the Snare product suite.

    Compliance requirements can include any number of regulatory mandates including PCI-DSS, Sarbanes Oxley, HIPAA, NERC, GDPR and more. This makes Snare a high value solution for companies in the Government, Defence and Military sectors, Banking, Finance and Insurance, Retail, Health, Energy, Oil & Gas markets.

    Snare is a complete suite of Centralised Log Management (CLM), Security Analytics and SIEM tools.

    Created by ex military personnel for military use it offers the highest level of security.

    Designed to work as part of your security ecosystem Snare also integrates with most other SIEMs including SPLUNK, QRadar, ARCSight and many more. With over 3,000 customers worldwide using Snare for compliance, auditing and threat response, Snare is the name you can trust.

    From Enterprise Agents for Windows, Unix, Linux, OSX, Flat files and Databases to a complete forensics and long term log storage platform, agent management console, multipoint log reflector, advanced log analytics and next gen SIEM capability. Either hosted or on prem with both Opex and Capex pricing models, Snare is a one stop shop for CLM and SIEM. Snare product suite is broadly split into two areas:

    • Centralised Log Management and Snare Analytics

    Centralised Log Management incorporates and 4 core technologies

    • Snare Enterprise Agents
    • Snare Reflector
    • Snare Agent Management Console
    • Snare Central Service

    Snare Analytics incorporates another 4 core technologies

    • Enhanced Snare Central Server incorporating Analytics
    • Data Ingestion Technologies (via our Adaptors)
    • Dashboards and Visualisations including custom KPI engine
    • Runbook – enabling SOAR

    These products can be bought independently or combined into a compete solution. You can also “mix and match” with your current security technologies ensuring that you can leverage your existing investments.

    When TriGeo was acquired by SolarWinds, TriGeo SIM became known as SolarWinds Log & Event Manager. This product is a leading Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) product and log management solution, which provides log collection, analysis, and real-time correlation.

    Sample Customers
    Military, Defence and Security Agencies, Banking Finance and Insurance companies, Retail, Health and Utilities.
    NetSuite, EasyStreet, Legacy Texas Bank, and Energy Federal Credit Union, to name a few.
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Government15%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company20%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Comms Service Provider15%
    Government10%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization69%
    Computer Software Company5%
    Government4%
    Financial Services Firm3%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise7%
    Large Enterprise72%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business63%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise26%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business9%
    Midsize Enterprise73%
    Large Enterprise18%
    Buyer's Guide
    Snare vs. SolarWinds Security Event Manager
    May 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Snare vs. SolarWinds Security Event Manager and other solutions. Updated: May 2024.
    772,649 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Snare is ranked 37th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 3 reviews while SolarWinds Security Event Manager is ranked 20th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 24 reviews. Snare is rated 8.0, while SolarWinds Security Event Manager is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Snare writes "A highly scalable solution that is easy to manage and super easy to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Security Event Manager writes "A comprehensive network security with robust technical capabilities, effective threat response, and centralized management". Snare is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, syslog-ng, SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server, LogRhythm SIEM and ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM), whereas SolarWinds Security Event Manager is most compared with ManageEngine Log360, Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk Enterprise Security, Wazuh and IBM Security QRadar. See our Snare vs. SolarWinds Security Event Manager report.

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