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McAfee Global Threat Intelligence [EOL] vs USM Anywhere comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

McAfee Global Threat Intell...
Average Rating
0.0
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 (36th), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (31st), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (41st), Compliance Management (13th)
 

Featured Reviews

Chetankumar Savalagimath - PeerSpot reviewer
Delivery Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
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.
Kris Nawani - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder/Director at Bangkok MSP Company Limited
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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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

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."
"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."
"AlienVault is the more appropriate solution, it's flexible, Linux based, and contains a large number of open source solutions."
"AlienVault has provided a nice, unified system for monitoring and reporting."
"The setup is very easy and straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is security management for PCI DSS."
"Ease of deployment across various environments."
"The IDS and the threat intelligence are very useful. They are very intuitive and data-rich."
"Beyond provided us with an IDS as was our initial need, but AlienVault gave us more useful resources, as SIEM, and as a vulnerability scanner (the last, one of my favourite resources)."
"Overall, I find that this product is amazing."
 

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."
"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."
"Its reporting tools need improvements. It would be good if they can provide integration with other ticketing systems. Currently, we only have integration with Slack and Jira. It is also a bit slow, and its replication engine can be improved."
"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."
"In emergency cases, it is difficult to reach them."
"I would like to see it be able to run on any hardware via just an installer."
"Those tools could be improved because AlienVault is a SIEM, and it added all these other features."
"The only that I can think of is that is not ideal is sending Windows Server logs to their device, to the system."
"Most of the troubleshooting requires going through the Linux command line and bypassing the GUI."
"Pay attention to false-positive event automatic correlations."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost is affordable and it also depends on the usage of the toolset."
"The price of this solution is reasonable, which is one of the reasons why we selected it over other solutions."
"We pay around $12,000 a year including storage."
"AlienVault is flexible on their pricing for unlimited licenses."
"​The vulnerability management solution is worse than buying a Nessus Professional license.​"
"The ROI is quite good."
"I don't think the product's pricing is a good value because they try to raise the price 50 percent every year... AlienVault needs to understand that not all customers are huge enterprises... Their sales team is way too aggressive. The price they advertise is not always the price you get."
"Its price is much lower than McAfee ESM."
"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."
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Construction Company
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Financial Services Firm
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Comms Service Provider
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
 

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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.
What is your primary use case for AT&T AlienVault USM?
USM Anywhere is used for threat detection and investigation. It provides a solution with built-in threat intelligence and various other investigation tools.
 

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AT&T AlienVault USM, AlienVault, AlienVault USM, Alienvault Cybersecurity
 

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