LogRhythm SIEM Reviews

It has improved our ability to see incidents when they occur, instead of maybe a few weeks or a few months down the road.

Overall effectiveness is very good. I like how it is oriented to both analysts and technical support people. It's easily adopted by end users as much as by technologists.

Key challenges are going to be maintaining visibility as the technology changes, especially with cloud coming onboard, probably fairly soon. Also, the implementation of a SOC, which is relatively new to what we've been doing.

• The overall view of the solution: It encompasses end-to-end analysis and response.
• Log management
• Threat management: Threat hunting is going to be a large topic for us as well, which being a big data engine, will go a long way for us, too.

We have not move into cloud security so much, but eventually we will be there.

I would like to see case management become more independent from LogRhythm itself. Right now, it is very oriented to LogRhythm based events, but not manual events, such as user reported things and incidents where we might have large volumes of data that we have to store as part of the case. It works real well as a workflow device, but not real well for overall case management for an organization.

It's highly scalable, though we have not really been able to take advantage of all of its scalability yet. We're moving into the new architecture as we speak with having separate data processors and indexers. I am hoping to find out how scalable that becomes.

We're currently between seven and 11,000 logs per second. By next year, we'll probably be close to 20,000 logs per second. We have 14,000 branch offices and two large data centers. We're growing rapidly and trying to improve our visibility.

As far as technical support, professional support, and overall organizational support, LogRhythm has probably been one of the best companies that I have worked with since I have been in technology.

We did not have a previous solution.

When we originally put in this solution, it was for log collection and analysis of all of our branch network devices, but it has evolved over the last seven years to encompass pretty much anything that provides some kind of security visibility.

I was involved in the initial setup. It was straightforward, but it was seven years ago. We have gotten more complex as the system's evolved.

The SIEM solutions comparison we did included QRadar, RSA, and LogRhythm.

LogRhythm stood out due to ease of deployment, cost of ownership, and ease of use.

Look at all of the factors, including total cost of ownership and your roadmap of where you are going, and compare those to the needs that you have going forward. There are a lot of solutions out there that are either way too complex to manage, don't have a good roadmap, are a secondary solution in a larger company, or are going to just be astronomically expensive when they get to a useful state.

If the solution is a unified end-to-end platform, it helps with the overall management, skill set training, and retention. It does provide some long-term benefits.

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor:

• Usability
• Growth potential based off of cost.
• Architecture.

So, where could we grow the system, because a lot of systems were either too complex, too expensive, or very oriented for that particular network-based solution. I was looking for some kind of compromise in the middle.

We operate a Security Operations Center. We have to provide internal security to our client base and intel. That's why we use it.

We mostly deal with phishing email attacks from our Intel-related clients. So, most of the cases are related to using the SIEM. And we receive the logs in our database to do all those things.

In Sri Lanka, we have a local SIEM supplier. And in addition to that, if we need some more calibration or help with incidents, we raise a ticket to LogRhythm, and they will give us their support.

It is good for us. 

The price could be improved.

In future releases, I suppose if they can give us some training related to LogRhythm, that would be very beneficial. I suppose the training is not enough.

And the product might be a little bit complex for non-experienced people

I have been using it for two and a half years. 

It is good. 

Positive

Our Security Operations Center (SOC) and our SIEM use LogRhythm. We have to renew our license and are looking for another SIEM. We are doing a comparison with Elastic.

The initial setup is complex. There's a complexity, actually. We have received some training in the last two and a half years. We got training from our local supplier. Actually, we haven't received any training before from [LogRhythm], so I suppose they should provide training for that.

I suppose there's a very high cost in that. So that's the main reason we are trying another solution.

I would recommend it to others. Overall, I would rate it an eight out of ten. 

We primarily use the solution to reducing insider threats. We also use the product to deal with some aspects of banking security. For example, with its product, we are able to lower the threat of being attacked by malware.

I appreciate the fact that I can do everything from one dashboard. That is the main aspect of LogRhythm so far that I find extremely useful. We don't need a different dashboard or other solution for managing things.

The initial setup is simple. 

