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Security Onion vs TheHive comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Security Onion
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
5.5
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (29th)
TheHive
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
AWS Marketplace (51st)
 

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 2.0%, down 5.3% 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 Onion2.0%
Splunk Enterprise Security6.8%
Wazuh4.8%
Other86.4%
Log Management
AWS Marketplace Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
TheHive0.2%
Stardog Enterprise Knowledge Graph Platform0.4%
Freight Emissions API - Carbon data for shipping and logistics0.3%
Other99.1%
AWS Marketplace
 

Featured Reviews

Jörg Kippe - PeerSpot reviewer
Scientist at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees
A mature and affordable solution that is easy to install and easy to update
The product takes time to learn, it's not that easy. In the beginning we had a lot of questions. If you want to use such a tool in an real (industrial) environment, you have to ask how to get the network data. Can we do a full packet capture? Can we provide agents to our end systems? There are no simple solutions to these questions. It's a general problem when running such systems in an industrial environment.
Karsh Trivedi - PeerSpot reviewer
Soc Analyst 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

"Security Onion is the most mature solution in the market."
"We use Security Onion for internal vulnerability assessment."
"The most valuable feature of Security Onion for security monitoring is its ability to find infected ports."
"TheHive has positively impacted my organization because before that, we did not have a good solution to register the tickets."
"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

"The product is not easy to learn."
"The initial setup of the solution is a little bit difficult."
"Security Onion's user interface could be improved."
"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."
"Cost is the only downside, but it is the major downside."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

By visitors reading reviews
University
12%
Government
10%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Computer Software Company
7%
Construction Company
27%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Media Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

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Questions from the Community

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What needs improvement with TheHive?
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,...
What is your primary use case for TheHive?
My main use case for TheHive is incident response and tickets register for DLP. A quick specific example of how I use TheHive for incident response or ticket registration is that we have many tools...
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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