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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    AlienVault OSSIM (discontinued)

    Score4.1 out of 10
    N/AAlienVault OSSIM was an open source Security Information and Event Management (SIEM). AlienVault was acquired by AT&T Cybersecurity, now LevelBlue, and OSSIM is no longer available for sale.N/A

    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint (formerly Microsoft Defender ATP) is a holistic, cloud delivered endpoint security solution that includes risk-based vulnerability management and assessment, attack surface reduction, behavioral based and cloud-powered next generation protection, endpoint detection and response (EDR), automatic investigation and remediation, managed hunting services, rich APIs, and unified security management.

    $2.50

    per user/per month

    Pricing
    AlienVault OSSIM (discontinued)Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    Editions & Modules
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    Academic
    $2.50
    per user/per month
    Standalone
    $5.20
    per user/per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AlienVault OSSIM (discontinued)Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    AlienVault OSSIM (discontinued)Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
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    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    71%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    96%
    Would buy again
    157 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    83%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    146 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    86%
    Happy with the feature set
    6 Answers
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    155 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    130 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    140 Answers
    Features
    AlienVault OSSIM (discontinued)Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
    Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of AlienVault OSSIM (discontinued) and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    Feature
    AlienVault OSSIM (discontinued)
    7.5
    10 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    -
    Ratings
    Centralized event and log data collection9.49 Ratings00 Ratings
    Correlation6.910 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event and log normalization/management8.110 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deployment flexibility8.210 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools9.36 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom dashboards and workspaces9.49 Ratings00 Ratings
    Host and network-based intrusion detection9.29 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data integration/API management5.32 Ratings00 Ratings
    Behavioral analytics and baselining5.42 Ratings00 Ratings
    Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds5.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Response orchestration and automation6.32 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting and compliance management8.44 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incident indexing/searching6.43 Ratings00 Ratings
    Endpoint Security
    Comparison of Endpoint Security features of AlienVault OSSIM (discontinued) and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    Feature
    AlienVault OSSIM (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    8.7
    79 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Anti-Exploit Technology00 Ratings9.075 Ratings
    Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)00 Ratings9.179 Ratings
    Centralized Management00 Ratings8.679 Ratings
    Hybrid Deployment Support00 Ratings7.110 Ratings
    Infection Remediation00 Ratings9.077 Ratings
    Vulnerability Management00 Ratings8.774 Ratings
    Malware Detection00 Ratings9.278 Ratings
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    Score9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score8.9 out of 10
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    Score8.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AlienVault OSSIM (discontinued)Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.3
    (10 ratings)
    8.9
    (169 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (40 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.9
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AlienVault OSSIM (discontinued)Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    If this is your first experience with a SIEM, this one can get you started. Take the time to learn the ins and outs of the product and you'll most likely be satisfied with it if your company is an SMB. If you need compliance reports, OSSIM is too small for you, you'll need to go with USM or USM Anywhere.
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    If you have multiple endpoints in your environment, if you're looking to understand what your environment looks like, if you're trying to identify the health of your environment, or identify any risks or vulnerabilities in your environment pertaining to your endpoints and devices.
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    Pros
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    • Asset discovery. Once installed in a centric, network-accessible server, OSSIM can poll all your endpoints with common protocols (SSH, SNMP, WMI) to detect and discover site-wide assets to monitor. You only need to group them by your own criteria once added to the product.
    • SIEM Event Correlation. You can define quite complex correlation rules to detect possible suspicious or malicious actions or attempts in your network, in order to categorize them as real threats or as false positives, thus streamlining your risk assessment and management.
    • Ease of installation. The entire AlienVault OSSIM is self-contained in an ISO file, which can be burned into a DVD or just mounted in your server of choice (physical or virtual) for deployment. The installation process is automated and quote verbosed, with options for static IP, email messaging and others.
    • Ease of access. Being AlienVault OSSIM a self-contained appliance, it can be accessed via web by any device that supports a web browser, being that desktops, workstation, mobile devices, etc. The OSSIM dashboard and other features are automatically rearranged to adapt to the particular device being in use.
