AWS Security Hub vs OpenText Enterprise Security Manager comparison

The compared Amazon Web Services (AWS) and OpenText solutions aren't in the same category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #13 in CSPM , with an average rating of 7.9, and holds a 3.5% mindshare in the category. OpenText is ranked #26 in SIEM , with an average rating of 6.8, and holds a 1.5% mindshare. Additionally, 89% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of OpenText users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager ESM and AWS Security Hub are major contenders in the cybersecurity landscape. Users have expressed greater satisfaction with AWS Security Hub's scalability and ease of integration, indicating it may have the upper hand.

Features: ArcSight ESM offers comprehensive threat detection, incident management, and robust functionalities. AWS Security Hub provides seamless integration with AWS services, enhancing operational efficiency and scalability.

Room for Improvement: ArcSight ESM needs better analytics, more frequent updates, and improved user interface. AWS Security Hub users suggest enhancing multi-tenancy support, advanced customization options, and reporting capabilities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: ArcSight ESM's deployment can be complex and time-consuming, but customer service is responsive. AWS Security Hub features a quicker deployment process and benefits from AWS's extensive customer service resources.

Pricing and ROI: ArcSight ESM's initial setup costs are high but justified by its extensive feature set. AWS Security Hub's pricing is more competitive; users achieve ROI sooner due to lower ongoing costs and faster time to value.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

AWS Security Hub

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) (6th), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (13th)

OpenText Enterprise Securit...

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (26th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Security Software solutions, they serve different purposes. AWS Security Hub is designed for Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and holds a mindshare of 3.5%, down 4.5% compared to last year.
OpenText Enterprise Security Manager, on the other hand, focuses on Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), holds 1.5% mindshare, up 1.1% since last year.

Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
AWS Security Hub	3.5%
Wiz	14.3%
Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks	9.3%
Other	72.9%

Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
OpenText Enterprise Security Manager	1.5%
Splunk Enterprise Security	7.2%
Wazuh	5.8%
Other	85.5%

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Featured Reviews

Karthik Ekambaram

Director at Scybers

Has helped identify misconfigurations and prioritize risks but lacks multi-cloud support and deeper integration features

AWS Security Hub cannot scale up to multiple different cloud environments; it only works for AWS. There are other products in the market for CSPM that can give you multi-cloud environment misconfigurations, even Microsoft for that matter. Regarding the integration of AWS Security Hub with third-party tools, I am not certain whether we can integrate them, but there is no need to do so. However, AWS Security Hub cannot integrate with other cloud providers, so it only supports the AWS environment. The compliance checks within AWS Security Hub are good, but we don't use them much. We utilize compliance frameworks such as CIS compliance frameworks and ISO 27017 framework, which are beneficial, but it can improve in other areas too, such as including NIST and other frameworks beyond just ISO and CIS. Improvements can be applicable for scalability, particularly on integration with multi-cloud environments, and compliance frameworks can be added for more variety as well. The unified dashboard in AWS Security Hub is adequate; I cannot say it is exceptional, but the content available in the dashboards is satisfactory for now.

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DayaramGoyal

Vice President, Technology at Cache Digitech Pvt Ltd.

Integration shines but threat detection and technical support need attention

Regarding threat detection capabilities, I think OpenText Enterprise Security Manager covers the MITRE ATT&CK framework at an average level, and on a scale of one to ten, I would rate it only five. They have to improve in those areas in terms of threat detection capabilities. For ArcSight, they need to give the complete package, with UBA being part of that. They have added it, but I question what capabilities are there, especially on the SOAR side where they have to improve because the SIEM was very strong. For the SOAR side, because SIEM was very strong when they were earlier launched, but for SOAR, they were integrating with third-party solutions initially, and then they built the capability. They have acquired some company, but it is not up to that potential. They slowly and gradually lost that ground to Splunk, QRadar, and other companies, so when anybody talks about the full capabilities, they are not thinking about Micro Focus as of now. I would desire additional features in OpenText Enterprise Security Manager, especially on the SOAR side, and maybe on the UBA side, as threats intel and all, which are part of bundled solutions. Those are the areas they have to improve so that customers can trust and enhance those things, and maybe the customers will feel they should go for this product. As of now, if we are evaluating our own scenario, we are not even thinking about it. Earlier, that was not the scenario when they were selling this SIEM solution in the market; everybody was thinking OpenText was the default option, but now, if you're looking for a complete solution stack, nobody is even considering it.

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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 advantage is that it is cloud-native, and we do not need to install agents or sensors to find findings."

"Easily integrates with third-party tools"

"The solution is very good at detection and providing real-time alerts."

"The most valuable features of the solution are the scanning of all the cloud environments and most of the compliances available in the cloud."

