Trellix Enterprise Security Manager

Score8.5 out of 10

39 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Trellix Enterprise Security Manager are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Valuable Threat Intelligence: Users have found Advanced Threat intelligence to be a valuable feature, allowing them to prioritize alerts quickly and efficiently. Several reviewers have stated that it helps in identifying potential threats before they happen.

Highly Praised SIEM Log Collection: The SIEM log collection feature is highly praised by users for its ability to integrate other Intel products into a centralized point, enhancing overall security capabilities. Many users appreciate the convenience and effectiveness of this integration.

Key Advantage of VDI Availability: The availability of ESM as a VDI is considered a key advantage by many organizations. It provides flexibility and easy access for users who have moved away from physical appliances. This feature has been highlighted as beneficial for efficient system accessibility.

Reviews

9 Reviews

McAfee Enterprise Security Manager Secures Your Enterprise!

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

July 28, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

McAfee Enterprise Security Manager is used by our entire office staff. With the help of McAfee Enterprise Security Manager, we have been able to prevent - as well as identify - security threats to our organization. Every computer in our office has McAfee Enterprise Security Manager installed and I believe our office is truly safer as a result.

Pros

Runs on Startup
User-Friendly
Identifies Threats

Cons

Customer Outreach
IT Support
Overall Aesthetic

Likelihood to Recommend

I believe that McAfee Enterprise Security Manager is best-suited for anyone in an office setting with a computer containing sensitive information. McAfee Enterprise Security Manager is constantly working to make sure that your device is free from an threats. Our field workers, however, probably wouldn't have a need for McAfee Enterprise Security Manager. They do not use computers for work and have no sensitive information stored in a work-related cloud.

Verified User

Analyst (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

Identification, neutralization and investigation of threats

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

May 22, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

McAfee Enterprise Security Manager is being managed by the company's infrastructure area to improve information security processes in monitoring, investigating and minimizing problems and threats to our cloud services and systems. We use it mainly to monitor the performance of systems and applications, databases and critical network processes. The objective is to perform data analysis for patterns that may indicate a threat. This intelligence process determines priorities and alerts that reveal possible threats as early as possible.

Pros

Allows data analysis for patterns that may indicate a threat
Real-time activity visibility
Gives technology support intelligence by creating prioritized alerts that reveal potential threats before they happen
Problem reporting is integrated and simplifies analysis and compliance operations

Cons

Reports can be difficult to analyze
There is little training for technology teams to master the key features of the tools
Our team may have problems locating errors in our country's bases
Reports can be difficult to customize and adapt

Likelihood to Recommend

It is an important tool for large companies that have their cloud infrastructure. It is very interesting for organizations that need to monitor and analyze data from a heterogeneous infrastructure. It allows you to store billions of events and flows with quick access to long-term event data storage, but this infrastructure has a processing cost.

Fernanda Ministerio

Especialista de Desenvolvimento Industrial in Information Technology at SENAI-DN (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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A robust SIEM solution for medium/large companies

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

December 16, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We deploy and sell the McAfee ESM (the SIEM solution) to our clients. We had it deployed in several kinds of companies, from small companies to large organizations. From private sector to public sector. McAfee is used to monitor the events (logs) of the clients and correlate them to generate alerts regarding security threats.

Pros

Good parsing capability
Enables integrations

Cons

The user interface is not the best, it is still based on Flash player (but they have plans to migrate to HTML5).
While the "user" interface is pretty straight forward, the management interface is fairly complicated.

Likelihood to Recommend

McAfee is a good solution if you're in a medium/large company and if you're looking for a solution that can be customized and expanded. I also recommend if you have the most common log sources on your environment, since McAfee supports the major log sources (but lack a lot of small vendors).
In my opinion, I wouldn't recommend McAfee for small companies, since it's not that easy to manage and maintain.

Verified User

Consultant in Professional Services (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Overall, A Great Value Security Solution

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

September 7, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

McAfee Enterprise Security Manager is used in our company as the overall security information and event management system. It manages the whole network security inside our organization. Together with other McAfee services, it proactively monitors the behavior of all activities within the network and would prompt the security team whenever there seems to malicious things happening within the corporate network and connected devices.

Pros

Updated and current incident libraries.
It monitors the entire enterprise network proactively.
Its monitoring activities do not impact the network.

Cons

Widen more its integration capabilities, such as integration to some cloud platforms.

Likelihood to Recommend

McAfee Enterprise Security Manager can be well suited to any type of business or architecture of enterprise IT infrastructure and network since it can be tailored fit to your organization needs. Just make sure that during the engagement with the vendor, you need to be clear with what systems you have, as McAfee tends to have some limitations on integrating with other systems, especially with some cloud platform wherein we needed to acquire other SIEM because McAfee isn't compatible with the function we need from it in our cloud system.

