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AlienVault USM
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AlienVault USM
Starting at $1,075 per month
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Popular Features
View all 7 featuresCorrelation (5)
7.1
71%
Centralized event and log data collection (5)
6.8
68%
Event and log normalization/management (7)
6.7
67%
Custom dashboards and workspaces (7)
6.1
61%
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$1,075
Cloud
per month
Standard
$1,695
Cloud
per month
Premium
$2,595
Cloud
per month
Entry-level set up fee?
- Setup fee optional
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- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting / Integration Services
Features Scorecard
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
6.6
66%
Product Details
What is AlienVault USM?
AlienVault® Unified Security Management® (USM) delivers threat detection, incident response, and compliance management in one unified platform. It is designed to combine all the essential security capabilities needed for effective security monitoring across cloud and on-premises environments, including SIEM, intrusion detection, vulnerability management, as well as continuous threat intelligence updates. The vendor states that even for resource-limited IT security teams, AlienVault USM can be affordable, fast to deploy, and easy to use. It eliminates the need to deploy, integrate, and maintain multiple point solutions in the data center.
Smart, automated data collection & analysis: USM Anywhere automatically collects and analyzes data across the attack surface, helping to quickly gain centralized security visibility without the complexity of multiple disparate security technologies.
Automated threat detection powered by AT&T Alien Labs: With threat intelligence provided by AT&T Alien Labs, USM Anywhere is updated automatically to stay on top of evolving and emerging threats, so the security team can focus on responding to alerts.
Incident response orchestration with AlienApps: USM Anywhere supports a growing ecosystem of AlienApps, enabling the user to orchestrate and automate actions towards other security technologies, able to respond to incidents quickly and easily.
AlienVault USM Features
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Features
- Supported: Centralized event and log data collection
- Supported: Correlation
- Supported: Event and log normalization/management
- Supported: Deployment flexibility
- Supported: Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools
- Supported: Custom dashboards and workspaces
- Supported: Host and network-based intrusion detection
Additional Features
- Supported: AlienVault Open Threat Exchange
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AlienVault USM Technical Details
| Deployment Types | SaaS |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | Global |
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What are AlienVault USM's top competitors?
Splunk Cloud and Fortinet on IBM Cloud are common alternatives for AlienVault USM.
What is AlienVault USM's best feature?
Reviewers rate Correlation highest, with a score of 7.1.
Who uses AlienVault USM?
The most common users of AlienVault USM are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees) and the Information Technology & Services industry.
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October 04, 2021
MSSP Review
AlienVault offers a different experience as opposed to other SIEM tools where it can be set up and configured properly in a shorter amount of time. The built-in correlation rules are of great quality with little-to-no setup required to switch on. Asset management and scanning is a great feature to keep on top of the list of assets to monitor, as well as dynamic and static asset lists. OTX is one of the best features to implement directly into USM Anywhere, with up-to-date threat intelligence as well as pulses to subscribe to.
August 22, 2021
Great SIEM tool for your cybersecurity needs
We utilize AlienVault USM as a security management solution that accelerates and centralizes incident response, compliance management, and threat detection for our on-premises environments. This tool includes purpose-built controls that natively monitor our AWS—Amazon Web Services and Azure environments—from our on-premises. Our AlienVault runs on lightweight virtual sensors that are installed on Microsoft Hyper-V to monitor both the virtual private network and on-premises physical IT infrastructure.
Implemented in a SaaS company with resources in colocation and AWS. All server assets are covered however workstations are not. We like that it provides the opportunity of granular logging on all systems and networks.
AlienVault is used across the organization, although only select individuals actually know that it is running. The software addresses the protection of mission-critical information and databases. The software is not useful for any other purposes outside of security of the networks.
March 22, 2021
Great if you can deploy and manage on-premises SIEMs
It is being used department-wide. We offer professional services and deploy it for customers and ensure that the SIEM is configured properly. Our current customers are extremely satisfied with the product; the only drawback is that the absence of a skilled technician experienced in AlienVault USM can have trouble configuring and troubleshooting any problems.
November 11, 2020
AlienVault - Not Worth the Price
AlienVault was purchased to provide the security department with a security operations center overview of the infrastructure of our environment. It is currently only being used as a SIEM for the Security Department for client compliance. This is due to the the lack of resources to manage the day to day management of the tool.
August 29, 2020
AlienVault USM Anywhere, a SIEM that is easy on your pocket.
We are a reseller of Alienvault USM and provide managed SOC services. We recently deployed for a telecom operator to monitor business-critical services including Windows and Linux. It's not for all departments, mainly for agents deployed on critical servers only to monitor the activities and discover anamolies.
August 07, 2020
Unbeatable Security Machine
AlienVault is one of many security solutions that we utilize in our network. We use it to monitor unusual traffic and behavior to and from our domain controllers, which we combine with endpoint security and network security to have a granular view of activity throughout our network.
AlienVault USM is being used by my entire organization for log aggregation and analysis in support of PCI compliance activities. It allows us to quickly identify security threats for 100+ remote and on-prem users, providing a 'single pane of glass' to view identity, networking, and workstation issues across the enterprise.
