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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    OpenText Threat Detection and Response

    Score7.4 out of 10
    N/AA combined SIEM and SOAR, used to accelerate threat detection and response with holistic security analytics, native SOAR, and intelligent automation.N/A

    SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds LEM is security information and event management (SIEM) software.N/A
    Pricing
    OpenText Threat Detection and ResponseSolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    OpenText Threat Detection and ResponseSolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    OpenText Threat Detection and ResponseSolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    Considered Both Products
    OpenText
    No answer on this topic
    SolarWinds
    Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    Solarwinds Security Event Manager (SEM) is the best solution for price/performance. The solution has an easily understandable architecture and also the solution can be installed easily. The solution is a very stable and fast solution for our company size.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    We found that SolarWinds performed poorly when the Architecture included many large data centers spread across the globe. When evaluating the SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) solution we quickly realized that we needed a distributed architecture with log aggregation to …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    60%
    Would buy again
    3 Answers
    88%
    Would buy again
    30 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    28 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    80%
    Happy with the feature set
    4 Answers
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    31 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    16 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    80%
    Implementation went as expected
    4 Answers
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    25 Answers
    Features
    OpenText Threat Detection and ResponseSolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
    Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of OpenText Threat Detection and Response and SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    Feature
    OpenText Threat Detection and Response
    5.5
    4 Ratings
    37% below category average
    SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    8.9
    18 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Centralized event and log data collection8.04 Ratings9.018 Ratings
    Correlation9.04 Ratings8.015 Ratings
    Event and log normalization/management8.04 Ratings8.018 Ratings
    Deployment flexibility6.04 Ratings10.018 Ratings
    Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools6.03 Ratings8.013 Ratings
    Custom dashboards and workspaces5.04 Ratings9.017 Ratings
    Host and network-based intrusion detection8.02 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Data integration/API management5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Behavioral analytics and baselining2.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Response orchestration and automation2.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting and compliance management4.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incident indexing/searching1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    OpenText Threat Detection and ResponseSolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
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    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Security QRadar SIEM
    Score8.9 out of 10
    IBM Security QRadar SIEM
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    Score8 out of 10
    Microsoft Sentinel
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    OpenText Threat Detection and ResponseSolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    8.0
    (46 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    7.5
    (17 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    OpenText Threat Detection and ResponseSolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    OpenText
    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.
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    SolarWinds
    Optimal for SolarWinds Security Event Manager needs for smaller companies - it is a very cool product but has some limitations around EPS (which gets chewed up quickly if you're doing it the right way & adding servers/storage/FW & other network devices)... Also pricing model is GREAT (not consumption-based, which is the greatest grift the SIEM industry has created).
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    Pros
    OpenText
    • 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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    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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    Cons
    OpenText
    • It is slow comparing to any other SIEM Tool.
    • We have to create filter for each alerts need some custom filter .
    • Here we dont have any single tab for see all the alerts .also need some attractive features for dashboard.
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    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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    Likelihood to Renew
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Usability
    OpenText
    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.
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    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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    Support Rating
    OpenText
    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.
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    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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    Alternatives Considered
    OpenText
    Multiple platforms are already supported by Arcsight. Support is good. Scripts can be used to get data from multiple threat intel sources & the same can be used in correlation rules to detect any suspicious activity. Reporting features are good & you can check any backdated information within new clicks.
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    SolarWinds
    Fortianalzyer can only do logs from FortiGate so usefulness is limited. Elasticsearch was a lot slower than Solarwinds and the filters were a lot harder to set up and use. The connectors for SEM were far more stable.
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    Return on Investment
    OpenText
    • Logger helps us to decrease incident response times.
    • It also decreased our project times with the man/day calculations. Before this solution, it may take up to 10 men/days to do something. After this, it becomes nearly half of the time.
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    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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