The solution is stable.

The product is great for medium to large-scale organizations.

The product can scale. 

Technical support is reportedly quite good.

What I would suggest is for the product to make the consoles more user-friendly. The integration module should be simpler. That way, that the end-customer himself can do the integration and they are not always dependent on our site. The integration with other vendors should be easy.

The solution is likely not the best option for a smaller organization.

One of the features I like to recommend is a LogRhythm queuing ticket for a level-one tier system so that clients are not dependent on a third party.

We've been working with the product since 2018. It's been almost three years at this point.

The solution is very stable and reliable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable. 

In terms of scaling, the solution is best for medium to large companies. Smaller companies likely do not want to invest in IT security products, however, for medium to large organizations, especially banks, LogRhythm works well.

It's easy to scale. What we do for scalability is we always put the hardware capability higher than the license. For example, if a customer wants a 3,000 MPS license, we always provide 6,000 MPS hardware. If they want to scale the license to 4,000 or 5,000, we just put the license in, and then it works as the size capacity is there. It's easy. It's not that difficult.

We are not an end-user and therefore do not directly deal with technical support. In terms of the support, the end-user would get a response from the technical team, and, so far, from the feedback I've gotten, they are good. Clients seem satisfied with the level of service they receive.

I also work with Oracle. 

The initial setup is simple for us, basically. It's not that challenging. The main challenge we face for integration is from the different vendors as we have to do different tasks. However,  the deployment of LogRhythm is very easy.

It takes 12 to 15 days for a full deployment.

We have two phases that are five to seven days each. The second phase involves integration and tuning stuff and that can usually take six or seven days for that part alone.

It's on a Windows server. Windows is very convenient for everyone. Users can just follow the process as per LogRhythm and it's easy to deploy everything.

In our distribution model, we don't provide end-user support directly. We have another partner company that provides maintenance and support for the end-user. For the partner side, many of the engineers are LogRhythm certified and they do the maintenance and other tasks.

As an implementor, we can handle the setup for our clients. 

LogRhythm pricing is based on the MPS. They always quote the pricing per unit of MPS. The number of MPS which the customer needs is what we provide with the unit price and we get a good discount on it, as per LogRhythm.

The price is in USD. For that reason, when we convert from USD to our currency, the pricing seems quite high.  

Everything is included. We get the data processing license as well as the sole license and the filing, ticketing, monitoring licenses, and the collector license as well. We get everything in one package.

We are a distributor and we have around 15 to 20 partners who are working with LogRhythm in this region. We work for the end-user and we implement it and handle presentations for the customer.

We are working with the latest version of the solution. I can't speak to the exact version number, however.

I'd rate the solution at a ten out of ten. It's a very good product overall. Clients have been very happy with it. In terms of the feedback we've received from the end-user and our own experience with the deployment process and manageability, everything is great.

My primary use case for this solution is to basically monitor the network to make sure that we don't have unknown users or individuals that should not be in our network. So we use it basically to aggregate our logs within our system and to watch it for possible threats.

It has improved the organization a great deal. Now we're able to see what activity that's actually being used, or what activity is actually being found in the network. So we're monitoring our firewall systems and different areas like that. So it's a great help to us because we're able to see whatever that's out there that would not have been seen previously because it aggregates all the logs together and it flags us according to the alerts that are being triggered at that time.

Right now we have just grown to eight security analysts in our group, but all have different roles. Now there's two individuals that's mainly responsible for SIEM and that's myself and my coworker and he's been cross trained. He just recently went through the LogRhythm University training which is great. So right now we do have about four analysts in this system but the main number is two.

Currently we haven't seen a measurable mean time to detect because we're not using that at this time. But after this session, we will probably go ahead and start using that for metrics.

Our security improvement or maturity level definitely has increased. We started out with three security analysts and it has grown to eight. LogRhythm has improved it because we're able to see much more data. We're able to see much more of what's out there, what type of threats we're encountering, different things like that. So it's been a great improvement.

The most valuable features for me is just to be able know who's in the network, being able to drill down on the alarms, to being able to look at the different rules or whatever that's been impacted within the network for anyone being in the network.

