We performed a comparison between AlienVault OSSIM 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."You pay monthly for the solution. I think it's one of the best products. If you compare with other companies, like LogRhythm, etc., the top 8 or 10 CMs, I think Alien Vault has the best price-performance ratio."
"You can customize the dashboards as well as the reporting."
"The solution is free to use."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the data correlation and vulnerability assessment."
"The solution has a very good open source community, and whenever we have problems, we are always able to resolve it online."
"The initial setup was straightforward. I didn't have any problems."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable features of AlienVault OSSIM are case management, ease of configuration, and investigation."
"It has in-depth monitoring capabilities and an easy way for setting up dashboards. I can expand in various areas, or I can reduce areas. It supports different types of breakdowns, filters, and rules. It is very simple for an out-of-the-box type of product. It doesn't take a lot of time to figure it out, which is unlike some of the solutions that I have looked at. It meets all the aspects."
"Some of the rules are most valuable because you can be notified about various things, such as spyware or things that are going on in the internal network."
"The out of the box reports and dashboard. It was easy to trim down these windows to something we could quickly use."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the visibility into both attempted and failed logins."
"SolarWinds Security Event Manager has been generally working well."
"It's extremely easy to deploy."
"The graphical user interface is very user-friendly. SolarWinds is a hybrid solution so you can use it across many platforms."
"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."
"AlienVault OSSIM could improve by having better integration with some of the newer tools."
"I would like the solution to be able to integrate with my firewall, my IDS and my Honeypot solutions so that it can provide real-time reporting as things occur and then have alert sent to me on my phone when suspicious activity is happening."
"Sometimes technical issues take very long to get resolved."
"The price of this solution is very high and it could be cheaper."
"I don't like to work on OSSIM because it is unpredictable."
"AlienVault OSSIM is costly."
"AlienVault OSSIM should improve the deployment and make it unified like the USM."
"It's under heavy traffic. If you have heavy traffic, the system is slow."
"It is a very technical program. They can simplify it so that it isn't so hard to deal with."
"The only issue is the pricetag. SolarWinds is a costly solution."
"We'd like more customization capabilities."
"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."
"We used the support from SolarWinds Security Event Manager and they are knowledgeable but challenging to get in contact with them."
"There is no correlation made between log entries, so no threat information is presented."
"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."
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AlienVault OSSIM is ranked 14th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 27 reviews while SolarWinds Security Event Manager is ranked 20th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 24 reviews. AlienVault OSSIM is rated 7.4, while SolarWinds Security Event Manager is rated 7.8. 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 SolarWinds Security Event Manager writes "A comprehensive network security with robust technical capabilities, effective threat response, and centralized management". AlienVault OSSIM is most compared with Wazuh, Elastic Security, USM Anywhere and Splunk Enterprise Security, whereas SolarWinds Security Event Manager is most compared with ManageEngine Log360, Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk Enterprise Security, Wazuh and ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer. See our AlienVault OSSIM vs. SolarWinds Security Event Manager report.
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