LogRhythm SIEM Reviews

Name: LogRhythm SIEM
Brand: LogRhythm
Rating: 4 (29 reviews)

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LogRhythm SIEM Platform is an award-winning platform in security analytics. With more than 4,000 customers globally, LogRhythm SIEM is an integrated platform that helps security operations teams protect critical infrastructure and information from emerging cyberthreats. Ultimately, LogRhythm SIEM is an integrated set of modules that contribute to the security team’s fundamental mission: rapid threat monitoring, threat detection, threat investigation, and threat neutralization. LogRhythm SIEM is for organizations that require an on-premises solution and offers:

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Joseph W.

System Administrator at GOLDENWEST FEDERAL CREDIT UNION

Oct 18, 2022

One of the main features that I like about LogRhythm SIEM is that there are a lot of pre-built pieces. Like with our AV, we didn't have to tell it how to read the logs; they already had it pre-made. So, we essentially just had to follow their guide to get the logs imported in and set up some rules for it. We've only had to manually create the parsing rules for a few of our vendors so that we could interpret the logs correctly. Most of them had already been pre-created for us. We use the Event Log Filtering feature a lot. We use it for simple troubleshooting tasks like when a user is logged out, to more important tasks like trying to investigate a threat. As far as its effect on productivity, we can go and search instead of trying to troubleshoot and guess what is causing an error. We can identify what the program is or where the hiccup is. LogRhythm helped us to identify a lot of blind spots. Originally, we didn't have a SIEM tool. We had auditors say that this is something that we should be doing. My management team asked me to go and find a product, and I researched a bunch of them and found LogRhythm. It really opened our eyes to see how much traffic we have, whether it's other IP addresses that are scanning us or external users trying to hit certain ports that could then get closed. It helped us tighten down some of those firewall rules that may have been left open unintentionally through other changes. It helped us a lot early on to identify who was trying to communicate with us or, essentially, who was trying to attack us. As far as our overall security posture, our SIEM tool was the initial push that really got us going into identifying where all of our threats were. We expanded over the seven years that we've had it, and I implemented at least eight other products that are all security related because the SIEM tool indicated the need to identify other risks. It really helped us as an organization to identify risks and move forward to a more secure environment.

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reviewer1992084

Senior Security Analyst at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees

Oct 16, 2022

Our previous SIEM did not have dashboards, so there wasn't a starting point. With our previous SIEM, we had to have a specific thing we were looking for, and only then we could find it. The dashboards in the LogRhythm SIEM really help us as a starting point. It gives us a starting point we can go to every day. We walk through several dashboards to see anomalous activity for further investigation. The dashboards, therefore, are our favorite feature of the SIEM. The solution helped with productivity and the ability to process logs. We do Event Log Filtering for certain log types, which we don't want in our SIEM as they're just too noisy. Having too much noise in the SIEM makes it harder to find relevant things. Therefore, we use Log Filtering to limit the noise. It's also given us the ability to bring more logs in, so we bring them all from all of our workstations and servers. Doing the log filtering this way allowed us to bring in other log sources and keep the noise manageable. It's helped reduce our administrative overhead. Before we started doing the log filtering, we exceeded our license capacity for what we were licensed in terms of logs in our SIEM. The filtering allowed us to bring the noise down and helped us with the removal of junk logs that are not useful. We have a lot of firewalls, and anytime you're traversing internally inside of the firewall, it generates a lot of traffic. That kind of traffic is the type of traffic we took out, allowing us to bring our workstation traffic logs in to give us a better view of our environment. It's very big for us that the solution is out-of-the-box. To have the solution be turnkey was significant as it enabled us to ramp up and get the logs onboarded immediately. There wasn't a lot of configuration to get to a point where we could bring logs in. It was essentially turnkey.

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DylanHaddad

SOC Analyst at PLS Financial

Oct 11, 2022

So far, it's pretty robust, and yet, we look for more improvements. On a day-to-day basis, maybe we could look for more improvements with automation, however, so far, it's good. In terms of blind spots, we are looking for more improvements since we don't have visibility over everything. Right now, we just use LogRhythm for our on-prem solution, not our cloud solution. We could definitely use more improvements with that in the next product. Ingesting logs into the web console user interface and probably updating the threat intelligence database are the two places where we'd like to see improvement. We get a lot of noise. Oftentimes, we see a lot of false positives, so possibly using AI or machine learning would be ideal. Implementing that more into the next product would help us actually determine whether it's a false positive or legitimate threat.

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Pricing

LogRhythm SIEM's pricing is seen moderate to expensive. The licensing is competitive, based on a log volume pricing model that works well. Some mention that the pricing can be flexible, especially for larger requirements.

The setup and licensing for small and medium-sized businesses are straightforward, but for enterprises, there may be complications with extras and add-ons.

ROI

LogRhythm SIEM has provided a significant return on investment for its users. Some note it has improved their mean time to detect from weeks to minutes and given them visibility into their environment that was previously unavailable.

Primary Use Case

LogRhythm SIEM has multiple use cases, including logistics and metrics, long log formatting, log consolidation, identifying attacks, and malware detection. It is used as the primary threat-hunting tool by many companies. LogRhythm SIEM is used to monitor user activity, investigate threats, and improve security posture. Other use cases include log aggregation and log management for security purposes.

Valuable Features

LogRhythm SIEM's log correlation feature is highly valued, as it provides real-time monitoring from a single dashboard. It is also praised for its intuitive GUI and good integration with multiple log sources, including on-prem and cloud-based.

The ease of use has improved significantly in the latest version, with an advanced AI engine. The Drill Down feature and Event Log Filtering utility are also useful for accessing and filtering large volumes of logs efficiently and for reducing noise and facilitating investigations. The Web Console is another valuable feature, allowing for easy query building and monitoring of SIEM health.

