Tami Andrews's Professional Profile

Thank you for your time and comments. Your feedback is invaluable. If you'd like to discuss the concerns you've raised in the review, please feel free to reach out to me and I'll be happy to initiate the conversation.

Over 6 years ago

Commented on Activity alarms and events contain a plethora of useful and very descriptive data

thank you for your feedback & review of AlienVault and USM.

Over 6 years ago

Commented on We used to have to monitor and review logs for each device, now everything comes into AlienVault and it alerts us when we need to respond.

Thank you Karl for your time to review AlienVault USM and for your candid feedback!

Over 6 years ago

Commented on I can monitor less things and just read reports or alarms.

Thank you for your time to review AlienVault USM and for your candid feedback!

Over 6 years ago

Commented on AlienVault USM - bang for your buck.

Thank you Sukanya for your time to review AlienVault USM and for your candid feedback!

Over 6 years ago

Commented on Provides us with flexible deployment architecture

Thank you Vinod for your time to review AlienVault USM and for your candid feedback!

Over 6 years ago

Commented on Meets logging requirements for PCI and HIPAA standards

Thank you Tyler for your time to review AlienVault USM and for your candid feedback!

Over 6 years ago

Commented on We haven't suffered a true breach, but it has helped identify weaknesses.

Thank you for your time to review AlienVault USM and for your candid feedback!

Over 6 years ago

Commented on Holistic view of SIEM environment

Thank you Adam for your time to review AlienVault USM and for your candid feedback!

Over 6 years ago

Commented on Quickly got insight into my environment

Thank you Tim for your time to review AlienVault USM and for your candid feedback!

Over 6 years ago

Commented on Visibility For Your Network and To Find Bottlenecks

Thank you for your time to review AlienVault USM and for your candid feedback!

Over 6 years ago

Commented on We use the HIDS to monitor our servers, which track user account locks and logon failures

Thank you for your time to review AlienVault USM and for your candid feedback!

Over 6 years ago

Commented on The low cost of entry SIEM functionality has increased due to network views and network traffic

Thank you Paul for your time to review AlienVault USM and for your candid feedback!

Over 6 years ago

Commented on It has allowed us to gain a better understanding of how data flows within our network

Thank you David for your time to review AlienVault USM and for your candid feedback!

Over 6 years ago

Commented on It has streamlined log aggregation and analysis to meet organizational and regulatory needs

Thank you Jon for your time to review AlienVault USM and for your candid feedback!

Over 6 years ago

Commented on Asset management of nodes has been a large help in terms of being able to track applications with more detail

Thank you Phillip for your time to review AlienVault USM and for your candid feedback!

Over 6 years ago

Commented on We have been able to ensure the health of our servers

Thank you Adrian for your time to review AlienVault USM and for your candid feedback!

Over 6 years ago

Commented on It Has Become an Invaluable Asset for Our Small Organization

Thank you Kirk for your time to review AlienVault USM and for your candid feedback!

Over 6 years ago

Commented on Categorization of Security Events Helps Our Soc Analyst for Further Analysis.

Thank you Shayanthan for your time to review AlienVault USM and for your candid feedback!

Over 6 years ago

Commented on Allows for a lot of out-of-the-box features but it does not have APIs

Thank you Brian for your time to review AlienVault USM and for your candid feedback! If you'd like to set up some time to speak with the team about the issues you've raised, I'd be happy to facilitate that on your behalf. Please reach out to me at: tandrews@alienvault.com…

Over 6 years ago

Commented on We are able to get alerts perfectly with FIM and VA features

Thank you Kalana for your time to review AlienVault USM and for your candid feedback!

Over 6 years ago

Commented on It has powerful threat detection, incident response, and compliance management

Thank you Tharaka for your time to review AlienVault USM and for your candid feedback!

Over 6 years ago

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

Thank you for your time to review AlienVault USM and for your candid feedback!

Over 6 years ago

Commented on Enabled us to create an SOC on a budget with smaller than usual staff requirements

Thank you Scott for your time to review AlienVault USM and for your candid feedback!