At this point we don't use the full spectrum of analytics. We're still fairly new and trying to tweak our system to get the information that we want out of it. So we're still at the beginning stage.

We are not using the playbooks, we're still on a version that doesn't support them. But yes, after going through the session today, the preview session, we definitely want to use the playbooks.

For me, room for improvement is the upgrade process. Whenever we have to do an upgrade to the next version, we're a little nervous and apprehensive about that.

Stability, it's very stable within our organization. What we're at is 7.25 right now, we do wanna go up to 7.4. we're a little nervous about that at the point because it's so new but eventually we will make that jump.

Scalability is very good for us. We are able to use it in different areas within the organization. Different groups and stuff like that.

I have used tech support in the past and it is great. I definitely recommend tech support, we do go to the LogRhythm Community first but with me, when I was first introduced to the SIEM LogRhythm, I was new to the environment and so I leaned on tech support to help me understand the environment, and as I was making those calls with them I was like "Okay, teach me like I'm a two year old. Walk me through this so I can do this on my own."

On a scale of one to ten, I rate LogRhythm as a nine because it is a wonderful tool that definitely helps with identifying different threats within the organization. I would definitely recommend this tool. It's a very, I would say beasty application, you always will be on top of things when it comes to LogRhythm because it's always changing, but that's a good thing because the environment, the threat environment is always changing. So I'd definitely highly recommend it.

The target I would give to an individual that's looking for the best SIEM tools to put in their environment would be definitely look at one that's growing, that's not stagnant and LogRhythm is definitely one of those too that look for ways to improve it, user friendly and the different things that's out there in the environment to be able to catch the types of the bad guys or the different threats. They always try to stay on top of things. So I definitely recommend LogRhythm in that case.

We use it for all of our log correlations and event management. We try to do some external troubleshooting for other groups, like WebOps, but it's primarily our security and event manager.

For the same price, we have been able to go from a SIEM that could only manage about 20 percent of our environment to a full 100 percent coverage of all the devices on our network. Thus, we have seen a massive increase in the amount of data that we can collect, the type of things that we can see, the way we can look at logs, the way we can get alerts, and the way can create our own customer roles, which has allowed us to customize the work in our environment.

We find the user interface and the ability to pivot near search from one particular item to the next part item to be highly valuable. 

Its ability to work with all different sorts of log sources has been extremely valuable. 

The reporting could be improved. 

There are other security technologies outside of this SIEM that should be inside of this SIEM. I can see in their roadmap that they're trying to address a lot of these things, and have these technologies built into the solution, because there is no point in going to another vendor or opening up a second window to obtain the data that you need.

It is stable. We haven't had any major problems. We had a slight hiccup when we went through our upgrade procedure, but it wasn't anything overly complex, and support was there to help us. Therefore, we had it back up and running very quickly.

It should meet our needs going forward. The way we have it designed right now, we should be able to bring in single boxes and multi boxes to increase storage capacity performance whenever we need it. It's well-designed in that sense, allowing us to grow as needed.

Everything experience I have had with them has been awesome. I have had no issues going to them. They are willing to get on the phone with you. They will get on Webex with you and control the system to see what's going on, getting their hands deep in to it, then resolving the issue.

In previous and other support departments, they will just email you some suggestions and then leave you to take care of it yourself. That is not really what LogRhythm is about.

It is more intuitive than the previous solution (IBM QRadar) that we had in the environment.

We definitely had to get some assistance, because we didn't have the expertise. Once we got the product in place, it's good at maintaining itself, along with the support. 

If you're going anything more than the single box solution, I would not try to set it up by yourself. I would get the expertise to help you get it right.

In comparison to the competition, they are more affordable. This allows us to do more with less.

The AI engine is what I like the most. It’s all in how LogRhythm correlates the events that it is receiving. It takes a lot of guesswork away from the analyst. We don’t have to reinvent the wheel. Out of the box, it's very easy and intuitive to get started. It’s easy to see the impact of the event in which you are receiving.

