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SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
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What is SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)?
SolarWinds LEM is security information and event management (SIEM) software.
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View all 7 features- Centralized event and log data collection (18)8.585%
- Deployment flexibility (18)7.979%
- Event and log normalization/management (36)7.373%
- Custom dashboards and workspaces (34)4.949%
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What is SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)?
SolarWinds Security Event Manager (previously know as Log & Event Manager) is presented by the vendor as a powerful and award-winning SIEM. It is an on-prem deployed tool that collects, consolidates, and analyzes logs and events from firewalls, IDS/IPS devices
and applications, switches, routers, servers, operating system logs, and other applications.
The main applications are threat detection, automated incident analysis and response, and compliance reporting for IT infrastructure.
The main applications are threat detection, automated incident analysis and response, and compliance reporting for IT infrastructure.
SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) 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
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SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows |
| Mobile Application | No |
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SolarWinds LEM is security information and event management (SIEM) software.
Splunk Enterprise Security (ES), LogRhythm NextGen SIEM Platform, and ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer are common alternatives for SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM).
Reviewers rate Host and network-based intrusion detection highest, with a score of 9.
The most common users of SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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May 02, 2022
Easy to install and easy to use
- Logging network account changes and who is making them
- Collecting data. Lots of data.
- Easy to use dashboard
- Access control
- Behavioral analytics
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- quickly find top logon failure user, which is suspect of malware infection
- easily find most visited port on the routers to find possible attack
- SEM traffic type sort report is useful tool to control unnecessary network usage
- wish SEM could update by itself
March 30, 2022
Set-and-Forget with as needed functionality
- Runs without issue
- Logs extensive detail
- The user interface to be more user friendly
- The query builder is tedious to use
- Make sense of syslog entries from a variety of sources
- Tarck USB device usage
- Track login attempts, successes and failures
- Easier custom reporting
- Automate alerts when certain thresholds are met
- Easier rule writing
March 29, 2022
SEM - Powerful and Affordable
- Logging network devices and servers
- Searching Historical Events
- Notifications and custom rules
- Sometimes get duplicate log entries for the same event
- There is a moderate learning curve for setup and maintenance
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
- Categorizing of events in different buckets: Security, IT Operations, Change Management, Authentication, Endpoint Monitoring, Compliance.
- Intuitive configuration via Wizards, with meaningful examples and interactive help.
- The ability to create rules and set up actions for select events, using predefined templates.
- Better integration with npm, rather than being a standalone product.
March 28, 2022
SEM provides easy, affordable SIEM appliance
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
- easy to configure
- easy to update
- pretty good support
- easy to learn
- more built in decoders for events
- easier integration with endpoints that are not main stream
- better cloud integrations
March 28, 2022
SolarWinds SEM is easy to setup and (mostly) manageable
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Process Syslog/trap and event messages
- Provides an easily understood dashboard
- easily processes events from agent and non-agent devices
- Reporting uses Crystal Reports which is very limited and not intuitive
- Process for building custom filters needs more in-context help tools
March 26, 2022
Superior Product, Easy to Implement and Very Reliable!
- Steady monitor of server activity.
- Notifications for events logged which we have alerts set for.
- Ease of use.
- I believe it is currently doing everything it needs to for my needs.
- Log collection
- User-friendly and Easy dashboards
- Queries seeped (according to our size)
- log data parsing is good. if you upgrade some systems, most likely SEM will recognize it
- Agent installations are easy but there are some meaningless steps
- Can be add an advanced reporting process or module
March 13, 2022
S-Short E-Effective M-Monitoring Solution!!!
- Log collection.
- Graphical representation of collected logs.
- Rules to trigger and send emails for quick identification and monitoring.
- File Integrity Monitoring
- Better UI to search and track logs
- Connectors compatibility issues
March 11, 2022
A boring review. It just works.
- If any account is Enable/Disable, we get an email.
- If any account is locked out, we get an email.
- As nodes are decommissioned, to be able to export just that one server's data.
January 28, 2022
Log Police - The Best at Logging Events and Collection
- Customizable event filters
- Awesome user interface
- Easy to configure connectors
- Needs better integration with SolarWinds NPM. This is the only Solarwinds product we use that isn't integrated.
- It needs a more lightweight client.
January 19, 2022
Review of SolarWinds Security Event Manager
- Collect logs.
- Generate reports.
- Great user interface.
- I would like the client to be more lightweight.
- I would like a mobile app.
