SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) vs. Trellix Enterprise Security Manager

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
SolarWinds LEM is security information and event management (SIEM) software.N/A
Trellix Enterprise Security Manager
Score 7.1 out of 10
N/A
Trellix Enterprise Security Manager (formerly McAfee Enterprise Security Manager) is security information and event management (SIEM) software.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)Trellix Enterprise Security Manager
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)Trellix Enterprise Security Manager
Considered Both Products
SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
I was using RSA Envision for many years but RSA discontinued its support and development and recommended to migrate to its NetWitness platform. The price was prohibitive. I evaluated McAfee's ESM but found it quite difficult to set up and use. Getting useful information from …
Trellix Enterprise Security Manager

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Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)Trellix Enterprise Security Manager
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of Product A and Product B
SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
7.7
17 Ratings
1% below category average
Trellix Enterprise Security Manager
8.4
9 Ratings
7% above category average
Centralized event and log data collection8.517 Ratings8.79 Ratings
Correlation7.614 Ratings7.09 Ratings
Event and log normalization/management7.317 Ratings8.09 Ratings
Deployment flexibility7.917 Ratings8.39 Ratings
Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools7.912 Ratings9.37 Ratings
Custom dashboards and workspaces4.916 Ratings9.39 Ratings
Host and network-based intrusion detection10.03 Ratings8.37 Ratings
Data integration/API management00 Ratings9.32 Ratings
Behavioral analytics and baselining00 Ratings8.72 Ratings
Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds00 Ratings8.72 Ratings
Response orchestration and automation00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Reporting and compliance management00 Ratings8.72 Ratings
Incident indexing/searching00 Ratings7.72 Ratings
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Score 8.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Splunk Enterprise
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Score 8.3 out of 10
Splunk Enterprise
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Score 8.3 out of 10
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Score 8.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)Trellix Enterprise Security Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
(45 ratings)
9.0
(9 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.3
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
6.7
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.5
(17 ratings)
6.5
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)Trellix Enterprise Security Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
SolarWinds
Solarwinds SEM is great for generating reports for investigation purposes. Once you set up the connectors you can walk away and the product runs without needing maintenance. It was however pretty difficult to create the reports and alerts when now starting out and it can be very intimidating for new users.
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Trellix (FireEye + McAfee)
I believe that McAfee Enterprise Security Manager is best-suited for anyone in an office setting with a computer containing sensitive information. McAfee Enterprise Security Manager is constantly working to make sure that your device is free from an threats. Our field workers, however, probably wouldn't have a need for McAfee Enterprise Security Manager. They do not use computers for work and have no sensitive information stored in a work-related cloud.
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Pros
SolarWinds
  • It does a great job of notifying us when accounts have been locked out. We can then find out the device on the network where the login attempt occurred.
  • Searching for incidents is now a lot faster with the implementation of the HTML 5 interface.
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Trellix (FireEye + McAfee)
  • McAfee Enterprise Security Manager has a large library of pre-made correlations that reduces the amount of work needed to make it functional.
  • This is a core McAfee product that is still getting support.
  • It has a substantial amount of compatibility and integration with other products.
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Cons
SolarWinds
  • All SolarWinds product suffer from slow response times in management portals. SolarWinds SEM is no exception. While it is much preferred over a "thick client" there is much room for improvement in speed.
  • If you use the email alert features with SolarWinds make sure to prepare you staff and team for the large amount of emails they could receive. Make sure to reduce the number of alerts so your team does not ignore the alerts.
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Trellix (FireEye + McAfee)
  • The user interface is not the best, it is still based on Flash player (but they have plans to migrate to HTML5).
  • While the "user" interface is pretty straight forward, the management interface is fairly complicated.
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Likelihood to Renew
SolarWinds
It is pretty likely that we will renew SEM when the time comes up. It is easy to use and maintain so there isn't much of a need to replace this product. It is also a pretty fair price for the capabilities provided by the SEM
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Trellix (FireEye + McAfee)
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Usability
SolarWinds
If you are familiar with SolarWinds then you can use this product it's as easy as that. If you have never used a SolarWinds product then it will take a minute to get how they do reports and make dashboards but that being said the tool is great and can make things very easy once you get a feel for how it works and get everything setup how you like it.
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Trellix (FireEye + McAfee)
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Support Rating
SolarWinds
The quality of support can vary depending on whom you end up speaking with. I was fortunate enough to work with a support representative who was very familiar with the product. He had even authored some of the support documentation on the website. On the flip side, I had two other experiences where I was simply directed to online training material.
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Trellix (FireEye + McAfee)
McAfee Enterprise Security Manager overall is a great tool. It is effective in today's setting, wherein lots of potential threats are lurking. Its operations within the network are seamless. Users won't even notice that a SIEM is working in the background. But in today's trend, most of the businesses is heading towards the migration to cloud, which McAfee should improve its integration with.
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Alternatives Considered
SolarWinds
Splunk was a pretty good product but the licensing structure needed a lot of work. They changed the structure three times that I am aware and I still had problems understanding LogRhythm had a lot of issues correlating users to IP addresses, the mappings were frequently wrong so this product could not be trusted in my environment as all our access logs are IP based and this needs to be matched to usernames from AD Fortianalzyer is a great product but it can only do logs from Fortigates so that was not helping for anything other than our firewalls.
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Trellix (FireEye + McAfee)
We selected McAfee Enterprise Security Manager because the pricing is competitive in the industry. It is very reliable. The vendor offers good support in real time. Offers the results that we have been looking for. The ability to get the logs may be of last 2 years in a matter of seconds. The ability to retain logs for a very long time.
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Return on Investment
SolarWinds
  • For the price, it produced a decent value. It did a lot of the easy stuff well. I can't give any specific data given the objective of the product was to monitor very basic events in the environment.
  • There are free options that can do a better job.
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Trellix (FireEye + McAfee)
  • Centralisation of events form NIDS/IPS/IDS, Firewall(s), Web Proxy and Endpoint
  • Ability to have third party management
  • Actively upgraded product with good vendor support
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