Rapid7 InsightIDR vs USM Anywhere comparison

Rapid7 and LevelBlue are both solutions in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category. Rapid7 is ranked #21 with an average rating of 7.8, while LevelBlue is ranked #30 with an average rating of 8.0. Additionally, 96% of Rapid7 users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of LevelBlue users who would recommend it.

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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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Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Net...

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ABHISHEK_SINGH

Senior Process Expert at A.P. Moller - Maersk

Gained full visibility and streamlined threat detection through behavior-based insights and AI integration

Initially, we got to have a lot of false positives when we onboarded, but nowadays it's quite smooth. We have fine-tuned our security policies and allowed different levels of policies to get rid of those false positives. Currently, we are getting a fairly good amount of incidents that are not false positives or benign, but actionable items. The process is streamlined. In the initial days, the operations used to get involved in a lot of benign and other activities, but now the process is streamlined. We are leveraging the auto-detection and remediation plans. The operations teams are now more involved in other business roles as well, not just looking into the logs and fetching out what's happening there. They have fixed a lot of things. Initially, they didn't have IAC code drift detection, cloud posture management, or security posture management, but they have those now. They purchased different vendors and did a merger with that. They have now Prisma Cloud that gets integrated and now they are working with Cortex Cloud. Everything that was negative has now been addressed, and the product altogether looks to be in a very better and mature shape now. Currently, it's more or less detecting the workloads with AI-based best practices. Since most organizations are consuming AI agents and other things, we are looking forward to seeing what other feature enhancements Palo Alto can support in that.

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SohailHyder

Head Of Cyber Security at Super Secure

Has supported compliance needs for mid-sized organizations but lacks customization and advanced integration

If we pitch Rapid7 InsightIDR against solutions such as SIEMs from Splunk or LogRhythm, it is not as customizable as a SIEM solution is. This is where it can improve if we keep in front the feature sets of a complete SIEM solution. Most common in the market is QRadar, but it is depleting now. It has been taken over by some other products such as Splunk and LogRhythm. If we compare these things with Rapid7 InsightIDR, then there are definitely some gaps that need to be filled. Data retention is also one concern because Rapid7 InsightIDR is cloud-based and operates on a subscription model. Whatever data you want to retain, it has to be paid for separately or it has a cost. Other solutions that are on-premises can have their own infrastructure or they provide some data retention for a month or in some capacity-wise, they provide that solution to them which makes them more attractive.

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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 solution's most valuable feature is the user interface."

"One of the things that I enjoy the most is using policy extensions. It's like having host firewalls to control USB connections. I think it's a wonderful tool to restrict use when connecting to our computers. Another important tool is Home Insights. That is an add-on to the Cortex solution. I like that because we can see all the vulnerabilities in the environment and control what assets are connected to our network."

"The tool is easy to use."

"From a single pane of glass, you can easily manage all of your endpoints."

"The most valuable features are incident creation, policy-based protection, IP whitelisting, and device encryption. These are beneficial for endpoint and server security."

"The normal protection was really effective, and we detected situations that if we didn't have Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, it's highly likely that we would have been affected, but it protected the infrastructure."

"On a scale from one to ten, I would rate Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks a nine."

"This software helps us understand any issues that may arise when someone is not at work."

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"Enables the use of honey pots, honey users, and honey files to monitor for suspicious patterns."

"The platform offers unlimited storage and agent-based solutions."

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

"Very intuitive and easy to set up."

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

"The solution is easy to use, and the interface is intuitive."

"The solution is very stable and works very well for what I need it to do."

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

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"SIEM log collection is great, and all of the rules that support updates with maintenance."

"The most valuable feature is vulnerability management because it gives you insight into your environment to know what systems need to be updated or patched."

"It is my "security person" looking at irregularities and letting me know when something has occurred."

"It allows for a lot of out-of-the-box features: vuln scanning, HIDS/HIPS, and IDS."

"It has streamlined log aggregation and analysis to meet organizational and regulatory needs."

"I can easily check (in one place) all the logs and data in relation to attacks. It also gives me an overview if a server is not configured properly."

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

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

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Cons

"The solution should add unwanted malicious hash values to a block list so that whenever the action is triggered, it will automatically prevent the malicious content."

"The setup is quite easy. We had appropriate support from the manager. One thing that was missing was the integration part."

"Enhancing UI simplicity and playbook flexibility are areas that could benefit from more low-code automation options for smoother integrations."

"I would like to see better protection, specifically to protect email applications."

"The solution lacks real-time, on-demand antivirus."

"The dashboard is the area that needs to improve so that we can have the ability to drill down without having to go elsewhere to verify results."

"The dashboard could use some significant improvement, just making it more useful with more information. It has a limited amount of information right now. It is customizable, but I'd love to see a better out-of-box dashboard."

"I recommend adding a data loss prevention (DLP) solution to Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks. The inclusion of this feature would allow the application of DLP policies alongside antivirus policies via a single agent and console, making it more competitive as other OEMs often offer DLP solutions as part of their antivirus products."