August 02, 2020
Best product I've seen for a smaller enterprise network.
It is used throughout our organization. It is one part of our security portfolio. It provides insight into network and server events and alarms for potentially dangerous behavior. It provides a central place to manage and correlate logs from our servers, network equipment, firewall, antivirus, and I'm currently rolling it out to the end-user computers.
July 29, 2020
Great SIEM for enterprise environments
It is our SIEM for the entire firm. It collects logs from various data sources across our network and normalizes the data to make actionable alerts. AlienVault makes it easy to consolidate all information from virtually any data source and make it searchable. It can also recognize anomalous activity and alert on it.
July 13, 2020
AlienVault USM is a really beneficial SIEM solution.
We use Alienvault USM internally in our Security Operations Centre as part of our detection and response capabilities. We use it to monitor our on-premise networks and devices, our cloud servers as well as our cloud SaaS services. It allows us good visibility into our entire infrastructure and the events and alarms that we would otherwise miss.
We also implement and manage AlienVault USM deployments for clients as our recommended SIEM solution.
We also implement and manage AlienVault USM deployments for clients as our recommended SIEM solution.
July 11, 2020
Great tool for medium shops
USM is used across the whole organization and helped us complete and maintain security requirements for an SoC 2 Type 2 compliance. We used USM for Cloud and on-premise for multiple isolated environments. The tool works well but does require much fine-tuning and can be complex without proper training and or guidance.
July 09, 2020
Aliens are coming! or are they?
We use AlienVault to monitor our servers for malware or attacks against our network. It's a little difficult to set up initially but once you get it dialed in, it's great! It helps us monitor all of our systems and ensure that we are protected.
Alienvault USM Anywhere touches all endpoints and networks of our organization. Is solves some big problems like:
1) Logging aggregation and actionable insights using log correlation.
2) Threat hunting & intel.
3) Vulnerability management and validation of our separate patch automation software.
4) Security orchestration.
5) Asset discovery and inventory management.
1) Logging aggregation and actionable insights using log correlation.
2) Threat hunting & intel.
3) Vulnerability management and validation of our separate patch automation software.
4) Security orchestration.
5) Asset discovery and inventory management.
July 03, 2020
One of the best SIEMs out there
We use AlienVault USM to monitor our network flow and alert us if any of our alarms are triggered. We integrate our Cisco Umbrella and Meraki solutions so that it saves time, having a single dashboard without having to check each instance. We also like the ability to create custom alarms and us the threat exchange to be notified of any day zero vulnerabilities on the software we run in the office.
July 02, 2020
Honest Opinions Only
It is being used for our entire org as a SIEM and vulnerability management tool. Stretched over 14 locations in the North Americas, we utilize this tool to be our first login in the morning. All of our logs from our on-premise and cloud services flow into this.
July 02, 2020
Limited Use Feedback
In my current position, I offer AlienVault USM Anywhere to businesses as a managed security service provider. The problem/solution use case is for multiple unrelated point solutions without centralized orchestration or a managed SIEM system in place.
May 26, 2020
Solid unified security solution
AlienVault USM is used in our vulnerability management program and endpoint protection program. It addresses the problem of inconsistent patching cadence across organizational units. It is used to perform regular vulnerability scans on our infrastructure and to deliver status reports on progress in program and policy implementation. Some logs are sent to it from servers to help with the SIEM correlation work which is largely outsourced.
May 19, 2020
First use of AlienVault USM
AlienVault USM is being used in our area as a monitoring tool. The main problems are due to the OSSEC agents used.
April 27, 2020
Great introduction to SIEMs
We use AlienVault in our organization to monitor the environment of our clients, all the way from reviewing suspicious activity to performing server health-checks and behavior.
April 24, 2020
AlienVault USM anywhere
It addresses compliance and vulnerability assessments, which are critical in having a holistic view of mission-critical assets. USM also gives the ability to detect network threats before they are exploited by criminals, as well as forensic evidence of what happened when and how it happened. With the help of AlienApps, there is vast integration with existing security solutions.
April 03, 2020
Built with security professionals in mind.
I have used AlienVault in a controlled lab environment to assess its power in solving the security challenges of an organization. AlienVault provides a clear picture of the events and incidents throughout the network infrastructure and provides us with a way to mitigate any issue.
March 18, 2020
AlienVault is amazing
We are using AlienVault USM to monitor our whole network. We then sell to and manage the app for clients.
March 13, 2020
Cybersecurity--Not "un"-achievable
Talos Cybersecurity is an MSSP providing Managed Detection and Response services to our clients. For this, we use AlienVault USM on-premises. It is very easy to deploy and setup and starts providing value as soon as it is plugged into the network. All the needs of asset discovery, file integrity, monitoring of critical assets, vulnerability detection, and SIEM ready to plug and play on the initial setup. A long list of plugins helps to integrate SIEM with a variety of products. Also, it is quite easy to develop new plugins and modify the existing plugins. Being an MSSP enables each analyst to handle multiple incidents in a short span of time as the product correlates major information before any need for human intervention.