USM Anywhere vs Vanta comparison

LevelBlue and Vanta are both solutions in the Compliance Management category. LevelBlue is ranked #14 with an average rating of 7.5, while Vanta is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.3. LevelBlue holds a 0.3% mindshare in CM, compared to Vanta’s 11.1% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of LevelBlue users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Vanta users who would recommend it.

USM Anywhere

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92% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

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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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Categories and Ranking

USM Anywhere

Ranking in Compliance Management

14th

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) (29th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (53rd)

Vanta

Ranking in Compliance Management

3rd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Compliance Consulting (3rd), Data Governance (12th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Compliance Management category, the mindshare of USM Anywhere is 0.3%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Vanta is 11.1%, down from 17.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Compliance Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Vanta	11.1%
USM Anywhere	0.3%
Other	88.6%

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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Anupam Dutta

Team Lead- Sr. Linux administrator-Kubernetes-DevOps at ExpressRCM

Helps us maintain compliance with standards like SOC 2 and various data policies, but the customer support needs improvement

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. We use JEM Cloud, which is a SaaS solution, and sometimes it experiences access issues. With Vanta, we can work on resolving these issues and ensuring policy compliance. Vanta also helps us maintain compliance with standards like SOC 2 and various data policies, which are essential for our documentation and communication requirements, ultimately ensuring enterprise software policy compliance. In my role, which primarily involves IT responsibilities, I often deal with various policies. There are instances where specific policies, especially those related to quality, may not be implemented correctly. This primarily occurs with mainframes and devices owned by particular users. In such cases, Vanta helps us enable these policies on the devices and assign them to the relevant users. It also highlights when certain policies, such as version 86.x, are not assigned through SAP. Vanta provides guidance on configuring and mitigating these issues. Additionally, it helps us with GitHub account provisioning and deprovisioning, as well as managing GitHub and Google Workspace Flex. We also use the 1Password password manager, which Vanta assists in overseeing.

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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

"Having everything in a central place has been helpful."

"The dashboards are very descriptive and contain just the right amount of information. The activity alarms and events contain a plethora of data that is very descriptive and useful."

"Its powerful correlation engine helps reduce time in manually correlating events."

"It has allowed us to see what is happening on our servers."

"We had used previous products and found AlienVault centralized the logging for our security."

"Using the communication within the security device, it is easier to create plugins."

"Ease of deployment across various environments."

"The feature that I liked the most is that they have a vulnerability assessment package that comes along with the SIEM solution. So, whenever I find any threat or alert for any of the devices or servers, I could immediately initiate a vulnerability assessment scan on that machine. That is one of a kind. The price at which AlienVault operates is also valuable."

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"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

Cons

"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."

"There could be some type of integration with our existing portal. We have our own customer portals, and it would be good if there was an integration so that our portal can provide reports. There could be some type of API into the AlienVault system with the USM system so that it is easy to show the customers high-level reports of the system through our portal."

"It was easy on PoC, but when we got to the product it was different story. We had to learn the product again and got feeling that the PoC was a different product."

"they seem to have bugs from time to time that go unfixed for a while and that is frustrating. I'm not saying the product needs to be bug-free, but they need to be responsive to bugs."

"I'd like to see a dashboard that's a little more descriptive."

"We would like more plugins. This being the main point of improvement which would benefit the users."

"The solution already has quite good tools, however, they need better integration tools for linking with Office 365, Google Suite, and so on."

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

More USM Anywhere cons

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

"There is a delay with customer support and they are unsure of the answers we need."

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

"The main area for improvement in Vanta is the user interface's refresh rate."

"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."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"AT&T AlienVault USM is an expensive solution and we pay for the license and the support separately. We paid for the license and support for three years."

"It is a product that is priced in a medium range, making it neither a cheap nor a costly product."

"Negotiate the best package for your environment."

"Use the AlienVault team. They are helpful and the documentation that they provide is second to none."

"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."

"They are a little more expensive than Microsoft."

"I rate the price of AT&T AlienVault USM a four out of five."

"I don't know exactly, but I know it is based on the number of logs and the retention duration, such as 30 days or something like that. So, the smallest package is about 500 a month for 30 days of logs. There is a virtual machine. You need resources for it. It is a log collecting VM. They provide the software, and you just have to load a virtual machine. So, you're going to incur some CPU RAM and storage for wherever this log collecting appliance is running, which typically is in our cloud and on our platform for the customer."

More USM Anywhere pricing and cost advice

"Vanta is expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

16%

Comms Service Provider

11%

Educational Organization

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

University

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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

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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.

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

The pricing is amazing and really cheap.

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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.

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What do you like most about Vanta?

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

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What needs improvement with Vanta?

Every product has a lot of areas to improve. They have an AI generator for the system description for SOC 2, for example, however, the outline is a little sketchy. The system description has to hav...

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What is your primary use case for Vanta?

We're trying to get SOC 2 compliance, and we're trying to get HIPAA 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.

Vanta

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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