AlienVault OSSIM vs Rencore

• Being a part of the Open Source community, open source tools are always a big plus for me.
• Being a simple straightforward tool, it does a great job especially with the asset management piece built into it.
• Straightforward
• Open Threat Exchange(OTX) gives a straightforward live threat intel feed to work off.

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• Rencore is a company formed of people that have lived the Microsoft community, they have a deep understanding of the needs of businesses that aren't met by the standard Microsoft tools.
• Rencore staff are heavily involved in the Microsoft ecosystem, with many of them spending personal time working on projects such as the Patterns and Practices foundation. This adds to their strength and knowledge of the Microsoft platform.
• Their products are well known in the community and often used by Microsoft staff themselves. Their support of MVPs ensures that they receive feed back at all levels ensuring a stronger platform of products.

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• The correlation directives that come out of the box are very few. I understand more correlation directives are a premium product, but one can hardly see the value of having very few. It makes new customers think they will not get better directives when they switch to the full USM or USM Anywhere.
• Same with reports, the few reports it comes out of the box can be retrieved using other tools that are better prepared for the task. I understand that compliance reports aren't free, but at least I'd expect more security reports.
• The OTX tab in dashboards sometimes takes too long to load, even if you have a fast internet and plenty of resources in the VM.

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• I'd like to see a cheaper subset of tools for the 'citizen developer' to try and enforce good practice at all levels.

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• Since it's free, ROI has been positive in terms of money. In time cost and engineer time, it has been also very cheap to implement since it's very easy to get it running.
• As a learning tool, for ACSE certification, it has also been very useful, since it shares a lot with the USM appliance installation.
• As a test environment, again, it shares a lot with the USM appliance installation, so if you have a USM also and you don't want to test things over your production environment, testing with OSSIM first has been a good way to mitigate possible bad effects.

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• Automation of code review to reduce time.
• Demonstrate to customer the need for remedial work.
• Reduced time preparing reports and recommendations.

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