AlienVault OSSIM vs Securonix Next-Gen SIEM comparison

AT&T and Securonix Solutions are both solutions in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category. AT&T is ranked #10 with an average rating of 7.3, while Securonix Solutions is ranked #13 with an average rating of 8.4. AT&T holds a 5.0% mindshare in SIEM, compared to Securonix Solutions’s 1.3% mindshare. Additionally, 80% of AT&T users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Securonix Solutions users who would recommend it.

AlienVault OSSIM

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96% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

Securonix Next-Gen SIEM and AlienVault OSSIM are prominent solutions in the SIEM category. Securonix Next-Gen SIEM holds an advantage in advanced analytics and scalability, while AlienVault OSSIM stands out for threat intelligence and open-source flexibility.

Features: Securonix Next-Gen SIEM offers advanced behavioral analytics, a scalable architecture, and machine learning for detecting insider threats and sophisticated attacks. AlienVault OSSIM provides easy integration with various data sources, comprehensive threat intelligence, and a holistic view of security landscapes.

Room for Improvement: Securonix could enhance reporting capabilities, reduce setup complexity, and improve customization. AlienVault OSSIM users request better scalability, more transparency in open-source components, and enhanced feature sets.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Securonix users appreciate effective customer support but find deployment complex and time-consuming. AlienVault OSSIM users benefit from straightforward deployment and satisfactory customer service.

Pricing and ROI: Securonix is generally seen as expensive but offers high ROI due to advanced features. AlienVault OSSIM is appreciated for its low initial setup cost but has ROI limitations due to scalability challenges.

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Categories and Ranking

AlienVault OSSIM

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

10th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Securonix Next-Gen SIEM

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

13th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) (9th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of AlienVault OSSIM is 5.0%, up from 3.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Securonix Next-Gen SIEM is 1.3%, down from 1.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

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Aman Aijaz

Assistant Manager Global Security at Convergys Corporation

An easy-to-scale open-source solution used for monitoring events on devices

The area for improvement is a lot. When I started using it on our enterprise side, the issue we faced was, for example, if we were running at that time on AlienVault OSSIM v5.7.4. So, for some orders, we had to install some packages, and when we tried installing that package, some dependencies got upgraded to a new version. Now once that dependency got upgraded, the SQL, since you might be aware that OSSIM uses SQL database, now SQL and all the dependency in everything was not on the same version, and that caused the database to crash. The aforementioned area should be eased out by upgrading the patches and upgrading dependencies. This kind of thing is a disadvantage of OSSIM, and I would like them to work on this. But I have also raised service requests many times and gave it a push on the community section too. However, since it is a local source, they don't reply much over there. That is why I don't like to work on OSSIM because it is unpredictable. Once the storage goes above 50 percent, it starts behaving unpredictably. If you get stuck with a situation, then you need to drill a lockdown into that. Sometimes you get no luck. Then you have to just reimage the server with the new fresh OS of AlienVault. As for additional features, not much because if you move to the newer version, it is kind of getting more stable. But, to make my life easier, then I would say try to give more features. I know it's open source, so they also cannot provide me with more features. But still, if they can provide me with more features because right now it's becoming old. Right now, we are even moving from SIEM to Security Data Lake. So when we move to it, this will be literally outdated. No one can even expect anything out of it. The way security is moving, it will be outdated very soon. They have to also provide something new to keep this going for the future also.

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Ibrahim Albalawi

SOC Leader at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

Less false positives, good detection and integration capabilities, and good pricing

The incident response area should be improved. It is more difficult than other products, but overall, it is good. The platform has a lot of options and functionality. So, you need to check almost everything. For new engineers or people who don’t have much experience with this kind of platform, it is a bit difficult, but for experienced engineers, it is not that difficult. When you have been doing a lot of work for about one or two hours, and you have a lot of tabs open, it slows down or gets stuck. There is a delay of 10 to 15 seconds in opening tabs or dashboards. I don't know why this happens, but for me, it is not a big issue. I just wait, and that's all.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"I recommend it due to the experience of the people running it."

