USM Anywhere pros and cons

Vendor: AT&T

4.2 out of 5

113 reviews
92% willing to recommend

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USM Anywhere Pros review quotes

VS

Manager, Enterprise Risk Consulting at Deloitte & Touche

Jul 5, 2017

The best thing about AlienVault USM is it being a “Jack-of-All Trades” solution. It provides SIEM, HIDS/NIDS, FIM, NetFlow, Asset Management, Vulnerability Management, etc., under one USM platform. None of the commercial SIEM vendors like ArcSight, McAfee, etc., can boast of such a diverse feature set.

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TS

Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Sep 16, 2018

On any given day I could give you a different answer regarding the most valuable features of the product. The feature that is most important is the fact that it has a lot of features, that it's not just a log collection and correlation system, that it has a lot of other components built in. The bundle of features is really the killer feature.

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JT

Owner at ThatsIT Consultants

Jul 11, 2021

In terms of monitoring, my best feature would be the monitoring of components across the network. It monitors the respective nodes and any new node that comes onto the network and provides reports. The reporting dashboards are really helpful for management in terms of making decisions around patch management.

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Solutions Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Jul 4, 2021

We're using it more for reporting, that's all. We're using it to help our customers to pass any kind of audits that they receive.

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Founding Member at Integotec

Sep 30, 2022

The most valuable feature is vulnerability management because it gives you insight into your environment to know what systems need to be updated or patched.

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PF

VP at Castra Consulting

Dec 12, 2018

The IDS and the threat intelligence are very useful. They are very intuitive and data-rich.

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JS

Senior Network Architect / Network Team Leader at ICE Consulting. Inc.

Nov 18, 2020

The other big selling feature for us was its integration capabilities with all the other security-based products.

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DO

Principal DevOps Engineer at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

Dec 21, 2021

AlienVault's reporting is good. I like that vulnerability assessment is part of the solution, and the UI is intuitive. Also, the overhead is low, which is to say we don't need a dedicated SOC team to manage and analyze things constantly. We're a small company that doesn't have those resources.

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BS

Systems Administrator at a healthcare company

Aug 12, 2018

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.

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SL

Senior Talent Sourcer, Digital at Digitaltrack

Apr 11, 2023

The ease of implementation is the most valuable feature.

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USM Anywhere Cons review quotes

VS

Manager, Enterprise Risk Consulting at Deloitte & Touche

Jul 5, 2017

The lack of mature functionality and expertise in any of those areas is a strong negative.

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TS

Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Sep 16, 2018

Search performance can be slow. The Raw Logs feature is painfully slow. And if we're talking about the newer, the Anywhere product, you can't even schedule reports on the thing. There are probably a dozen other features I'd really like to see there, but that would be one of the biggies.

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JT

Owner at ThatsIT Consultants

Jul 11, 2021

I've been using it just for my own personal upskilling in terms of how the product works. At the moment, it is pretty straightforward and simple, and it is working how it is supposed to. The feedback would come once it is deployed to customer sites. They'll be using it on a more frequent basis, and that's when the feedback would come in terms of the areas in which they're facing issues or are looking for simplicity.

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Solutions Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Jul 4, 2021

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.

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Founding Member at Integotec

Sep 30, 2022

I want to see more compliance management capability. The quality of integrations seems to be a little bit low.

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PF

VP at Castra Consulting

Dec 12, 2018

One area that has room for improvement is storage. AllienVault is a good place to put logs, but sometimes it's a tough place to go get logs... The logger can only hold so much data. If they improved that, that would help.

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JS

Senior Network Architect / Network Team Leader at ICE Consulting. Inc.

Nov 18, 2020

I'd like to see a dashboard that's a little more descriptive.

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DO

Principal DevOps Engineer at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

Dec 21, 2021

I think plugin management should be self-service on AlienVault USM. The other product is self-service but on the USM side. You have to submit a ticket then AT&T creates and updates the plugins.

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BS

Systems Administrator at a healthcare company

Aug 12, 2018

The only room for improvement I can mention is the initial installation procedures. I found that the online installation instructions for the product were missing important details, they lacked necessary steps.

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SL

Senior Talent Sourcer, Digital at Digitaltrack

Apr 11, 2023

The reporting and dashboards have room for improvement.

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