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We performed a comparison between AlienVault OSSIM and Oracle Security Monitoring and Analytics Cloud Service based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"Microsoft Sentinel provides the capability to integrate different log sources. On top of having several data connectors in place, you can also do integration with a threat intelligence platform to enhance and enrich the data that's available. You can collect as many logs and build all the use cases.""The automation rules and playbooks are the most useful that I've seen. A number of other places segregate the automation and playbook as separate tools, whereas Microsoft is a SIEM and SOAR tool in one.""Sentinel pricing is good""You can fine-tune the SOAR and you'll be charged only when your playbooks are triggered. That is the beauty of the solution because the SOAR is the costliest component in the market today... but with Sentinel it is upside-down: the SOAR is the lowest-hanging fruit. It's the least costly and it delivers more value to the customer.""The machine learning and artificial intelligence on offer are great.""I've worked on most of the top SIEM solutions, and Sentinel has an edge in most areas. For example, it has built-in SOAR capabilities, allowing you to run playbooks automatically. Other vendors typically offer SOAR as a separate licensed solution or module, but you get it free with Sentinel. In-depth incident integration is available out of the box.""It is able to connect to an ever-growing number of platforms and systems within the Microsoft ecosystem, such as Azure Active Directory and Microsoft 365 or Office 365, as well as to external services and systems that can be brought in and managed. We can manage on-premises infrastructure. We can manage not just the things that are running in Azure in the public cloud, but through Azure Arc and the hybrid capabilities, we can monitor on-premises servers and endpoints. We can monitor VMware infrastructure, for instance, running as part of a hybrid environment.""Azure Application Gateway makes things a lot easier. You can create dashboards, alert rules, hunting and custom queries, and functions with it."

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"AlienVault OSSIM is an enterprise solution that sells easily. It is rated highly by organizations.""Inbuilt IDS, inbuilt integration with threat intelligence platform and with vulnerability assessment modules.""The most valuable features of this solution are the data correlation and vulnerability assessment.""The most valuable feature is the logging capability.""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.""AlienVault OSSIM's GUI is very user-friendly.""The initial setup was straightforward. I didn't have any problems.""You can customize the dashboards as well as the reporting."

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"The security level that they are maintaining with the pre-authentication keys is very good."

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Cons
"We do see continuous improvement all the time, however, I haven't got a specific feature that is lacking or not well designed.""The on-prem log sources still require a lot of development.""While I appreciate the UI itself and the vast amount of information available on the platform, I'm finding the overall user experience to be frustrating due to frequent disconnections and the requirement to repeatedly re-authenticate.""Its implementation could be simpler. It is not really simple or straightforward. It is in the middle. Sometimes, connectors are a little bit complex.""We do have in-built or out-of-the-box metrics that are shown on the dashboard, but it doesn't give the kind of metrics that we need from our environment whereby we need to check the meantime to detect and meantime to resolve an incident. I have to do it manually. I have to pull all the logs or all the alerts that are fed into Sentinel over a certain period. We do this on a monthly basis, so I go into Microsoft Sentinel and pull all the alerts or incidents we closed over a period of thirty days.""It has been a challenge with Azure Sentinel to onboard the Syslog server from FortiGate. Azure Sentinel can work better on that shift between the Syslog server and a firewall.""I would like to see more AI used in processes.""Sentinel should be improved with more connectors. At the moment, it only covers a few vendors. If I remember correctly, only 100 products are supported natively in Sentinel, although you can connect them with syslog. But Microsoft should increase the number of native connectors to get logs into Sentinel."

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"The correlation engine needs to be improved.""AlienVault OSSIM should improve the deployment and make it unified like the USM.""It's so hard to configure and explore something new on it.""Lacking in depth of reporting.""AlienVault OSSIM gives unwanted notifications.""The solution needs more integration with cyber intelligence systems.""Sometimes technical issues take very long to get resolved.""The incidence reporting could be better."

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"The solution could improve by providing better documentation for beginners to learn, such as videos or other tutorials."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "It comes with a Microsoft subscription which the customer has, so they don't have to invest somewhere else."
  • "It is a consumption-based license model. bands at 100, 200, 400 GB per day etc. Azure Sentinel Pricing | Microsoft Azure"
  • "Good monthly operational cost model for the detection and response outcomes delivered, M365 logs don't count toward the limits which is a good benefit."
  • "I have had mixed feedback. At one point, I heard a client say that it sometimes seems more expensive. Most of the clients are on Office 365 or M365, and they are forced to take Azure SIEM because of the integration."
  • "It is kind of like a sliding scale. There are different tiers of pricing that go from $100 per day up to $3,500 per day. So, it just kind of depends on how much data is being stored. There can be additional costs to the standard license other than the additional data. It just kind of depends on what other services you're spinning up in Azure, or if you're using something like Azure log analytics."
  • "I am just paying for the log space with Azure Sentinel. It costs us about $2,000 a month. Most of the logs are free. We are only paying money for Azure Firewall logs because email logs or Azure AD logs are free to use for us."
  • "Sentinel is a bit expensive. If you can figure a way of configuring it to meet your needs, then you can find a way around the cost."
  • "Azure Sentinel is very costly, or at least it appears to be very costly. The costs vary based on your ingestion and your retention charges."
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  • "AlienVault pricing is the best. Whatever cost you are paying, you are getting a return on every penny... It's not like your IBM, your QRadar, or Splunk, where the cost is too high."
  • "The solution is open source, so it's free to use."
  • "OSSIM is free."
  • "The licensing fees for the non-community edition are paid on an annual basis, and there are no costs in addition to this."
  • "AlienVault OSSIM is free."
  • "We are using the community version, which can be used for free."
  • "We are using a free version of the solution. If you purchase a license there are more features available but the price is a little high. The solution should be cheaper to allow more customers to be able to afford it."
  • "The price of AlienVault OSSIM is too high sometimes for us to present to our customers. The price should be lower. We are on a three-year license to use the solution. We had to pay extra for the support."
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  • "The solution is not expensive for the data security measure you receive, it is reasonable."
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    Azure Sentinel
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    Overview