"The most valuable features of AlienVault OSSIM are case management, ease of configuration, and investigation."

"The product is majorly used for threat detection of the agents on servers and endpoints."

"The dashboard is the solution's most valuable aspect. It brings everything into one central point where I can actually look at it and go, "Okay, I understand what's going on.""

"The solution is very stable. Compared to Qradar and Splunk, it's very stable."

"The open vault component and the checking of vulnerabilities are the most valuable features. The page management helps with this. If you know how your device is vulnerable at least you can do something about it."

"OSSIM is the only solution that includes the large number of modules that we need: a vulnerability scanner, a network IDS system, a host IDS system."

"You pay monthly for the solution. I think it's one of the best products. If you compare with other companies, like LogRhythm, etc., the top 8 or 10 CMs, I think Alien Vault has the best price-performance ratio."

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"We ingest billions of logs without worrying about resource allocation."

"The customizability of the tool is valuable. We are able to customize the use cases and create them easily without a large amount of Securonix assistance. It's very flexible. We do not have to rely on Professional Services to modify or create a new use case."

"When we were looking for products for our security monitoring needs, our biggest requirement was that we wanted something based on machine-learning and analytics. If you go with rules, it can raise a lot of noise. Securonix, with its UEBA capability, had the best analytics use-cases."

"The solution has proven to be stable so far...The solution is easy to scale up."

"The UEBA functionality indicates a lot about behaviors that are not found through a traditional SIEM. We have exploited that more than anything since we started using it."

"The most valuable feature is that it works on user behavior and event rarities."

"We can customize our use cases with the tools provided by Securonix. It is an excellent tool that can ingest data in different ways and is very flexible."

"The user interface is easy to learn and navigate."

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Cons

"AlienVault OSSIM should improve the deployment and make it unified like the USM."

"They can add more compliance templates."

"I suggest more in-built rules based on modern threats and environments to make it a more competitive solution."

"It takes some time. It does not give me a prompt response for any such [malicious] traffic. It takes time to get that alert from the AlienVault system."

"GUI could be improved."

"AlienVault OSSIM failed to provide our company a full insight, while also giving out a lot of false positives."

"The price of this solution is very high and it could be cheaper."

"It's under heavy traffic. If you have heavy traffic, the system is slow."

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"Securonix could open up information regarding the indicators of compromise or cyber-threat intelligence database that they use. The idea is that they share what threats they are detecting."

"There is room for improvement in the product's integration with ServiceNow and in the reporting features."

"We thought they were going to be a great product, however, they're actually not great at all as an MSP."

"One aspect that could be improved is the pricing of the product in Brazil."

"We would like a little more face-to-face training. Securonix has several tutorials on its website, but we want there to be a person in Colombia who does training or workshops to give us a better understanding of the platform."

"The incident response area should be improved."

"Parsing needs to be improved. Every time we integrate a new, specific data source, we face a lot of problems in parsing, even for the old data source."

"We would like to see better integration with other products."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"OSSIM is open source, and USM is the paid license. So, if you want, you can switch to USM. There you will have to buy a license, and they have a support team that helps you out on issues you face."

"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."

"When comparing AlienVault OSSIM to Microsoft Sentinel, AlienVault OSSIM incurs additional costs due to its licensing price structure. If you are using AlienVault for security purposes at a certain level it can have a higher price point than the current pricing of Microsoft Sentinel."

"AlienVault OSSIM is an open-source solution."

"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."

"The tool's licensing costs are yearly."

"The solution is open source, so it's free to use."

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"We have an annual license. We pay $200,000 for the base licensing and we pay another $50,000 for the software as a service."

"Its pricing is quite similar to others and is very competitive. The other solutions have different types of licensing, but when you do the math, it is competitive."

"I rate the pricing an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is very expensive. It is a pretty expensive tool."

"Compared to other known brands in the industry, the overall cost of the licenses is a bit higher than what customers expect."

