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."This tool is simple to use."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use for the end user."
"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 SolarWinds Security Event Manager is the analysis and the knowledge about the incidence that we trace."
"SolarWinds is effective for server, network, and log monitoring. It's also good for IP address management. We also have a patch manager, but we're still working on getting that operational."
"SolarWinds' stability is fine. I don't think we've had any software issues."
"SolarWinds Security Event Manager has been generally working well."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the visibility into both attempted and failed logins."
"This is a USM, so being able to get all the features under one roof makes it a good product with good new features."
"We had used previous products and found AlienVault centralized the logging for our security."
"Our main focus was intrusion detection, alerts, and correlation. It's easy to use AlienVault and integrate it with other alert tools because it includes lots of connectors. Either the tool is already there, or AlienVault will write an API for us if they don't have a connector for the solution that is providing the logs."
"Reports are customized, so you can present them to executives or engineers."
"The main menu: You can see everything there, what is happening on the servers, and in the logs, you can view more details of each event."
"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."
"Ease of deployment across various environments."
"There are no multiple dashboards which would allow you to see information side-by-side."
"It is a very technical program. They can simplify it so that it isn't so hard to deal with."
"I imagine we will have to develop our own reports soon, this seems to be more cumbersome."
"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."
"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."
"There is no correlation made between log entries, so no threat information is presented."
"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."
"The lack of mature functionality and expertise in any of those areas is a strong negative."
"AlienVault needs to continue to integrate with other third-party technologies that clients want to have monitored."
"The reporting aspect could be improved. While there are a lot of different options available, there are still pieces which are missing."
"There could be some type of integration with our existing portal. We have our own customer portals, and it would be good if there was an integration so that our portal can provide reports. There could be some type of API into the AlienVault system with the USM system so that it is easy to show the customers high-level reports of the system through our portal."
"they seem to have bugs from time to time that go unfixed for a while and that is frustrating. I'm not saying the product needs to be bug-free, but they need to be responsive to bugs."
"The dashboard could be improved as well as the level of customization."
"The price of AT&T AlienVault USM could be reduced."
"Support can be slow at times, but the quality is high. Posted knowledge base articles could use improvement."
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SolarWinds Security Event Manager is ranked 20th 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, Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk Enterprise Security, Wazuh and IBM Security QRadar, whereas USM Anywhere is most compared with Wazuh, AlienVault OSSIM, IBM Security QRadar, Splunk Enterprise Security and Microsoft Sentinel. See our SolarWinds Security Event Manager vs. USM Anywhere report.
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