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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

Devo and AlienVault OSSIM are two leading products in the network security space. Devo seems to have the upper hand due to its advanced data analytics capabilities and user-friendly approach, while AlienVault OSSIM is favored for its comprehensive threat detection features.

Features: Devo provides powerful data analytics, real-time monitoring, and seamless integration capabilities. AlienVault OSSIM stands out with built-in security tools, threat intelligence, and incident response features. Devo offers strong analytics, while AlienVault OSSIM delivers a comprehensive security package.

Room for Improvement: Users suggest Devo could benefit from enhanced reporting, more intuitive configuration options, and refining existing features. AlienVault OSSIM users wish for improved scalability, better documentation, and enhanced overall usability and support materials.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Devo is frequently praised for its straightforward deployment process and responsive customer service. AlienVault OSSIM has a more complex deployment model which can be challenging for new users. AlienVault OSSIM's customer service, while helpful, sometimes lacks the quick response times reported by Devo users.

Pricing and ROI: Devo has a more appealing pricing model and is often seen as providing better ROI due to its efficiency and cost-effectiveness. AlienVault OSSIM tends to have higher setup costs but compensates with its comprehensive feature set, which users find justifies the investment. While Devo is more budget-friendly, AlienVault OSSIM delivers a balanced ROI with its wide range of capabilities.

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AlienVault OSSIM vs. Devo

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Categories and Ranking

AlienVault OSSIM

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

16th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Devo

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

26th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (27th), IT Operations Analytics (7th), AIOps (19th)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of AlienVault OSSIM is 1.3%, down from 3.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Devo is 1.2%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
AlienVault OSSIM	1.3%
Devo	1.2%
Other	97.5%

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Featured Reviews

Brandon Pearce

Independent Contractor at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

Enables cost-effective security management for small businesses

Scaling for USM is always challenging for any product unless it is purpose-built or overbuilt at the front end. They will use Palo Alto and its competitors, and LevelBlue will manage that implementation. The main area where the AlienVault product was lacking around the 2018 timeframe was in its ability to scale. By pushing it to a cloud-based system, they've largely alleviated scale issues. It's native in Amazon but will also run in Azure. They have worked with cloud service providers to offer enough throughput at a cost reasonable for a corporation. Scaling was their biggest problem, and they've largely conquered those issues.

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Francisco JavierRomo

Strategic Account Executive at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Has improved investigative workflows with interactive dashboards and simplified data correlation

The data analytics cloud component focuses on real-time analytics, which is very impressive. The SIEM collects and correlates logs data from different sources and can integrate with ServiceNow, hardware asset management, and software asset management. The security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) is another valuable feature. The security data platform serves as the foundation of Devo. Regarding advanced query capabilities, Devo offers several models including query logs, visual query builder, language integrated query, and SQL, with SQL being the most frequently used querying data capability. The single pane of glass that Devo offers is the SOC. The tools in Devo's active ports are for investigating, not just viewing data. They are more interactive than other market solutions. The drill-down reports capabilities allow analysts to click on any element in a widget. When they see a spike in a line chart for a failed login, which could be a true or false attempt, they can click that spike, and a table widget on the same active board instantly populates with raw logs of data for those specific failed logins. This is particularly important for enterprise companies with numerous endpoints and users. The dynamic filtering of inputs significantly reduces the time cybersecurity analysts spend trying to figure out failed logins and identifying false positives.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"There are a lot of people you will find using OSSIM since they are also offering OTX as a service"

"You pay monthly for the solution. I think it's one of the best products. If you compare with other companies, like LogRhythm, etc., the top 8 or 10 CMs, I think Alien Vault has the best price-performance ratio."

"I recommend it due to the experience of the people running it."

"Most of the SOC or SIEM enterprise class products are very expensive, whereas with OSSIM you can start out with a smaller setup and then expand as you wish."

"AlienVault OSSIM is an enterprise solution that sells easily. It is rated highly by organizations."

"The most valuable features of AlienVault OSSIM are vulnerability assessment, network intrusion detection system, response to critical events, and awareness of the whole network."

"Better than other SIEM solutions because almost everything can be integrated."

"The most valuable features of AlienVault OSSIM are vulnerability assessment, network intrusion detection system, response to critical events, and awareness of the whole network."

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"The thing that Devo does better than other solutions is to give me the ability to write queries that look at multiple data sources and run fast. Most SIEMs don't do that. And I can do that by creating entity-based queries. Let's say I have a table which has Okta, a table which has G Suite, a table which has endpoint telemetry, and I have a table which has DNS telemetry. I can write a query that says, 'Join all these things together on IP, and where the IP matches in all these tables, return to me that subset of data, within these time windows.' I can break it down that way."

"Devo's speed and performance allows us to query in real-time and keep up with what is actually happening on the network, then respond effectively to events."

