ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) vs USM Anywhere comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) and USM Anywhere are leading security management solutions. While users appreciate the feature set of USM Anywhere, ArcSight ESM is favored for its deployment and support. USM Anywhere is seen as more cost-effective and efficient.

Features: ArcSight ESM is valued for its powerful correlation capabilities, scalability, and robust threat detection. USM Anywhere stands out with its integrated threat intelligence, ease of use, and comprehensive security measures.

Room for Improvement: ArcSight ESM users note the complexity of configuration, the need for more intuitive management tools, and a streamlined interface. USM Anywhere users suggest enhanced reporting capabilities, faster data processing, and improved customization options.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: ArcSight ESM requires significant time and resources for deployment, with a steep learning curve, but its customer service is highly rated. USM Anywhere is praised for its quick deployment and intuitive setup, although its customer service lacks the depth offered by ArcSight ESM.

Pricing and ROI: ArcSight ESM has higher initial setup costs but offers robust capabilities worth the investment. USM Anywhere, being more budget-friendly, provides high ROI with lower setup costs, delivering superior value for money by balancing cost and performance effectively.

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Categories and Ranking

ArcSight Enterprise Securit...

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

14th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

USM Anywhere

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

31st

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

114

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (34th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (51st), Compliance Management (11th)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) is 1.2%, down from 1.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of USM Anywhere is 1.2%, down from 2.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Featured Reviews

Ramnesh Dubey

Solutions Architect at Ericsson

Allows for monitoring logs according to industry standards within ESM but has a total capacity capped at 12 TB, limiting real-time data retention periods

The first limitation is with the ArcSight Data Storage Manager (ADSM). ArcSight's total capacity is currently capped at 12 TB. This becomes an issue if a customer needs a longer real-time data retention period, such as exceeding 90 days or reaching a year or even ten months. Increasing the disk space beyond 12 TB is not currently possible. So, increasing the storage capacity is one area for improvement. Additionally, the real-time data retention is limited due to the 12 TB restriction. Depending on the Events Per Second (EPS) you receive, you might only be able to retain data for seven to ten days. Overall, the 12 TB limit is the main issue we face in terms of maximizing real-time data storage. Moreover, there are a few improvements I would like to see in future releases. My main suggestion for ArcSight is to simplify the deployment process. Currently, the installation process is quite complex. There are various components involved, including transformations, multiple installations, and containerization for various components. Ideally, I'd recommend that ArcSight allow the entire installation, including the ESM and database, to be completed within a single unified setup process for a streamlined experience. Additionally, having readily available and well-organized documentation for the step-by-step installation process would be incredibly helpful. I would also like to see better support.

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Omer Jamil

Supervisor, Security Operations at Bpm

An easy-to-deploy tool that needs to improve its vulnerability scanning feature

To those who plan to use the solution, I would suggest that they go through the documentation and online training models available for free, as it can help you deploy the product quickly while also being helpful in areas where there is a need to understand correlation and monitoring. I rate the overall product a seven out of ten.

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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

"The out-of-the-box rules that help us configure functioning rules within the environment are valuable."

"The solution has gone beyond signature-based monitoring and analysis and is AI-powered. It is good enough to cover the full range of cybersecurity services."

"The solution is pretty stable."

"It is a vital tool for live monitoring and helps us to understand the traffic alerts of any major issue on the network, thereby reducing hacking attempts."

"ESM has valuable features for event prediction and security analysis."

"Customization. ArcSight gives you a platform to on-board out-of-the-box devices with a more accurate way of collecting desired logs/events."

"The user interfaces are quite good and speedy."

"The tool sends an automated mail to all the operators, which makes it easy to share the information and reporting."

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"The ease of implementation is the most valuable feature."

"The IDS and the threat intelligence are very useful. They are very intuitive and data-rich."

"The best thing about AlienVault USM is it being a “Jack-of-All Trades” solution. It provides SIEM, HIDS/NIDS, FIM, NetFlow, Asset Management, Vulnerability Management, etc., under one USM platform. None of the commercial SIEM vendors like ArcSight, McAfee, etc., can boast of such a diverse feature set."

"On any given day I could give you a different answer regarding the most valuable features of the product. The feature that is most important is the fact that it has a lot of features, that it's not just a log collection and correlation system, that it has a lot of other components built in. The bundle of features is really the killer feature."

"The USM is a work horse, no matter what devices or the number of logs we throw at it, the system processes them in real time, correlates the events, and alerts on only events that need human review."

