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Security Onion vs TheHive comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Security Onion
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (24th)
TheHive
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
AWS Marketplace (39th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Security Onion and TheHive aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Security Onion is designed for Log Management and holds a mindshare of 1.8%, down 4.8% compared to last year.
TheHive, on the other hand, focuses on AWS Marketplace, holds 0.2% mindshare, down 0.3% since last year.
Log Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Security Onion1.8%
Splunk Enterprise Security7.0%
IBM Security QRadar4.5%
Other86.7%
Log Management
AWS Marketplace Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
TheHive0.2%
Stardog Enterprise Knowledge Graph Platform0.4%
Prior Labs TabPFN-2.50.3%
Other99.1%
AWS Marketplace
 

Featured Reviews

HJ
Manager at teshama
Centralized threat monitoring has improved visibility but demands complex setup and configuration
The best features Security Onion offers include acting as the intrusion detection system in my organization and helping me to address traffic, logs, and events happening within the organization. Since Security Onion is an open-source system that integrates with tools like Suricata and Zeek with the ELK stack, it enables threat detection and response capabilities, delivering high-level security measures at a cost, making it suitable for businesses of varying skill levels. These integrations with Suricata and Zeek have greatly impacted our workflow and our team's effectiveness by helping us address issues such as identifying intrusions, evaluating threats, and overseeing log files. This tool is very cost-effective, making it suitable for any size of organization wanting to use it.
Karsh Trivedi - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Engineer at Payatu
Automation has transformed incident response and case management has boosted daily productivity
TheHive is actually quite beautiful and very optimized. If I had to improve anything, I would say that it could improve costing. TheHive is pretty expensive right now. With a low number of users, it works for how the business runs, but I feel that it is pretty expensive when you want to go for the commercial versions, which is where people might not want to go with it. Cost is the only downside, but it is the major downside. I would like to share an incident with you about a recent meeting I had with a client regarding TheHive. The only trigger that they had not to go with TheHive was the cost. Everything looked very good and was very fine, but the costing part was hard. The costing part was something that made them hold off on TheHive and choose a different solution. Over the years, TheHive has improved significantly in how the platform is used and how cases are managed. One good feature that I appreciated when I moved from TheHive 4 to TheHive 5 was the dark mode. When Strange Bee did the rebranding and made it a closed-source product, they added the dark mode feature, which I need because I am not good with light screens. TheHive was the only tool having only white mode capabilities. Once they added it, they have improved a lot. Many connectors are added, and many more integrations are possible now with TheHive. Basically, the appearance, performance, and integrations have improved a lot over the years.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"We use Security Onion for internal vulnerability assessment."
"Security Onion is the most mature solution in the market."
"The most valuable feature of Security Onion for security monitoring is its ability to find infected ports."
"Security Onion is a completely open-source and free platform, making it a cost-effective solution that works smoothly and effectively for our organization."
"Security Onion has positively impacted my organization by greatly improving our security posture, making alert triage easier to handle, simplifying the analysis of threats, and decreasing the cost of threat analysis and detection."
"TheHive has positively impacted my organization because before that, we did not have a good solution to register the tickets."
"TheHive has positively impacted our organization because it is a free solution."
"The people at TheHive have made it very customizable, flexible, and very security-centric, as they understand what a particular incident responder or security team needs and provide it quite well."
 

Cons

"For Security Onion, setting up and configuring the system can be quite challenging for newcomers due to the need for a grasp of networking and security concepts."
"Security Onion can be made easier to set up initially, as it is somewhat difficult at the start, but once configured, it becomes a great tool to use."
"The initial setup of the solution is a little bit difficult."
"Security Onion's user interface could be improved."
"The product is not easy to learn."
"I would rate it a seven because I think the design could be better in TheHive."
"Cost is the only downside, but it is the major downside."
"TheHive can be improved because if you want to use it in a small or medium company, it will be really good, but for a really huge company like mine was, I believe that at least on the free version, you will have big issues regarding performance because the solution is not built for a huge company like mine was."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Security Onion is a free solution."
"It is an open-source solution."
"Security Onion is an open-source solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
University
12%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Government
10%
Construction Company
7%
Construction Company
29%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Media Company
12%
Comms Service Provider
8%
 

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Security Onion?
Security Onion does not require any cost, as it is open-source and free.
What needs improvement with Security Onion?
Security Onion can be made easier to set up initially, as it is somewhat difficult at the start, but once configured, it becomes a great tool to use. I assigned a rating of eight out of ten because...
What advice do you have for others considering Security Onion?
Security Onion is a completely open-source and free platform, making it a cost-effective solution that works smoothly and effectively for our organization. Security Onion integrates well with our e...
What needs improvement with TheHive?
I would rate it a seven because I think the design could be better in TheHive. The graphics need improvement. When I used TheHive, the platform did not have AI governance and security options yet, ...
What is your primary use case for TheHive?
My main use case for TheHive is to work in our incident response team, where we manage the incident response process inside TheHive and alerts as well. A specific example of how TheHive fits into m...
What advice do you have for others considering TheHive?
I rate TheHive an eight on a scale of one to ten. I choose the number eight because it is a really good solution if you know how to configure it and if you know how to measure the infrastructure ne...
 

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