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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Picus Security

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/APicus Security, headquartered in San Francisco, offers Continuous Security Validation and Mitigation as the most proactive approach to ensure cyber-resilience. The Picus Platform measures the effectiveness of defenses by using emerging threat samples in production environments, providing the insight required to build the right security strategy to better manage complex operations.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
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    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
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    88%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    91%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    25 Answers
    Features
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    Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
    Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of Picus Security and SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    Feature
    Picus Security
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    Ratings
    SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    8.9
    18 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Centralized event and log data collection00 Ratings9.018 Ratings
    Correlation00 Ratings8.015 Ratings
    Event and log normalization/management00 Ratings8.018 Ratings
    Deployment flexibility00 Ratings10.018 Ratings
    Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools00 Ratings8.013 Ratings
    Custom dashboards and workspaces00 Ratings9.017 Ratings
    Host and network-based intrusion detection00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
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    Score8.9 out of 10
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    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Picus SecuritySolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (46 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    7.5
    (17 ratings)
    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    Picus Security
    If you want to analyze the full path focusing on the signatures it’s the best product in the market. If you want to test phishing, data exfiltration/DLP, DNS I don’t recommend Picus. Scenario based attacks also lacking. However Picus support is awesome and I like the development team. When we open a case, they’ll always return with the right answer
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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
    Picus Security
    • It has thousands of signatures and up-to-date attack vectors (It's the largest set in the market)
    • Attack vectors are mapped with existing vendors like Checkpoint and Mcafee, where you don't spend time finding out which cve mapped to which protection
    • Ability to focus/highlght solely new threats, it's superb for 0days and up-to-date protections. As there are always timing issue between updates and apply the updates on the products.
    • Blocked vs not blocked ratios on the dashboard with drill down menu specifiying the set of protections or signatures on the defensive measures
    • Already mapped mitre att&ck framework on the dasboard. SOC and analyst team using the Mitre framework.
    • Detection analytics enhance the analytics capabilities with pinpoint accuracy where to focus and how to prevent
    • Timeline and scheduled reports from the dashboard in flexible format
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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
    Picus Security
    • Visualization of network and the products
    • Complex/Scenario based attacks
    • Phishing tests
    • DNS and Data exfiltration attacks
    • Automatic action through the apis for the products on the path
    • Strategical and tactical reports for Cisos
    • Automatic SOAR entegration with already builtin playbooks
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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
    Picus Security
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    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
    Picus Security
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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
    Picus Security
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Picus Security
    We use other vendors Verodin, AttackIQ, SafeBreach, Cymulate etc. All of them have their advantages and disadvantages. Please take a look at TrustRadius reviews of each product. I don’t want to go head to head for each product in this
    review. I select Picus because it's local startup company in our region. I like their support and engineering team. Support is marvelous. Product is giving what we expected from the product. Price is adequate. Reporting and dashboard is superb.
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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
    Picus Security
    • With Picus we have the tangible KPIs for the security
    • Detetcion and Prevention rates for the latest attacks are significantly increased
    • We work with many security vendors. We use picus scores and share specific outputs with the company in case of decreasing score rates where the development and product team analyzes their updates or product engines to increase the rates.
    • It helps our strategic plans where to focus and invest for the following years and planning/prioritizing the security budgets to specific highlighted areas
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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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