The initial setup isn't too difficult. It's pretty straightforward. An organization shouldn't have too much trouble with the setup.

The deployment is very fast. It doesn't take too much time at all. It's likely less than five minutes. Honestly, it's almost instantaneous.

There is no mapping. Once you're done with the customization you can use it. It's not time-consuming. The customization part is based on whatever keywords and attributes you are adding, and that's less than a minute of time to handle. There is no time consumed. You just need to add to a filter.

You don't really need to worry about having too much maintenance. It's not required really. Maybe once the log is full, you may require a maintenance checkup of six months on. We have a server team that manages that aspect.

I was not involved in the setup process.

I have experience with setting up Alert Logic's appliances and feeding them the right data, modeling the system, and ensuring that the rest of the team can use it once it's up and running.

The setup process was complex. We needed assistance from the Alert Logic team because the IT environment was spread out, and there were multiple teams involved. We had to work with a liaison between those teams to ensure that we could install everything correctly. We had to bring in the network teams, system administration teams, and other relevant teams to ensure that everything was properly set up, which made the process complex.

The deployment process lasted for about two months. It took that long because we wanted to ensure that we tested the product fully in a developer environment before going forward with the actual deployment. In the deployment process, we had about fifteen to twenty people internally from our team, and the Alert Logic team was maybe about three to five.

The setup process was somewhat lengthy and took longer than I would have preferred, so I would rate it a seven on a scale of one to ten, where ten is the best. However, I believe that the delay was caused more by our internal site issues than any shortcomings on the part of Alert Logic.

It was very straightforward. The installation took us maybe two hours.

We deployed it to all of our servers. We needed to build a virtual appliance, and that was actually the only pain point. The communication around that virtual appliance was not very clear, so I went down the wrong path only to discover that I had wasted some time, and it wasn't required.

The initial setup was straightforward. We sent them what needed to be done, and the environment was already up. To get the implementation sorted took about a month. Documentation is readily available and helpful. 

The implementation is pretty straightforward. You immediately gain visibility as soon as you install the IDS appliance, deploy the agents on the servers, and start collecting syslogs. However, you need to take some additional time to fine-tune and optimize the platform and all the devices. It takes about four to six weeks to get results and around three months to optimize the platform monitoring service.

There are problems with the Threat Manager and networking stuff that have to be handled prior to setting things up, so it does take a little while to integrate. You need to have all your networking stuff come into this one specific AWS instance called Threat Manager that they have detailed instructions on how to set up. However, there is a lot of manual work that needs to be done ahead of time before you scale out and use it for other purposes.

The integration and configuration with Alert Logic in our AWS environment was straightforward.

This version was not easy to install. It was very complicated and took a lot of time.

It implemented pretty quickly. 

We have everything you need. It would typically take a lot other solutions weeks to set up. This set up within fifteen minutes, which is pretty slick, and it has a lot of different interfaces.

The installation and configuration were slick. After installing in 20 to 30 minutes, you can start provisioning access, so people can take a look.

It fully integrates with our AWS environment, which is brilliant.

Alert Logic integrates with all of our products, which was one of the reasons that we went for it.