For me right now, I have not used it long enough to give an evaluation of what the product is lacking. As far as room for improvement, I would like to see the solution be a more hardened operating system other than Windows. I’d prefer that they didn’t use the Microsoft Windows platform. I think that they lose a lot of efficiency and performance that way.

When I first deployed the product, I did find some issues with log consumption. The appliance we had was rated at 25,000 messages per second and we run an average of 1,204 messages per second. We are seeing performance issues with the appliance. It appears that there are some inconsistencies that are running with the hardware of the solution.

It seems pretty good, but they do seem to be plagued with what a lot of new companies are plagued with -- their internal staff are still learning the product as well. Some of the sessions I’ve had were with technical support, not professional services. We have discovered some answers together instead of the technical support person knowing it off-hand. Some things we stumbled on by accident, some things I had to point out to the agent. Seeing as I have only used the product for two months, that person should know more than I do.

I previously used McAfee ESM, QRadar, and ArcSight. McAfee is by far my favorite SIEM to utilize. It is very robust, very quick. The ability to query is much faster than all other popular SIEM tools. Now that it requires a lot more hardware investment, it almost requires a developer mentality to massage the tool to make it do exactly what you want. This is where LogRhythm really outshines McAfee.

It was done in-house. A person from a different state logged on and helped me via web conference and helped me through the initial configuration.

I foresee a ROI. You need to understand what an ROI is. We are trying to buy peace of mind. It’s almost an insurance policy. It’s really measured in soft dollars.

We really appreciate the new cloud functionality. The cloud is really showing its dominance. 

Technical support is very helpful and responsive.

The product has a lot of useful features.

There aren't really any missing features. It's quite a complete solution.

Most of the clients using the on-prem are using customized applications. In the customized applications, we are facing parsing issues and a minimum of two days is required by the LogRhythm team for parsing logs. 

Parsing is totally controlled by LogRhythm and they do not allow any partner or any third-party to handle this part and this is a key challenge on my end. This is a huge cost impact -at least on the Pakistani market. It needs to be addressed.

The solution should be less expensive.

It would be very helpful if there was Kashif a package to help users migrate from QRadar to LogRhythm.

In Pakistan, the government is in the process of developing its final recommendation of cybersecurity and data protection process. We hope this solution will prove to be compliant and will meet the requirements in the future.

I've been using the solution for approximately one and a half years at this point. It hasn't been too long just yet.

We have four or five people using the solution in our organization. They are managing the LogRhythm infrastructure.

We are in touch with their support. It's government support, and they're quite supportive, and they are quite responsive. They have a divisional team is quite responsive. 

The initial setup is complex with LogRhythm. In that Pakistan market, with LogRhythm, the climate is very limited at this point. For the on-prem, there may be only two customers, for example. One is a bank and one is serving as an MSSP.

We've added four customers to a pay-as-you-go model. You apply Windows 2000 MPS or a cloud environment. The initial setup is quite difficult, however, after making certifications we are able to provide the initial setup and got it working with the LogRhythm support team.

For maintenance, I have five engineers that are part of my security team, including me and my sales and operations. Approximately we have 14 to 15 people that can handle maintenance.

We had some assistance from the LogRhythm support team. We did not entirely do it ourselves.

The cost of the solution should be reduced. In the Pakistan market, they have competition from IBM QRadar. They have quite a significant core difference. While the quality of this product is better, IBM has a stronger penetration in the market base don price. 90% of financial institutions are doing the QRadar in Pakistan. The Central Bank is using QRadar and simply due to the cost differences.

Initially, we tested out the QRadar, however, due to some delay and due to some market awareness tests, we did not continue.

We are using the solution for our own infrastructure and we are also offering it as a service. We are the largest service provider, cloud service provider, in Pakistan. However, we use a variety of deployment models - including cloud and hybrid.

We have an ISO position for government-certified infrastructure. We have a PCI-certified infrastructure as well as a GDPI compliant infrastructure.

We work closely with this product in particular. We have a lot of hands-on experience.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. If it weren't for some parsing limitations in the product, I would rate it even higher.

