Item: AlienVault USM
Rating: 8
Author: Stephen Raju

Overall Satisfaction with AlienVault USM

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) is being used for our whole organization. We also provide USM as a service through our MSS program. It helps us widely in the compliance requirements for our organization and also provides us with complete control over users and system technical activities, which also helps us tremendously in detecting threats within the organization.

Pros and Cons

Pros

As asset management, VA, SIEM, and behaviour monitoring are all built into one platform, this is a jackpot for a security/incident investigator.
The user interface and dashboard are easy to navigate with amazing drill down ablity, which helps in investigating issues easily.
The risk-based approach, correction, and OTX are crucial to this product.

Cons

The overall stability of the product.
Agentless log collection with IDS feature.
More improved incident analytics ability.

Alternatives Considered

RSA Security Analytics, HP Arcsight and Splunk

AlienVault stands above all the SIEM solutions for its well-integrated asset management, vulnerability assessment module, behavior analysis and its other modules providing a single console for managing the complete security of the information in an organization. The other reasons that AlienVault stands above are the ease of deployment and management.

Likelihood to Recommend

Best suitable for managing complete security for small and medium size businesses. Best suitable for monitoring the entire informational activity of the organization with its log and network monitoring ability, which is powered by the behavioral analytics ability of the product. Less appropriate for large size companies, due to the large volume of data.

Evaluating AlienVault USM and Competitors

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Tami Andrews
commented 8 years ago
Hi Stephen, Thank you for your online review! I would like to let you know that the AlienVault team is always interested in hearing from our customers on not only what is working but also what doesn't work as well as it should for you. For this reason, I'd like to ask if you'd be willing to speak 1:1 with someone from our Product team to discuss the issues in greater detail? If so, I would ask that you reach out to Lauren Barraco, USM Product Manager, lbarraco@alienvault.com. And if I can be of any help, please don't hesitate to let me know. My email is: tandrews@alienvault.com. Thank you in advance!

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