Better for enterprise than SME
June 15, 2018

Better for enterprise than SME

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

USM Anywhere (SaaS)

Overall Satisfaction with AlienVault USM

AlienVault helps us collect and log from a variety of sources. We use that information to generate security events using its built-in functionality. We run AlienVault in a cloud deployment, and use it to monitor all of our production services across the organization. The alerts it generates are used throughout the company.
  • Parsing logs in a variety of formats
  • Training was very useful
  • Set up is challenging
  • Debugging log ingestion issues is difficult
  • Limited alerting out of the box
In a cloud deployment with multiple assets, AlienVault can be quite useful to deploy. Particularly if you have the sysadmin or devops knowledge to set it up properly. If you have compliance requirements like HIPAA, PCI, or similar, then the reporting functionality of AlienVault USM can be quite useful. It is less valuable if you have a simpler setup, where the setup costs are high.