AlienVault USM Anywhere - Cost effective SIEM-as-a-service
Updated July 16, 2019
AlienVault USM Anywhere - Cost effective SIEM-as-a-service
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
USM Anywhere (SaaS)
Overall Satisfaction with AlienVault USM
AlienVault USM Anywhere provides us with SIEM, at a low price point and with a great array of functionality. SIEM is critical to our security operations and feeds incident response efforts. We use it to monitor logs and events from our applications and server platforms, integrating many of our other security products into the flow of data into USM Anywhere, for centralized logging and event management.
Pros
- AlienVault USM Anywhere is easy to deploy with their cloud-based model and deploying the required agents on-prem (or in the cloud) is quick and easy.
- Custom rules allow for alerting based on content from events and you can even trigger agents in response to threats, shutting down computers or grabbing forensic info for incident response.
- USM Anywhere also takes care of reporting for ISO and PCI, allowing you to pull reports for auditors at a moment’s notice.
- With many integrations out-of-the-box, you can pull in all the data from products you use and other sources, such as Amazon CloudWatch Logs.
Cons
- We would love to be able to create custom rules based on a series of events, to create rule-sets where, for example, failed logins to the VPN Server are logged and then when a successful attempt follows soon after, it triggers an alarm for a Brute Force. It does this for things like OKTA already, so control over which events this applies to would be great.
- More data tiers - something between 250GB and 500GB tiers, maybe break it down into 100GB tiers?
- Integration with OpsGenie would be great.
We found AlienVault was the best on price vs. features and the team at AlienVault worked hard to make sure we were happy during our on-boarding. Features are rolled out fast and issues addressed quickly. The integration of OTX out-of-box and at no additional cost was a real selling pint and the AWS features made it a clear winner.
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