We performed a comparison between Sumo Logic Security and USM Anywhere based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Log Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Sentinel is a Microsoft product, so they provide very robust use cases and analytic groups, which are very beneficial for the security team. I also like the ability to integrate data sources into the software for on-premise and cloud-based solutions."
"Azure Application Gateway makes things a lot easier. You can create dashboards, alert rules, hunting and custom queries, and functions with it."
"The analytic rule is the most valuable feature."
"It has basic out-of-the-box integrations with multiple log sources."
"I like the ability to run custom KQL queries. I don't know if that feature is specific to Sentinel. As far as I know, they are using technology built into Azure's Log Analytics app. Sentinel integrates with that, and we use this functionality heavily."
"The standout feature of Sentinel is that, because it's cloud-based and because it's from Microsoft, it integrates really well with all the other Microsoft products. It's really simple to set up and get going."
"Mainly, this is a cloud-native product. So, there are zero concerns about managing the whole infrastructure on-premises."
"It's easy to use. It's a very good product. It can easily ingest data from anywhere. It has an easily understandable language to perform actions."
"We are able to diagnose problems before our customers."
"It helps a lot because we can troubleshoot issues pretty easily."
"We can integrate threat intelligence solutions into the product."
"It gives us a bird's eye view of what's happening from our connection's point of view."
"With this tool, we provide access to every developer team the ability to find errors, then they come to us and ask for specific help."
"It provides easy visibility. I also like the shareable queries because we share a lot across groups."
"Technical support is always great."
"Sumo Logic is an easy solution to use. You can set it up very quickly, and it includes a lot of training videos."
"AlientVault has helped us in improving our visualization and incident response during cybersecurity situations."
"The asset management of nodes has been a large help in terms of being able to track applications with more detail and have changes made being monitored into one source."
"Having everything in a central place has been helpful."
"This solution can completely detect and prevent incidents on your network."
"AlienVault's reporting is good. I like that vulnerability assessment is part of the solution, and the UI is intuitive. Also, the overhead is low, which is to say we don't need a dedicated SOC team to manage and analyze things constantly. We're a small company that doesn't have those resources."
"Log-monitoring and alerting enable us to know when things happen that we need to know about."
"It is my "security person" looking at irregularities and letting me know when something has occurred."
"The most valuable features of AT&T AlienVault USM are the ease of management and knowledge of what is on the network of my customers. It's easy to understand the problems, and management our alarms and events."
"The learning curve could be improved. I am still learning it. We were able to implement the basic features to get them up and running, but there are still so many things that I don't know about all its features. They have a lot of features that we have not been able to use or apply. If they could work on reducing the solution's learning curve, that would be good. While there is a training course held by Microsoft to learn more about this solution, there is a cost associated with it."
"Documentation is the main thing that could be improved. In terms of product usage, the documentation is pretty good, but I'd like a lot more documentation on Kusto Query Language."
"I believe one of the challenges I encountered was the absence of live training sessions, even with the option to pay for them."
"I think the number one area of improvement for Sentinel would be the cost."
"At the network level, there is a limitation in integrating some of the switches or routers with Microsoft Sentinel. Currently, SPAN traffic monitoring is not available in Microsoft Sentinel. I have heard that it is available in Defender for Identity, which is a different product. It would be good if LAN traffic monitoring or SPAN traffic monitoring is available in Microsoft Sentinel. It would add a lot of value. It is available in some of the competitor products in the market."
"If their UI was a bit more streamlined and easy to find when I need it, then that would be a great improvement."
"They could use some kind of workbook. There is some limitation doing the editing and creating the workbook."
"They should just add more and more out-of-the-box connectors. It is quite a new product, and it has a lot of connectors, and even more would be good."
"If you want to up your subscription through the AWS Marketplace, it can be difficult. You can't just go back to the AWS Marketplace, and say, "I want a bigger one now." You have to contact the sales team, then they do it on the back-end. This could definitely be improved."
"We would like the ability to drill down into a dashboard and get into deeper levels."
"From the network segmentation side, there is some discrepancy in log onboarding. The tool needs to improve direct API integrations, login integration, native login integration, etc."
"I would like better UI-driven functionality to create alerts and reports. Now, we have to understand the syntax, so it is a little difficult for someone to pick it up without using the manuals. If there was more of a graphical user interface, it would be beneficial."
"It would be nice to have an improved ability to scroll through logs within a time frame. Right now, we can search for specific errors. However, if we want to look for "before and after" within a specific time frame, it's not easy using the tool. This would be an improvement."
"Sumo Logic needs to make sure integrating solutions are seamless."
"The solution should improve its UI."
"There are some API gaps that are missing."
"Sometimes the log is unclear, and the report is a bit ambiguous."
"The UI and overall processes need a little bit more love. This shows in the error banners that come up when you select certain things. There isn't a day that goes by that the UI doesn't error out and I can't view events for an alarm."
"The lack of mature functionality and expertise in any of those areas is a strong negative."
"I want to see more compliance management capability. The quality of integrations seems to be a little bit low."
"AT&T AlienVault USM can improve searchable data. It should be available for more than 90 days. If you need more than 90 days of data, you have to put a request and they give you raw data, which is not easy to search. A good addition would be to allow users to search data older than 90 days."
"The vulnerability reporting needs to have options to be able to sort or customize the output."
"The reporting is mediocre and is something that needs to be improved."
"I've been using it just for my own personal upskilling in terms of how the product works. At the moment, it is pretty straightforward and simple, and it is working how it is supposed to. The feedback would come once it is deployed to customer sites. They'll be using it on a more frequent basis, and that's when the feedback would come in terms of the areas in which they're facing issues or are looking for simplicity."
Sumo Logic Security is ranked 22nd in Log Management with 18 reviews while USM Anywhere is ranked 15th in Log Management with 113 reviews. Sumo Logic Security is rated 8.6, while USM Anywhere is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Sumo Logic Security writes "Used to store and monitor application logs and VPC flow logs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of USM Anywhere writes "Easy to use and affordable". Sumo Logic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Rapid7 InsightIDR, Splunk Enterprise Security, VMware Aria Operations for Logs and IBM Security QRadar, whereas USM Anywhere is most compared with Wazuh, AlienVault OSSIM, IBM Security QRadar, Splunk Enterprise Security and Rapid7 InsightIDR. See our Sumo Logic Security vs. USM Anywhere report.
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