AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity) Reviews

I like the automated asset discovery feature, once we created the network tap, we could easily discover assets on the dashboard.

Another feature that I absolutely love is the integration with Alienvault OTX, having to group/categorise IP addresses and hostnames based on pulses from OTX gives you an idea of what you're about to investigate before you even get started.

The least helpful thing would be the need to spend more for EPS.

This is a great SIEM with all the features we need. It has central management which is huge for us since we are an MSSP and have many clients in many different environments. It also has some built in connections with tools that are super helpful.

I don't really dislike anything about Alienvault. The cost isn't very high and the services offered are pretty wide. If I had to change anything I think I would add rules based on time.

We use this for every client as a SIEM And a way to generate alerts for anything that seems unusual. This has been working great and it integrates with many of their tools.

Simple SIEM, easy to set-up, great actionable results, clear reporting features. Easy to work with assistance team.

Some false positives take time to correct.

Good price point to product value proposition

Meeting security guidelines, ensuring network safety, reporting requirements, system security awareness

Alien Vault is essential to the day to day operations of our entire intel team. Being able to pivot on related files and prove maliciousness of a domain makes AV one of the best OSINT tools on the market.

I dislike how much Alien Vault charges for their enterprise accounts.

I am solving internet security issues by being able to perform my daily duties.

Great to monitor events and provide feedback. Good product coverage. It has integration with SQL, AWS and other cloud infrastructure with ease. Better than cloudwatch. This tool is cheaper than splunk.

Sometimes becomes overly complicated to analyze DDoS attacks. Not very user friendly.

The UI is complicated to use. Basic tasks are easy.

To timely monitor suspicious events within AWS. Utilization within load balancer.

Easy to use for such a sophisticated software and tech support.

There is nothing that I don't like. If you need high security, you know when a product is good.

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When your network has lots of different software that protects it, USM gives you an instant panorama.

The ease of use and customization. The USM is a work horse, no matter what devices or the number of logs we throw at it, the system processes them in real-time, correlates the events, and alerts on only events that need human review. USM Anywhere was a great progression of the product, whether you are a small business with no security team or a large enterprise with a large team, AlienVault will meet your needs.

The one thing I continue to dislike about the USM Anywhere the lack of an on-prem deployment option.

Compare how AlienVault does Events Per Second (EPS) compared to others. Most other products charge based on EPS, the more events the more you have to pay. This causes most companies to limit the amount of logs sent and processed. AlienVault charges by the number of devices managed, you can send anything and everything to the USM. The more logs you can process the better correlation you will have. I have found that companies that limit their logs then have a security incident would have been able to identify the attack if they would have been monitoring all events in their logs.

We are able to get a real-time view on of our security that is accurate. We have seen a dramatic increase in the productivity and efficiency of our security team. We are now able to identify and stop security issues before they get out of control, usually before anyone else even notices.

.It makes it easy monitor things such as unusual logins from our Azure AD

The interface can be slow to reload when navigating through different tabs such as events, alarms etc

Monitoring multiple

.AlienVault monitor all logs and send alarms and point to risks

I think that I faced two issues one of them with the support and the other that the AlienVault is complicated

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