We performed a comparison between SolarWinds Security Event Manager and USM Anywhere based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It has in-depth monitoring capabilities and an easy way for setting up dashboards. I can expand in various areas, or I can reduce areas. It supports different types of breakdowns, filters, and rules. It is very simple for an out-of-the-box type of product. It doesn't take a lot of time to figure it out, which is unlike some of the solutions that I have looked at. It meets all the aspects."
"We did previously use a different solution, but SolarWinds is much better. It's easy to interact with SolarWinds. It's easy to operate, easy to configure and is generally easier compared to what we were working with before."
"It's extremely easy to deploy."
"The most valuable feature is the reporting."
"The solution helps you monitor database instances, application instances, other customer application things, Linux servers, IBM servers, and Oracle servers."
"SolarWinds Security Event Manager has been generally working well."
"It's easy to build rules and actions based on the logs and event types we collect with the software."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the visibility into both attempted and failed logins."
"The new cloud-based panel is excellent both for client review as well as for our SOC to review and respond to threats. It is much easier to configure and use than the previous solution from AlienVault."
"AlientVault has helped us in improving our visualization and incident response during cybersecurity situations."
"Having everything in a central place has been helpful."
"The asset management of nodes has been a large help in terms of being able to track applications with more detail and have changes made being monitored into one source."
"It allows for a lot of out-of-the-box features: vuln scanning, HIDS/HIPS, and IDS."
"This solution can completely detect and prevent incidents on your network."
"Our main focus was intrusion detection, alerts, and correlation. It's easy to use AlienVault and integrate it with other alert tools because it includes lots of connectors. Either the tool is already there, or AlienVault will write an API for us if they don't have a connector for the solution that is providing the logs."
"AlienVault provides a checklist answer when using SIEM."
"SolarWinds should improve its correlation capabilities. The correlation does not automatically detect and reduce the events fast enough. You have to manually do a correlation report, which means the tool is not scalable in many ways."
"We used the support from SolarWinds Security Event Manager and they are knowledgeable but challenging to get in contact with them."
"The solution's technical support is okay, but we don't have an SLA, and sometimes the response times are very slow."
"I would like to have a more customizable dashboard."
"It can be difficult for users who are inexperienced with the solution."
"One of the drawbacks of being so flexible is that it is also a fairly complicated software application to install, configure, and maintain."
"The company had to use a third party for the implementation of the solution."
"It won't tell you when your backups are failing, but it will give you hints when your database is running on full recovery."
"As this software is in the cloud, you do not have control on updates and general changes which are happening."
"The price of AT&T AlienVault USM could be reduced."
"Its reporting tools need improvements. It would be good if they can provide integration with other ticketing systems. Currently, we only have integration with Slack and Jira. It is also a bit slow, and its replication engine can be improved."
"Source material on the forums to be more up-to-date with the changes happening within the product. Forums being out-of-date with information due to the changes makes troubleshooting a little more difficult - specific to the HIDS agents."
"Different functions to customize reports should be added."
"This solution could be easier to use."
"In the future, I would like to see all these features of the solution working properly."
"AlienVault must improve their correlation feature. Some of the events do not match with the correlation rules and some of the correlation events are false-positive."
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SolarWinds Security Event Manager is ranked 20th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 24 reviews while USM Anywhere is ranked 11th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 113 reviews. SolarWinds Security Event Manager is rated 7.8, while USM Anywhere is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of SolarWinds Security Event Manager writes "A comprehensive network security with robust technical capabilities, effective threat response, and centralized management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of USM Anywhere writes "Easy to use and affordable". SolarWinds Security Event Manager is most compared with ManageEngine Log360, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, Wazuh and IBM Security QRadar, whereas USM Anywhere is most compared with Wazuh, AlienVault OSSIM, IBM Security QRadar, Splunk Enterprise Security and Microsoft Sentinel. See our SolarWinds Security Event Manager vs. USM Anywhere report.
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