LevelBlue USM Anywhere vs. SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)

LevelBlue USM Anywhere

733 Reviews and Ratings

SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)

119 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
LevelBlue USM Anywhere	Score3.6 out of 10	N/A	The LevelBlue USM Anywhere XDR platform (replacing the former AlienVault USM) delivers threat detection, incident response, and compliance management.	$1,075 per month
SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)	Score8 out of 10	N/A	SolarWinds LEM is security information and event management (SIEM) software.	N/A

Pricing

LevelBlue USM Anywhere

SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)

Essentials: $1,075
per month
Standard: $1,695
per month
Premium: $2,595
per month

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Pricing Offerings
LevelBlue USM Anywhere	SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

Optional

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	LevelBlue USM Anywhere	SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
Considered Both Products	LevelBlue Stacey Medina IT System Admin in Information Technology at Corfin Industries (Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, 51-200 employees) Chose LevelBlue USM Anywhere I evaluated SolarWinds SEM and it was impressive and did a great job, but AlienVault USM had more reporting tools and data collection retention. I also preferred the setup of the AlienVault dashboard. I found it was easier to set up rules and data collection points with … Incentivized Helpful? Frank DePaola Head of Information Security in Corporate at EnPro Industries (Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose LevelBlue USM Anywhere With the exception of Solar Winds, AlienVault USM is far easier to administer and support, but far less extensible. LogRhythm and Splunk are going to offer far more advanced capabilities in the way of deployment models, features, and automation capabilities. Also, other … Incentivized Helpful? Jason LeBlanc Consultant in Information Technology at Aon Integramark (Insurance, 201-500 employees) Chose LevelBlue USM Anywhere Solarwinds LEM was replaced with USM, the UI and the sluggishness and lack of ease of use made that decision easy. LogRhythm was a top contender, the cost and complexity to implement made USM an easy choice. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose LevelBlue USM Anywhere AlienVault provides an all in one/unified approach to security. AlienVaults online threat exchange (OTX) provides additional context to events and event flows that may not originally be seen as a possible threat. The cost of USM and ease to deploy is a big differentiator. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose LevelBlue USM Anywhere Splunk Cloud's security intelligence platform is composed of Splunk Enterprise and three solutions: Splunk Enterprise Security (ES), Splunk User Behavior Analytics (UBA) and Splunk Phantom. Splunk Enterprise provides event and data collection, search, and visualisations for … Incentivized Helpful? Jason Cresswell IT Security Manager in Information Technology at The Health Informatics Service (THIS) (Hospital & Health Care, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose LevelBlue USM Anywhere By far the quickest and easiest results were found with USM, and when coupled with the price, USM is an amazing value for money. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose LevelBlue USM Anywhere AlienVault was the only product that spoke to all our needs for log management, vulnerability scans and system monitoring. AlienVault impressed with their knowledge of the security landscape and was able to answer every question to satisfaction. All other competitors could do … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose LevelBlue USM Anywhere AlienVault’s strength is that it is highly capable SIEM with a nice feature set. Unified Security Management Platform comes with more advanced features in performance, administration, reporting, and technical support. It offers greater coverage against attack with more than 600 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose LevelBlue USM Anywhere USM is a security focused, threat-finding system. It is not a great log manager. Logs can be hard to search in USM, and it can be hard to manage the storage space on USM. Incentivized Helpful?	SolarWinds Verified User Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) Ease of deployment Good UI Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) Solarwinds LEM lacks a lot of the features and power of their competitors. It also appears, at least at the outside of the competitors, that it is less user friendly and out of the box ready. We ended up with the Solarwinds solution because of budgetary constraints and … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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Features

LevelBlue USM Anywhere

SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)

Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of LevelBlue USM Anywhere and SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
Feature	LevelBlue USM Anywhere - Ratings	SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) 8.9 18 Ratings
Centralized event and log data collection	00 Ratings	9.018 Ratings
Correlation	00 Ratings	8.015 Ratings
Event and log normalization/management	00 Ratings	8.018 Ratings
Deployment flexibility	00 Ratings	10.018 Ratings
Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools	00 Ratings	8.013 Ratings
Custom dashboards and workspaces	00 Ratings	9.017 Ratings
Host and network-based intrusion detection	00 Ratings	10.03 Ratings

User Ratings
	LevelBlue USM Anywhere	SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
Likelihood to Recommend	9.8 (390 ratings)	8.0 (46 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	7.2 (18 ratings)	7.3 (2 ratings)
Usability	6.7 (34 ratings)	8.0 (6 ratings)
Availability	6.4 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	7.3 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	7.3 (25 ratings)	7.5 (17 ratings)
In-Person Training	4.5 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Online Training	8.3 (6 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	6.4 (38 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Configurability	8.0 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	7.3 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	6.3 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	7.6 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	8.2 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)