"The solution's price is double the competitors."

"Its price is fine. We found it to be cheaper than LogRhythm, Exabeam, Splunk, as well as Elastic Security. A few months ago, when we were comparing Securonix with Elastic Security, we found Securonix to be cheaper than Elasticsearch. We were pretty surprised that Elastic Security is more expensive than Securonix because Elasticsearch is just starting, and it cannot compete with Securonix at this time. So, the pricing of Securonix is pretty good for now."

"The pricing is good, but by adding more things, the licensing becomes more complex because an EPS license fluctuates a lot. This licensing concept is going to be problematic in the long run."

"A good thing about Securonix is that they don't charge by volume of data or number of devices... They charge by the number of employees, which is a much more predictable number for me, versus data. Our costs are in the $100,000 range over a three-year subscription."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Educational Organization

Computer Software Company

21%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about AlienVault OSSIM?

Asset discovery is good.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AlienVault OSSIM?

I used the paid version of the tool and found it to be expensive. It has been a while since I changed to Securonix. I will have to check whether AlienVault charges per device, user, or log.

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What needs improvement with AlienVault OSSIM?

There are somewhat more false positives with the user behavior analytics, which could benefit from an additional machine learning model to detect user patterns more rapidly. The integration capabil...

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Which is the best SIEM tool for a mid-sized financial services firm: Arcsight or Securonix?

In my market, a lot of financial companies had or have an ArcSight installation. Just because in former times it was pretty good. Now a lot of them are looking for a more effective solution due to ...

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What is your primary use case for Securonix Security Analytics?

We use Securonix Next-Gen SIEM as a SIEM, security incident and event management solution in our organization.

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What do you like most about Securonix Next-Gen SIEM?

The two major features of this product we extensively use are the UEBA capability and the multi-tenant approach with the centralized data logs system. Customers are very happy with these features.

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Overview

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.

Securonix Next-Gen SIEM is a security information and event management solution designed to provide advanced threat detection, response, and compliance capabilities. It leverages machine learning and big data analytics to offer a comprehensive security platform for modern enterprises.

Securonix Next-Gen SIEM utilizes advanced analytics and machine learning to detect complex threats that traditional SIEM solutions might miss. Its architecture is built on Hadoop, enabling scalability and the processing of large volumes of data in real-time. This allows organizations to gain deep insights into security incidents, prioritize threats, and automate response actions. The solution also includes behavior analytics to detect insider threats and unknown attacks, integrating seamlessly with existing IT infrastructure.

What are the critical features of Securonix Next-Gen SIEM?

Advanced Threat Detection: Uses machine learning algorithms to identify sophisticated threats and reduce false positives.
Behavior Analytics: Analyzes user and entity behavior to detect insider threats and anomalies.
Scalable Architecture: Built on Hadoop, it scales to handle large data volumes, providing real-time analytics.
Automated Response: Automates incident response to mitigate threats quickly and efficiently.
Integration Capabilities: Easily integrates with various IT and security tools for comprehensive coverage.

What is the ROI expectations?

Improved Threat Detection: Enhanced ability to detect and respond to advanced threats, reducing risk.
Operational Efficiency: Automation of repetitive tasks allows security teams to focus on more critical activities.
Cost Savings: Scalability and efficient data processing reduce the need for additional hardware and resources.
Compliance Support: Helps in meeting regulatory compliance requirements through detailed reporting and monitoring.

Securonix Next-Gen SIEM is implemented across various industries, including finance, healthcare, and retail. Its flexibility and advanced analytics capabilities make it suitable for environments with complex security needs. In finance, it helps detect fraud, while in healthcare, it ensures patient data security. In retail, it protects against data breaches and payment fraud.

In summary, Securonix Next-Gen SIEM offers advanced threat detection, scalability, and integration capabilities, making it a robust solution for modern enterprises.

Sample Customers

Council Rock School District

Dtex Systems, Pfizer, Western Union, Harris, ITG

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