Over 6 years ago

Commented on This solution can completely detect and prevent incidents on your network

Thank you for your time to review AlienVault USM and for your candid feedback!

Over 6 years ago

Commented on Review about AlienVault

Thank you for your time to review AlienVault USM and for your candid feedback!

Over 6 years ago

Commented on Cloud-based panel is excellent, enabling our SOC to review and respond to threats

Thank you Dan for your time to review AlienVault USM and for your candid feedback!

Over 6 years ago

Commented on Incoming alarms provide an overview of suspicious traffic going through the network

Thank you Layla for your time to review AlienVault USM and for your candid feedback!

Over 6 years ago

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

Thank you for your time to review AlienVault USM and for your candid feedback!

Over 6 years ago

Commented on Its powerful correlation engine helps reduce time in manually correlating events

Thank you for your time to review AlienVault USM and for your candid feedback!

Over 6 years ago

Commented on I can easily check all logs and data in relation to attacks in one place

Thank you Patrick for your time to review AlienVault USM and for your candid feedback!

Over 6 years ago

Commented on We develop additional rules and scripts to make it more usable. It provides a checklist answer when using SIEM. I believe we are on the verge of outgrowing this platform.

Hi I'm the Customer Programs Manager here at AlienVault and would like to first say "thank you" for taking time to provide your candid feedback in the product review. I'd like to get a conversation going between you and our team here to see if we can resolve some of the…

Over 6 years ago

Commented on Review about AlienVault

Thank you for taking time to provide your feedback & comments. If you'd like to speak with someone here at AlienVault from the product team, please do not hesitate to reach out to me directly. My email: tandrews@alienvault.com

About 7 years ago

Commented on The product has been very stable

Thank you Stephen for your time and your comments.

Over 7 years ago

Commented on Provides a single way to analyze traffic and threats on our network.

Alan - thank you for your thoughtful feedback & comments.

Over 7 years ago

Commented on Due to the logger feature, everything is centralized on the AlientVault Server.

Wajdi Ayari - I thank you so much for taking time to provide feedback on your experience with USM.

Over 7 years ago

Commented on It provides greater visibility of host based and network activity through its HIDS and NIDS functionality. They should simplify the HIDS agent reporting/custom rule creation.

Thank you for your feedback & comments.

Over 7 years ago

Commented on We now can find the source of where Windows account lockouts are occurring.

Lenny - thank you so much for your feedback & comments.

Over 7 years ago

Commented on We already used a lot of the open source products in this suite. This brought them all under one roof and allowed one person do all the work.

Thank you so much Mike for taking the time to provide your feedback of AlienVault USM.

Over 7 years ago

Commented on The basic setup was straightforward. I'd like to see built in support to detect more security incidents.

Thank you for taking time to provide your feedback on your use of AlienVault USM.

Over 7 years ago

Commented on The most important part of the product is the event correlation and alerting. The ability to authenticated users across multiple domains would be useful, but is not critical.

Thank you for your comments & feedback!

Over 7 years ago

Commented on We can gather all data from different devices, analyze theme and extract the correct information.

El Mostapha Chakir - I thank you for your time and your thoughtful feedback.

Over 7 years ago

Commented on Valuable features include integrated vulnerability assessment, intrusion/anomaly detection and monitoring, with a simple management interface.

Thanks Pedro for taking time to provide your feedback & comments.

Over 7 years ago

Commented on It's based on an open source product and therefore fully customizable.

Thank you David for providing your feedback & assessment of working with USM.

Over 7 years ago

Commented on It has a lot of capabilities, but make sure there’s someone that can devote daily time to it.

Thank you for the feedback you've provided on your experience with using USM.

Over 7 years ago

Commented on Cost effective solution.

Thank you for your feedback & comments!

Over 7 years ago

Commented on Allows us to roll out log management on clients and servers, host-based IDS, and network-based IDS.

Brett - thank you so much for taking time to provide your comments & feedback.

Over 7 years ago

Commented on You can customize the "Overview" dashboard to you or your company's needs.

Lucas - I appreciate you taking time to provide your experience of using AlienVault USM.

Over 7 years ago

Commented on Provides a good platform to start looking at the traffic on your network.