"Every activity on the firewall is recorded, and notifications are sent with this solution."

"The feature that I liked the most is that they have a vulnerability assessment package that comes along with the SIEM solution. So, whenever I find any threat or alert for any of the devices or servers, I could immediately initiate a vulnerability assessment scan on that machine. That is one of a kind. The price at which AlienVault operates is also valuable."

"OTX is a great module that lets staff maintain and monitor updates regarding events in the infrastructure and takes decision to improve the security perimeter."

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Cons

"Customer service and support is our biggest challenge."

"The product should include a lot more predefined scenarios so the adopted company will have knowledge and a broader skill set in security and network."

"Administration of ArcSight is not an easy job. The admin needs to be well experienced in it to identify the root cause and fix it."

"ArcSight ESM needs to improve performance, user interface, and automation."

"Customer service during the transition from HPE to Micro Focus was abysmal where it became disruptive to our service delivery."

"ArcSight ESM could improve the alerts for the storage capacities or actions."

"ArcSight is incredibly complex when configuring and deploying, and if your organization doesn't know what they want and what they need, ArcSight will be a challenge for them."

"They need to develop NetFlow appliances that can be installed in the customer network on span ports, collect NetFlow, and send it to ArcSight without relying on the devices' NetFlow capability and their position in the network."

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"AT&T AlienVault USM can improve searchable data. It should be available for more than 90 days. If you need more than 90 days of data, you have to put a request and they give you raw data, which is not easy to search. A good addition would be to allow users to search data older than 90 days."

"The reporting tools are a bit lacking for building reports to give directly to customers, but support has been helpful in giving our requests for new features to the development team and following up with us."

"Different functions to customize reports should be added."

"There is room for improvement in Log parsing."

"It would be hard for any legitimate MSSP to use it."

"As this software is in the cloud, you do not have control on updates and general changes which are happening."

"The other thing is the agent is OSSEC. They needed to create its own agent to help to find threats on the devices that it happens to be installed."

"The only room for improvement I can mention is the initial installation procedures. I found that the online installation instructions for the product were missing important details, they lacked necessary steps."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost of the solution is not very high, although hiring a qualified analyst to work with the product is expensive."

"Aggregation can help a lot in pushing down licensing costs."

"The licensing cost is affordable if you get an enterprise license. The licensing is based on EPS, so you can probably provide a package of license for multiple ESMs with their correlational end fees. It is cost-effective."

"It is best to be an institutional buyer and directly contact the sales team, as they can provide over-the-top discounts for bulk orders."

"The pricing is great compared to others."

"HPE ArcSight pricing might be more expensive than other SIEM solutions, but in my opinion it has powerful features and great flexibility in developing complex use cases."

"There is a license required for this solution."

"ArcSight can be a little bit expensive because of the area that we work in and the cost. Licensing is mostly on a yearly basis, not monthly."

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"It is affordable, and it also has many features that the premium products such as ArcSight and QRadar have. It is a very good platform for a SIEM solution. Everything is included in the price."

"We ran a few PoCs. The price and feature set were the best with AlienVault."

"They charge a license based on the storage. ATT AlienVault USM is a less expensive solution than IBM QRadar."

"AlienVault is flexible on their pricing for unlimited licenses."

"I don't know exactly, but I know it is based on the number of logs and the retention duration, such as 30 days or something like that. So, the smallest package is about 500 a month for 30 days of logs. There is a virtual machine. You need resources for it. It is a log collecting VM. They provide the software, and you just have to load a virtual machine. So, you're going to incur some CPU RAM and storage for wherever this log collecting appliance is running, which typically is in our cloud and on our platform for the customer."

"Pricing is very competitive with other products and you get much more functionality from AlienVault."

"It allows you to do a lot with a small price tag... The pricing is the best on the market."

"So far, I feel the product's pricing is a good value. The technology is decent. You get what you pay for. I think it's fair."

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Comparison Review

Vinod Shankar

Manager, Enterprise Risk Consulting at Deloitte & Touche

Jun 28, 2015

Qradar vs. ArcSight

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

10%

Computer Software Company

18%

Educational Organization

Financial Services Firm

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

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 do you like most about ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM)?

We utilize ArcSight ESM for real-time threat detection in our organization. We have custom rules that we've developed on top of the WAN services, along with scheduled licensing activities.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM)?

ArcSight is expensive.