July 26, 2021
Great for Continental Enterprises
- SOC Dashboard
- Compliance Reporting
- Node Health
- User Logon Events Dashboard
- Poor Performance for 10,000+ elements
- Poor Performance for real-time dashboard when over 10K nodes
- Poor database performance for extra large global enterprise
April 01, 2021
Solarwinds (SEM) experience
- It gives you [the] ability to see logs in one central location
- Inbuilt rules and filters
- How to build custom [rules] for individual purposes (e.g. rules for Admin users on critical systems, log on, log off, brute force, scanning)
- Customer support should be timely and available
- Videos to onboarding systems should be made ( e.g, websites, servers, wireless access point, active directories, firewalls, Domain controls, etc)
- Hard to achieve unwanted logs
- Updates for SEM users should be made available (New features and usability)
- No user-friendly support
- No health check of the SEM by Solarwinds
- Support needs to improve
- Videos to be sent to users on how to create custom rules to fit individual purposes
- Training on each feature of the SEM tool should be made available in a specific location on SolarWinds website
- Best practice videos and use cases should be made available
December 11, 2020
SEM: great software if you're already invested in SolarWinds
- Allows alerts to be generated
- Slots into pre-existing Orion system
- Easy to set up and configure
- Online documentation for setup was not great and at points misleading.
December 09, 2020
SolarWinds Security Event Manager Review
- Easy to utilize--the rules are straightforward and pre-configured. You just have to customize them to fit your environment.
- Great customer service, which is incredibly useful when you want help with better utilizing the SEM.
- Easy and clear filters when looking for specific information without your environment.
- The SEM can be rather slow--an increase in CPU and RAM appeared to fix this problem fairly easily though.
- The SEM has lately required reboots for us fairly often. This is something we are currently working with support to resolve.
- The SEM could release additional graphic options to help better display data to management.
December 09, 2020
SEM is a good product
- Insight to suspicious events.
- Automated response to common issues.
- Reports.
- Interface.
- Reporting.
- Notifications.
December 08, 2020
The SolarWinds SEM: Cost effective centralized log management tool that helps your audit and security.
- Has a nice user-friendly interface. Some SIEM can be daunting to learn how to use and get acclimated to, but LEM has an intuitive layout and is very easy to pick up and use.
- The logging agent in the source device is really simple to deploy and integrate.
- Monitoring and reporting the account disablement with detail to whoever disabled an account for audit and compliance.
- Some logs are not parsed well, happen to depend on the external log parser tool.
- The update method needs to be made even simpler, auto update would be better.
- The email alert features with SolarWinds will send a large number of emails if the number of alerts email. The duplication of email alerting needs to be reduced.
December 08, 2020
Solarwinds - great product with a few small flaws.
- We use the client on register systems as event forwarders and log collection.
- It enables us to verify the access security to high value workstations and register systems.
- It provides a repository storage for log files so that they do not solely exist on workstations.
- It helps us ensure PCI standards are being maintained and track security risk issues as well as system health.
- Within the scope of my role I have noticed that the client can be problematic during system startup - some of the register systems we use are older and have lower resolution screens. When the client loads it pops up on screen but completely out of scale (to clarify, it may open a window that is 14x14 inches on a screen that only displays 10x10 inches. This is more frustration than a functional problem.
- Automated rollout would be useful but it is outside of my scope in my job to even know if it already has automated install capability.
- The GUI itself is a little clunky and there is somewhat of a learning curve - training is provided to clients however a friendlier interface would be helpful.
November 12, 2020
SEM easy to afford, easy to install, easy to use
- Easy to install virtual appliance
- Out of the box configuration that works with little modification
- Price isn't based on events it's based on monitored nodes
- It may not scale to millions of nodes
- Searches way back in time take a little longer due to compression
- Not many Cons really!
November 11, 2020
SolaWinds SEM--Worth every penny!
- Graphs showing important events
- First-time setup and addition of new devices is easy and organized
- Performance is excellent
- Reporting could allow for more customization
- Better integration with other products of SolarWinds line
- More alert options
November 04, 2020
SEM - Good product, reasonable price point
- Brings together security events from multiple system sources.
- Allows IT to review and manage security related events.
- Provides convenient filters/views allowing us to narrow down the data we want to see.
- Some improvements in user documentation could be helpful.
October 25, 2020
Great product with a steep learning curve
- Customizable dashboards, where you can see everything you want.
- Easy to set-up connectors.
- Fully customizable event filters.
- Unable to set up some legacy equipment (Zyxel switches).
- Not an easy to product to learn from scratches.