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AlienVault USM

Overview

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…

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Users have found AlienVault USM to be a valuable SIEM solution for centralizing and searching log data from a large number of network …
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MSSP Review

8 out of 10
October 04, 2021
AlienVault offers a different experience as opposed to other SIEM tools where it can be set up and configured properly in a shorter amount …
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Popular Features

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  • Centralized event and log data collection (8)
    8.5
    85%
  • Correlation (8)
    8.5
    85%
  • Event and log normalization/management (8)
    8.0
    80%
  • Custom dashboards and workspaces (8)
    7.0
    70%

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Pricing

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Essentials

$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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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Security Information and Event Management is a category of security software that allows security analysts to look at a more comprehensive view of security logs and events than would be possible by looking at the log files of individual, point security tools

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Avg 7.8
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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

AlienVault USM Screenshots

Screenshot of USM Anywhere NIDS Dashboard

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AlienVault USM Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesGlobal

Frequently Asked Questions

Splunk Cloud and Fortinet on IBM Cloud are common alternatives for AlienVault USM.

Reviewers rate Deployment flexibility highest, with a score of 8.6.

The most common users of AlienVault USM are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Users have found AlienVault USM to be a valuable SIEM solution for centralizing and searching log data from a large number of network attached devices. This platform is being used for various use cases such as vulnerability management, scanning, malware detection, and monitoring malicious network traffic. It is considered a good SIEM solution for organizations new to security operational logging or those with a smaller staff and budget. The product has been praised for its integrated feature sets, including HIDS, NIDS, FIM, and security alerting capabilities. The inclusion of features like vulnerability scanning and file integrity monitoring has extended its value for organizations in the early stages of cybersecurity program development. Many users have experienced real-time alerts, enabling them to respond to security incidents and compromised passwords more quickly. Furthermore, AlienVault is used for a range of functions such as SIEM, vulnerability scanning, asset discovery, and investigations. It provides organizations with a centralized log collection site, allowing them to monitor and address new problems more effectively. The platform has been effective in helping organizations meet regulatory compliance requirements and improve SOC operations. Additionally, AlienVault is used to analyze network traffic, Windows Event Logs, and other security events, helping organizations improve network security and protect their customers. It solves security challenges related to device and software visibility, monitoring for anomalous events, and ensuring patch management. Users appreciate the simplicity of deployment and the robustness of the interface. The support team is highly responsive and knowledgeable.

AlienVault USM Anywhere is used by organizations to easily identify security incidents happening across their infrastructure and comply with PCI-DSS compliance requirements. MSSPs utilize AlienVault USM Anywhere to provide their customers with best-in-class threat monitoring and response services. It is also used to monitor cloud environments, scanning and alerting for any known vulnerabilities or activity on servers. AlienVault helps organizations with auditing purposes by monitoring cloud permissions and changes to security. Additionally, it is deployed to customers for monitoring and is used by NSOCs to monitor their networks. AlienVault has been implemented across organizations, covering server assets and providing granular logging on systems and networks. It helps in raising alarms/alerts and mitigating network-related activities. AlienVault collects and alerts on network and system activity across the entire organization, making it easy to filter for important data. The product centralizes log data and helps perform vulnerability analysis and threat detection. It assists in security patching and monitoring within AWS environments. Users appreciate the ease of use and configuration of the cloud-based panel. AlienVault is implemented and managed for clients as a recommended SIEM solution, collecting and normalizing logs from various data sources. It is used throughout organizations to gain insight into network and server events, manage and correlate logs, and recognize anomalous activity. Users have been able to set up alerts for specific events and policies, effectively managing systems and alerts in place, monitoring multiple client environments, and identifying issues that clients may have missed.

AlienVault USM Anywhere is praised for its cost-effectiveness compared to other SIEM solutions on the market. Users appreciate its threat intelligence capabilities, ease of use, user-friendly interface, and simplicity of deployment. The built-in correlation rules require minimal setup and provide high-quality results. Asset management and scanning features help users stay on top of monitoring assets, including dynamic and static asset lists. The integration of OTX into USM Anywhere allows for up-to-date threat intelligence and pulse subscriptions.

The software plays a crucial role in monitoring and alerting when anomalies occur, aiding in threat detection, compliance management, log collection, and vulnerability scanning. It helps organizations stay up to speed on new vulnerabilities and supports agile business initiatives by aiding analysts in identifying cyber threats and providing access to threat cross-referencing data. AlienVault USM Anywhere is deployed to monitor AWS cloud environments, attain compliance, identify threats, and facilitate auditing of non-emergency configuration changes and vulnerability monitoring.

Overall, AlienVault USM Anywhere provides centralized security monitoring, incident response capabilities, compliance reporting features, vulnerability assessment tools, real-time SIEM functionality, as well as asset discovery and user activity monitoring capabilities. It has been widely adopted across various industries for enhancing security posture and gaining comprehensive visibility into network activities.

Based on user recommendations, AlienVault USM receives the following common recommendations:

  1. AlienVault USM is recommended for cost-conscious companies and small to medium businesses due to its affordability and effectiveness. Users find it to be a great tool for analyzing and reacting to threats, offering excellent value for the price.

  2. Users suggest exploring alternative SIEM choices and discussing functionality and configuration requirements. Logrhythm is mentioned as a possible alternate SIEM choice, especially for high-end functionality needs. It is advised to compare features and select the SIEM system that offers the best cost for desired features.

  3. To maximize the experience with AlienVault USM, users recommend taking advantage of training opportunities provided by AlienVault. Joining official training sessions allows users to learn best practices from other users and gain comprehensive knowledge of the product. Users also recommend utilizing forums, support, webinars, and videos offered by AlienVault to enhance understanding and achieve optimal results.

