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AlienVault--The SEIM for people that wear many hats.
June 06, 2019

AlienVault--The SEIM for people that wear many hats.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

USM Anywhere (SaaS)

Overall Satisfaction with AlienVault USM

We use AlienVault to monitor our infrastructure nationally. It is primarily used to correlate log data from multiple systems to provide insight on security events. At present we have our firewall, server, workstation, and network traffic being analyzed by AlienVault.
  • Has an effective dashboard. The classification of alarms by intent is a favorite.
  • Being able to drill into specific details and get actionable information is crucial. AlienVault makes this easy.
  • Having an integrated vulnerability reference is very nice to have. It may not be as full-featured as point solutions, but for quick references it is nice.
  • The deployment instructions could be written better.
  • Vulnerability scanning and setup could be updated.
All of the other products have their strengths and weaknesses. In trying to keep the platform focused on security while keeping the spend contained, we chose AlienVault. Both LogRhythm and Splunk had great solutions, but AlienVault just checked off more of our organizational needs.
AlienVault is ideal for a small IT shop that does not have dedicated security personnel. It is intuitive and straightforward in its approach. The solution does not need a lot of "care and feeding" to be operational. It has the capabilities to deliver what you need without having to send people to training to operate it.