Cybereason Endpoint Detection & Response vs SolarWinds Security Event Manager comparison

"The initial setup was easy and straightforward."

"The initial setup process is straightforward."

"It gives all the information in a clear response."

"We didn't have the visibility that we now have. It has increased our visibility by a lot. So, we put a lot more time into really looking at our environment and what is happening throughout our different networks. It has increased our visibility by around fivefold."

"The interface is user-friendly."

"The solution is efficient."

"The dashboard is very good and you can consider it as an interactive UI."

"What I find most valuable is the clarity of the platform. It is very straightforward."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the visibility into both attempted and failed logins."

"The most valuable feature is the reporting."

"This tool is simple to use."

"SolarWinds Security Event Manager has been generally working well."

"We did previously use a different solution, but SolarWinds is much better. It's easy to interact with SolarWinds. It's easy to operate, easy to configure and is generally easier compared to what we were working with before."

"User-friendly configuration is key, and the configurations are simple, not complex."

"The out of the box reports and dashboard. It was easy to trim down these windows to something we could quickly use."

"SolarWinds' stability is fine. I don't think we've had any software issues."

"The product's reporting isn't great."

"Ad hoc higher-level reporting to senior management can be improved or can be implemented. That's definitely an area of improvement that they need to focus on."

"The reporting feature needs improvement."

"They need to improve their technical support services."

"Its Microsoft PowerShell protections still need some compatibility improvements. We have run across just a few. It is compatible with 90% of what we have in our network, but there is that 10% that we are still struggling with as far as compatibility with the type of PowerShell scripts needed to run our day-to-day business."

"While the product is very good, there are still some areas for improvement. The initial triage area could be a bit simpler. They get into the weeds real fast; it gets very detailed very fast. I am still looking for an easier triage layer on top with the ability to dig deeper."

"I feel it is a shame that I cannot create groups of groups with inheritance."

"Cybereason does not have sandbox functionality."

"I imagine we will have to develop our own reports soon, this seems to be more cumbersome."

"Training for this solution needs to be improved, as new employees are sometimes unfamiliar with the product."

"We used the support from SolarWinds Security Event Manager and they are knowledgeable but challenging to get in contact with them."

"The log analyzing capability of SolarWinds Security Event Manager should go into more depth than the current environment."

"Under the new system, it is not upgradable the way they say. When you try to do an upgrade, it doesn't really work unless you dump everything and start from scratch. You lose a lot of your nodes. Whenever you set your nodes up and everything else, they don't want to bring those nodes back in, so you have to really go back and restructure all your nodes. I went from version 6.5 to version 6.6 and then to version 6.7. I then went to version 2019, and now it is version 2020. It would be good if we can upgrade without having to delete everything and start from scratch. They can maybe build more KPIs and other things for the dashboard. Some of the other systems already have built-in KPIs. SolarWinds is starting to catch up, but it is not there yet. They can include some of the business or industry standards for tracking the time, that is, the meantime to detect (MTTD) and the meantime to resolve (MTTR). They can also find a way to build a KPI that measures the number of instances of port scans experienced in a week or a month."

"I don't think SolarWinds is scalable enough. It is somewhat limited when I need to deploy it across multiple environments in a distributed architecture."

"SolarWinds should improve its correlation capabilities. The correlation does not automatically detect and reduce the events fast enough. You have to manually do a correlation report, which means the tool is not scalable in many ways."

"It won't tell you when your backups are failing, but it will give you hints when your database is running on full recovery."

"We considered a few other solutions. Some were ridiculously overpriced, while others didn't have solutions for Mac endpoints. That was a deal-breaker because most of our organization is on Mac. It came down to two vendors: Cybereason and another. They had similar pitches and almost identical approaches, but in the end, Cybereason gave us the best value for our money."

"I had to go through a third-party to purchase it, which I wasn't really pleased about."

"In terms of pricing, it's a good solution."

"Though it is not the cheapest solution but it fits our budget. We pay an annual licensing fee."

"I do not have experience with the licensing of the product."

"The pricing is manageable."

"In terms of cost, this is a good choice for our needs."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the pricing an eight."

"The tool is available at a good price for customers compared to other solutions in the market. I rate the product's price as an eight out of ten."

"Licensing is on devices, so if you have many, then this may be high."

"The price of SolarWinds Security Event Manager is reasonable."

"It is in the appropriate mid-range. It is not as expensive as some of the other solutions. It is also not cheap."

"The pricing model would benefit from having package deals with other SolarWinds products."

"Licenses can only be purchased in blocks of fifty at a time."

"We do a yearly license renewal. For a year, the solution costs roughly $500,000 USD. There are no costs beyond this yearly fee."