"Devo helps us to unlock the full power of our data because they have more than 450 parsers, which means that we can ingest pretty much any type of log data."

"In traditional BI solutions, you need to wait a lot of time to have the ability to create visualizations with the data and to do searches. With this kind of platform, you have that information in real-time."

"The alerting is much better than I anticipated. We don't get as many alerts as I thought we would, but that nobody's fault, it's just the way it is."

"The user interface is really modern. As an end-user, there are a lot of possibilities to tailor the platform to your needs, and that can be done without needing much support from Devo. It's really flexible and modular. The UI is very clean."

"Devo helps us to unlock the full power of our data because they have more than 450 parsers, which means that we can ingest pretty much any type of log data."

"One of the immediate improvements that come to mind is the amount of hot, searchable data, as in the SIEM we had before we were only able to search back 90 days of hot, searchable data, whereas here we have 400 days worth, which has definitely improved our threat hunting capabilities."

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Cons

"They can add more compliance templates."

"There are somewhat more false positives with the user behavior analytics, which could benefit from an additional machine learning model to detect user patterns more rapidly."

"AlienVault OSSIM is costly."

"Sometimes it takes very long for your issue to get resolved."

"Lacking in depth of reporting."

"The main area where the AlienVault product was lacking around the 2018 timeframe was in its ability to scale."

"It's under heavy traffic. If you have heavy traffic, the system is slow."

"I would like the solution to be able to integrate with my firewall, my IDS and my Honeypot solutions so that it can provide real-time reporting as things occur and then have alert sent to me on my phone when suspicious activity is happening."

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"The overall performance of extraction could be a lot faster, but that's a common problem in this space in general."

"We only use the core functionality and one of the reasons for this is that their security operation center needs improvement."

"Technical support could be better."

"There is room for improvement in the ability to parse different log types. I would go as far as to say the product is deficient in its ability to parse multiple, different log types, including logs from major vendors that are supported by competitors. Additionally, the time that it takes to turn around a supported parser for customers and common log source types, which are generally accepted standards in the industry, is not acceptable. This has impacted customer onboarding and customer relationships for us on multiple fronts."

"Some of the documentation could be improved a little bit. A lot of times it doesn't go as deep into some of the critical issues you might run into."

"It's stable but it's not extremely stable."

"From our experience, the Devo agent needs some work. They built it on top of OS Query's open-source framework. It seems like it wasn't tuned properly to handle a large volume of Windows event logs. In our experience, there would definitely be some room for improvement. A lot of SIEMs on the market have their own agent infrastructure. I think Devo's working towards that, but I think that it needs some improvement as far as keeping up with high-volume environments."

"Their documentation could be better. They are growing quickly and need to have someone focused on tech writing to ensure that all the different updates, how to use them, and all the new features and functionality are properly documented."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I used the paid version of the tool and found it to be expensive. It has been a while since I changed to Securonix. I will have to check whether AlienVault charges per device, user, or log."

"The price of AlienVault OSSIM is too high sometimes for us to present to our customers. The price should be lower. We are on a three-year license to use the solution. We had to pay extra for the support."

"OSSIM is open source, and USM is the paid license. So, if you want, you can switch to USM. There you will have to buy a license, and they have a support team that helps you out on issues you face."

"The solution is open source, so it's free to use."

"The licensing fees for the non-community edition are paid on an annual basis, and there are no costs in addition to this."

"We are using a free version of the solution. If you purchase a license there are more features available but the price is a little high. The solution should be cheaper to allow more customers to be able to afford it."

"The tool's licensing costs are yearly."

"OSSIM is free."

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"It's a per gigabyte cost for ingestion of data. For every gigabyte that you ingest, it's whatever you negotiated your price for. Compared to other contracts that we've had for cloud providers, it's significantly less."

"We have an OEM agreement with Devo. It is very similar to the standard licensing agreement because we are charged in the same way as any other customer, e.g., we use the backroom."

"It's very competitive. That was also a primary draw for us. Some of the licensing models with solutions like Splunk and Sentinel were attractive upfront, but there were so many micro-charges and services we would've had to add on to make them what we wanted. We had to include things like SOAR and extended capabilities, whereas all those capabilities are completely included with the Devo platform. I haven't seen any additional fee."

"Be cautious of metadata inclusion for log types in pricing, as there are some "gotchas" with that."

"I like the pricing very much. They keep it simple. It is a single price based on data ingested, and they do it on an average. If you get a spike of data that flows in, they will not stick it to you or charge you for that. They are very fair about that."

"I rate the pricing a four on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."

"[Devo was] in the ballpark with at least a couple of the other front-runners that we were looking at. Devo is a good value and, given the quality of the product, I would expect to pay more."