    Microsoft Sentinel is a scalable, cloud-native, security information event management (SIEM) and security orchestration automated response (SOAR) solution that lets you see and stop threats before they cause harm. Microsoft Sentinel delivers intelligent security analytics and threat intelligence across the enterprise, providing a single solution for alert detection, threat visibility, proactive hunting, and threat response. Eliminate security infrastructure setup and maintenance, and elastically scale to meet your security needs—while reducing IT costs. With Microsoft Sentinel, you can:

    - Collect data at cloud scale—across all users, devices, applications, and infrastructure, both on-premises and in multiple clouds

    - Detect previously uncovered threats and minimize false positives using analytics and unparalleled threat intelligence from Microsoft

    - Investigate threats with AI and hunt suspicious activities at scale, tapping into decades of cybersecurity work at Microsoft

    - Respond to incidents rapidly with built-in orchestration and automation of common tasks

    To learn more about our solution, ask questions, and share feedback, join our Microsoft Security, Compliance and Identity Community.

    AlienVault OSSIM, Open Source Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), provides you with a feature-rich open source SIEM complete with event collection, normalization and correlation. Launched by security engineers because of the lack of available open source products, AlienVault OSSIM was created specifically to address the reality many security professionals face: A SIEM, whether it is open source or commercial, is virtually useless without the basic security controls necessary for security visibility.

    Oracle Security Monitoring and Analytics Cloud Service is a comprehensive solution designed to provide organizations with advanced threat detection and response capabilities. This cloud-based service leverages machine learning and artificial intelligence to analyze vast amounts of security data in real time, enabling proactive identification and mitigation of potential threats. 

    With Oracle Security Monitoring and Analytics Cloud Service, organizations can gain deep visibility into their entire IT infrastructure, including on-premises and cloud environments. The service collects and correlates security data from various sources, such as logs, network traffic, and endpoint telemetry, to provide a holistic view of the security posture. The product's advanced analytics capabilities of this service enable the detection of both known and unknown threats. 

    By applying machine learning algorithms to the collected data, Oracle Security Monitoring and Analytics Cloud Service can identify patterns and anomalies that may indicate malicious activities. This proactive approach helps organizations stay ahead of emerging threats and minimize the risk of data breaches. 

    In addition to threat detection, this service also offers comprehensive incident response capabilities. When a potential threat is identified, Oracle Security Monitoring and Analytics Cloud Service provides detailed alerts and actionable insights to guide security teams in their response efforts. The service also offers automated response actions, allowing organizations to quickly contain and mitigate the impact of a security incident. 

    The product is built on a scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability and performance. The service integrates seamlessly with other Oracle security products, such as Oracle Identity and Access Management, to provide a comprehensive security ecosystem. 

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    Top Industries
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    Financial Services Firm22%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Comms Service Provider8%
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    Computer Software Company16%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Government9%
    Manufacturing Company7%
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    Insurance Company15%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Security Firm8%
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    Computer Software Company18%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    Government8%
    Financial Services Firm7%
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    Financial Services Firm18%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Comms Service Provider6%
    Educational Organization6%
    Company Size
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    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise21%
    Large Enterprise47%
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    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise60%
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    Small Business53%
    Midsize Enterprise30%
    Large Enterprise17%
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    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise51%
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    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise63%
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    Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
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    AlienVault OSSIM is ranked 16th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 26 reviews while Oracle Security Monitoring and Analytics Cloud Service is ranked 43rd in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM). AlienVault OSSIM is rated 7.4, while Oracle Security Monitoring and Analytics Cloud Service is rated 7.0. 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 Oracle Security Monitoring and Analytics Cloud Service writes " Easy to install, highly secure standards, and reliable". AlienVault OSSIM is most compared with Wazuh, Elastic Security, USM Anywhere, Splunk Enterprise Security and Fortinet FortiSIEM, whereas Oracle Security Monitoring and Analytics Cloud Service is most compared with AWS Security Hub, LogRhythm SIEM, IBM Security QRadar, ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) and Rapid7 InsightVM.

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