1. It's an appliance. 2. It's easy to setup. 3. It's a ton of information. 4. Integrated ticketing system allows for assignment of vulns and closure. 5. UI is good. Easy to use.

AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) has powerful threat detection, incident response, and compliance management. We can use this across cloud, on-premise and hybrid environments. The reason to use USM is that it has the following components in its package: Asset Discovery Vulnerability Assessment Intrusion Detection Behavioral Monitoring SIEM & Log Management.

Fairly easy to install and get working. We had it working in less than an hour.