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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued)

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ACisco IPS Sensors have reached EOL, and EOS.N/A

    Juniper SRX Series Firewalls

    Score7.3 out of 10
    N/AJuniper SRX is a firewall offering. It provides a variety of modular features, scaled for enterprise-level use, based on a 3-in-1 OS that enables routing, switching, and security in each product.N/A

    LevelBlue USM Anywhere

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AThe LevelBlue USM Anywhere XDR platform (replacing the former AlienVault USM) delivers threat detection, incident response, and compliance management.

    $1,075

    per month

    Pricing
    Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued)Juniper SRX Series FirewallsLevelBlue USM Anywhere
    Editions & Modules
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    Essentials
    $1,075
    per month
    Standard
    $1,695
    per month
    Premium
    $2,595
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued)Juniper SRX Series FirewallsLevelBlue USM Anywhere
    Free Trial
    NoNoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued)Juniper SRX Series FirewallsLevelBlue USM Anywhere
    Considered Multiple Products
    Cisco
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    LevelBlue
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    86%
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    Features
    Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued)Juniper SRX Series FirewallsLevelBlue USM Anywhere
    Firewall
    Comparison of Firewall features of Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued) and Juniper SRX Series Firewalls and LevelBlue USM Anywhere
    Feature
    Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Juniper SRX Series Firewalls
    8.7
    5 Ratings
    1% above category average
    LevelBlue USM Anywhere
    -
    Ratings
    Identification Technologies00 Ratings9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visualization Tools00 Ratings7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Inspection00 Ratings8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy-based Controls00 Ratings10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Active Directory and LDAP00 Ratings8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Firewall Management Console00 Ratings7.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting and Logging00 Ratings8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    VPN00 Ratings10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    High Availability00 Ratings10.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Stateful Inspection00 Ratings10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Proxy Server00 Ratings9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued)Juniper SRX Series FirewallsLevelBlue USM Anywhere
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    9.8
    (390 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.2
    (18 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.7
    (34 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.4
    (3 ratings)
    7.3
    (25 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.3
    (6 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (38 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    6.3
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    -
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    7.6
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    -
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    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued)Juniper SRX Series FirewallsLevelBlue USM Anywhere
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    IPS sensors are more suited for companies that do not have visibility into their network with third-party analyzing tools. Scenarios would be to place IPS sensors at the perimeter firewalls mainly. IPS sensors are less appropriate for companies that have third-party analyzing tools that will mitigate vulnerabilities and malicious traffic and activities already.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    SRXs seem to be well suited at the enterprise level for plain routers, firewalls, and IDP/IDS. They work well on MPLS and Ethernet, including Internet. I have 3 SRXs also performing edge duty, with 2 in a high availability (HA) cluster. The Juniper line of SRXs provides a good range of scaling from small business to extremely large enterprise. Wire speed is a common comparison factor and Juniper shines in that area.
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    LevelBlue
    At this point I'm saying a 4. While the marketing material make it appear to be easy to use and it was relatively easy to set up, as previously mentioned, each event description is based upon the individual asset making it nearly impossible for the administrator to be a SME for each asset. For example, if one of the assets reporting is a router, the administrator monitoring alerts would need to know what the various events are that can be triggered as an event for the particular router; however, if the asset is a workstation, the administrator would need to know the various events that are triggered for workstations.
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • Identifies and blocks malicious traffic.
    • Detects unwanted traffic and allows your company to be proactive, let alone reactive.
    • Comprehensive Threat protection allows companies to adjust thresholds and policies at will.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • Edge Device (Tunneling & Routing)
    • Routing Instances
    • Zone Based Firewall
    • L3 Gateway/Vlan termination
    • DHCP Server & DHCP Relay
    • Good support community & Good available documentation
    • Good support by the Vendor
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    LevelBlue
    • AlienVault USM is simple and easy to deploy. Sensors can be deployed in as little as 15 minutes through the setup wizard.
    • The USM UI is easy to understand. I've trained multiple analysts who are able to perform their duties on their first day, in part because of USM Anywhere's ease of use.
    • Top-notch built-in compliance templates and reporting features.
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • The web GUI is somewhat slow.
    • Sometimes difficult to adjust policies.
    • Fail open feature may not work properly all the time.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • My only real criticism of the product is that it's hard to figure out how to upgrade the firmware from the CLI via TFTP via the docs, but it works great once you get it sorted.
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    LevelBlue
    • Personally, I've wished I could purchase a service that would configure AV for my environment. I get a lot of traffic on a daily basis and I almost need to hire an analyst that just works on AV.
    • Some of the filters when looking for a specific alert aren't that easy to use.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    No answers on this topic
