SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting 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

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SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
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Community Pulse
	SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
Considered Both Products	SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) Verified User Engineer Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) It came down to price on this one. SolarWinds gave us a great break on it. For the features that we were looking for, SolarWinds is a great value for our dollar. As far as features go, we were looking for some Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) easier to use than Splunk, light linux core Helpful? Verified User Consultant Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) Not applicable Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) This was the first product we used in this category and we are very happy with it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Supervisor 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 Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) Ease of deployment Good UI Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) 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. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer 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 … Incentivized Helpful? AG Alex Giralias System Support Engineer Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) SolarWinds SEM was selected because it integrates with VMAN on the Orion platform and allows all monitoring information and alerts to be aggregated in one place. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) I have additionally used Netwrix Auditor, which has some similarity with SolarWinds SEM. I use both hand in hand, but typically use the SEM first since it is easier to manage. With Netwrix custom searches are more complex than customer searches in the SEM. The SEM makes it easy … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) We chose this product because of its integration to SolarWinds Orion. We were Threat Monitor users previously. This product has been a great substitute. Dollars to dollars this product performs fairly well. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) I know the Qradar is not the right SIEM tool to compete with Solarwinds SEM but when we looked from a cost, audit & compliance perspective (which are major for many customers), we knew the log management and compliance with regulation would be achieved with SEM. But no machine … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) SEM is much better value proposition due to being priced by node and not by size of the event database. It's also much easier to configure that Splunk and needs much less infrastructure to run. Out of the box SEM beats Splunk on functionality. We looked at many products and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) I find Tripwire Log Center to be adequate and stable but it lacks the graphics and the unified UI that you can have with SolarWinds products. It is also not as simple to set up and operate. One more advantage that SolarWinds products have is the THWACK forum, a big user base … Incentivized Helpful? KS Kim Schroeder CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) is more of a complete, turn key approach to event management. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) It is a bit hard to compare, since Cortex XDR is kind of a different starship, with endpoint protection and such, and not really great for auditing Windows Event Logs. ELK stack on the other hand is free in some of it's editions but seems much similar then Cortex. SolarWinds SEM … Incentivized Helpful? Tim Short Infrastructure Administrator Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) We picked SolarWinds because of the better price point, integration with other SolarWinds products, and the ease of training. Because we were already familiar with the SolarWinds way of doing alerts and reports, it made this product a nice fit for our company and it has great … Incentivized Helpful? Brandon Demko Systems Administrator Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) We had an older version of SolarWinds SEM, however, it was not being utilized. Incentivized Helpful? AR Adam Radics Production Data Systems Superintendent Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) This was recommended to us by a vendor. As we were using other SolarWinds products, we did not analyze many options. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) The first reason is the ease of installation. Unlike competitor, SEM was running and partially deployed within a day. With the defaults already in the SEM, it's super easy to get result quickly, without a consultant. Also, it's not too resource-intensive, and does not … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) Several clients have moved away from LogRhythm because of cost. SEM offers the best ROI for the function. Its interface is much cleaner then LogRhythm. However, there is a steeper learning curve with SEM. The ease of search and data integrity offered by SEM is definitely a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) It stacks behind it currently. We've decided as a company to go with CrowdStrike Falcom Endpoint Protection as our preferred method of protection after the Malware issues. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) We use Splunk to also collect Syslog data across our enterprise. However, it is quite different in the correlation process. Splunk is less user-friendly and requires advanced-level training to manage. Solarwinds SEM is a lot easier to manage and set-up. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) SolarWinds provides support so when you have problems you don't need to turn to information bases as you can just get a hold of SolarWinds support. I would say another reason for getting SEM is that it is generally easier to configure and easier to learn than the other … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Log collection Pro User friendly Pro Compliance reporting
Top Cons	Minus Learning curve Minus Initial setup Minus Mobile app

Features

SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)

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 2% below category average
Centralized event and log data collection	8.517 Ratings
Correlation	7.614 Ratings
Event and log normalization/management	7.317 Ratings
Deployment flexibility	7.917 Ratings
Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools	7.912 Ratings
Custom dashboards and workspaces	4.916 Ratings
Host and network-based intrusion detection	10.03 Ratings

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User Ratings
	SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
Likelihood to Recommend	8.2 (45 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	7.3 (2 ratings)
Usability	6.7 (5 ratings)
Support Rating	7.5 (17 ratings)

User Testimonials
	SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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. Incentivized Adam Morrison Director of IT Engineering Read full review
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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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. Incentivized Tim Short Infrastructure Administrator Read full review
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. Incentivized Brandon Demko Systems Administrator Read full review
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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