The primary use case is tying all of our log sources together between all of our Windows servers, network devices, and we've recently added all of our cloud infrastructure as well. So it's really tying all those together, correlating all those logs and getting us one central pane of glass really as it relates to all of our logging activities.

I think the biggest way that it's improved us from an organizational standpoint is giving us a single view into all of our log sources and all of our infrastructure devices. Whereas before we didn't ever have that. It was always a hodgepodge of stuff put together, so I think it's the best thing is that it brings everything together so that we can all one view of it.

The playbooks are definitely something I see a lot of value and so look forward to when we do get upgraded to be able to using those playbooks. I think that's a way of automating and making sure that we're standardized in the way that me and my team or are utilizing the LogRhythm. I think playbooks are very valuable.

We really aren't tracking our mean time to respond or mean time to detect as of now, that's kind of something that I want to get better at, to kind of formalize that process. So as of now, it's hard to say how much it has, but I know just from an anecdotal standpoint, I can guarantee that we're doing a lot better in responding now than we did before, before we had the SIEM in place.

I think the biggest thing is tying all of our log sources together, whereas there was a lot of manual work before of reviewing Windows logs or you know, firewall logs. Bringing it all together so that way my team, the information security team, as well as the infrastructure team can kind of view all of that from a single pane of glass and see everything that's going on in the environment.

As of now, we're not using all of the full analytics capabilities that we know the logarithm SIM can do. So it's one of the things, areas of that we need to improve on. We have all of our log sources in there, now making sure that we're getting the value of all that together is something we still need work on, so.

I would say the thing that I'd like to see the LogRhythm do a better job of is staying ahead of the curve as it relates to like things like cloud. It seems like from that standpoint that maybe the cloud stuff was a little bit of an afterthought or wasn't done kind of as people started to move to cloud quicker. It's one of those things of where we kind of are doing it now, but it seems like some of the cloud connections are still buying, kind of being created as we go. So I think that's one area I think they could improve in.

Stability has been great. We have not had any unplanned outages, all the upgrades that we have done have gone as expected. So from that standpoint, stability's been great.

Scalability's been great as well. We've got a very disparate environment and the original servers that we have are from three years ago, are still in place. We haven't had any performance issues at all, so it scales to our solution, understanding that as we bring on additional devices, we know that it will scale up to be even bigger than where we're at right now.

Tech support's been great. Every time we work with them on any upgrades or any questions about any of the anything we want to add a new log source or whatever, they've been excellent on that and they're always right on top of it and always get us to where we need to go.

I was involved, actually one of the first. It was one of the first products involved when I started with the company. We didn't have a SIEM, didn't have any really from a monitoring standpoint, didn't have anything. So LogRhythm was really the first major product that we bought and the installation was awesome. I mean it went as expected, moved it along quickly, and it provided value as soon as we were done with the installation. So the install was amazing.

We're about 20 different log source types. I mean all total log sources, we're probably in the 400-500 range, so I mean it has a log source, there are log source types for everything that we have right now. One of the challenges we have had is adding all of our cloud infrastructure in there as well. So I know that's something that logarithm was working on.

We're doing about 2000 messages per second.

When we looked at putting a SIEM in place, we kind of realized that we wanted somebody that was a neutral vendor, where they're not tied to specific vendors that, you know, we wanted to make sure that with the SIM we were buying would monitor all the devices that we had in place. So finding somebody that's kind of an independent, not tied to specific hardware manufacturers, really important to us to make sure that, you know, the SIEM could monitor everything that we had in place.

So I think from a security program, maturity level, logarithm really got us started in that direction. As I mentioned, you know, it was one of the first products we bought and when we first started I really started the information security program myself. So it was kind of the first product we bought that we built everything around. So it really is the kind of the central repository for everything we're doing from an information security program standpoint.

I would say LogRhythm, on a scale of 1 to 10, it'd be a nine. I think it's a really solid solution. I think one of the things that they could probably improve on, as I mentioned, was being kind of a little more proactive when it comes to things like cloud and things like that, so I think that they are getting better, but I'd say a nine right now.