"Devo is definitely cheaper than Splunk. There's no doubt about that. The value from Devo is good. It's definitely more valuable to me than QRadar or LogRhythm or any of the old, traditional SIEMs."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Comms Service Provider

15%

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

13%

Construction Company

Computer Software Company

Outsourcing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	18
Midsize Enterprise	9
Large Enterprise	8

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	11

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about AlienVault OSSIM?

Asset discovery is good.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AlienVault OSSIM?

It depends. I would need to review their cost models, but generally, they are on a scaled basis based on throughput usage. Because it's a software as a service solution for their core product for U...

What needs improvement with AlienVault OSSIM?

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Devo?

Compared to Splunk or SentinelOne, it is really expensive. I rate the product’s pricing a nine out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive.

What needs improvement with Devo?

The single pane of glass that Devo offers could be improved. The tools in Devo's active ports need enhancement in their investigative capabilities. The drill-down reports capabilities, while useful...

What is your primary use case for Devo?

During my time at MetaBase Q and as a partner integrator of ServiceNow, I had the chance to understand and be part of projects integrating SOCs, NOCs, and Security Operation Centers with Devo. Most...

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Compared 4% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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Overview

AlienVault OSSIM integrates threat alerts, asset discovery, and data correlation with vulnerability assessment, logging, and network configuration for enhanced usability and threat intelligence via OTX, appealing to those seeking an open-source SIEM solution with comprehensive features.

AlienVault OSSIM offers an open-source platform focused on monitoring and security event management. It enables users to conduct threat detection, vulnerability scanning, log collection, and maintain compliance with standards. Its capabilities in incident management, network visibility, and SOC functions offer a cost-effective approach to security information and event management. OSSIM helps analyze data from diverse sources and triggers alerts for malicious activities. The platform is praised for its integration capabilities, centralized dashboards, and ease of use, attracting those who wish to assess SIEM solutions without heavy investment. However, challenges exist with scalability and integration, especially in large enterprises and regulated environments, requiring interface improvements and configuration ease. Enhancements in log management and false positive reduction are priorities for users.

What features does AlienVault OSSIM offer?

Threat Alerts: Provides timely notifications of potential threats.
Asset Discovery: Identifies and catalogs devices on the network.
Data Correlation: Integrates information from multiple sources to detect complex threats.
Vulnerability Assessment: Scans systems for known vulnerabilities.
Integration Capabilities: Connects with external systems for improved data sharing.
Logging and Dashboards: Centralizes information for easier monitoring and analysis.

What benefits can users expect from AlienVault OSSIM?

Enhanced Security Detection: Comprehensive threat identification features.
Cost-Effectiveness: Delivers security capabilities at lower costs.
Network Traffic Analysis: Offers detailed insights into network activities.
Advanced Threat Policies: Supports sophisticated security policy configuration.

AlienVault OSSIM is deployed in industries requiring robust security event management. It assists in monitoring network traffic and identifying threats in sectors like finance, healthcare, and IT services. By leveraging open-source software, businesses enhance security without incurring excessive costs, making it suitable for small to medium enterprises.

AT&T

Devo offers powerful visual analytics, real-time data querying, and log integration capabilities within a cloud-native, multi-tenant architecture, supporting extended data retention ideal for long-term analysis and compliance.

Devo is recognized for its Activeboards, which facilitate visual analytics. High-speed search capabilities and real-time analytics enable efficient data manipulation and querying. Its multi-tenant architecture supports effective data segregation and customization tailored to distinct business needs, enhancing its value for handling complex log integrations. With extended data retention of 400 days and a cloud-native architecture, Devo is a robust platform for long-term analysis and compliance requirements. Though opportunities exist to improve browser stability on large searches, SOAR integrations, and its parser capabilities, Devo remains essential for incident response and security monitoring, offering centralized data storage and analysis.

What are Devo's most important features?

Activeboards: Facilitate visual analytics and data exploration.
High-Speed Search: Enables fast data querying and manipulation.
Real-Time Analytics: Supports instant insights and decision-making.
Multi-Tenant Architecture: Allows effective data segregation and customization.
Extended Data Retention: Offers 400-day log retention for compliance and analysis.
Complex Log Integration: Handles intricate data sources effortlessly.

What benefits and ROI should organizations look for in reviews?

Visual Insights: Enhance understanding through interactive dashboards.
Performance Efficiency: Saves time with high-speed data search and real-time results.
Customization Flexibility: Fits specific business requirements with multi-tenant architecture.
Long-Term Compliance: Ensures alignment with extended data retention needs.
Centralized Monitoring: Enables comprehensive incident response and security monitoring.

Devo is extensively used in industries focused on incident response and digital forensics, centralizing data for security monitoring across hybrid environments. Organizations benefit from its ability to store and analyze aggregated logs, creating alerts and dashboards to enhance visibility for network and endpoint activities in multi-domain settings.

Sample Customers

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