SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) vs. Trellix Intelligent Sandbox

SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)

Trellix Intelligent Sandbox

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	SolarWinds LEM is security information and event management (SIEM) software.	N/A
Trellix Intelligent Sandbox	Score 7.1 out of 10	N/A	Trellix Intelligent Sandbox (formerly McAfee Advanced Threat Defense) enables organizations to detect advanced, evasive malware and convert threat information into immediate action and protection. It includes additional inspection capabilities that broaden detection and expose evasive threats. Integration between security solutions—from network and endpoint to investigation—enables instant sharing of threat information across the environment, enhancing protection and investigation. Deployment…	N/A

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SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)

Trellix Intelligent Sandbox

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SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)	Trellix Intelligent Sandbox
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)	Trellix Intelligent Sandbox
Considered Both Products	SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) The compare well against the others - the pricing models for all but Splunk (free version) are based on EPS/TB consumed... the problem they pose is guesstimating the price tag per month. SolarWinds Security Event Manager gets around that. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) It came down to price on this one. SolarWinds gave us a great break on it. For the features that we were looking for, SolarWinds is a great value for our dollar. As far as features go, we were looking for some Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) easier to use than Splunk, light linux core Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) Not applicable Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) This was the first product we used in this category and we are very happy with it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) Solarwinds Security Event Manager (SEM) is the best solution for price/performance. The solution has an easily understandable architecture and also the solution can be installed easily. The solution is a very stable and fast solution for our company size. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) Ease of deployment Good UI Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) Fortianalzyer can only do logs from FortiGate so usefulness is limited. Elasticsearch was a lot slower than Solarwinds and the filters were a lot harder to set up and use. The connectors for SEM were far more stable. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) Splunk was a pretty good product but the licensing structure needed a lot of work. They changed the structure three times that I am aware and I still had problems understanding LogRhythm had a lot of issues correlating users to IP addresses, the mappings were frequently wrong … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) We found that SolarWinds performed poorly when the Architecture included many large data centers spread across the globe. When evaluating the SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) solution we quickly realized that we needed a distributed architecture with log aggregation to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) We chose this product because of its integration to SolarWinds Orion. We were Threat Monitor users previously. This product has been a great substitute. Dollars to dollars this product performs fairly well. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) SEM is much better value proposition due to being priced by node and not by size of the event database. It's also much easier to configure that splunk and needs much less infrastructure to run. Out of the box SEM beats splunk on functionality. We looked at many products and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) I find Tripwire Log Center to be adequate and stable but it lacks the graphics and the unified UI that you can have with SolarWinds products. It is also not as simple to set up and operate. One more advantage that SolarWinds products have is the THWACK forum, a big user base … Incentivized Helpful? KS Kim Schroeder CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) is more of a complete, turn key approach to event management. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) It is a bit hard to compare, since Cortex XDR is kind of a different starship, with endpoint protection and such, and not really great for auditing Windows Event Logs. ELK stack on the other hand is free in some of it's editions but seems much similar then Cortex. SolarWinds SEM … Incentivized Helpful? Tim Short Infrastructure Administrator Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) We picked SolarWinds because of the better price point, integration with other SolarWinds products, and the ease of training. Because we were already familiar with the SolarWinds way of doing alerts and reports, it made this product a nice fit for our company and it has great … Incentivized Helpful? Brandon Demko Systems Administrator Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) We had an older version of SolarWinds SEM, however, it was not being utilized. Incentivized Helpful? AR Adam Radics Production Data Systems Superintendent Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) This was recommended to us by a vendor. As we were using other SolarWinds products, we did not analyze many options. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) The first reason is the ease of installation. Unlike competitor, SEM was running and partially deployed within a day. With the defaults already in the SEM, it's super easy to get result quickly, without a consultant. Also, it's not too resource-intensive, and does not … Incentivized Helpful? AG Alex Giralias System Support Engineer Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) SolarWinds SEM was selected because it integrates with VMAN on the Orion platform and allows all monitoring information and alerts to be aggregated in one place. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) Several clients have moved away from LogRhythm because of cost. SEM offers the best ROI for the function. Its interface is much cleaner then LogRhythm. However, there is a steeper learning curve with SEM. The ease of search and data integrity offered by SEM is definitely a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) I know the Qradar is not the right SIEM tool to compete with Solarwinds SEM but when we looked from a cost, audit & compliance perspective (which are major for many customers), we knew the log management and compliance with regulation would be achieved with SEM. But no machine … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) SolarWinds provides support so when you have problems you don't need to turn to information bases as you can just get a hold of SolarWinds support. I would say another reason for getting SEM is that it is generally easier to configure and easier to learn than the other … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) I have additionally used Netwrix Auditor, which has some similarity with SolarWinds SEM. I use both hand in hand, but typically use the SEM first since it is easier to manage. With Netwrix custom searches are more complex than customer searches in the SEM. The SEM makes it easy … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) We implemented SolarWinds Security Event Manager to replace our Cisco MARS appliance. We found the Cisco MARS appliance cumbersome and difficult to connect to and use, as well as very costly from a support and maintenance perspective. SolarWinds Security Event Manager has more … Incentivized Helpful?	Trellix Intelligent Sandbox Verified User Anonymous Chose Trellix Intelligent Sandbox McAfee brand is used, mcafee antivirus scan, mcafee drive encryption, mcafee DLP, mcafee cloud proxy. He Kaspersky at the corporate level and used his admin dashboard is a bit rough. I recommend mcafee since the graphical environment is very friendly with the administrator. We … Incentivized Helpful? VK vinoth kumar Sr system administrator Chose Trellix Intelligent Sandbox McAfee Advanced Threat Defense is much more efficient than other competitors out there. They also provide good customer support for our technical queries. McAfee Advanced Threat Defense provides multiple features compared to other software. Email threat prevention is something … Incentivized Helpful? AW Alexendra Wishpaw Store Manager Chose Trellix Intelligent Sandbox Honestly, I personally haven't found any tool for antivirus as effective as McAfee Advanced Threat Defense. I had six months of experience with Cisco SecureX and I wasn't satisfied with anything from scanning speed to the repairing and removal of viruses. Although the price of … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Trellix Intelligent Sandbox Zscaler Internet Access is lighter and easier to customize for smaller groups than McAfee Advanced Threat Defense. Personally, I have never called customer support for either product but I have heard that Zscaler has better, more responsive customer service as well. Both have … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)

