Rapid7 InsightIDR vs USM Anywhere comparison

Rapid7 and LevelBlue are both solutions in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category. Rapid7 is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.2, while LevelBlue is ranked #31 with an average rating of 7.3. Rapid7 holds a 2.5% mindshare in SIEM, compared to LevelBlue’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Rapid7 users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of LevelBlue users who would recommend it.

Rapid7 InsightIDR

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95% willing to recommend

USM Anywhere

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92% willing to recommend

Rapid7 InsightIDR

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 9, 2024

USM Anywhere and Rapid7 InsightIDR compete in the comprehensive security information and event management (SIEM) solutions category. Rapid7 InsightIDR holds an edge due to its advanced threat detection capabilities despite its higher pricing.

Features: USM Anywhere offers unified management of multiple security capabilities, intuitive workflows, and streamlined operations. Rapid7 InsightIDR includes advanced threat detection, user behavior analytics, and robust integration capabilities.

Room for Improvement: USM Anywhere could benefit from more in-depth reporting options, enhanced automation, and improved data insights. Rapid7 InsightIDR requires better support for custom log ingestion, more flexible reporting tools, and greater customization options.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: USM Anywhere is praised for straightforward deployment and strong support. Rapid7 InsightIDR integrates easily with existing infrastructures but has mixed reviews on customer service.

Pricing and ROI: USM Anywhere is cost-effective, providing a good balance of features for the price, ensuring strong ROI. Rapid7 InsightIDR, though higher in cost, delivers significant returns with its advanced capabilities, making the higher initial investment worthwhile.

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Rapid7 InsightIDR vs. USM Anywhere

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Categories and Ranking

Rapid7 InsightIDR

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

9th

Ranking in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

18th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) (2nd), Threat Deception Platforms (5th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (14th)

USM Anywhere

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

31st

Ranking in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

53rd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

115

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (42nd), Compliance Management (12th)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of Rapid7 InsightIDR is 2.5%, down from 2.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of USM Anywhere is 0.9%, down from 2.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Featured Reviews

Asim Naeem

Principal IT Security & Compliance at IBEX Holdings Ltd

Providing comprehensive insight into alerts while working towards AI enhancement

I definitely recommend Rapid7 InsightIDR. It is becoming better, with improvements being continuously made to the product. Right now, I do not have any advice about Rapid7 for other users because every organization or user has different criteria or multiple use cases, so I refrain from commenting on that. I rate the overall solution seven out of ten.

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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

"During simulations or demonstrations, the tool generates alerts, providing details such as the specific application, its origin, and potential threats. For instance, it can identify if an application belongs to a known ransomware group. The system rates the threat, offering a clear detection ratio, such as 97 out of 100. It not only identifies threats but also illustrates the associated behaviors, helping us understand the potential risk to a particular endpoint."

"Great coverage of all systems within our network from endpoint to firewall."

"The solution is very scalable in terms of the licensing model."

"InsightIDR has allowed us to find potential security issues that we did not know existed, and get remediation quickly."

"It improved my organization by building a security alerting program."

"It improves because several sensors are deployed within the on-premise environment. It can be very efficient if the customer implements and operates it effectively."

"The web interface is great — very useful and user-friendly."

"Intelligent alerting to avoid the common problem of alert fatigue associated with traditional SIEMs."

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"The best feature of this product is the ease of use. It is extremely easy to set up and get going. This is a very useful tool for a small organization."

"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."

"Easy to use, scalable, stable, and very intuitive platform that provides protection against security threats."

"Allowed us to help our customers satisfy compliance needs around logging and monitoring."

"The vulnerability scanning is helpful to identify the areas that need patching or fixes installed."

"Asset discovery seems to be good."

"It has allowed us to see what is happening on our servers."

"The other big selling feature for us was its integration capabilities with all the other security-based products."

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Cons

"Lacks a mobile application."

"InsightIDR is only available in a cloud version. Some of our customers prefer an on-prem solution because they want to manage the security within their environment."

"The APIs can be further improved in Rapid7."

"Sometimes, it is hard to get the right queries to use. Currently, the tool lacks a pre-made set of queries."

"There are certain limitations with Rapid7 that I am working on."

"One of the things that could be better is digital forensics. It is there, but it can be better. They could provide more on the endpoint detection level."

"I would like the ability to adjust the threshold of certain existing alerts. Currently the only option is to change the notifications or create my own alert."

"Needs a better ability to customize the check within the console."

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

"I feel that some areas of improvement would be vulnerability scanning. We use a separate product that seems to do a much better job."

"It was easy on PoC, but when we got to the product it was different story. We had to learn the product again and got feeling that the PoC was a different product."

"For creating new rules, you have to be familiar with regular expressions. I feel there could be something built-in to make sure that process is easier."

"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."

"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."

"I'd like to see a dashboard that's a little more descriptive."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is more reasonably priced than other vendors."

"It is on a yearly basis. For our own company, for about 250 users, it was 16,000 euros a year."

"Rapid7 InsightIDR charges us based on the endpoints we connect to."

"Accurately predict your licensing counts as this is a subscription based product."

"Licensing is straightforward. If, for some reason, you don’t meet the minimum licensing requirements, there is a third-party managed service that can help."

"I am sure that there are cheaper products out there, but none that meet so many of our needs whilst maintaining stability and usability."

"Rapid7 InsightIDR's pricing is reasonable but we have challenges with the Minimum Order Quantity. It is not reasonable for customers who have less than one hundred devices. If they can reduce Minimum Order Quantity, it is good. You have to pay around 5000-6000 dollars per year for the product. The pricing includes maintenance and support costs."

"Rapid7 InsightIDR is a cheaply priced product. On a scale of one to ten, where one is very expensive, and ten is very cheap, I rate the product's price at seven or eight."

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"It's affordable for most customers."

"It's very reasonably priced. It was one of the lowest among the ones I looked at. Licensing is pretty flexible. They can do a two-year or a three-year, even a one-year, perhaps."

"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."

"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."

"AlienVault is certainly not nearly as expensive as Splunk or QRadar. It's decently priced, but I don't have the exact figure."

"Negotiate the best package for your environment."

"They are a little more expensive than Microsoft."

"The ROI is quite good."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Educational Organization

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What SOC product do you recommend?

For tools I’d recommend: -SIEM- LogRhythm -SOAR- Palo Alto XSOAR Doing commercial w/o both (or at least an XDR) is asking to miss details that are critical, and ending up a statistic. Also, rememb...

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What do you like most about Rapid7 InsightIDR?

During simulations or demonstrations, the tool generates alerts, providing details such as the specific application, its origin, and potential threats. For instance, it can identify if an applicati...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Rapid7 InsightIDR?

The product pricing is very cheap.

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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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Also Known As

InsightIDR

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

Overview

Parsing hundreds of trivial alerts. Managing a mountain of data. Manually forwarding info from your endpoints. Forget that. InsightIDR instantly arms you with the insight you need to make better decisions across the incident detection and response lifecycle, faster.

Rapid7

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

LevelBlue

Sample Customers

Liberty Wines, Pioneer Telephone, Visier

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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