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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 2, 2025

USM Anywhere and Vanta are leading competitors in the cybersecurity sector. USM Anywhere excels with its comprehensive support and pricing, whereas Vanta has an edge with its extensive features that justify its higher price tag for those focused on compliance.

Features: USM Anywhere offers extensive threat detection, seamless integration with multiple data sources, and proactive monitoring capabilities. Vanta specializes in compliance management, featuring automated audit processes and robust monitoring to streamline business operations.

Room for Improvement: USM Anywhere can enhance its automated deployment processes and simplify its initial setup. Its reporting capabilities could also be more user-friendly. Vanta could improve its configuration flexibility and reduce the complexity of integration with third-party tools, along with offering better customization options for its compliance management dashboards.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Vanta provides a highly streamlined deployment process with strong customer support, facilitating quick integration. USM Anywhere's deployment is straightforward but might need more manual attention during setup. Both platforms deliver excellent customer support, with Vanta’s model being particularly noted for its efficiency.

Pricing and ROI: USM Anywhere is competitively priced, providing significant ROI through its security-centric features. Vanta may require a higher upfront investment but offers a favorable ROI for firms prioritizing compliance benefits. The key difference is USM Anywhere's cost-effectiveness for security management while Vanta delivers high value for compliance-focused organizations.

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USM Anywhere vs. Vanta

December 2025

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Categories and Ranking

USM Anywhere

Ranking in Compliance Management

15th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

115

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (40th), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (32nd), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (49th)

Vanta

Ranking in Compliance Management

3rd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

5.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Compliance Consulting (1st), Data Governance (11th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Compliance Management category, the mindshare of USM Anywhere is 1.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Vanta is 8.1%, down from 14.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Compliance Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Vanta	8.1%
USM Anywhere	1.2%
Other	90.7%

Compliance Management

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Kris Nawani

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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reviewer2585640

Consultant at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

Compliance workflows have become organized and automation supports ongoing healthcare audits

There are always tons of rooms for improvement for Vanta. I kind of exaggerated a little bit about the policy control. I don't really love the way they handle the revision management of that feature. If I'm on V1 of the policy document and I make some changes to it, then I get rid of V1 and then I re-upload V2. It's not that it keeps a running history of each of the different revisions. A little bit of an issue with that, but workable. I don't really have any negative complaint right now that would be worthwhile expressing. It's just that there's a lot of features. The UI is not super intuitive, but now that I've worked with it for a couple of years, I know how to navigate and get around. Initially, it was a little bit of a struggle understanding how these things would all work.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"This solution can completely detect and prevent incidents on your network."

"We're using it more for reporting, that's all. We're using it to help our customers to pass any kind of audits that they receive."

"The best thing about AlienVault USM is it being a “Jack-of-All Trades” solution. It provides SIEM, HIDS/NIDS, FIM, NetFlow, Asset Management, Vulnerability Management, etc., under one USM platform. None of the commercial SIEM vendors like ArcSight, McAfee, etc., can boast of such a diverse feature set."

"Ease of deployment across various environments."

"The USM is a work horse, no matter what devices or the number of logs we throw at it, the system processes them in real time, correlates the events, and alerts on only events that need human review."

"The new cloud-based panel is excellent both for client review as well as for our SOC to review and respond to threats. It is much easier to configure and use than the previous solution from AlienVault."

"The most valuable feature in AT&T AlienVault USM is the reporting."

"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."

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"Task management and vendor assurance are the most valuable features. It is also an easy tool to use."

"They integrate into New Relic as a performance monitoring tool."

"It helps us track the compliance of the components listed in our partner's directory. We can also check if the password manager, XML, and three log policies have been properly implemented on the desktop."

"The most valuable feature of Vanta is its prebuilt control frameworks."

"The most valuable feature of Vanta would be the time savings from the automation and the continuous compliance monitoring once set up."

"Vanta has positively impacted my organization by streamlining the whole HITRUST R2 assessment process."

"The product has provided automated security controls for our cloud provider. It helps to automate security checks. Vanta offers a list of things that can be done to achieve ISO 27001 compliance."

"Vanta's integrations and automated tests have streamlined our SOC 2 compliance and provided a single entry point for addressing risks and failed tests."

