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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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Categories and Ranking

AlienVault OSSIM

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

25th

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)

17th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (17th), IT Operations Analytics (7th), AIOps (16th)

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of AlienVault OSSIM is 1.2%, down from 3.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Devo is 1.2%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Devo	1.2%
AlienVault OSSIM	1.2%
Other	97.6%

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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Usama Khan

Team Lead Soc at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Advanced threat hunting has improved SOC visibility and now supports faster incident response

Devo can improve in how its connectors enhance integration with third-party tools. Devo's architecture works by having you deploy a relay server in the data center of the client side and Devo SIEM is basically on the AWS cloud. There are specific ports which are enabled on the relay server, which are 514 and 13000, 13151, 152. However, when we talk about databases and custom integrations, there are not default ports in the relay server. No default ports are defined. For JDBC drivers, the port number is 1433, but it is not in the relay server. You have to add it manually. For Oracle RDBMS, the port is 1521, and it is also not there by default. I would appreciate more third-party integrations including Fortinet and others. Machine learning models can also be improved. Playbooks in the SOAR can also be improved. Regarding playbooks for automation, we utilize playbooks for automation in SOAR for automated IOC blocking on a firewall, on a web application firewall, on DNS security, etc. The only option for us to run the playbook is to schedule the job for it. However, if I want to manually run the playbook, there is no option for doing so. This needs improvement.

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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

"The most valuable features of AlienVault OSSIM are case management, ease of configuration, and investigation."

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

"With AlienVault you get everything in one box."

"Network traffic analysis is highly efficient."

"The solution is very stable, and compared to QRadar and Splunk, it's very stable."

"The product is easy to use."

"The paid version of the solution has reporting and better scalability options."

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

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"We can ingest virtually any log source, which is much better than our previous solution."

"With Devo, we can eliminate swivel chair analysis among tools for a streamlined workflow that gives us the most direct path to the root cause."

"It is a joy to partner and be able to work with this kind of system."

"One of the biggest features of the UI is that you see the actual code of what you're doing in the graphical user interface, in a little window on the side. Whatever you're doing, you see the code, what's happening. And you can really quickly switch between using the GUI and using the code. That's really useful."

"I'm so happy with the platform."

"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."

"Because of the way Devo works, our onboarding time has shrunk by 50 percent at least."

"More than anything, we have seen ROI in the amount of time saved during investigations."

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Cons

"AlienVault OSSIM should improve the deployment and make it unified like the USM."

"AlienVault OSSIM failed to provide our company a full insight, while also giving out a lot of false positives."

"It's so hard to configure and explore something new on it. It is not easy to find the steps we need to follow in order to use the solution effectively."

"ArcSight works better than AlienVault right now."

"AlienVault OSSIM is costly."

"I suggest more in-built rules based on modern threats and environments to make it a more competitive solution."

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

"I don't like to work on OSSIM because it is unpredictable."

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"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."

"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."

"There's always room to reduce the learning curve over how to deal with events and machine data. They could make the machine data simpler."

"Devo has a lot of cloud connectors, but they need to do a little bit of work there. They've got good integrations with the public cloud, but there are a lot of cloud SaaS systems that they still need to work with on integrations, such as Salesforce and other SaaS providers where we need to get access logs."

"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."

"The price is one problem with Devo."

"Some basic reporting mechanisms have room for improvement. Customers can do analysis by building Activeboards, Devo’s name for interactive dashboards. This capability is quite nice, but it is not a reporting engine. Devo does provide mechanisms to allow third-party tools to query data via their API, which is great. However, a lot of folks like or want a reporting engine, per se, and Devo simply doesn't have that. This may or may not be by design."

"However, the incident and threat detection is not what we had hoped for."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We are using the community version, which can be used for free."

"AlienVault pricing is the best. Whatever cost you are paying, you are getting a return on every penny... It's not like your IBM, your QRadar, or Splunk, where the cost is too high."

"AlienVault OSSIM is expensive compared to its competitors."

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

"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."

"AlienVault OSSIM is an open-source solution."

"When comparing AlienVault OSSIM to Microsoft Sentinel, AlienVault OSSIM incurs additional costs due to its licensing price structure. If you are using AlienVault for security purposes at a certain level it can have a higher price point than the current pricing of Microsoft Sentinel."

"The tool's licensing costs are yearly."

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"Pricing is based on the number of gigabytes of ingestion by volume, and it's on a 30-day average. If you go over one day, that's not a big deal as long as the average is what you expected it to be."

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

"Our licensing fees are billed annually and per terabyte."

"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."

"Devo is a hosted or subscription-based solution, whereas before, we purchased QRadar, so we owned it and just had to pay a maintenance fee. We've encountered this with some other products, too, where we went over to subscription-based. Our thought process is that with subscription based, the provider hosts and maintains the tool, and it's offsite. That comes with some additional fees, but we were able to convince our upper management it was worth the price. We used to pay under 10k a year for maintenance, and now we're paying ten times that. It was a relatively tough sell to our management, but I wonder if we have a choice anymore; this is where the market is."

"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."

"[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 was very cost-competitive... Devo did come with that 400 days of hot data, and that was not the case with other products."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Comms Service Provider

14%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

University

Financial Services Firm

13%

Outsourcing Company

11%

Construction Company

10%

Manufacturing 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	10
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	12

Questions from the Community

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 primary use case for AlienVault OSSIM?

This solution is very similar to most of the other MSSPs that you would find out there. When I look at use cases, AlienVault was initially aimed at small to medium businesses. It grew, and that was...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Devo?

The price is considered okay.

What needs improvement with Devo?

Perhaps Devo could add some features in the future on the network part. Specifically, I think they could improve network traffic analysis capabilities.

What is your primary use case for Devo?

I have been using Devo as a partner and system integrator for three years. For log monitoring, the clients' use cases can utilize Devo perfectly. Compliance and security operation monitoring are th...

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Also Known As

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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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United States Air Force, Rubrik, SentinelOne, Critical Start, NHL, Panda Security, Telefonica, CaixaBank, OpenText, IGT, OneMain Financial, SurveyMonkey, FanDuel, H&R Block, Ulta Beauty, Manulife, Moneylion, Chime Bank, Magna International, American Express Global Business Travel

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