Splunk vs ThetaRay

Unified Security Management (USM) is AlienVault’s comprehensive approach to security monitoring, delivered in a unified platform. The USM platform includes five core security capabilities that provide resource-constrained organizations with all the security essentials needed for effective threat detection, incident response, and compliance, in a single pane of glass. Designed to monitor cloud, hybrid cloud and on-premises environments, AlienVault USM significantly reduces complexity and reduces deployment time so that users can go from installation to first insight in minutes for the fastest threat detection.

The vendor says unlike traditional security point technologies, AlienVault Unified Security Management does the following:

o   Unifies essential security controls into a single all-in-one security monitoring solution

o   Monitors your cloud, hybrid cloud, and on-premises infrastructure

o   Delivers continuous threat intelligence to keep you aware of threats as they emerge and change

o   Provides comprehensive threat detection and actionable incident response directives

o   Deploys quickly, easily, and with minimal effort

o   Reduces TCO over traditional security solutions

Splunk software has been around since 2006 and the company has since grown to become an industry leader. Splunk's vision is to make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everybody. The company offers a wide range of products to turn machine data into valuable information by monitoring and analyzing all activities. This is known as Operational Intelligence and is the unique value proposition of Splunk.

Splunk is well-known for its Log Management capabilities and also for its Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions.

ThetaRay’s Industrial ThetaRay Asset Protection Cyber Solution (Industrial TAP-CyberTM) protects against unknown zero-day malware, targeted APT attacks, and sophisticated Stuxnet-like state sponsored cyber-attacks that target industrial critical infrastructure networks. Monitoring critical infrastructure networks and devices, such as various SCADA networks, aircrafts engines, medical equipment and more, the TAP-Cyber solution enables the real-time detection and actionable mitigation of unknown threats before any impact to production, safety or revenues can occur. ThetaRay’s non-intrusive industrial solution is deployed on-premises in a centralized location where it can access multi-site data collected by the customer (such as Historian data in the plant operating center), or locally protecting a specific site or entity (electrical utility

substation, offshore Oil&Gas site, water pumping site, commercial airplane etc.)