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Cons

"The lack of mature functionality and expertise in any of those areas is a strong negative."

"The reporting aspect could be improved. While there are a lot of different options available, there are still pieces which are missing."

"The AT&T AlienVault USM is okay, but the relational database is not very good for large amounts of data. For example, many logs cannot be processed. It has been very slow for the queries and some data which are large, it is not very good in this case."

"The vulnerability reporting needs to have options to be able to sort or customize the output."

"We develop additional rules and scripts to make it more usable."

"There is room for improvement in Log parsing."

"Different functions to customize reports should be added."

"USM Anywhere relies a lot on the community putting the data in. Often, you'll right-click on the attack, but nothing will be found. That's a weakness of it."

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"Scalability could be improved."

"Currently, Vanta's user access review module is still in development, and we've been giving them continuous feedback to help them improve that."

"I would tell others looking into using Vanta to use it for HITRUST E1 and I1 assessments, as the R2 assessments are still a work in progress."

"Failed tests for device CVEs seem to be cumulative, meaning I have to clear all CVEs before the test will pass, which makes it difficult to resolve the test before the next round of CVEs are published."

"Some of the tool's automated tests do not work the way it should."

"There are connection problems about 50% of the time because of the automated evidence collection."

"They have an AI generator for the system description for SOC 2, however, the outline is a little sketchy."

"Permissions for platform users have been an issue. We've had to give admin access to Vanta for another team member to view all items."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's affordable for most customers."

"The pricing is a good value. The key thing is that for the new product, the licensing of it, is subscription-based and it's based on data. Clients need to be really careful when thinking about that, because odds are they're going to need to put a lot more data into it than what they initially estimate, which is going to drive their subscription costs up."

"We checked out several competitors. For what it can do and the cost, it was the best option!"

"We pay around $12,000 a year including storage."

"We ran a few PoCs. The price and feature set were the best with AlienVault."

"The vulnerability management solution is worse than buying a Nessus Professional license."

"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."

"Use an MSSP instead. It is much cheaper."

More USM Anywhere pricing and cost advice

"Vanta is expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Performing Arts

Educational Organization

Computer Software Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

University

Outsourcing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	64
Midsize Enterprise	29
Large Enterprise	25

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	1

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about AT&T AlienVault USM?

The most valuable feature of the solution is the ease of deployment that it provides to users. The integrations that the product has with third-party applications are useful.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AT&T AlienVault USM?

The pricing is amazing and really cheap.

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 do you like most about Vanta?

The most valuable feature of Vanta is its prebuilt control frameworks.

What needs improvement with Vanta?

Failed tests for device CVEs seem to be cumulative, meaning I have to clear all CVEs before the test will pass, which makes it difficult to resolve the test before the next round of CVEs are publis...

What is your primary use case for Vanta?

My use case involves SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliance.

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Also Known As

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

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Overview

USM Anywhere centralizes security monitoring of networks and devices in the cloud, on premises, and in remote locations, helping you to detect threats virtually anywhere.

Discover

Network asset discovery
Software & services discovery
AWS asset discovery
Azure asset discovery
Google Cloud Platform asset discovery

Analyze

SIEM event correlation, auto-prioritized alarms
User activity monitoring
Up to 90-days of online, searchable events

Detect

Cloud intrusion detection (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Network intrusion detection (NIDS)
Host intrusion detection (HIDS)
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

Respond

Forensics querying
Automate & orchestrate response
Notifications and ticketing

Assess

Vulnerability scanning
Cloud infrastructure assessment
User & asset configuration
Dark web monitoring

Report

Pre-built compliance reporting templates
Pre-built event reporting templates
Customizable views and dashboards
Log storage

LevelBlue

Vanta helps companies scale security practices and automate compliance for the industry’s most sought after standards - SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, and CCPA.

Sample Customers

Abel & Cole, Bank of Ireland, Bluegrass Cellular, CareerBuilder, Claire's, Hays Medical Center, Hope International, McCurrach, McKinsey & Company, Party Delights, Pepco Holdings, Richland School District, Ricoh, SaveMart, Shake Shack, Steelcase, TaxAct, Taylor Morrison, Vonage and Zoom

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