Brandon Macapelit, CISA

IT Auditor in Corporate at Unilab Inc (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Manage you events

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

May 29, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

McAfee Enterprise Security Manager is a powerful SIEM that offers us the comfort of being in compliance with international standards in the domain of information security and helps us to assure security. Correlation of different events from different platforms is very useful and necessary. The integration with another software from McAfee is also very good (EPO, DLP).

Pros

Integration with other software
Log sources integration
Very user friendly interface
Real-time monitoring

Cons

Pre-defined reports
The system requirements are quite demanding
No other tool issue or operational issue was identified

Likelihood to Recommend

Collect valuable data from hundreds of types of devices. Events correlation and offenses work very well. Notification in case of an incident also works perfectly. The configuration is easy to customize. With the Content Packs (plugins) the system is flexible for new questions or new situations. Helps in improving visibility of threat actors and helps in further prevention.

Neil Johnson

CIO (Chief Information Officer) in Information Technology at UK Flooring Direct Ltd. (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Best SIEM

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

May 23, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

McAfee Enterprise Security Manager is easy to use and to maintain, with great results. We use this SIEM because it offers threat intelligence correlation, analytics, profiling, security alerts, data presentation and compliance. Good integration with log sources, inclusive with other McAfee tools. It is easy to monitor security events and identify incidents and cyber attacks.

Pros

Identify brute force attaks
Anomalous traffic detection
Faster ingestion and query performance
Can collect large volumes of events

Cons

Operating in all bowsers
Documentation detailation
Simplify the process of creation core relation rules

Likelihood to Recommend

The solution offers a lot of features. Great threat categorization and classification. Collect very quick a large volumes of events. Working in cluster is very useful. Data source onboarding reduces the time required to configure new data sources. Support includes professional services and training. Good performance and redundancy. High level of security.

Verified User

Supervisor in Information Technology (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

McAfee ESM, a cautionary tale

Rating: 5 out of 10

Incentivized

December 7, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

McAfee Enterprise Security Manager (previously called Nitro) is used as an enterprise SIEM across multiple sites and domains. It collects system logs and system events for correlation and alerting. It's a hub for security operations.

Pros

McAfee Enterprise Security Manager has a large library of pre-made correlations that reduces the amount of work needed to make it functional.
This is a core McAfee product that is still getting support.
It has a substantial amount of compatibility and integration with other products.

Cons

The migration off of Flash has been painful. The new interface is very difficult to work with. Even support tends to fall back to the Flash version.
The GUI is not intuitive under any version. Finding settings takes a significant amount of learning.
While the product is supported, the transitions from various directions have left the future of the product in question. It used to be the interface for IDS, but the new IDS is stand alone.
The way McAfee has dropped products with no warning in the past makes us skeptical of trusting any stated roadmap.

Likelihood to Recommend

I would make a cautionary recommendation. If you're heavily invested in a McAfee product line, the McAfee Enterprise Security Manager is a natural fit and you probably already understand the risk of working with them. If you are greenfield looking for a SIEM, I would advise documenting your use cases very well, because you may find yourself doing a new implementation down the road.

Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

SIEM causing Anger then use Enterprise Security Manager

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

April 20, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

McAfee Enterprise Security Manager is used not only for its log collection capabilities but also for its advanced threat intelligence. We are using the product as part of moving into Intel's complete suite of products, where appliance integration will bring a commonality to our incident capabilities and help with faster response times and visibility.

Pros

Advanced Threat intelligence gives us the ability to prioritise alerts quickly and efficiently.
SIEM log collection allows us to integrate our other Intel products to a centralised point.
Physical appliances is one of the areas we have moved away from, so the ability for ESM to be available as a VDI was key.

Cons

If there is a requirement to integrate into other vendor products i.e. (log sharing) then this was very cumbersome.
Integration of vulnerability scanning that is available in other vendor products would be a good addition.
When integrating all of Intel's products a third party consultancy is usually required, where other vendor products can be configured without this additional cost.

Likelihood to Recommend

McAfee Enterprise Security Manager is well placed when the environment has other Intel products. We operate McAfee Move and the two products work extremely well together. The anti-virus product can be very cumbersome if used with another SIEM solution when log collecting.

We have other areas where intel solutions are not in use and in these circumstances we used another well-known SIEM solution that had an easier implementation phase than Intel's and where remote access was challenging.

Philip Clarke

IT Systems/Security Manager in Information Technology at R&Q (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

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ESM is great, McAfee AV, not so much

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

April 12, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

McAfee Enterprise Security Manager was used to deploy full disk encryption to sensitive end points, manage the HIPS, and end point security across the enterprise of 5000 + endpoints.

Pros

It is a great central management tool with great reports and dashboards.
It can easily show devices out of compliance.
ESM is easy to manage and maintain.

Cons

Some tools it manages lack features.
ESM can have some issues with upgrading.
MFA support is needed.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is great for deploying and managing enterprise endpoint protection; McAfee Antivirus is still not a leader.

Alex Waitkus, CISSP-ISSAP, OSCP

Security Architect at Securicon, LLC (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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