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)

26th

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)

33rd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

115

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (42nd), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (52nd), Compliance Management (12th)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) is 1.1%, down from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of USM Anywhere is 1.0%, down from 2.5% 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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Kris Nawani

Co-Founder/Director at Bangkok MSP Company Limited

Offers complete coverage without the need to install additional software

USM Anywhere is used for threat detection and investigation. It provides a solution with built-in threat intelligence and various other investigation tools The solution offers complete coverage without the need to install additional software, as it is maintained by the vendor. It helps in saving…

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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 filters and the ability to do what you want are the most valuable features. There is nothing that you cannot do in this solution. It has all the features, which makes it very dynamic."

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

"I am satisfied with the solution's stability."

"Some of the benefits of using this solution are rapid correlation and near-time response on alerts."

"ArcSight ESM provides us the flexibility to write our own passwords and customize the solution. It lets us search and log a variety of SmartConnectors. It has 480-plus SmartConnectors."

"The real-time analysis adds value."

"ArcSight is customizable. You can integrate just about anything. I also like the ease of use."

"Usability is the most valuable feature. The accessibility is quite good."

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"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."

"AlientVault has helped us in improving our visualization and incident response during cybersecurity situations."

"This is a USM, so being able to get all the features under one roof makes it a good product with good new features."

"The main menu: You can see everything there, what is happening on the servers, and in the logs, you can view more details of each event."

"AlienVault provides a checklist answer when using SIEM."

"The most valuable feature in AT&T AlienVault USM is the reporting."

"AlienVault's reporting is good. I like that vulnerability assessment is part of the solution, and the UI is intuitive. Also, the overhead is low, which is to say we don't need a dedicated SOC team to manage and analyze things constantly. We're a small company that doesn't have those resources."

"We had used previous products and found AlienVault centralized the logging for our security."

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Cons

"It would be nice if the interface were more user-friendly, with, for example, a minimal number of tabs to navigate."

"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."

"Currently lacks SOAR feature."

"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."

"When I asked our networking juniors for a comparison between LogRhythm and ArcSight, they said that both platforms are almost the same. It is just that LogRhythm is more modern with a digital platform, which probably gives it some advantage over ArcSight. ArcSight is a very old and mature product that is running on an old platform. It is an old legacy platform. In terms of new features, it just requires platform upgrades so that it becomes lighter and easily adaptable, specifically in the cloud. It would be a good thing if they can also make reporting easier."

"The only concern is that AI needs to be integrated"

"Micro Focus does not have a physical presence here in Pakistan, although IBM does."

"What could be improved in ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) is its analytics feature. That feature should be more powerful and have more correlation in terms of AI/ML, though MicroFocus has done a good job in adding analytics to ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) which has become a big draw to customers. What I'd like to see in the next release of the solution is the addition of AI/ML features."

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"Pay attention to false-positive event automatic correlations."

"The UI and overall processes need a little bit more love. This shows in the error banners that come up when you select certain things. There isn't a day that goes by that the UI doesn't error out and I can't view events for an alarm."

"There could be some type of integration with our existing portal. We have our own customer portals, and it would be good if there was an integration so that our portal can provide reports. There could be some type of API into the AlienVault system with the USM system so that it is easy to show the customers high-level reports of the system through our portal."

"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."

"The AT&T AlienVault USM is okay, but the relational database is not very good for large amounts of data. For example, many logs cannot be processed. It has been very slow for the queries and some data which are large, it is not very good in this case."

"This solution could be easier to use."

"The reporting aspect could be improved. While there are a lot of different options available, there are still pieces which are missing."

"The lack of mature functionality and expertise in any of those areas is a strong negative."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We're paying a fee for an MSSP, and the cost of the total cost of ArcSight ESM was approximately three to four million dollars a year. The price was less than similar solutions. We did not have additional fees."

"The solution is super expensive. At our organization size and license model, I think the price is average to what anyone else would charge us."

"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."

"It's a good price, it's one of the cheaper solutions."

"The pricing model is expensive compared to open-source alternatives."

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

"Pricing is good, I'd rate the pricing a seven out of ten, with ten being low price. It's better than Splunk and IBM QRadar because their pricing is based on EPS."

"Price-wise, ArcSight ESM was a bit high compared to competitors, which factored into our decision to switch to Splunk. It couldn't cover all our business needs for what we wanted to implement."

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"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."

"We checked out several competitors. For what it can do and the cost, it was the best option!"

"I don't think the product's pricing is a good value because they try to raise the price 50 percent every year... AlienVault needs to understand that not all customers are huge enterprises... Their sales team is way too aggressive. The price they advertise is not always the price you get."

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

"I rate the price of AT&T AlienVault USM a four out of five."

"The licensing fees are dependent on usage."

"QRadar, ArcSight and Splunk are some of the most expensive SIEM products out there in the market and not everyone has the budget to buy them. In such cases, AV USM is a very cost effective alternative."

"The vulnerability management solution is worse than buying a Nessus Professional license."

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Vinod Shankar

Manager, Enterprise Risk Consulting at Deloitte & Touche

Jun 28, 2015

Qradar vs. ArcSight

Continuing with the SIEM posts we have done at Infosecnirvana, this post is a Head to head comparison of the two Industry leading SIEM products in the market – HP ArcSight and IBM QRadar Both the products have consistently been in the Gartner Leaders Quadrant. Both HP and IBM took over niche SIEM…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

Computer Software Company

19%

Financial Services Firm

Educational Organization

Comms Service Provider

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 pricing is amazing and really cheap.

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What needs improvement with AT&T AlienVault USM?

There are scalability issues due to a 60 TB limit, which restricts its use for large customers like banks. It is also limited when used with bigger products and has complex password requirements.

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Compared 11% of the time

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Also Known As

Micro Focus ArcSight, HPE ArcSight, ArcSight

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

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.”

OpenText

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

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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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