

A USM appliance can be deployed as a single appliance or distributed across multiple servers (either virtual or hardware) to provide additional scalability and availability. Some complaints about support, but no more than other vendors. For complex environments,?there is a network of more than 500 certified Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) partners that deliver managed security and compliance services using AlienVault USM. Since USM Anywhere delivers multiple network security capabilities in a single SaaS solution that are automated and orchestrated, users can manage threat detection, incident response, and compliance from a single pane of glass. The on-premises version takes a little longer but is still relatively fast to implement. The cloud version can be deployed in less than an hour.

Forrester interviews with two direct customers and found benefits of $1,337,048 over three years versus costs of $192,729, adding up to a net present value (NPV) of $1,144,319 and a 6x return on investment (ROI). AlienVault USM can deal with EPS rates of up to 15,000 depending on the product. AlienVault Labs Security Research Team leverages the Open Threat Exchange (OTX) threat intelligence community of security researchers and IT professionals who collaborate and share millions of threat artifacts as they emerge. If it hits one of our triggers, or one of theirs, we get an alert within minutes.” AlienVault pulls that information and parses it. There’s this constant real-time information from Amazon. One customer, the IT director of a healthcare company, said that “Threat detection has gone down to minutes. Communications with a ransomware C&C server.Signs of lateral movement within a network.Stolen user credentials trafficked on the dark web.

Changes to critical server files or registry.Suspicious user downloads from Office 365 or G Suite.Unusual privilege escalation within an AWS or Azure account.USM Anywhere also detects indicators of a threat/attack, such as: USM Anywhere detects a broad range of threats, such as: It recently expanded USM Anywhere to include EDR capabilities. Open-source components are part of USM buyers. Product DescriptionĪlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) provides SIEM, vulnerability assessment, asset discovery, network and host intrusion detection, endpoint detection and response (EDR), flow and packet capture, and file integrity monitoring (FIM), as well as centralized configuration and management. Its Open Threat Exchange (OTX) is a crowd-sourced computer-security platform with more than 80,000 participants in 140 countries. Company DescriptionĪlienVault, an AT&T company, develops commercial and open source cybersecurity tools. As such, it is probably best for small and mid-sized organizations. But Gartner notes that its enterprise-oriented features lag behind its rivals in areas such as role-based workflow, ticketing integrations, support for multiple threat intelligence feeds, and advanced analytics capabilities. AlienVault offers a low-cost entry with more capabilities than most competitors. AlienVault has moved up from a Niche Player to a Visionary in Gartner’s SIEM Magic Quadrant.
