Arcsight by OpenText vs. SonicWall Analytics

In the current lot of hundreds of SIEM solutions out there in the market, ArcSight ESM is fairly less expensive with strong fundamentals in place. The log ingestion, correlation are very well performing and totally worth ROI. However, the tool has lost its way when it comes to staying abreast with current feature curve of SIEM technology and the evolution has not been done by MicroFocus. Search times are high and there is no major plug-in that has been introduced as part of the product life cycle.

Incentivized

If you have Sonicwall firewalls, and want to store logs and generate custom reports, then this additional investment is worthy. If you only want to have storage for your logs, then I won't recommend this. You can opt for a Syslog tool or a SIEM platform for analyzing the same and storing logs.

Incentivized

• Integration with smart logger and ESM to create rules and easy management of the same.
• Easy integration with all end point security management tool(IPS/IDS, Firewall, Anti-Virus) and their consolidated output at a single place to effectively rectifying true and false positives.

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• Consolidated Logging
• Reporting
• Custom and predefined templates for reporting
• Ease of integration with firewall and other tools
• Similar GUI and web console like of Sonicwall UTM and firewalls

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• Even though integration is good but not complete yet as there are a lot of new popular apps which Arcsight can't integrate with natively.
• UI can be improved.

Incentivized

• We get reports on the basis of features, like system reports, content/url filtering reports. There must be an option to get reports no the basis of complete user activity, or user timeline
• They could have bundled or included management along with reporting
• Pricing considering only collecting of logs and generating reports only from Sonicwall firewalls, I feel is high.

Incentivized

Overall, it is a good investment in order for an organization to stay compliant and stay secure from all the wild things happening. It is definitely a cost effective tool with some good features including correlation, log storage, reporting and dashboards. If a customer is looking for advanced set of features, then I would highly not recommend this.

Incentivized

I personally haven't reached the support team, however, the engineers never complained about the Arcsight support team. We had some issues with the tool in the past but every time we reached the support, all issues were resolved in a timely manner.

Incentivized

ArcSight Intelligence easily provides visibility to understand the logs and monitor the different devices .have features to manage multiple client with asingle console.searching is little bit hectic but we can mange these thing while using its filter creation process. It costs low comparing to any other SIEM tool and nearly scan satisfied any clients requirements.

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Incentivized

• It's a good SIEM solution. Doesn't have much negative impact.
• Customization is the best part.
• Good reporting features.
• Does require good hardware configuration.

Incentivized

• We are not able to keep SonicWall firewall logs for more than 3 months, which has given a positive rating to compliances
• We are getting custom and scheduled reports of user web activities
• Logs are now stored safely and securely

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