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Just buy OSSIM if you have the skills!
July 27, 2016

Just buy OSSIM if you have the skills!

David Emerson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with AlienVault Unified Security Management

It's used by IT exclusively, for the IT security team.
  • Easy to set up.
  • Good pre-packaged signatures, and signature update service.
  • As of latest version, very good interface (UI)
  • Software updates and patches across an infrastructure are a nightmare.
  • The physical install involves a lot of individual boxes in a datacenter... this could be consolidated.
  • Support knowledge of their own product is sometimes lacking.
  • OSSIM, SNORT and User Insight
We selected them because we believed AV offered an improvement over free tools.
It's well suited where budgets are large and a solution needs to be easily set up. Anywhere that money is tight, or expertise deep, there's no need to pay for these things... download OSSIM and off you go.