LogPoint was selected before I was in this position, so I was not part of the process. My understanding is that several products were considered but LogPoint was chosen because the price of the license was attractive.

At this point, we are thinking about moving to Darktrace.

I had Logtrust, and I looked at AlienVault, Splunk, and IBM QRadar. Splunk was too expensive, and QRadar was too complex. AlienVault was very good and very close to LogPoint. I almost went to AlienVault, but its cost turned out to be significantly higher than LogPoint, so I ended up going for LogPoint because it was a better cost proposition for me.

We evaluated other options and it made sense for us to choose LogPoint because they have both the SIEM and SOAR together.

I've looked into other SIEM solutions. In comparison, LogPoint works better in the European and German markets due to some unique features in data protection, compared to Splunk or some of the others, even Sentinel.

LogPoint is a very good product for mid-sized companies, especially in Europe. However, for big data chunks, big companies that are either in the cloud or not should use a solution like Splunk or an ELK-like elastic search-based SIEM solution due to the speed. 

We did two PoCs. We had one for Rapid7 and one for LogPoint. We chose LogPoint in the end. A good point for LogPoint is that it is not based on the volume. It is based on the number of devices, whereas Rapid7 is based on the volume, which was why we chose LogPoint instead of Rapid7. We didn't know how much volume we would generate, and we were afraid that it would cost us a lot of money. So, we chose something that we can manage and monitor and is limited to the number of devices. It is much easier to manage the licenses than to manage the volume. For on-premises, it is the best solution.

LogPoint should provide comprehensive comparison tables similar to QRadar. It shows very general insights.

I was not there at that moment, but they went to shortlist three other vendors. I didn't remember the names.

We have our own cloud offering. We are always keeping an eye on what's out there to know what else we can offer to our clients. Things like AWS and Azure would not work in our favor because they're so big. 

It keeps me aware of what's up and coming, and I share that information with our engineering staff so that they could either incorporate some of the features into what we have, or if there's any kind of partnership, and is it just a matter of something we should offer.

We are looking to see what else may be available. There might be something better that we are not aware of yet.

We evaluated FortiSIEM. We chose Logpoint because it was technically sound.

I've evaluated IBM QRadar and LogRhythm.

Yes, we evaluated some of the larger SIEM software solutions.