Room for Improvement

LogRhythm SIEM needs improvement in several areas, including pricing, integration with different services, and the onboarding processes. Additional areas noted are log storage capacity, automation, and alerting for Zero-day attacks. The software also requires improvements in the built-in functionality for NDR, SOAR, SIEM, and EDS. Some would like to see a pre-defined security playbook should available for analysts, while others would like to see the cloud model improved.

Initial Setup

The initial setup for LogRhythm SIEM varies depending on the specific use case and environment. Some users found the setup to be straightforward and easy and others found it to be complex and difficult, and some users required professional assistance for proper deployment.

Scalability

LogRhythm SIEM is noted to be a highly scalable solution that can handle big setups. It is good for companies with multiple locations and presence in multiple countries. The solution is rated highly for its ease of scaling. Some users have load-tested the SIEM and found it to be very robust and capable of handling high volumes of data.

Challenges with scaling, particularly for smaller companies or high-volume customer environments, have also been noted.

The solution is likely best suited for medium to large organizations.

Customer Service and Support

LogRhythm SIEM's technical support is generally considered good. Some reviewers have noted that the quality of the support can depend on the specific technician assigned to the issue. Response times for support requests can vary, with some citing longer wait times, but once connected with a technician, reviewers report that the support is knowledgeable and helpful.

Some local support teams have been found to be less knowledgeable and in need of additional training.

Stability

The LogRhythm SIEM solution is highly rated for stability and consistently described as reliable, without bugs or glitches. The performance is also praised and the solution is able to handle high message volumes.

Mention is made that proper deployment and adequate resources are necessary for optimal stability, but the solution is considered rock solid and able to provide resilience and redundancy in the face of potential data center failures.

Pricing

The setup and licensing for small and medium-sized businesses are straightforward, but for enterprises, there may be complications with extras and add-ons.

ROI

Primary Use Case

Valuable Features

Room for Improvement

Initial Setup

Scalability

Challenges with scaling, particularly for smaller companies or high-volume customer environments, have also been noted.

The solution is likely best suited for medium to large organizations.

Customer Service and Support

Some local support teams have been found to be less knowledgeable and in need of additional training.

Stability

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Learn more about LogRhythm SIEM

● Streamlined workflow

● Secure data access

● Real-time visibility

● A unified user experience

● Management customization

Security information and event management (SIEM) solutions have been evolving for over a decade; their core functionality still acts as the most effective foundation for any organization’s technology stack. A SIEM solution enables an organization to centrally collect data across its entire network environment to gain real-time visibility into activity that may pose a risk to the organization. SIEM technology addresses threats before they become significant financial risks while simultaneously helping better manage an organization’s assets.

LogRhythm SIEM has many key features and capabilities, including:

● High-Performance Log Management: LogRhythm SIEM offers structured and unstructured search capabilities which allows users to swiftly search across an organization’s vast data to easily find answers, identify IT and security issues, and troubleshoot issues. Users can efficiently process and index terabytes of log data daily.

● Network and Endpoint Monitoring: Forensic sensors allow users to gain deep visibility into endpoint and network activity. Users can see behavioral anomalies and better respond to incidents.

● SmartResponse™ Automation: LogRhythm SIEM allows users to centrally execute pre-staged actions that automate incident investigatory tasks and responses.

● Automated Machine Analytics: LogRhythm SIEM's AI Engine continuously analyzes all collected security incidents and forensic data. Security teams are delivered precise, real-time intelligence about risk-prioritized threats.

● Case and Security Incident Management: LogRhythm SIEM offers an integrated workflow so that threats don’t slip through the cracks. Collaboration tools help centrally manage and track investigations.

● User and entity behavior analytics (UEBA): Embedded deterministic UEBA monitoring helps protect against insider threats.

● Security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR): LogRhythm SIEM includes our embedded SOAR solution to increase efficiency and higher-quality incident response with low mean time to response (MTTR).

Benefits to Using LogRhythm SIEM

● The platform offers great value to security and IT operations. Users have the ability to map their security and IT operations to existing frameworks such as NIST and MITRE ATT&CK.

● The platform offers broad integration across security and IT vendors: Users benefit from support for integration with hundreds of security and IT solutions. In turn, this further extends SIEM capabilities and data collection.

● The platform provides compliance adherence, enforcement, and reporting: The prebuilt compliance modules automatically detect violations as they occur and remove the burden of manually reviewing audit logs.

Reviews from Real Users

LogRhythm SIEM stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its ability to be customized and its quick performance of queries.

Jason G., a senior cybersecurity engineer, writes, "I have found the Advanced Intelligence Engine has provided the most value to us because we can customize alarms based on our requirements and have created hundreds of alarms that notify different people for different scenarios."

Andy W., principal consultant at ITSEC Asia, notes, “LogRhythm SIEM covers all our primary security analysis needs. It makes it easier for us to analyze threats and improves our response times. It's a versatile platform that performs queries fast compared to other SIEM solutions.”

LogRhythm SIEM was previously known as LogRhythm NextGen SIEM, LogRhythm, LogRhythm Threat Lifecycle Management, LogRhythm TLM.

LogRhythm SIEM is the #6 ranked solution in top Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools and #7 ranked solution in Log Management Software. PeerSpot users give LogRhythm SIEM an average rating of 8.2 out of 10. LogRhythm SIEM is most commonly compared to Splunk Enterprise Security: LogRhythm SIEM vs Splunk Enterprise Security. LogRhythm SIEM is popular among the midsize enterprise segment, accounting for 44% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a educational organization, accounting for 34% of all views.