Trellix Intelligent Sandbox

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of Product A and Product B
	SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) 8.9 Ratings 13% above category average	Trellix Intelligent Sandbox - Ratings
Centralized event and log data collection	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Correlation	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Event and log normalization/management	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Deployment flexibility	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Custom dashboards and workspaces	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Host and network-based intrusion detection	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

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User Ratings
	SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)	Trellix Intelligent Sandbox
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (0 ratings)	9.9 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	7.3 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	7.5 (0 ratings)	7.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)	Trellix Intelligent Sandbox
Likelihood to Recommend	Solarwinds SEM is great for generating reports for investigation purposes. Once you set up the connectors you can walk away and the product runs without needing maintenance. It was however pretty difficult to create the reports and alerts when now starting out and it can be very intimidating for new users. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	It is suited for people who are looking to secure their PCs from malware attacks. There is also email threat prevention where it will detect unwanted mails which come through our inbox. The sandbox feature comes in handy when you want to test new applications that will prevent it spreading to multiple systems in an environment if it is malicious. It has good customer support for all our technical queries. Since pricing is quite high, small-scale organizations can't afford it. Incentivized VK vinoth kumar Sr system administrator Read full review
Pros	SolarWinds easily provides the much needed visibily into changes in an Active Directory (AD) environment. Email alerting can be configured to alert a team if an account is locked out, disabled by another users, or if users and/or computers accounts are created. SolarWinds allowed a searchable audit feature. Microsoft Windows can be configured to log many different parts of a system, but search those logs can be difficult. SEM allows you to search for specific users or events. Incentivized Adam Morrison Director of IT Engineering Read full review	Automatic updates. Runs in the background. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Compared to other SIEMs, there are features that are missing. Machine learning, automatic event correlation, ability to correlate multiple sources together. The UI is clunky, and the New event log analyzer page felt really disjointed from the rest of the product. In my experience, the dashboards were almost unusable. They persisted across login per device, and even then they sometimes would reset and go back to the ''Getting Started'' look. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	handling exceptions if you could centralize it would be nice. In the same way, it could improve how the logs are seen, the board is very rough. At the level of final use, there is no way that it can visualize the time it takes for a scan to be carried out remotely. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	It is pretty likely that we will renew SEM when the time comes up. It is easy to use and maintain so there isn't much of a need to replace this product. It is also a pretty fair price for the capabilities provided by the SEM Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	It is very good - but you get what you pay for. The intent is not for a Fortune 500 that needs more "heavy lifting" with SolarWinds Security Event Manager & for whom the price tag is not (much of) a consideration. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	The quality of support can vary depending on whom you end up speaking with. I was fortunate enough to work with a support representative who was very familiar with the product. He had even authored some of the support documentation on the website. On the flip side, I had two other experiences where I was simply directed to online training material. Incentivized Brandon Demko Systems Administrator Read full review	Personally, I have only called our internal IT team about needing changes to permissions, not McAfee itself, but our IT team can make the changes though it seems to take them longer than I would think it needs to take. As someone who administers a different program, with different permissions, I would feel they should be able to make the exceptions faster and easier. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	The compare well against the others - the pricing models for all but Splunk (free version) are based on EPS/TB consumed... the problem they pose is guesstimating the price tag per month. SolarWinds Security Event Manager gets around that. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	McAfee brand is used, mcafee antivirus scan, mcafee drive encryption, mcafee DLP, mcafee cloud proxy. He Kaspersky at the corporate level and used his admin dashboard is a bit rough. I recommend mcafee since the graphical environment is very friendly with the administrator. We selected it because at the administration level it is more comfortable, support for end users is very easy, the administration console can create roles and segregate permissions. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	It saves a lot of time when we had issues trying to figure out where the user account lockout was coming from. With it being an affordable SIEM, we are able to have the ability to do the actions associated with a SIEM and the advantages of not “breaking the bank account”. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Its high pricing is unsuitable for our business. We no longer stress about any undesired invasion. Our data is safe and sound. Incentivized AW Alexendra Wishpaw Store Manager Read full review
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