Thanks Chris for your feedback & comments!

Over 7 years ago

Commented on It is set up as a dashboard in the security lab. Students can view and analyze the monitoring techniques of the product.

Philip - thanks so much for your comments & feedback on your experience with AlienVault USM.

Over 7 years ago

Commented on The alarms dashboard shows any threats that may need further investigation.

Thank you so much for your time & feedback Laurie!

Over 7 years ago

Commented on I can see all HIDS and IDS events in one place. Setup is complex when playing with custom plugins.

Thank you for your time to provide your comments on using USM.

Over 7 years ago

Commented on Before AlientVault we had no visibility of our vulnerabilities without looking up WSUS and matching this against the Windows bulletins.

Thanks so much for the feedback on your experience with AlienVault & USM.

Over 7 years ago

Commented on Allows for log management, vulnerability scanning, and file integrity monitoring.

Thanks Trevor for the review & updated comments.

Over 7 years ago

Commented on Offers an Open Threat Exchange for IP reputation and vulnerability scanning.

Thanks so very much for your feedback & comments.

Over 7 years ago

Commented on Provides a single pane of glass that shows threats that are in the environment.

Kevin - I appreciate you taking time to provide your feedback on USM.

Over 7 years ago

Commented on Some of the valuable features are real-time email alerts, event correlations, and log management.

Thanks for your time to review USM and for the feedback!

Over 7 years ago

Commented on We use policies as alerts on many compliance requirements and concerns.

Thanks Dan for your feedback on USM!

Over 7 years ago

Commented on Report modules now allow us to get a visualization of the activity of the main assets.

Thank you Ruben for your comments & insightful feedback!

Over 7 years ago

Commented on It has allowed us to centralize our logging. We had used previous products and found AlienVault centralized the logging for our security.

Thank you so much for your feedback!

Over 7 years ago

Commented on We've been able to use the scanning to identify security issues and take care of them before they become a problem.

Thank you so much for your feedback & comments!

Over 7 years ago

Commented on Some of the valuable features are log aggregation, correlation, and threat intel.

thank you for your time and your comments.

Over 7 years ago

Commented on Provides vulnerability scanning and OTX for threat intelligence.

Paruvathakumar - thanks so much for your time & comments.

Over 7 years ago

Commented on Provides threat detection powered by signatures and advanced correlation rules.

Stephen - thanks so much for your time & feedback!

Over 7 years ago

Commented on I'm able to scan for vulnerabilities quickly on existing devices and also for new devices being deployed.

Thank you Don for your thoughtful feedback.

Over 7 years ago

Commented on The integration of IDS and OSSEC is valuable as it enables correlation between Network IDS events and host system event logs

thanks for your feedback.

Over 7 years ago

Commented on Simplified log analysis and log management.

thank you for your comments!

Over 7 years ago

Commented on We have noticed outdated Java and Flash versions due to the snort rules included in the appliance.

thank you for your review!

Over 7 years ago

Commented on AlienVault helped take us from semi-Pro to Pro

thank you Aaron for your review & comments.

Over 7 years ago

Commented on Automated alarms help identify what is happening on your network that should be investigated.

Thank you so much for your comments & thoughtful feedback.

Almost 8 years ago

Commented on There is no complex alerting or code reviewing, just click and go.

Hi Frans - I wanted to make sure that you saw the news on 2/7/17 that we've now delivered a cloud-based USM product! https://www.alienvault.com/products/usm-anywhere

Almost 8 years ago

Commented on Once we placed AlienVault into the product we have now, the time it takes to find and respond to real anomalies dropped. Creating directives is a pain.

Thank you for your feedback. If you would be willing to reach out to Product Marketing, please send an email to: LBarraco@alienvault.com. Lauren is always happy to hear from our customers especially on product enhancements or issues.

Comments

Over 5 years ago

Log Management

Easy to deploy and flexible enough to create your own plugins

Over 5 years ago

Log Management

It has helped us in improving our visualization and incident response during cybersecurity situations

Over 5 years ago

Log Management

Easy to deploy with their cloud-based model and deploying the required agents on-prem (or in the Cloud) is quick and easy.