    LevelBlue
    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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    Usability
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    No answers on this topic
    LevelBlue
    Once you are able to navigate the different panels, finding what you need is quite easily. Before getting used it it can be a bit of challenge . Each panel is quite well laid out and the filtering search capabilities are quite strong.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    No answers on this topic
    LevelBlue
    We do have issues with maintenance on the AlienVault USM as the disk fills up from time to time with other data sources. Sources for scanning logs and net flow data isn't calculated in regular disk maintenance and can easily fill up our disk if we do not keep an eye on it with some custom Nagios plugins. The system does properly trim logging data from logging sources properly.
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    Performance
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    No answers on this topic
    LevelBlue
    With the latest release of AlienVault USM overall performance has not been an issue. We have noticed single source events per second does not scale well with the overall system. 2,000eps on a vmware system with a single source produces delays of up to an hour for us. Pages, reporting and even raw log searches are rather quick though.
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    Cisco TAC has been great at helping with configurations and issues that may arise
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    This is the one area where I have a beef with Juniper. When I called into Cisco TAC, 90% of the time, the first person I spoke with was able to resolve my issue. With Juniper TAC, 90% of the time, the first person I speak with is not able to resolve my issue, seems to almost be reading from a script, and must escalate my ticket. All of which takes time.
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    LevelBlue
    The support we received from alienvault was excellent. They went above and beyond in making sure everything was working as it needed to be. They REALLY want their product implementation to be a success and our security goals be achieved. They are like a member of our security team.
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    In-Person Training
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    No answers on this topic
    LevelBlue
    I did not have any experience with "in person" training directly. The free online classes offered for a half a day are based on the actual training offered. These little teasers are very good and well worth your time to learn a few quick and dirty ways of getting more information from your SIEM
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    Online Training
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    No answers on this topic
    LevelBlue
    It was very well organized and helpful in using the product to the fullest extent. The instructor allowed time for folks who were involved with managed services to receive tuning tips in order to better support their customers. In addition, the course materials were automatically updated when the new version came out.
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    Implementation Rating
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    No answers on this topic
    LevelBlue
    AlienVault USM was a very simple to implement and get up and running. We started with a trial version and had that up and going within an hour of receiving email instructions from the sales engineer. We never had to contact support to get the system up and going. It was extremely easy to convert over to a full license once we started with a paid version.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    IPS sensors provides the necessary network visibility my company needs to satisfy its security appetite. By doing so, we have been able to stay compliant and up to date with today's network security requirements and procedures. We are able to be proactive with vulnerabilities and reactive to malicious traffic and intrusions in our day to day operations.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    Juniper SRX stands tall compared to all these products for Large Service Provider Networks, where traffic volume is larger. Also, cost comparison with SRX's few other products can also be another contributing factor while selecting this. As well as Juniper Routers, Switches, and multiple products from the same vendor to maintain one single vendor environment. As well as Juniper Support is also really good.
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    LevelBlue
    Splunk's ES is a paid add-on on top of an already pricey product. Finding a MSSP that supports Splunk and isn't a 6 figure annual commitment seems unlikely. LogRhythm did not have a cloud-based solution when we were considering SIEMs. Fantastic product though and have a good MSSP base. Devo did not have a MSSP partner base when we looked. Their product is fantastic too. AlienVault USM has good partners to choose from as well as an affordable cloud model, that's why we chose it.
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    Scalability
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    No answers on this topic
    LevelBlue
    The AlienVault USM is not very scalable. Some scalability can be achieved by installing additional sensors, but this only offers 500eps per sensor and is still overall limited by the installation type of VM or physical. We have also noticed the EPS (events per second) is rated overall and not towards a single source. A single source on a very healthy VMware partition tops out at 2,000eps for us, no matter how we configure it. Maybe this is a problem of the 5.2 release?
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • Provided less need to purchase third party analyzing tools.
    • Needed more dedicated staff to build/review/and maintain policies and such.
    • Answers companies need for network security.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • It is a workhorse for our field operations. It provides the last touch for an ISP to the customer. The customer has no view of the device, but with the repeatability of the device, they do not need to.
    • The ability to roll out a dynamic routing protocol attached to a security zone allows elasticity to the environment that supports growth.
    • VLAN support on the inside interfaces allow this to be the only device in some smaller deployments we install these in.
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    LevelBlue
    • Once you hit the 150 asset mark, you have to jump to their unlimited license. There is no middle ground. We were only 10 or so assets above the 150 so we had to chose to either not monitor those assets or pay the price of the upgrade.
    • AlienVault brings all the information to one place which makes it much quicker to track down problems.
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