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Categories and Ranking

McAfee Global Threat Intell...
Average Rating
6.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
USM Anywhere
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
115
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (47th), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (28th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (52nd), Compliance Management (12th)
 

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Chetankumar Savalagimath - PeerSpot reviewer
Informative dashboards and integrates well with other products, but it needs artificial intelligence for more advanced threat detection
The product can be developed by bringing in AI and ML-based logic to learn from external emerging threats. This would help to keep the feeds real-time and secure the client's environment. Furthermore, it should use automation to notify customers or remediate the environment. The analytics and big data platform integration can be improved to provide better visibility of past data to look for existing threats or missed threats. It will be better able to predict future threats and be resilient against new threats, risks, or attacks. A cloud-based solution can be bought in to look for wider issues in external users or technologies.
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Kris Nawani - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers complete coverage without the need to install additional software
USM Anywhere is used for threat detection and investigation. It provides a solution with built-in threat intelligence and various other investigation tools The solution offers complete coverage without the need to install additional software, as it is maintained by the vendor. It helps in saving…
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Pros

"All of the feeds can be enriched by using the predefined content pack, which can be deployed and used by SOC operations, threat hunting teams, and engineering teams."
"The feature that I liked the most is that they have a vulnerability assessment package that comes along with the SIEM solution. So, whenever I find any threat or alert for any of the devices or servers, I could immediately initiate a vulnerability assessment scan on that machine. That is one of a kind. The price at which AlienVault operates is also valuable."
"AlienVault's reporting is good. I like that vulnerability assessment is part of the solution, and the UI is intuitive. Also, the overhead is low, which is to say we don't need a dedicated SOC team to manage and analyze things constantly. We're a small company that doesn't have those resources."
"It allows for a lot of out-of-the-box features: vuln scanning, HIDS/HIPS, and IDS."
"The most valuable feature in AT&T AlienVault USM is the reporting."
"It has allowed us to see what is happening on our servers."
"We're using it more for reporting, that's all. We're using it to help our customers to pass any kind of audits that they receive."
"The USM is a work horse, no matter what devices or the number of logs we throw at it, the system processes them in real time, correlates the events, and alerts on only events that need human review."
"The AlienVault solution has enabled us to create a SOC on a budget with smaller than usual staff requirements, offering a wider range of solutions for our customers."
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Cons

"The analytics and big data platform integration can be improved to provide better visibility of past data to look for existing threats or missed threats."
"AlienVault cannot automatically respond to threats like other SIEM solutions, such as Sentinel and LogRhythm. Most of our clients are far away, so it's often challenging to handle alerts when they come up on our dashboard."
"For creating new rules, you have to be familiar with regular expressions. I feel there could be something built-in to make sure that process is easier."
"they seem to have bugs from time to time that go unfixed for a while and that is frustrating. I'm not saying the product needs to be bug-free, but they need to be responsive to bugs."
"It was easy on PoC, but when we got to the product it was different story. We had to learn the product again and got feeling that the PoC was a different product."
"The AT&T AlienVault USM is okay, but the relational database is not very good for large amounts of data. For example, many logs cannot be processed. It has been very slow for the queries and some data which are large, it is not very good in this case."
"The only complex area of the setup was writing the custom scripts."
"I feel that some areas of improvement would be vulnerability scanning. We use a separate product that seems to do a much better job."
"The other thing is the agent is OSSEC. They needed to create its own agent to help to find threats on the devices that it happens to be installed."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost is affordable and it also depends on the usage of the toolset."
"So far, I feel the product's pricing is a good value. The technology is decent. You get what you pay for. I think it's fair."
"Its price is in the medium to upper range."
"Pricing is very competitive with other products and you get much more functionality from AlienVault."
"The licensing fees are dependent on usage."
"It is affordable, and it also has many features that the premium products such as ArcSight and QRadar have. It is a very good platform for a SIEM solution. Everything is included in the price."
"I don't know exactly, but I know it is based on the number of logs and the retention duration, such as 30 days or something like that. So, the smallest package is about 500 a month for 30 days of logs. There is a virtual machine. You need resources for it. It is a log collecting VM. They provide the software, and you just have to load a virtual machine. So, you're going to incur some CPU RAM and storage for wherever this log collecting appliance is running, which typically is in our cloud and on our platform for the customer."
"The price for this solution is very good, but since the features do not work the price is expensive."
"AT&T AlienVault USM is an expensive solution and we pay for the license and the support separately. We paid for the license and support for three years."
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Computer Software Company
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Financial Services Firm
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Comms Service Provider
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Educational Organization
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What do you like most about AT&T AlienVault USM?
The most valuable feature of the solution is the ease of deployment that it provides to users. The integrations that the product has with third-party applications are useful.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AT&T AlienVault USM?
The pricing is amazing and really cheap.
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What needs improvement with AT&T AlienVault USM?
There are scalability issues due to a 60 TB limit, which restricts its use for large customers like banks. It is also limited when used with bigger products and has complex password requirements.
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AT&T AlienVault USM, AlienVault, AlienVault USM, Alienvault Cybersecurity
 

Overview

Based on activity from millions of sensors world-wide and an extensive research team, McAfee Labs publishes timely, relevant threat activity via McAfee Global Threat Intelligence (GTI). This always-on, cloud-based threat intelligence service enables accurate protection against known and fast-emerging threats by providing threat determination and contextual reputation metrics. McAfee GTI integrates directly with our security products, instantly protecting against emerging threats to reduce operational efforts and time between detection and containment.

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USM Anywhere centralizes security monitoring of networks and devices in the cloud, on premises, and in remote locations, helping you to detect threats virtually anywhere.

Discover

  • Network asset discovery
  • Software & services discovery
  • AWS asset discovery
  • Azure asset discovery
  • Google Cloud Platform asset discovery

Analyze

  • SIEM event correlation, auto-prioritized alarms
  • User activity monitoring
  • Up to 90-days of online, searchable events

Detect

  • Cloud intrusion detection (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Network intrusion detection (NIDS)
  • Host intrusion detection (HIDS)
  • Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

Respond

  • Forensics querying
  • Automate & orchestrate response
  • Notifications and ticketing

Assess

  • Vulnerability scanning
  • Cloud infrastructure assessment
  • User & asset configuration
  • Dark web monitoring

Report

  • Pre-built compliance reporting templates
  • Pre-built event reporting templates
  • Customizable views and dashboards
  • Log storage
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Sample Customers

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Abel & Cole, Bank of Ireland, Bluegrass Cellular, CareerBuilder, Claire's, Hays Medical Center, Hope International, McCurrach, McKinsey & Company, Party Delights, Pepco Holdings, Richland School District, Ricoh, SaveMart, Shake Shack, Steelcase, TaxAct, Taylor Morrison, Vonage and Zoom
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