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    Microsoft
    • The big thing for us is on endpoint, it kind of integrates with everything else that we already have because we use Microsoft completely. And so that helps us with being able to integrate, and send things over to Azure Sentinel as we need to as well.
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    Cons
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    • Creating custom rules is a bit complicated
    • Reporting could be improved
    • Agent has caused conflicts with a couple of our other applications
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    Microsoft
    • I'd say building out summaries and log reviews for analysts reviewing incidents. So, pivoting from the alerts themselves to actually getting the detail underneath. Trying to understand what caused an alert, where they went from there, et cetera, et cetera. And then trying to get into deeper log review to take that investigation further can be a pain point.
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    Likelihood to Renew
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    Microsoft
    Cost add-ons for Security features is nickel and diming the process to keep pace with cybercrime. Limited Education budgets require us to be more pro-active in finding cost-effective measures to protect our devices, staff and students. Defender is a strong, well-featured product that is pricing itself out of the education market
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    Usability
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    AlienVault OSSIM is far easy to use and manage - provided you know what you're doing. As any SIEM application, there is some background knowledge required in order to take advantage of the product's functionalities, such as the log correlation and analysis. Other than that, the application is quite usable and robust.
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    Microsoft
    Because it's hard to find things sometimes. I can find things now because I know where they are. But you have to work with it a little while to figure out how. I'd basically say it was a security tool designed by developers. So you have to get that mindset to find things. So a new hire, a new person in the SOC would have a difficult time. I know that's sitting in here, or that screen is in here somewhere. So it's gotten better.
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    Reliability and Availability
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    Microsoft
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint chugs along just fine no matter what we throw at it and what systems it's running on. It doesn't take up a lot of resources either, so that's welcomed.
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    Performance
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    Microsoft
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is easy on memory and resources on clients.
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    Everything is done through MSSP and installation pro services. Once those hours are burned up, then you're on your own without a lot of help. Typically the pro services hours aren't enough to get past 60 days and MSSP are hit and miss. We had a miss for installation helpers.
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    Microsoft
    The first time I tried to onboard my macOS endpoints to MDE I struggled for quite a bit. I had to reach out to Microsoft's MDE support team. The tech was very helpful in walking me through the steps during a screen share session
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    Implementation Rating
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    Deployment was handled by our team here and everything went pretty smoothly. We did have a few hiccups in our test group, but that only took a bit to get ironed out.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    Originally my organization leveraged alien value due to the lower cost of entry and ability to manage it as a service provider. Unfortunately, after several years of working with this tool, it became unwieldy to use as it felt that almost every useful report had to be created by hand. As other tools have come out with the ability to do automated responses such as Stellar Data processor, we have begun to evaluate alternatives.
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    Particularly, we're evaluating Symantec Endpoint Protection, the commercial version. We've looked at eSet, a couple of the others, and it's much too heavy or difficult to manage, things like that. Ease of use, ease of integration. It's already there. It's super easy to update it with the regular OS updates and everything. So we can manage it whether we're using SCCM or Intune or Dato, it's very easy to deploy updates and manage things.
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    Scalability
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    Microsoft
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is easily scaled from small orgs to giant enterprises.
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    Return on Investment
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    • It's difficult to put a monetary value on security, but with proper monitoring and alerting, incidents will be easier to avoid.
    • Helps with your compliancy, as it automatically alerts you for critical events.
    • Collects logs in the cloud, so protected from local issues, like SAN failures.
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    Microsoft
    • I think the positive impact overall is that we do a lot of sitting in front of assessors- federal assessors, government assessors. And it really comes down to when the assessor has to think about another product that you're bringing in that's not Microsoft, it creates a lot of confusion, more paperwork, more explanation. But the positive impact is that they know it, everybody kind of knows Microsoft. And so when you tell them you have this endpoint for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, they're like, okay. The questions go away, and it makes the overhead a lot less during an assessment.
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