AlienVault USM vs Trend Micro TippingPoint

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AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) Anywhere is a cloud-based security information and event management solution that provides effective and affordable threat detection, incident response, and compliance management capabilities. USM Anywhere is well suited to mid-size enterprise environments operating in the cloud. USM Anywhere is also well suited to enterprises whose operations teams require easy deployment and management. Last, USM Anywhere is considered a highly affordable option compared to competitors. USM Anywhere lags competitors in several areas, such as application monitoring, database monitoring, and integrations with third-party solutions such as cloud access security brokers (CASB), DAM, DAP, and DLP.

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Matthew Stacks

Tier II SOC Analyst

Rendition Infosec LLCInformation Technology & Services, 11-50 employees

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Great for large enterprises 10k users or more and as part of defense in depth. Medium and small business you are better off looking for a cheaper UTM solution that does it all in one. It comes down to cost, are you willing to fund the cost of breaking out IPS functionality or moving towards a unified solution?

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Brian Hoadley

Senior Engineering

Northside HospitalHospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

AlienVault USM

Trend Micro TippingPoint

Centralized event and log data collection

Correlation

Event and log normalization

Deployment flexibility

Custom dashboards and views

Host and network-based intrusion detection

Pros

Alienvault USM is THOROUGH. We have a highly integrated workspace that's most SAAS, and I monitor those integrations and their security with AV. If I am trying to track the uptime of a laptop, I don't go to VPN or our Directory Services... I go to AV.
As I mentioned before, we use Sophos to protect our laptops. If a questionable file shows up on someones laptop, I hear about it from AlienVault before I hear about it from our Sophos service.
The OTX Pulse feature is a built-in feature that lets you subscribe to industries and you are notified about new threats that affect that industry on a daily basis. The pulse alerts are added to your AV watchlist.

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Christian Holton

System Administrator

Enthought, Inc.Computer Software, 51-200 employees

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Tipping point had a very nice GUI interface that sat on top of snort rules. It was easy to access, had nice customization of dashboards and output to syslog for SIEM solutions.
It was easy to configure rule sets, allow groups or singular allow/blocks or white-listing.
Security rule sets could be tweaked up or down and allow/drops signatures could be configured to help increase performance.

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Brian Hoadley

Senior Engineering

Northside HospitalHospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

While there are many features, many of them are not very advanced. Vulnerability scanning as an example is extremely simplistic and almost unusable for an enterprise organization. It's just enough to get a program off the ground.
Cloud-only deployment model (SaaS) may not fit all organizations. Not all organizations are "cloud friendly".
Reporting capabilities out of the box are lack luster. Vulnerability management reporting as an example does not include a single canned report.

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Frank DePaola

Head of Information Security

EnPro IndustriesMechanical or Industrial Engineering, 5001-10,000 employees

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Biggest qualms I had with TippingPoint was that it was just a tad on the expensive side for what you get. Nowadays everything has gone UTM in firewalls and they do it all including IPS as part of the basic functionality so really, TP is losing a massive market share.
Don't see a future in the roadmap with so many other vendors getting onto the "unified" wagon and adding IPS as part of their service and at a cheaper price.

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Brian Hoadley

Senior Engineering

Northside HospitalHospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees

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Likelihood to Renew

AlienVault USM 4.4

Based on 16 answers

The centralized logging and retention for PCI compliance was our main driver, and it is meeting that need. Otherwise there has been enough frustration with the lack of documentation and the need to customize through the CLI that I would be open to alternatives.

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Aaron Rothstein

IT Systems Architect

ROTHSTEIN.ioRestaurants, 5001-10,000 employees

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Usability

AlienVault USM 7.3

Based on 35 answers

The product once properly configured seems to offer a wealth of information but has it's issues. I feel that the initial setup/ installation should include technical support to get up and running. My personal experience from the configuration as installed indicates that the network adaptors are not properly configured to read information. The network ports where configured to only ready 1/2 the network?? So having help to get the system up and running should be part of the initial purchase.

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James Ellsworth

IT Technician

Sierra Gold NurseryFarming, 201-500 employees

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Support

AlienVault USM 7.5

Based on 25 answers

I have not had a single issue with the alienvault support staff. Any issue or question that we had, especially in the beginning during the installation phase the support staff was readily available via phone and email to help us. I am very happy with the decision we made to go with alienvault.

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Mikhail Suleymanov

Chief Compliance Officer

Just2TradeCapital Markets, 11-50 employees

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Online Training

AlienVault USM 8.6

Based on 6 answers

The instructor was very knowledgeable and was able to answer everyone's questions. He also was able to teach to many different levels. Some folks in the class had already been using USM or a similar product whereas I and a few others were brand new. He also provided a way of reaching out with questions after the training was over. Everyone in the training seemed to enjoy the class.

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Christian Holton

System Administrator

Enthought, Inc.Computer Software, 51-200 employees

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Implementation

AlienVault USM 6.6

Based on 38 answers

Initial implementation was okay, but we should have gone on the one week course first as an understanding of the features and what to look for would have been of great use. This is especially relevant when fine tuning and correlating events and creating parsers.Once set up the system is pretty resilient and adding in configuration is quite an easy process. We only had on the odd few occasions had to progress any set up problems to tech support.There are also some great whitepapers and set up articles on AlienVault's website support.

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Philip Clarke

IT Systems/Security Manager

R&QInsurance, 201-500 employees

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Alternatives Considered

USM Appliance provides you with the ability to identify your critical assets and to set policies to alert you when those assets have vulnerabilities or are subjected to attacks. USM Appliance will generate alarms based upon the risk associated with any given security event captured in USM Appliance.USM Appliance provides you with the ability to identify your critical assets and to set policies to alert you when those assets have vulnerabilities or are subjected to attacks. USM Appliance will generate alarms based upon the risk associated with any given security event captured in USM Appliance. Identifying patterns of events that indicate a possible threat or vulnerability.

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Mpho Lekota

SOC Analyst

Bitcrack Cyber SecurityInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Most other firewall UTM solutions, Cisco, Palo Alto, Fidelis, etc.

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Brian Hoadley

Senior Engineering

Northside HospitalHospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees

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Return on Investment

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Negative cash flow, positive addition to our defense in depth strategy at one of the largest healthcare organizations in Georgia (at that time).

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Brian Hoadley

Senior Engineering

Northside HospitalHospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees

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Likelihood to Recommend

AlienVault USM

Trend Micro TippingPoint

Feature Rating Comparison

Centralized event and log data collection

Correlation

Event and log normalization

Deployment flexibility

Custom dashboards and views

Host and network-based intrusion detection

Pros

AlienVault USM

Trend Micro TippingPoint

Cons

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Trend Micro TippingPoint

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Trend Micro TippingPoint

Usability

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Trend Micro TippingPoint

Support

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Trend Micro TippingPoint

Online Training

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Implementation

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Trend Micro TippingPoint

Alternatives Considered

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Return on Investment

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Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

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Entry-level set up fee?

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