We performed a comparison between IBM X-Force Exchange and USM Anywhere based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Recorded Future, Microsoft, Check Point Software Technologies and others in Threat Intelligence Platforms."It's quite integratable so you can actually integrate and get IP malware and URL information. It also gives you some form of intelligence into what you're trying to investigate or what you're trying to understand."
"This product has helped to increase staff productivity."
"The most valuable feature is you have the expertise of human experience directly involved. There is a team of experts."
"The asset management of nodes has been a large help in terms of being able to track applications with more detail and have changes made being monitored into one source."
"OTX is a great module that lets staff maintain and monitor updates regarding events in the infrastructure and takes decision to improve the security perimeter."
"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 USM is a work horse, no matter what devices or the number of logs we throw at it, the system processes them in real time, correlates the events, and alerts on only events that need human review."
"The setup is very easy and straightforward."
"AlienVault provides a checklist answer when using SIEM."
"This solution can completely detect and prevent incidents on your network."
"It allows you to define what alerts you want to see, or not to see, as well as if you want them grouped, or ungrouped."
"I would like to see better integration with other systems, solutions, and vendors."
"We would like to have more AI capabilities to detect threats and improve its productivity from a cybersecurity standpoint."
"You have to look for the new information from X-Force. X-Force will provide it but you have to look for it. We need clearer visibility."
"The AT&T AlienVault USM is okay, but the relational database is not very good for large amounts of data. For example, many logs cannot be processed. It has been very slow for the queries and some data which are large, it is not very good in this case."
"Pay attention to false-positive event automatic correlations."
"The reporting aspect could be improved. While there are a lot of different options available, there are still pieces which are missing."
"There are many reports included but would be nice to have better access to the data."
"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."
"The dashboard could be improved as well as the level of customization."
"AlienVault needs to continue to integrate with other third-party technologies that clients want to have monitored."
"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."
IBM X-Force Exchange is ranked 7th in Threat Intelligence Platforms with 3 reviews while USM Anywhere is ranked 13th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 113 reviews. IBM X-Force Exchange is rated 8.0, while USM Anywhere is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IBM X-Force Exchange writes "Speed threat assessment ,security investigations leveraging on real time actionable threat intel integrated to your Security Intelligence Platform". On the other hand, the top reviewer of USM Anywhere writes "Easy to use and affordable". IBM X-Force Exchange is most compared with VirusTotal, IBM Security QRadar, ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) and Anomali ThreatStream, whereas USM Anywhere is most compared with Wazuh, AlienVault OSSIM, IBM Security QRadar, Splunk Enterprise Security and Datadog.
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