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What is AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity)?

AlienVault USM Anywhere is a cloud-based security management solution that accelerates and centralizes threat detection, incident response, and compliance management for your cloud, hybrid cloud, and on-premises environments. USM Anywhere includes purpose-built cloud sensors that natively monitor your Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure cloud environments. On premises, lightweight virtual sensors run on Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESXi to monitor your virtual private cloud and physical IT infrastructure. With USM Anywhere, you can rapidly deploy sensors into your cloud and on-premises environments while centrally managing data collection, security analysis, and threat detection from the AlienVault Secure Cloud. Five Essential Security Capabilities in a Single SaaS Platform AlienVault USM Anywhere provides five essential security capabilities in a single SaaS solution, giving you everything you need for threat detection, incident response, and compliance management—all in a single pane of glass. With USM Anywhere, you can focus on finding and responding to threats, not managing software. An elastic, cloud-based security solution, USM Anywhere can readily scale to meet your threat detection needs as your hybrid cloud environment changes and grows. 1. Asset Discovery 2. Vulnerability Assessment 3. Intrusion Detection 4. Behavioral Monitoring 5. SIEM

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AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity) is a platform that provides five essential security capabilities in a single console to manage both compliance and threats, understanding the sensitive nature of IT environments, include active, passive and host-based technologies to match the requirements of each particular environment.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Unified Security Management. AlienVault combines essential security capabilities needed to monitor on-premises and cloud environments, detect and respond to threats, and achieve compliance in one affordable, easy-to-use solution: asset discovery, vulnerability assessment, intrusion detection, behavioral monitoring, and SIEM.

Integrated Threat Intelligence. AlienVault Labs Security Research Team analyzes hundreds of thousands of threats daily to discover new threat actors, tools, and methods, and delivers continuous threat intelligence updates directly to USM. Our typical customer doesn’t have time to research threats, so AlienVault Labs becomes their extended research team.

Open Threat Exchange. AlienVault OTX is an open, free threat intelligence community of 53,000 threat researchers and security professionals that contribute 10 million threat indicators daily, which AlienVault Labs analyze and deliver to USM.

Easy Deployment. Flexible sizing and full deployment in 1-2 days far outpaces traditional SIEM deployments.

Heterogeneous Environments. USM centralizes security across public cloud, hybrid cloud, and on-premises IT environments.


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AT&T
Year Founded
1876
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Dallas, TX
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@ATT
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NYSE: T
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+1.210.821.4105
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$160,546
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AT&T provides telecommunication and media services, offering wireless communication, broadband internet, and digital entertainment to both individual consumers and businesses worldwide.


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Recent AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity) Reviews

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Goodness I.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Impressive Cloud Based SIEM"
I like the automated asset discovery feature, once we created the network tap, we could easily discover assets on the dashboard. Another feature...
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Javier A.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Simple and secure network monitoring and SIEM"
A SIEM in all-in-one format, with which you can easily have the functionalities of a SIEM, network behavior analysis and vulnerability analysis. P...
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Chris E.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Super easy to use and works well for all of our clients"
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 m...
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What do you like best about AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity)?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity)?

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

If you have a large on-prem environment and you decide to use Alienvault, you could be regularly over-shooting the EPS count for your license, this increases cost.

The more your environment grows, the more you have to pay for licenses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity) solving and how is that benefiting you?

We can use the Vulnerability Scanner without having to pay for another Vulnerability Scanning software, and not incur the risks associated with open source scanners.

Running a hybrid environment means we need full visibility on both cloud and on-prem assets, and Alienvault gives us that coverage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity)?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity) solving and how is that benefiting you?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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They have an easy-to-understand UI, the case management is really good. Also, suppression of the false-positive area is very easily available. Onboarding of the data sources are easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity)?

Availability of the SIEM tool is the major issue here. They have a lot of downtimes and even sometimes without prior notice, it is not accessible. Also the performance is very poor. It takes minutes after clicking once. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity) solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have multiple security data sources, so it was a bit difficult to monitor all at the same time. But AlienVault allows us to monitor all things at one place and allowed us to configure rules over there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity)?

A SIEM in all-in-one format, with which you can easily have the functionalities of a SIEM, network behavior analysis and vulnerability analysis.

Plus, it's easy to deploy and has plenty of integrations available to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity)?

In very large environments, it is very heavy to manage and servers can consume a lot of RAM.

High availability is not well designed, so you have to look for workarounds to secure the solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity) solving and how is that benefiting you?

It allows to deploy a complete and simple solution in small clients, who cannot afford other much more expensive solutions. Being able to have a complete security solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity)?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity)?

I dislike how much Alien Vault charges for their enterprise accounts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity) solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am solving internet security issues by being able to perform my daily duties. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity)?

Simple SIEM, easy to set-up, great actionable results, clear reporting features. Easy to work with assistance team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity)?

Some false positives take time to correct. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity):

Good price point to product value proposition Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Meeting security guidelines, ensuring network safety, reporting requirements, system security awareness Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity)?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity)?

The one thing I continue to dislike about the USM Anywhere the lack of an on-prem deployment option. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity):

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity) solving and how is that benefiting you?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity)?

the rich interface and the ThreatIntell overall was pretty good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity)?

the management and maintenance are too cumbersome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity):

Make sure you have 3 engineers to manage, maintain, and Operate the SIEM platform alone. You also need 6 security analyst. The training is expensive so make sure you have one SME to teach others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity) solving and how is that benefiting you?

we are solving SIEM required by regulators Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity)?

Sometimes becomes overly complicated to analyze DDoS attacks. Not very user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity):

The UI is complicated to use. Basic tasks are easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity) solving and how is that benefiting you?

To timely monitor suspicious events within AWS. Utilization within load balancer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity)?

In comparison to other SIEM tools, the cost vs feature prospect is very good. USM offers all the basics you would expect from a SIEM tool in an easy to configure package Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity)?

Some features are unavailable that are available in other SIEM tools such as the use of advanced searching languages, custom correlation rules and custom parsers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity):

Alienvault USM is great as a SIEM for cost conscious companies. If high end functionality and configuration is a high priority at the expense of a far higher cost however I would recommend Logrhythm as an alternate SIEM choice Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity) solving and how is that benefiting you?

As an MSP we use USM to pull in all required log sources from our customers for monitoring without direct access to their infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.