Over 5 years ago

Log Management

Cloud-based solution that is easy to deploy and easy to scale as well.

Over 5 years ago

Log Management

Log-monitoring and alerting tell us when things happen that we need to know about

Over 5 years ago

Log Management

Enables us to search for critical vulnerabilities in our network

Over 5 years ago

Log Management

The vulnerability scanner keeps our environment always updated about security threats

Over 5 years ago

Log Management

It is easy to deploy with their cloud-based model, and deploying the required agents is quick and easy

Over 5 years ago

Log Management

It is easy to implement, and effective

Over 5 years ago

Log Management

Makes it easy to aggregate, correlate, and view different security logs in a single place

Over 5 years ago

Log Management

I've found the vulnerability assessment very valuable because it identifies vulnerabilities and AWS configuration issues

Over 5 years ago

Log Management

Enables managing everything from one place, including vulnerability assessments and asset management

Almost 6 years ago

Log Management

We can collect logs, and also actively scan our network for vulnerabilities all from one tool

About 6 years ago

Log Management

The bundle of features is the killer feature, but search performance and Raw Logs are slow

Over 6 years ago

Log Management

Activity alarms and events contain a plethora of useful and very descriptive data

Over 6 years ago

Log Management

We used to have to monitor and review logs for each device, now everything comes into AlienVault and it alerts us when we need to respond.

Over 6 years ago

Log Management

I can monitor less things and just read reports or alarms.

Over 6 years ago

Log Management

AlienVault USM - bang for your buck.

Over 6 years ago

Log Management

Provides us with flexible deployment architecture

Over 6 years ago

Log Management

Meets logging requirements for PCI and HIPAA standards

Over 6 years ago

Log Management

We haven't suffered a true breach, but it has helped identify weaknesses.

Over 6 years ago

Log Management

Holistic view of SIEM environment

Over 6 years ago

Log Management

Quickly got insight into my environment

Over 6 years ago

Log Management

Visibility For Your Network and To Find Bottlenecks

Over 6 years ago

Log Management

We use the HIDS to monitor our servers, which track user account locks and logon failures

Over 6 years ago

Log Management

The low cost of entry SIEM functionality has increased due to network views and network traffic

Over 6 years ago

Log Management

It has allowed us to gain a better understanding of how data flows within our network

Over 6 years ago

Log Management

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

Over 6 years ago

Log Management

Asset management of nodes has been a large help in terms of being able to track applications with more detail

Over 6 years ago

Log Management

We have been able to ensure the health of our servers

Over 6 years ago

Log Management

It Has Become an Invaluable Asset for Our Small Organization

Over 6 years ago

Log Management

Categorization of Security Events Helps Our Soc Analyst for Further Analysis.

Over 6 years ago

Log Management

Allows for a lot of out-of-the-box features but it does not have APIs

Over 6 years ago

Log Management

We are able to get alerts perfectly with FIM and VA features

Over 6 years ago

Log Management

It has powerful threat detection, incident response, and compliance management

Over 6 years ago

Log Management

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

Over 6 years ago

Log Management

Enabled us to create an SOC on a budget with smaller than usual staff requirements

Over 6 years ago

Log Management

This solution can completely detect and prevent incidents on your network

Over 6 years ago

Log Management

Review about AlienVault

Over 6 years ago

Log Management

Cloud-based panel is excellent, enabling our SOC to review and respond to threats

Over 6 years ago

Log Management

Incoming alarms provide an overview of suspicious traffic going through the network

Over 6 years ago

Log Management

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

Over 6 years ago

Log Management

Its powerful correlation engine helps reduce time in manually correlating events

Over 6 years ago

Log Management

I can easily check all logs and data in relation to attacks in one place

Over 6 years ago

Log Management

We develop additional rules and scripts to make it more usable. It provides a checklist answer when using SIEM. I believe we are on the verge of outgrowing this platform.

Over 6 years ago

Log Management

Review about AlienVault

About 7 years ago

Log Management

The product has been very stable

Over 7 years ago

Log Management

Provides a single way to analyze traffic and threats on our network.

