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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Imperva Data Security

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AImperva Data Security (formerly SecureSphere for Data) is an enterprise application and file security suite, combining database and file security management and monitoring under its database.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

    Trend Micro TippingPoint

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ATrend Micro TippingPoint is an intrusion detection and prevention system.N/A
    Pricing
    Imperva Data SecurityLevelBlue USM AnywhereTrend Micro TippingPoint
    Editions & Modules
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    Essentials
    $1,075
    per month
    Standard
    $1,695
    per month
    Premium
    $2,595
    per month
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    Pricing Offerings
    Imperva Data SecurityLevelBlue USM AnywhereTrend Micro TippingPoint
    Free Trial
    NoYesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Imperva, a Thales company
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    86%
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    User Ratings
    Imperva Data SecurityLevelBlue USM AnywhereTrend Micro TippingPoint
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.8
    (390 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
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    7.2
    (18 ratings)
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    Usability
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    6.7
    (34 ratings)
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    Availability
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    6.4
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    Performance
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    7.3
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    Support Rating
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    7.3
    (25 ratings)
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    In-Person Training
    -
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    4.5
    (1 ratings)
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    Online Training
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    8.3
    (6 ratings)
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    Implementation Rating
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    6.4
    (38 ratings)
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    Configurability
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    8.0
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    Ease of integration
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    7.3
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    Product Scalability
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    6.3
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    7.6
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    8.2
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    User Testimonials
    Imperva Data SecurityLevelBlue USM AnywhereTrend Micro TippingPoint
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Imperva, a Thales company
    Compliance to audits and HiTrust certification. It is key in ensuring that our audits are completed in a timely manner with no repeats of data requests and that we also are HiTrust certified at our organization. Personally while the data obfuscation is available I am not sure I would fully trust that the data is completely sanitized if need be. It's not against the Imperva product but more of issue of data being used.
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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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    Trend Micro
    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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    Pros
    Imperva, a Thales company
    • Alerts when suspicious activity is detected
    • Records all database transactions for analysis
    • Determines activities in stored procedures
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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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    Trend Micro
    • 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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    Cons
    Imperva, a Thales company
    • Navigation of the menus can get confusing pretty quickly. Since there are so many, it is extremely easy to get lost. Almost too many options and data.
    • Configuring the agents can be very difficult if you are new to it. Having to save after every single change made to an agent during a configuration can be very tedious. Also having to make sure certain options are checked off in two separate places for a single option is very annoying.
    • Navigation of the menus is not always intuitive and not very obvious that the option you are looking change is located in that menu.
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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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    Trend Micro
    • 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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    Likelihood to Renew
    Imperva, a Thales company
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    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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    Trend Micro
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    Usability
    Imperva, a Thales company
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    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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    Trend Micro
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    Reliability and Availability
    Imperva, a Thales company
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    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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    Trend Micro
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    Performance
    Imperva, a Thales company
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    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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    Trend Micro
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    Support Rating
    Imperva, a Thales company
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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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    Trend Micro
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    In-Person Training
    Imperva, a Thales company
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    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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    Trend Micro
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    Online Training
    Imperva, a Thales company
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    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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    Trend Micro
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    Implementation Rating
    Imperva, a Thales company
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    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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    Trend Micro
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    Alternatives Considered
    Imperva, a Thales company
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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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    Trend Micro
    Most other firewall UTM solutions, Cisco, Palo Alto, Fidelis, etc.
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    Scalability
    Imperva, a Thales company
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    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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    Trend Micro
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    Return on Investment
    Imperva, a Thales company
    • Allowed us to meet important compliance requirements.
    • When protecting critical data, we can see exactly how it's being used and by whom.
    • Licensing costs are very reasonable.
    • It takes a fair amount of administration to use properly.
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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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    Trend Micro
    • 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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