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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    AlienVault OSSIM (discontinued)

    Score4.2 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

    Snow Atlas

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASnow Atlas is a cloud-native platform built from the ground up to provide Technology Intelligence for today’s hybrid enterprises. Based on a microservices architecture and standardized APIs, Snow Atlas provides a unified foundation for Snow’s IT asset management, SaaS management and FinOps solutions. It can be used to display all of the technology in an enterprise's IT stack, or to find opportunities to enhance, optimize and efficiently manage technology assets and share data with…N/A
    Pricing
    AlienVault OSSIM (discontinued)Snow Atlas
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    AlienVault OSSIM (discontinued)Snow Atlas
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    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)Snow Atlas
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    71%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    83%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    86%
    Happy with the feature set
    6 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
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    Features
    AlienVault OSSIM (discontinued)Snow Atlas
    Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
    Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of AlienVault OSSIM (discontinued) and Snow Atlas
    Feature
    AlienVault OSSIM (discontinued)
    7.5
    10 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Snow Atlas
    -
    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
    IT Asset Management
    Comparison of IT Asset Management features of AlienVault OSSIM (discontinued) and Snow Atlas
    Feature
    AlienVault OSSIM (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Snow Atlas
    7.3
    4 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Software and hardware inventory tracking00 Ratings8.24 Ratings
    License management00 Ratings7.54 Ratings
    Asset lifecycle monitoring00 Ratings7.23 Ratings
    Contract management00 Ratings6.93 Ratings
    Asset relationship management00 Ratings6.72 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    AlienVault OSSIM (discontinued)Snow Atlas
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    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Security QRadar SIEM
    Score8.9 out of 10
    KACE Asset Management Appliance
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    Score8 out of 10
    KACE Systems Management Appliance
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AlienVault OSSIM (discontinued)Snow Atlas
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.3
    (10 ratings)
    7.7
    (4 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.9
    (3 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AlienVault OSSIM (discontinued)Snow Atlas
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Flexera
    Assessing Compliance Assessing Renewal requirements
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • 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.
    Incentivized
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    Flexera
    • Visibility of traditional desktop and web based applications
    • Reminders when agreements and annual renewals are coming up in the next 90, 60, 30 days
    • Helps us identify similar application types, where they are being used, so we can better understand the capabilities they provide businesses
    • Provide usage trends over time to inform renewals and compliance
    • Reclaim software that is note in active use
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • 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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    Flexera
    • SaaS connectors are not always kept up to date usually when Publishers make changes to their Portal API's. Appears to be little active monitoring on Flexera/Snow Atlas' side unless a customer reports an issue with the data being returned. Fixes are normally implemented as as quickly as possible, depending on whether it is considered a Bug Fix or a Feature Enhancement.
    • Users - Snow on SAM - No ability to add or bulk import manually. Completely reliant on AD Discovery or Entra ID Discovery
    • Users - SaaS module - No ability for bulk update of Users for things line 'Online only' or 'Qualified' user accounts. This is an issue in larger companies where you have thousands of SaaS Users being reported through connectors like Microsoft E365.
    • SaaS module Dashboard does not allow for filtering of insights to a specific Publisher.
    • Not all Back end SMACC functionality form Snow License Manager have been exposed to the front-end access, as Snow Atlas does not allow customer Administrators access to the back end or SQL databases.
    • If you are migrating from on-prem Snow License Manager to Atlas, migration tools have not been created by Snow and will require a Project to handle your migration. Without Migration tools, we had to use a Managed Service Partner who had to manually create a lot of their own scripts to retrieve data that cannot be downloaded via reports and imported into Atlas. Any attachments documentation on Agreement or License Records has to be manually re-attached/uploaded to the relevant Agreement/License records in Atlas as the migration was performed.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
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    Flexera
    Provides the much needed visibility to contain spend and rationalise software
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Flexera
    Atlas is easy to navigate, it looks reasonably similar to the on prem version we were using previously
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Flexera
    Front line support staff done always understand the issue you are explaining or the need to escalate to back end/higher up areas for resolutions and can often require use of the Escalate function or emailing to your Account/Customer Success Manager. That said, once an issue properly is understood, it is handled well.
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    Implementation Rating
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    Flexera
    We should have spun up a Project to manage the implementation. Snow indicated to us the ease in which Snow Atlas could be implemented, however this did not factor in that we were migrating from their on-prem product Snow License Manager hosted through a Managed Servicer Partner. For a clean installation, your implementation can be quick and likely not require a Project. If you are migrating from another products or are a company that can have lots of stakeholders, fingers in the pie, hurdles/business processes that need to be adhered to, definitely use a Project to perform your implementation.
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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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    Flexera
    This is my 1st software license tool that I've used.
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • 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.
    Incentivized
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    Flexera
    • Made it a lot easier to determine annual Microsoft renewal numbers and only renew what we needed reducing costs
    • Helps us identify potential software that can be rationalised reducing costs
    • Helps us identify unapproved software and people aware of the the risks
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