"The solution shows us our compliance score."

"I like that AWS Security Hub currently has several good features, around four or five. The technical support for AWS Security Hub is also responsive."

"Though I'm still in the initial evaluation phase for AWS Security Hub, I would recommend it to others because it has good features."

"I find all of the features to be highly valuable."

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"The dashboard is the most valuable feature for us as it can show a lot of information about real-time incidents."

"It is a very useful tool for intelligence building because it has many use cases and many rule sets."

"Customization, ArcSight gives you a platform to on-board out-of-the-box devices with a more accurate way of collecting desired logs/events."

"We do consulting and I get feedback from our clients that the product really helped them with compliance, especially with GDPR."

"There are many features that are good for clients who are looking for a good SIEM solution."

"ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager has good scalability."

"There are many features that are good for clients who are looking for a good SIEM solution. They like the ease of creating a business that is effective and impressive."

"This process has helped to improve our organization because we have centralized the intra-group security equipment logs."

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Cons

"Right now, there are some difficulties we're facing with AWS Security Hub, and we need our central team to mitigate the issues."

"Shortening the response time for support tickets, particularly in production issues, could make the service more efficient."

"Security needs to be measured based on their own criteria. We can't add custom criteria specific to our organization. For example, having an S3 bucket publicly available might be flagged as a critical alert, but it might not be critical in a sandbox environment. So, it gets flagged as critical, which becomes a false positive. So, customization options and creating custom dashboards would be areas for improvement."

"There is room for improvement in implementing AI capabilities. It would be beneficial for Security Hub to implement preventative measures and to directly apply recommendations instead of just suggesting them."

"Whenever my team gets some alarms from the central team, my team needs to initiate whether it's a real or false trigger. The central team needs to keep adjusting to the parameters or at least the concerned IPs, whether it's really from the company's pool of IPs, so the trigger process can be improved. In the next release of AWS Security Hub, I'd like a better dashboard that could result in better alert visibility."

"Adding SIEM features would be beneficial because of the limited customization of AWS Security Hub."

"The telemetry doesn't always go into the control center. When you have multiple instances running in AWS, you need a control tower to take feeds from Security Hub and analyze your results. Sometimes exemptions aren't passed between the control tower and Security Hub. The configuration gets mixed up or you don't get the desired results."

"Many findings are too generic or irrelevant to the environment, which can lead to false positives."

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"It would be nice to have it on the cloud so that you can deploy it easily, saving time and resources."

"ArcSight also has a very high bandwidth consumption to pull the local servers."

"ArcSight ESM could improve the alerts for the storage capacities or actions."

"Initial deployment of ArcSight is pretty challenging. It takes at least 3-4 months to install, integrate, define content and fine tune before starting the security operation."

"Administration of ArcSight is not an easy job. The admin needs to be well experienced in it to identify the root cause and fix it."

"What could be improved in ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) is its analytics feature. That feature should be more powerful and have more correlation in terms of AI/ML, though MicroFocus has done a good job in adding analytics to ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) which has become a big draw to customers. What I'd like to see in the next release of the solution is the addition of AI/ML features."

"It is quite complex and could use a better UI. So the improvement would be a simplification. It is pretty complicated to use. The architecture is not complex but the setup and use are."

"High availability achievable through complicated configurations (i.e. load balancers)."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of AWS Security Hub is average compared to other solutions."

"The price of the solution is not very competitive but it is reasonable."

"The pricing is fine. It is not an expensive tool."

"AWS Security Hub is not an expensive tool. I would consider it to be a cheap solution. AWS Security Hub follows the PAYG pricing model, meaning you will have to pay for whatever you use."

"The cost is based on the number of compliances, core checks, and services required, and for more than 10,000 recommendations, the charge is just one dollar."

"There are multiple subscription models, like yearly, monthly, and packaged."

"Security Hub is not an expensive solution."

"AWS Security Hub's pricing is pretty reasonable."

"We're paying a fee for an MSSP, and the cost of the total cost of ArcSight ESM was approximately three to four million dollars a year. The price was less than similar solutions. We did not have additional fees."

"The pricing model is expensive compared to open-source alternatives."

"The pricing is great compared to others."

"The licensing cost is affordable if you get an enterprise license. The licensing is based on EPS, so you can probably provide a package of license for multiple ESMs with their correlational end fees. It is cost-effective."

"ArcSight is pretty expensive compared with its competitors. I believe that is fine as it provides value."

"The solution is super expensive. At our organization size and license model, I think the price is average to what anyone else would charge us."

"Price-wise, ArcSight ESM was a bit high compared to competitors, which factored into our decision to switch to Splunk. It couldn't cover all our business needs for what we wanted to implement."

