AlienVault OSSIM vs Trellix ESM comparison

AT&T and Trellix are both solutions in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category. AT&T is ranked #12 with an average rating of 7.4, while Trellix is ranked #28 with an average rating of 8.0. AT&T holds a 1.6% mindshare in SIEM, compared to Trellix’s 1.2% mindshare. Additionally, 80% of AT&T users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 76% of Trellix users who would recommend it.

AlienVault OSSIM

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Trellix ESM

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76% willing to recommend

AlienVault OSSIM

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

Trellix ESM and AlienVault OSSIM are popular security management solutions with distinct advantages. Users express a preference for the features and pricing of AlienVault OSSIM, while Trellix ESM is favored for its support and customer service.

Features: Trellix ESM is praised for its robust threat detection and response capabilities. Users highlight its advanced analytics and reporting functionalities. AlienVault OSSIM is appreciated for its ease of integration, comprehensive threat intelligence, and open-source flexibility.

Room for Improvement: Trellix ESM users suggest improvements for its complex configuration processes and call for more flexibility around its analytics capabilities. AlienVault OSSIM users seek enhancements in scalability and desire more frequent updates.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Trellix ESM’s deployment is often described as challenging, demanding significant expertise, but its customer service is highly rated for being responsive and helpful. AlienVault OSSIM is noted for its relatively straightforward deployment process, thanks to being open-source, although its customer support is sometimes considered less responsive.

Pricing and ROI: Trellix ESM involves a higher initial setup cost but is considered to deliver a strong ROI over time. AlienVault OSSIM is noted for its lower setup costs and being cost-effective due to its open-source nature, which provides an attractive ROI quick-win.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

AlienVault OSSIM

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

12th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Trellix ESM

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

28th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of AlienVault OSSIM is 1.6%, down from 4.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Trellix ESM is 1.2%, up from 0.8% 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	1.6%
Trellix ESM	1.2%
Other	97.2%

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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Mohit Dhingra

Senior Vice President IT at AS IT Consulting Pvt. Ltd.

Offers comprehensive report generation while maintaining ease of integration

We need to improve Trellix ESM by making sure that most of the logging devices available in the global market should be covered, and if there is any device which is not covered, there should not be any additional charges for writing the custom parsers on that. We can add some new features regarding AI in the future for Trellix ESM, but the maturity will take a longer time. There are many false positives that happen in an environment during the first couple of months, or around six months, so the system analyst is not able to identify whether the event which has occurred is a true positive or a false positive.

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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 product is majorly used for threat detection of the agents on servers and endpoints."

"The product is easy to use."

"AlienVault OSSIM's GUI is very user-friendly."

"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."

"The threat policies of the solution are always very advanced and the best in the market. They are very persistent in terms of keeping up with security protocols."

"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."

"The threat alerts it gives me from time to time on harmful code within the network, or if they are generating any network traffic, are very useful."

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"You will definitely get a return on your investment if you develop the correct security management metrics and have decent operational procedures in place to take action on events in ESM."

"The most valuable features of McAfee ESM are intrusion detection, malware protection, and the device controller."

"Trellix ESM is very user-friendly."

"This solution integrates easily and very well with other technologies."

"The most valuable feature is for the security operation center because it provides visibility of all traffic within the company infrastructure."

"It is user-friendly. The notification part of McAfee ESM is very easy."

"It has performed well and delivered the results that I have been looking for."

"The most valuable feature is that if the scanning does find something, it quarantines it. Then you can decide what you are going to do with it."

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Cons

"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."

"The solution is not scalable."

"It's so hard to configure and explore something new on it."

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

"There needs to be more support or some kind of training program so users can self-learn the system more effectively."

"They can add more compliance templates."

"The solution needs more integration with cyber intelligence systems."

"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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"I would like to see improvements to the user interface."

"It seems McAfee does test its product before releasing. When we - not only us, other companies also - deploy McAfee, we face multiple issues from the customer side, after which, McAfee reacts and fixes the bugs."

"We cannot add new data sources to the most recent version."

"I would like to see fingerprint recognition included in the next release of this solution."

"It is more difficult to operate Trellix ESM than other solutions."

"The disk space needed for events is not clear."

"The product’s alert response feature needs improvement. It could be more flexible and secure."

"The API the product provides still needs to develop some maturity."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"AlienVault OSSIM is an open-source solution."

"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."

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

"OSSIM is free."

"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."

"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."

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"The product is slightly expensive."

"The price of McAfee ESM is higher than some of the other solutions. There are additional features that can be added at an additional fee."

"The pricing is fair."

"Regarding pricing, Trellix ESM is not that expensive. It's less than half the cost of IBM QRadar."

"When compared to IBM Security QRadar and other similar platforms, the pricing of McAfee ESM is reasonable and comparatively less expensive."

"We pay for our licensing fees on a yearly basis, and there are no costs in addition to the standard licensing fees."

"It is an inexpensive product. We purchase its yearly license."

"The price is good. It's moderate. We follow a pay-as-you-go model. There are different models available, and they can also be monthly. You can choose monthly or yearly. It's very flexible. If our existing customers exceed the current plan, you can just call McAfee and get it extended."

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Feb 26, 2015

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Comms Service Provider

12%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

University

Comms Service Provider

17%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Construction 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	15
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	24

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about AlienVault OSSIM?

Asset discovery is good.

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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...

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What needs improvement with AlienVault OSSIM?

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for McAfee ESM?

When discussing Trellix ESM pricing and licensing, if you consider some premium product, the pricing also has to be premium, however, enterprise customers who look for a premium product, alongside ...

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What needs improvement with McAfee ESM?

Areas of Trellix ESM that could be improved or enhanced include checking on the clients who are still on-prem, especially banks, as most are not moving everything to the cloud due to confidentialit...

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What is your primary use case for McAfee ESM?

My customer's usual use case for Trellix ESM involves one client, as most of the users have moved to ESM. Nowadays, they don't use IPS only, since McAfee IPS is standalone; they incorporate firewal...

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Also Known As

OSSIM

McAfee ESM, NitroSecurity, McAfee Enterprise Security Manager

Overview

AlienVault OSSIM, Open Source Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), provides you with a feature-rich open source SIEM complete with event collection, normalization and correlation. Launched by security engineers because of the lack of available open source products, AlienVault OSSIM was created specifically to address the reality many security professionals face: A SIEM, whether it is open source or commercial, is virtually useless without the basic security controls necessary for security visibility.

AT&T

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Sample Customers

Council Rock School District

San Francisco Police Credit Union, Wªstenrot Gruppe, Volusion, California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation, Government of New Brunswick, State of Colorado, Macquarie Telecom, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Cologne Bonn Airport

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