AlienVault OSSIM - very useful for threat hunting
AlienVault OSSIM is mostly useful for us to determine which machines are behind on patches and updates. And it is a necessary tool for …
AlienVault OSSIM
AlienVault OSSIM
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What is AlienVault OSSIM?
OSSIM leverages the power of the AlienVault Open Threat Exchange by allowing users to both contribute and receive real-time information about malicious hosts. AlienVault OSSIM is an open source Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) product. It is a unified platform…
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What is AlienVault OSSIM?
OSSIM leverages the power of the AlienVault Open Threat Exchange by allowing users to both contribute and receive real-time information about malicious hosts. AlienVault OSSIM is an open source Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) product. It is a unified platform providing:
It also leverages the power of the AlienVault Open Threat Exchange by allowing users to both contribute and receive real-time information about malicious hosts.
- Asset discovery
- Vulnerability assessment
- Intrusion detection
- Behavioral monitoring
- SIEM
It also leverages the power of the AlienVault Open Threat Exchange by allowing users to both contribute and receive real-time information about malicious hosts.
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January 10, 2022
AlienVault OSSIM - very useful for threat hunting
- Event and log management.
- Vulnerability scanning.
- Graphical analysis and visualization.
- Integration with a honeypot.
November 24, 2021
Lego block SIEM
- Collection of logs
- Pricing
- Ability to customize reports
- Out of the box reporting
- Correlation of events
- AI
November 04, 2021
Alienvault - the friend from another world
- Behavioral monitoring
- Vulnerability assessment
- Intrusion detection
- Creating custom rules is a bit complicated
- Reporting could be improved
- Agent has caused conflicts with a couple of our other applications
July 21, 2021
High Quality SIEM (plus more)
- Monitoring and alerts are great, once fine-tuned.
- The interface is as user friendly as it can be, considering what AlienVault does.
- It is based off open source products and as such can be deployed for free (it is a bit more limited than the paid-for product, but still does the trick for small business owners).
- Can be overwhelming when you first set it up.
- Some of the terminology can be tricky to understand.
- Could allow for a bit more log storage on its lower tiers of subscription.
February 11, 2020
A dinosaur aging gracefully!
- It integrates with a bunch of different platforms.
- Collects tons of data from all integrated platforms provided the right level of logging is enabled.
- The reports are clunky and a bit tedious to parse through.
- Sometimes there's so much noise it's hard to tell what a true positive is. There are lots of false ones that trigger alerts but are normal behavior in many environments.
October 15, 2019
AlienVault OSSIM is the bomb!
- Threat analysis. It can correlate different events happening to detect a pattern or an attack.
- Dashboard provides a clean, single location to see what is going on in our environment.
- Up to date open threat exchange means everything new popping up out there is included and watched for in our environment.
- Reporting is not the greatest. I had internal developers take data and create some reports that better fit my needs.
- Navigation through the vulnerability scans is not ideal.
- Asset management is also cumbersome to navigate through.
October 09, 2019
AlienVault OSSIM: Best Bang for Your Buck Hands Down!
- Scan network for anomalies once you've established a baseline.
- Excellent job of showing unusual connections or file transfers
- Excellent job of showing the health of network, congestions, etc.
- It only comes with 10 canned reports. These reports are good, but a little more flexibility would be nice. The data is stored in a database, so it is possible to roll your own reports, just very clunky.
- Log ingestion. The OSSIM product doesn't have a separate log server, so you either have to have a really, really beefy system to do both analysis and log ingestion, or just do log ingestion with something else.
- Aggregation of data. Actually, it does this really well, but if you have more then two sites, it can slow your analysis down a little.
December 14, 2018
A great, free, open source tool by AlienVault!
- Being a part of the Open Source community, open source tools are always a big plus for me.
- Being a simple straightforward tool, it does a great job especially with the asset management piece built into it.
- Straightforward
- Open Threat Exchange(OTX) gives a straightforward live threat intel feed to work off.
- It's a free product! Yes, it doesn't have all the capabilities of the USM anywhere, but it does a great job. Can't really complain.
December 01, 2018
AlienVault OSSIM
- SIEM - Curtail part of managing your alarms and events on the network
- Reporting - Ability to complete one click reporting for most compliance needs saving time and resources
- GUI - The user interface is clean, and easy to use and customise
- Data logging - Note this is available via their paid version USM
- Plugins - More API plugins to aid the collection of logs form other security platforms
- Threat Map - Did not appear to work
March 30, 2018
A robust yet lightweight SIEM in a single package
- Asset discovery. Once installed in a centric, network-accessible server, OSSIM can poll all your endpoints with common protocols (SSH, SNMP, WMI) to detect and discover site-wide assets to monitor. You only need to group them by your own criteria once added to the product.
- SIEM Event Correlation. You can define quite complex correlation rules to detect possible suspicious or malicious actions or attempts in your network, in order to categorize them as real threats or as false positives, thus streamlining your risk assessment and management.
- Ease of installation. The entire AlienVault OSSIM is self-contained in an ISO file, which can be burned into a DVD or just mounted in your server of choice (physical or virtual) for deployment. The installation process is automated and quote verbosed, with options for static IP, email messaging and others.
- Ease of access. Being AlienVault OSSIM a self-contained appliance, it can be accessed via web by any device that supports a web browser, being that desktops, workstation, mobile devices, etc. The OSSIM dashboard and other features are automatically rearranged to adapt to the particular device being in use.
- OSSIM, being an open source solution, lacks log management (a treat that the full USM has). Perhaps a feature to include a lightweight version inside the SIEM Correlation engine can be appreciated.
- The appliance also lacks support for Cloud-based servers and apps. This feature is also present in USM, so it's unlikely this will appear in OSSIM, but I'd suggest also a reduced version of it included in this appliance.
- More integration with third-party solutions such as BMC Remedy and ServiceNow, although this can be emulated through email alerts, as most ITSM solutions have the ability of converting incoming email messages into tickets.
March 14, 2018
A hands-on proper security solution!
- Most of the configuration comes out-of-the-box suited for most environments. Setting it up is really easy, with the wizard, you can have it working in less than 3 hours of deployment, without counting asset installation.
- Out-of-the-box dashboards are really useful. You can modify or add new widgets to suit your needs, but you'll most likely agree with what already comes configured.
- The tickets feature for handling alarms is really easy to use.
- The correlation directives that come out of the box are very few. I understand more correlation directives are a premium product, but one can hardly see the value of having very few. It makes new customers think they will not get better directives when they switch to the full USM or USM Anywhere.
- Same with reports, the few reports it comes out of the box can be retrieved using other tools that are better prepared for the task. I understand that compliance reports aren't free, but at least I'd expect more security reports.
- The OTX tab in dashboards sometimes takes too long to load, even if you have a fast internet and plenty of resources in the VM.