We performed a comparison between AlienVault OSSIM 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."Its user-friendliness is the most valuable. It is very easy to use and explore. The dashboard is very well packaged and integrated. You don't have to spend a lot of time in configuring it and checking out the RPM etc. It is also free and very powerful."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the data correlation and vulnerability assessment."
"The paid version of the solution has reporting and better scalability options."
"The threat alerts it gives me from time to time on harmful code within the network, or if they are generating any network traffic, are very useful."
"With AlienVault you get everything in one box."
"The solution has a very good open source community, and whenever we have problems, we are always able to resolve it online."
"You can customize the dashboards as well as the reporting."
"The most valuable features of AlienVault OSSIM are case management, ease of configuration, and investigation."
"Reports are customized, so you can present them to executives or engineers."
"Log-monitoring and alerting enable us to know when things happen that we need to know about."
"The dashboards are very descriptive and contain just the right amount of information. The activity alarms and events contain a plethora of data that is very descriptive and useful."
"It brought our logs into one place for review and set up alarms based on changes we were missing due to lack of having one place for everything to go."
"Asset discovery seems to be good."
"The vulnerability scanning is helpful to identify the areas that need patching or fixes installed."
"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."
"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 initial setup was a bit complex. You've got to do a lot of reading. It's not an intuitive implementation."
"It's so hard to configure and explore something new on it."
"Sometimes technical issues take very long to get resolved."
"The user interface could be improved."
"AlienVault OSSIM gives unwanted notifications."
"AlienVault OSSIM could improve by having better integration with some of the newer tools."
"The solution is not scalable."
"It takes some time. It does not give me a prompt response for any such [malicious] traffic. It takes time to get that alert from the AlienVault system."
"Their threat intelligence platform needs to be broadened. They should integrate it with more threat intelligence platforms. For the threat feed that they get from open intelligence, I would like them to add a few premium threat intelligence platforms. They can provide a bundle in which AlienVault has the threat intelligence background of other premium products."
"The reporting tools are a bit lacking for building reports to give directly to customers, but support has been helpful in giving our requests for new features to the development team and following up with us."
"For creating new rules, you have to be familiar with regular expressions. I feel there could be something built-in to make sure that process is easier."
"Windows log collection works with HIDS, but documentation is sparse and confusing."
"There are many reports included but would be nice to have better access to the data."
"Reporting is convoluted and difficult at times, although they claim to have hundreds of pre-built reports, very few of them are actually useful for anything but what the USM is doing."
"Maybe logs are the problem, as the database query is too slow. If you want to search something, you need time to find it."
"More complimentary training needs to be done for use with this tool. If you get into a bind, then it will cost you."
AlienVault OSSIM is ranked 14th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 27 reviews while USM Anywhere is ranked 11th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 113 reviews. AlienVault OSSIM is rated 7.4, while USM Anywhere is rated 8.4. 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 USM Anywhere writes "Easy to use and affordable". AlienVault OSSIM is most compared with Wazuh, Elastic Security, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel and Fortinet FortiSIEM, whereas USM Anywhere is most compared with Wazuh, IBM Security QRadar, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel and Rapid7 InsightIDR. See our AlienVault OSSIM vs. USM Anywhere report.
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