Overall, AlienVault USM is regarded as a cost-effective solution suitable for organizations with data privacy and security priorities. The product's flexibility, community-created intelligence, and continual improvement are also highlighted by users. While some mention areas for improvement, such as support stability and module quality, the general consensus is that AlienVault USM delivers reliable security enhancements and cost savings.

Attribute Ratings

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Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
AlienVault is used by the cybersecurity unit of the organization to monitor and correlate security logs from other systems within the organization. Also, AlienVault acts as a log management system or repository of logs for the organization. We chose AlienVault as it is one of the few SaaS-based SIEM in the market and it was in line with our organization’s direction of going with a cloud-based solution.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using AlienVault as a SIEM, Log Manager, FIM, and Vulnerablility Management tool. It is used across the whole organization. We need to be HIPAA compliant, so it addresses the need for a log manager, vulnerability scanner, policy report generator, and FIM.
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used AlienVault for a few years and were very satisfied with the product. Then, they got bought by AT&T and we are now in contractual and legal hell. In the past, both companies made changes to the operating agreements to meet our needs; AlienVault was good at helping us with regulatory requirements. This time during the contract renewal, they made promises about updating agreements again, but somewhere this got lost when both or customer manager and sales representative changed three times in short succession. Then, the legal team refused to even speak with us even after they originally agreed to during the negotiation. So, we've been ignored for months by multiple groups with no meeting scheduled all because their legal team is busy updating legal agreements due to the merger, which is exactly what we want! Another thing to consider: more marketing emails from all the other companies in the AT&T family, get your spam filters ready. Overall: good product, but we've spent more effort on managing the relationship than this is worth. We will consider other, even more expensive options, whose TCO will, in the end, be lower.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use the USM Anywhere SIEM for our corporate security program currently, separate from our application security team in charge of our cloud environments our SaaS offering is hosted on. This solves the compliance and security issues we face as an organization for forensically sound log storage as well as data aggregation for correlation.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
AlienVault is being used for the Security Team to see all host and network traffic. This real-time SIEM is tuned to give us alarms we actually need to look at on a daily basis. This addresses anything from malware to network, system and email breaches.
June 17, 2019

SIEM at its best!

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We currently use AlienVault USM anywhere across the corporation and it does what it's supposed to do 99.9% of the time. The deployment option (on-Prem/SaaS) could be a factor performance-wise and in terms of custom plugins and rule-set but otherwise it meets all our business requirements. Most importantly support is great and always ready to help where possible.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In our organization, AlienVault USM Anywhere is being used as our SIEM. We have all of our SaaS solutions feeding logs to it. The business problem that it addresses is that it provides a "single pane of glass" for all of our logging purposes. Instead of having multiple admin consoles for log reporting on each system, we can just login to AlienVault USM Anywhere to see all logs from all systems.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are a small company and needed to satisfy requirements for log management and vulnerability scanning and AlienVault USM Anywhere was selected. AlienVault USM Anywhere is being used across the entire company and is gathering logs from our local office and from our Azure cloud provider subscriptions.
June 12, 2019

Alien Vault Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are an MSSP and use AlienVault to make sure our client's networks are secure and to confirm that all network access is approved and merited. AlienVault provides great visibility into network events and allows the operations team to confirm and take action on activities that may be considered rouge.
Jason LeBlanc | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
USM is the SIEM used to collect data across the entire environment, that data is used to report to the QSA for PCI compliance. It has greatly helped find problems as well as streamline our PCI compliance reporting. What was once very manual and time consuming is not simply pulling reports.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using AlienVault USM as the cornerstone of our layered security model. We use it for Incident Management, Event Logging and Anomaly Detection.

We have a Global Security Operations Centre and are deploying AlienVault globally. We want to standardize our security incident responses globally to ensure that we can implement a true 'follow the sun' model. AlienVault has a global presence and we want to leverage that capability to support our security teams.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use AlienVault across the whole organization. AlienVault USM creates an all in one security solution where we are able to correlate events from different source types, such as server events, but also the complete cloud trail from our public cloud provider Amazon Web Services. All the security logic, which is part of the offer, has really relieved our operations team.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
AlienVault USM recently rolled out in our environment, and it is currently used only in the IT department. Further staging is in progress and will be deployed across the rest of the business. AlienVault is our standard security operation tool solely used for security monitoring purposes for the detection of threats, intrusion detection, vulnerabilities etc.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use AlienVault to monitor our infrastructure nationally. It is primarily used to correlate log data from multiple systems to provide insight on security events. At present we have our firewall, server, workstation, and network traffic being analyzed by AlienVault.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
AlienVault USM Anywhere has enabled our firm to centrally manage our cybersecurity posture. We appreciate the in-depth insight into our information systems and love the interactive customizable GUI. The platform rulesets are easy to configure and we enjoy the variety of free training offered by AlienVault. Other SIEM's we tried seemed too overtly complex or dysfunctional, and the simplicity of AlienVault USM Anywhere is much welcomed in a world where products and tools all fight for the "simplified user experience" badge.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use AlienVault to monitor our on-prem and cloud environments for vulnerabilities and questionable activity. AlienVault is generally only used by IT staff at our company. It's great for monitoring and reporting and has a lot to offer in the way of making sure your company is ready for that IT audit.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
AlienVault is deployed across the corporate infrastructure to centrally manage security logs on all servers via the agent. Sensors are deployed in the corporate network to monitor and scan workstations and servers for vulnerabilities and perform discovery scans for new systems on the network. The firewalls also supply syslogs to the sensors. Office 365 is monitored via an Azure sensor, along with Azure infrastructure.
Production systems are monitored using agents and a sensor.
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