"There is a license required for this solution."

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Vinod Shankar

Manager, Enterprise Risk Consulting at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 28, 2015

Qradar vs. ArcSight

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Marketing Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	10
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	12

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	37
Midsize Enterprise	14
Large Enterprise	57

Questions from the Community

Which is better - Azure Sentinel or AWS Security Hub?

We like that Azure Sentinel does not require as much maintenance as legacy SIEMs that are on-premises. Azure Sentinel is auto-scaling - you will not have to worry about performance impact, you will...

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What do you like most about AWS Security Hub?

The most valuable features of the solution are the scanning of all the cloud environments and most of the compliances available in the cloud.

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What needs improvement with AWS Security Hub?

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Which is the best SIEM tool for a mid-sized financial services firm: Arcsight or Securonix?

In my market, a lot of financial companies had or have an ArcSight installation. Just because in former times it was pretty good. Now a lot of them are looking for a more effective solution due to ...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM)?

ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) is very cheap compared to other tools. It is worth the investment if you are considering the cost.

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What needs improvement with ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM)?

Regarding threat detection capabilities, I think OpenText Enterprise Security Manager covers the MITRE ATT&CK framework at an average level, and on a scale of one to ten, I would rate it only f...

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Comparisons

Microsoft Sentinel vs AWS Security Hub

Compared 33% of the time

Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks vs AWS Security Hub

Compared 8% of the time

Wiz vs AWS Security Hub

Compared 5% of the time

Microsoft Defender for Cloud vs AWS Security Hub

Compared 4% of the time

Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP vs AWS Security Hub

Compared 4% of the time

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Trellix ESM vs OpenText Enterprise Security Manager

Compared 12% of the time

IBM Security QRadar vs OpenText Enterprise Security Manager

Compared 10% of the time

SurfWatch Labs SurfWatch vs OpenText Enterprise Security Manager

Compared 8% of the time

Splunk Enterprise Security vs OpenText Enterprise Security Manager

Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 5% of the time

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Also Known As

SQRRL

Micro Focus ArcSight, HPE ArcSight, ArcSight

Overview

AWS Security Hub is a comprehensive security service that provides a centralized view of security alerts and compliance status across an AWS environment. It collects data from various AWS services, partner solutions, and AWS Marketplace products to provide a holistic view of security posture. With Security Hub, users can quickly identify and prioritize security issues, automate compliance checks, and streamline remediation efforts.

The service offers a range of features including continuous monitoring, threat intelligence integration, and customizable dashboards. It also provides automated insights and recommendations to help users improve their security posture. Security Hub integrates with other AWS services like Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Config, and AWS Macie to provide a unified security experience. Additionally, it supports integration with third-party security tools through its API, allowing users to leverage their existing security investments.

With its user-friendly interface and powerful capabilities, AWS Security Hub is a valuable tool for organizations looking to enhance their security and compliance posture in the cloud.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

OpenText Enterprise Security Manager enables real-time threat detection through scalable and adaptable solutions, integrating seamlessly with multiple platforms for complex security scenarios across different environments.

OpenText Enterprise Security Manager offers extensive security monitoring capabilities, combining log analysis and incident management to enhance cybersecurity and compliance. Its powerful event correlation engine provides real-time alerts for rapid incident response. Users benefit from customizable dashboards and comprehensive log collection, making it a significant tool in the SIEM market. Flexible deployment options cater to both on-premises and cloud environments, supporting enterprises in managing IT infrastructure and threat detection efficiently.

What are the key features of OpenText Enterprise Security Manager?

Event Correlation Engine: Real-time threat detection with advanced correlation capabilities.
Scalability: Adapts to enterprise-level demands and complex security needs.
Integration: Seamlessly integrates with multiple platforms and third-party tools.
Customizable Dashboards: Tailored views and active lists enhance user experience.
Advanced Alerting: Provides timely incident response and security alerts.

Why should users look for reviews when evaluating OpenText Enterprise Security Manager?

Timely Incident Responses: Fast alerting and action against threats.
User-Friendly Experience: Customizable dashboards simplify monitoring tasks.
Comprehensive Security Management: Integrated log management and threat detection across domains.
Adaptability and Scalability: Supports both on-premises and cloud deployments.

In industries such as finance, healthcare, and energy, OpenText Enterprise Security Manager is implemented for monitoring critical systems and ensuring compliance with regulatory needs. Enterprises leverage its capabilities for forensic investigations and active threat management, serving as a central hub for cybersecurity operations across diverse IT infrastructures.

OpenText

Sample Customers

Edmunds, Frame.io, GoDaddy, Realtor.com

Lake Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Bank AlJazira, Banca Intesa, and Obrela.

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