AlienVault USM Anywhere a Great Fit for Small and Medium Businesses
June 12, 2019
AlienVault USM Anywhere a Great Fit for Small and Medium Businesses
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
USM Anywhere (SaaS)
Overall Satisfaction with AlienVault USM
We are a small company and needed to satisfy requirements for log management and vulnerability scanning and AlienVault USM Anywhere was selected. AlienVault USM Anywhere is being used across the entire company and is gathering logs from our local office and from our Azure cloud provider subscriptions.
- Simple and understandable User Interface (UI)
- Capable of performing multiple network security functions
- Good price point for SMB and mid-market tier SIEM
- Log collection sensors can be difficult to install and configure
- Not all functions are intuitive or simple to set up
- AlienVault outsources professional services, with mixed results
- Documentation is not always up-to-date, increasing time to troubleshoot and resolve issues
SIEM vendors are having to adapt and thus it is difficult to perform a true apples-to-apples comparison between all the vendors. They offer different features and can even take different approaches to solving the logging and SIEM issue. Still, with that consideration in mind, AlienVault USM Anywhere offers quite a lot of functionality out of the box and for a decent price. You can not only use it to gather and correlate log events to find alarms and attacks, but you can also use AlienVault USM Anywhere to perform network vulnerability scans, as well as deploying agents to hosts that will perform File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) and other capabilities. If properly set up and configured, this can often provide great value beyond what the client thought they were getting with a simple log management system.