SolarWinds Security Event Manager vs i-SIEM [EOL] comparison

Cybereason and SolarWinds are both solutions in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category. Additionally, 100% of Cybereason users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 82% of SolarWinds users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 2, 2025

SolarWinds Security Event Manager and i-SIEM [EOL] compete in the security information and event management space. SolarWinds offers advantages in pricing and support, whereas i-SIEM's advanced features often justify its higher cost.

Features: SolarWinds Security Event Manager emphasizes comprehensive threat detection and compliance reporting. It simplifies event correlation and log management, enhancing security posture. i-SIEM [EOL] delivers robust analytics capability and automated response workflows, providing extensive threat intelligence and integration options.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SolarWinds Security Event Manager has a straightforward deployment strategy, reducing operational downtime, and its customer service is responsive and helpful. i-SIEM [EOL] presents a more complex deployment process but offers extensive customization for tailored security solutions. Customer service for i-SIEM is regarded as knowledgeable, assisting with intricate configuration needs.

Pricing and ROI: SolarWinds Security Event Manager offers a lower initial setup cost and solid ROI through efficient resource usage and reduced incident resolution. i-SIEM [EOL] involves a higher investment but delivers higher ROI for organizations needing in-depth analytics and advanced functionalities.

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i-SIEM [EOL]

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9.0

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7.8

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5.7

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Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (36th)

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Dannie Combs

Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Donnelley Financial Solutions

The alert fatigue and false positive rates have just plummeted, which is really exciting.

empow has a few areas of improvement as with any other technology, such as continuing to drive innovation in the dashboard. While we've been extremely impressed with the dashboard's ease of use, flexibility, ability to drill down deeply, and focus very intently on an area of interest, there will always be opportunities to be more innovative and open it up to a wider audience than just the operations group, for example. With reporting, there is always a desire to have custom reporting for every client of empow. Relative to keeping up with the sheer pace of cloud-native technologies, it should provide more options for clients to deploy their technologies in unique ways. This is an area that I recommend that they maintain focus.

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Yashokanth Partkunan

Managed Services Engineer at Loop1 Systems

Has supported client needs efficiently but requires deeper analysis features and faster support

The log analyzing capability of SolarWinds Security Event Manager should go into more depth than the current environment. More modification and enhancements are required on the dashboard side in order to make it closer to optimal performance. From observation and feedback from users, they need more functionality related to monitoring, and in-depth analyzing needs to be improved.

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Pros

"As a result of the automation, we are able to manage SIEM with a small security team. I'm in a unique position where we have been growing the security organization quite rapidly over the last three and a half years. But, as a direct result of the empow transition and legacy collection of tools towards the empow platform, we've been able to keep that head count flat. We've been able to redirect a lot of the security team's time away from the wash, rinse, repeat activities of responding to alarms where we have a high degree of confidence that they will be false positives, adjusting the rules accordingly. This can be a bit frustrating for the analyst when they have to spend hours a day dealing with these types of probable false positives. So, it has helped not only us keep our headcount flat relative to the resources necessary to provide the assurances that our executives expect of us for monitoring, but allows our analyst team to spend the majority of their time doing what they love. They are spending their time meaningfully with a higher degree of confidence and enjoying getting into the incident response type activity."

"It supports high availability, which is very helpful."

"SolarWinds is easy to configure, and it provides timely alerts."

"It's extremely easy to deploy."

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

"The solution helps you monitor database instances, application instances, other customer application things, Linux servers, IBM servers, and Oracle servers."

"The most valuable feature is the ease of use for the end user."

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

"It performs network behavior monitoring, log monitoring, and disaster recovery monitoring."

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Cons

"Relative to keeping up with the sheer pace of cloud-native technologies, it should provide more options for clients to deploy their technologies in unique ways. This is an area that I recommend that they maintain focus."

"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."

"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 solution's technical support is okay, but we don't have an SLA, and sometimes the response times are very slow."

"We have automated threat detection in the Alliance Security, Antoinette. However, if these features could be further enhanced, it would simplify my work, potentially allowing me to allocate more time to address complex issues."

"I would like to have a more customizable dashboard."

"It is a very technical program. They can simplify it so that it isn't so hard to deal with."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I don't have to put up with any longer with these hypercomplex licensing agreements. Every time I want to add some additional reporting as a compliance centric or regulatory specific, e.g., GDPR, PCI, or Sarbanes-Oxley, many providers would have an additional license for this, which felt a bit ridiculous to me. With the simplified licensing architecture, there were no hidden "gotchas" down the road with empow. Something I have experienced with other providers that I've worked with in the past."

"With a higher degree of fidelity in the alarms, we were able to avoid adding additional resources to our teams. We take into account the cost of security resources in the market and the significantly higher fidelity from the alarms that are being generated. This drove down our costs with our MSSP. It drove down my cost for human capital internally. It drove down our need to have multiple resources supporting the underlying infrastructure and health and maintenance of empow as a platform from several resources down to one. Therefore, human capital costs were significantly reduced. Our operating expenses were significantly reduced. Our capital costs were significantly reduced while tripling our capacity and our run rate reduced. It was almost a "too good to be true" situation. Fortunately, for us, it worked out very nicely."

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

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The solution helps you monitor database instances, application instances, other customer application things, Linux servers, IBM servers, and Oracle servers.

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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.

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SolarWinds LEM, Solarwinds SIEM, TriGeo, Log and Event Manager

Overview

i-SIEM [EOL] is an innovative security information and event management platform designed to enhance threat detection and response capabilities in IT environments.

i-SIEM [EOL] offers a comprehensive approach to managing and analyzing security alerts, ensuring that businesses can effectively mitigate risks. With advanced threat intelligence and robust analytics, it helps organizations streamline their security operations and improve incident response times, providing each organization the information required to make informed security decisions.

What are the most important features of i-SIEM [EOL]?

Real-time Monitoring: Continuously tracks network activity to detect potential threats.
Advanced Threat Detection: Utilizes AI to identify sophisticated attacks.
Customizable Dashboards: Allows users to tailor their view and focus on relevant data.
Automated Incident Response: Streamlines the response process by automating certain actions.
Scalable Architecture: Easily adapts to growing business needs.

What benefits and ROI should users consider in reviews?

Improved Security Posture: Enhanced monitoring capabilities reduce risk exposure.
Operational Efficiency: Automation cuts down manual efforts and saves time.
Increased Visibility: Comprehensive insights into activity improve decision-making.
Cost Management: Helps allocate resources more effectively, potentially reducing costs.

i-SIEM [EOL] is particularly beneficial in industries such as finance and healthcare where data security is paramount. Its ability to integrate with existing infrastructure allows seamless adoption, offering enhanced security without disrupting operations. Industries handling sensitive information value its advanced capabilities to safeguard data integrity.

Cybereason

When TriGeo was acquired by SolarWinds, TriGeo SIM became known as SolarWinds Log & Event Manager. This product is a leading Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) product and log management solution, which provides log collection, analysis, and real-time correlation.

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Sample Customers

University of Oklahoma, Donnelley

NetSuite, EasyStreet, Legacy Texas Bank, and Energy Federal Credit Union, to name a few.

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