Over 7 years ago

Log Management

Due to the logger feature, everything is centralized on the AlientVault Server.

Over 7 years ago

Log Management

It provides greater visibility of host based and network activity through its HIDS and NIDS functionality. They should simplify the HIDS agent reporting/custom rule creation.

Over 7 years ago

Log Management

We now can find the source of where Windows account lockouts are occurring.

Over 7 years ago

Log Management

We already used a lot of the open source products in this suite. This brought them all under one roof and allowed one person do all the work.

Over 7 years ago

Log Management

The basic setup was straightforward. I'd like to see built in support to detect more security incidents.

Over 7 years ago

Log Management

The most important part of the product is the event correlation and alerting. The ability to authenticated users across multiple domains would be useful, but is not critical.

Over 7 years ago

Log Management

We can gather all data from different devices, analyze theme and extract the correct information.

Over 7 years ago

Log Management

Valuable features include integrated vulnerability assessment, intrusion/anomaly detection and monitoring, with a simple management interface.

Over 7 years ago

Log Management

It's based on an open source product and therefore fully customizable.

Over 7 years ago

Log Management

It has a lot of capabilities, but make sure there’s someone that can devote daily time to it.

Over 7 years ago

Log Management

Cost effective solution.

Over 7 years ago

Log Management

Allows us to roll out log management on clients and servers, host-based IDS, and network-based IDS.

Over 7 years ago

Log Management

You can customize the "Overview" dashboard to you or your company's needs.

Over 7 years ago

Log Management

Provides a good platform to start looking at the traffic on your network.

Over 7 years ago

Log Management

It is set up as a dashboard in the security lab. Students can view and analyze the monitoring techniques of the product.

Over 7 years ago

Log Management

The alarms dashboard shows any threats that may need further investigation.

Over 7 years ago

Log Management

I can see all HIDS and IDS events in one place. Setup is complex when playing with custom plugins.

Over 7 years ago

Log Management

Before AlientVault we had no visibility of our vulnerabilities without looking up WSUS and matching this against the Windows bulletins.

Over 7 years ago

Log Management

Allows for log management, vulnerability scanning, and file integrity monitoring.

Over 7 years ago

Log Management

Offers an Open Threat Exchange for IP reputation and vulnerability scanning.

Over 7 years ago

Log Management

Provides a single pane of glass that shows threats that are in the environment.

Over 7 years ago

Log Management

Some of the valuable features are real-time email alerts, event correlations, and log management.

Over 7 years ago

Log Management

We use policies as alerts on many compliance requirements and concerns.

Over 7 years ago

Log Management

Report modules now allow us to get a visualization of the activity of the main assets.

Over 7 years ago

Log Management

It has allowed us to centralize our logging. We had used previous products and found AlienVault centralized the logging for our security.

Over 7 years ago

Log Management

We've been able to use the scanning to identify security issues and take care of them before they become a problem.

Over 7 years ago

Log Management

Some of the valuable features are log aggregation, correlation, and threat intel.

Over 7 years ago

Log Management

Provides vulnerability scanning and OTX for threat intelligence.

Over 7 years ago

Log Management

Provides threat detection powered by signatures and advanced correlation rules.

Over 7 years ago

Log Management

I'm able to scan for vulnerabilities quickly on existing devices and also for new devices being deployed.

Over 7 years ago

Log Management

The integration of IDS and OSSEC is valuable as it enables correlation between Network IDS events and host system event logs

Over 7 years ago

Log Management

Simplified log analysis and log management.

Over 7 years ago

Log Management

We have noticed outdated Java and Flash versions due to the snort rules included in the appliance.

Over 7 years ago

Log Management

AlienVault helped take us from semi-Pro to Pro

Over 7 years ago

Log Management

Automated alarms help identify what is happening on your network that should be investigated.

Almost 8 years ago

Log Management

There is no complex alerting or code reviewing, just click and go.

Almost 8 years ago

Log Management

Once we placed AlienVault into the product we have now, the time it takes to find and respond to real anomalies dropped. Creating directives is a pain.