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AlienVault OSSIM
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.
Technical Services
GB Advisors, Inc.Computer & Network Security, 11-50 employees
Rencore
For Microsoft shops that are doing custom development on the Microsoft cloud platform in Office 365 and Azure, the Rencore toolset is an absolute must, especially if you are involved in converting farm solutions to cloud, or just moving into cloud development for the first time.
Business Productivity Practice Lead
Trustmarque (Part of Capita plc)Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees
Feature Rating Comparison
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
AlienVault OSSIM
8.2
Rencore
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Centralized event and log data collection
AlienVault OSSIM
8.4
Rencore
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Correlation
AlienVault OSSIM
8.0
Rencore
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Event and log normalization
AlienVault OSSIM
8.0
Rencore
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Deployment flexibility
AlienVault OSSIM
8.7
Rencore
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Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools
AlienVault OSSIM
7.5
Rencore
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Custom dashboards and views
AlienVault OSSIM
8.0
Rencore
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Host and network-based intrusion detection
AlienVault OSSIM
8.6
Rencore
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Pros
- 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.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Non-Profit Organization Management Company, 501-1000 employees- 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.
Business Productivity Practice Lead
Trustmarque (Part of Capita plc)Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees
Cons
- 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.
Technical Services
GB Advisors, Inc.Computer & Network Security, 11-50 employees
- I'd like to see a cheaper subset of tools for the 'citizen developer' to try and enforce good practice at all levels.
Business Productivity Practice Lead
Trustmarque (Part of Capita plc)Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees
Usability
AlienVault OSSIM8.0
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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.
Support Services Manager
GB Advisors, Inc.Computer Software, 51-200 employees
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Alternatives Considered
AlienVault OSSIM as the first experience with a SIEM is very fine, especially if your company is an SMB. Every SIEM shares some features in common with other products, features such as log retrieval and normalization. So if you stick with principles, you can learn other SIEM products as well. If your environment is not of a minimum size, LogRhythm might be overkill for your network, same with McAfee Enterprise Security Manager.
Technical Services
GB Advisors, Inc.Computer & Network Security, 11-50 employees
I'm not aware of products that do the same as the Rencore offering. I think they'd be hard to beat.
Business Productivity Practice Lead
Trustmarque (Part of Capita plc)Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees
Return on Investment
- 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.
Technical Services
GB Advisors, Inc.Computer & Network Security, 11-50 employees
- Automation of code review to reduce time.
- Demonstrate to customer the need for remedial work.
- Reduced time preparing reports and recommendations.
SharePoint Architect / Consultant
Flow Simulation Ltd.Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
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Pricing Details
AlienVault OSSIM
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Additional Pricing Details
—Rencore
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
Optional