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"Tenable Nessus is easier to deal with. It's more efficient and accurate. InsightIDR is heavier than Tenable in terms of performance and scanning. Rapid7 would be much easier to use if it had a network connector like Tenable. Tenable's connector allows continuous monitoring over the B caps."

"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."

"Rapid7 InsightIDR is not intuitive to search for logs. It should be more user-friendly and improve the dashboards. We should be able to use ready-made templates instead of having to build one."

"If we pitch Rapid7 InsightIDR against solutions such as SIEMs from Splunk or LogRhythm, it is not as customizable as a SIEM solution is."

"Currently, it lacks the functionalities provided by Rapid7's User Behavior Analytics (UBA)."

"The interface for doing investigation needs to be enhanced with minor improvements that would make it more useful."

"There is a future in AI with Rapid7, however, it is not fully operated. There are certain limitations with Rapid7 that I am working on."

"I feel it would greatly benefit from more supported log sources."

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"The reporting is mediocre and is something that needs to be improved."

"I've been told that AlienVault doesn't have a full version of NES running in there, but I'm not sure if that's accurate or if my engineer made it that way. I'm not sure he was completely honest either because we had NES in the environment before. Those tools could be improved because AlienVault is a SIEM, and it added all these other features."

"There are many reports included but would be nice to have better access to the data."

"they seem to have bugs from time to time that go unfixed for a while and that is frustrating. I'm not saying the product needs to be bug-free, but they need to be responsive to bugs."

"Support can be slow at times, but the quality is high. Posted knowledge base articles could use improvement."

"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."

"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 vulnerability scanning feature is one of the areas where the product has certain shortcomings and needs to improve. The tool has vulnerability scanning, but it is not that efficient."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of the solution is high for the license and in general."

"It has a yearly renewal."

"We didn't have to pay any additional fee for the cloud instance. It just came with the renewal, which was nice."

"It is cost-effective compared to similar solutions. It fits for the small businesses through to the big businesses."

"I did PoCs on products called Cylance and CrowdStrike. Although, I consider these products and they were also good, when it come to cost and budgetary factors, Traps has been proven to be better than the other two products. It is quite cost-effective and delivers all the entire solution which we require."

"Very costly product."

"The solution has one subscription for endpoint protection and one subscription for detection and response. The two licenses combined give you the BRO version."

"In terms of the cost Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is very expensive because we are a Mexican company and when you translate dollars to pesos the cost is very high. The solution is very expensive for Mexican companies. I understand that they have international prices, but I do not think it offsets the price enough for many companies in countries, such as Mexico. The amount it is reduced is not a massive percentage."

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

"It is more reasonably priced than other vendors."

"Rapid7 InsightIDR is priced very well and is cost-effective."

"The solution has a mid-range price point in the market"

"I rate Rapid7 InsightIDR's price a four on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."

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

"Licensing is by endpoint and amount of retention time (at least ours is). Default retention was one year, but we are able to push the retention further if needed. There's also a provide-your-own-S3 option for longer retention if you don't want to pay for the additional retention years in your Rapid7 agreement."

"The team is very willing to work with companies. My suggestion is to call the Rapid7 sales department and see how they can help."

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"Do the one month trial and try to work out the kinks during it, as it has free support and service hours."

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

"So far, it has been a good solution for a tight budget."

"The price point is good."

"Use an MSSP instead. It is much cheaper."

"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."

"It is a product that is priced in a medium range, making it neither a cheap nor a costly product."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

12%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Performing Arts

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	44
Midsize Enterprise	20
Large Enterprise	47

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	20
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	6

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	64
Midsize Enterprise	29
Large Enterprise	25

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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 a...

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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, ...

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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 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...

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What is your primary use case for AT&T AlienVault USM?

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Compared 4% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Also Known As

Cyvera, Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Traps

InsightIDR

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

Overview

Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks provides advanced threat detection with AI-driven endpoint protection and seamless integration, ensuring multi-layered security and automatic threat response.

Cortex XDR is designed to safeguard endpoints against malware and suspicious activities. It offers advanced threat detection and response capabilities using behavioral analysis, AI, and machine learning. It seamlessly integrates with security infrastructures, providing endpoint security, firewall integration, and enhanced visibility in both cloud-based and on-premises environments.

What are the key features of Cortex XDR?

Advanced Threat Detection: Uses AI and machine learning for proactive threat identification.
Multi-layered Security: Combines various security measures for comprehensive protection.
Endpoint Protection: Safeguards against malware and exploits.
Behavioral Analysis: Monitors suspicious activity for early detection.
Automatic Threat Response: Automates responses to neutralize threats.

What benefits should users expect?

Ease of Use: Simplifies security management with intuitive design.
Resource Efficiency: Minimizes impact on system resources.
Integration Capabilities: Works well with existing security setups.
Reduced Analyst Workload: Automates processes to decrease manual intervention.

Organizations in diverse sectors deploy Cortex XDR to protect against malware, leveraging its advanced threat detection capabilities. Its integration with existing security infrastructures appeals to those seeking comprehensive protection in both cloud and on-premises environments, providing enhanced visibility and threat intelligence.

Palo Alto Networks

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

CBI Health Group, University Honda, VakifBank

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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