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What do you like most about AT&T AlienVault USM?

The most valuable feature of the solution is the ease of deployment that it provides to users. The integrations that the product has with third-party applications are useful.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AT&T AlienVault USM?

The price is really variable depending on what tier the customer is subscribing to. I think USM Anywhere recently started a 125, a 250, and then 500 and 1000 tier. So it depends on the organization...

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What needs improvement with AT&T AlienVault USM?

The only issue that you need to bypass is the issue with integration with some other log sources, some other application security applications. The issue is still present. The process of collecting...

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Also Known As

Micro Focus ArcSight, HPE ArcSight, ArcSight

AT&T AlienVault USM, AlienVault, AlienVault USM, Alienvault Cybersecurity

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Overview

ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) is a powerful SIEM solution for analyzing, collecting, correlating, and reporting on security event information. ArcSight ESM analyzes information from all of your data sources while helping your organization maintain high security. In addition, the solution is very customizable and enables users to create their own company-specific rule sets to automatically trigger instant alerts.

ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) Features

Real-time threat detection
Visualization and reporting capabilities
Patented log management
Personalized dashboards
Scalable event monitoring
Seamless integration with your existing SOC tools
Behavior profiling
Data and user monitoring
Application monitoring
Analytics
Deployment/support simplicity

ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) Benefits

Some of the benefits of using ESM include:

Real-time information: ArcSight ESM can correlate data from any source in real-time to detect incidents before they become a breach.

Compliance: Optional compliance packs enable packaged reports for PCI, SOX, and IT Governance.

Security analytics: With ArcSight ESM, you can build and maintain a security operation center (SOC) through big data security analytics.

Integration: ArcSight ESM allows you to integrate SOC with network operations, service desk, CMDB, business intelligence, Hadoop, email security, application security, threat feeds, and more.

Speed: ArcSight ESM provides excellent speed of event collection with patented log management tools.

Advanced detection: ArcSight ESM can detect unusual or unauthorized activities as they occur, preventing business disruptions.

Decrease threat exposure: By implementing ArcSight ESM, you reduce threat exposure because the solution detects threats in real time.

Operational efficiency: ArcSight ESM makes it possible for you to automate responses with ArcSight’s native SOAR, which saves your organization time, and therefore increases your operational efficiency.

Reviews from Real Users

Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) users.

A Head of Professional Services at a computer software company says, “The simplicity of the solution is the most valuable aspect of the product. The product is quite mature. It's been around for a long time. The integration is easy for the most part.”

A Managing partner at a tech services company states that the solution is “Good at consolidating logs, fairly stable, and can scale.”

PeerSpot user Abbasi P., Vice President Derivatives Ops IT at a financial services firm, explains, “The user interfaces are quite good and speedy, and I like the consoles too. The typology and the setup are also good.”

A Chief Technological Officer at a tech services company says, "It is a very useful tool for intelligence building because it has many use cases and many rule sets."

An Associate Vice President at a consumer goods company comments, “We primarily use the solution for its technology including its independent logs, and those types of things. The solution offers very good monitoring. The product's log management and event management capabilities are excellent. There are a lot of really good analytical components. It helps us focus on analysis.”

USM Anywhere centralizes security monitoring of networks and devices in the cloud, on premises, and in remote locations, helping you to detect threats virtually anywhere.

Discover

Network asset discovery
Software & services discovery
AWS asset discovery
Azure asset discovery
Google Cloud Platform asset discovery

Analyze

SIEM event correlation, auto-prioritized alarms
User activity monitoring
Up to 90-days of online, searchable events

Detect

Cloud intrusion detection (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Network intrusion detection (NIDS)
Host intrusion detection (HIDS)
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

Respond

Forensics querying
Automate & orchestrate response
Notifications and ticketing

Assess

Vulnerability scanning
Cloud infrastructure assessment
User & asset configuration
Dark web monitoring

Report

Pre-built compliance reporting templates
Pre-built event reporting templates
Customizable views and dashboards
Log storage

Sample Customers

Lake Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Bank AlJazira, Banca Intesa, and Obrela.

Abel & Cole, Bank of Ireland, Bluegrass Cellular, CareerBuilder, Claire's, Hays Medical Center, Hope International, McCurrach, McKinsey & Company, Party Delights, Pepco Holdings, Richland School District, Ricoh, SaveMart, Shake Shack, Steelcase, TaxAct, Taylor Morrison, Vonage and Zoom

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