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    AlienVault OSSIM (discontinued)

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AAlienVault OSSIM was an open source Security Information and Event Management (SIEM). AlienVault was acquired by AT&T Cybersecurity, now LevelBlue, and OSSIM is no longer available for sale.N/A

    Microsoft Sentinel

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Sentinel (formerly Azure Sentinel) is designed as a birds-eye view across the enterprise. It is presented as a security information and event management (SIEM) solution for proactive threat detection, investigation, and response.

    $2.46

    per GB ingested

    Pricing
    AlienVault OSSIM (discontinued)Microsoft Sentinel
    Editions & Modules
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    Azure Sentinel
    $2.46
    per GB ingested
    100 GB per day
    $123.00
    per day
    200 GB per day
    $221.40
    per day
    300 GB per day
    $319.80
    per day
    400 GB per day
    $410.00
    per day
    500 GB per day
    $492.00
    per day
    More than 500 GB per day
    $492.00 + $98.40
    per day/plus each additional 100 GB increment
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AlienVault OSSIM (discontinued)Microsoft Sentinel
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    AlienVault OSSIM (discontinued)Microsoft Sentinel
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
    Chose AlienVault OSSIM (discontinued)
    Originally my organization leveraged alien value due to the lower cost of entry and ability to manage it as a service provider. Unfortunately, after several years of working with this tool, it became unwieldy to use as it felt that almost every useful report had to be created …
    Incentivized
    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    98%
    Would buy again
    46 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
    38 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    46 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    35 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    98%
    Implementation went as expected
    43 Answers
    Features
    AlienVault OSSIM (discontinued)Microsoft Sentinel
    Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
    Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of AlienVault OSSIM (discontinued) and Microsoft Sentinel
    Feature
    AlienVault OSSIM (discontinued)
    7.5
    10 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Microsoft Sentinel
    7.3
    24 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Centralized event and log data collection9.49 Ratings8.324 Ratings
    Correlation6.910 Ratings7.124 Ratings
    Event and log normalization/management8.110 Ratings6.924 Ratings
    Deployment flexibility8.210 Ratings7.522 Ratings
    Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools9.36 Ratings6.422 Ratings
    Custom dashboards and workspaces9.49 Ratings7.524 Ratings
    Host and network-based intrusion detection9.29 Ratings5.020 Ratings
    Data integration/API management5.32 Ratings6.522 Ratings
    Behavioral analytics and baselining5.42 Ratings6.920 Ratings
    Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds5.33 Ratings7.922 Ratings
    Response orchestration and automation6.32 Ratings7.221 Ratings
    Reporting and compliance management8.44 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Incident indexing/searching6.43 Ratings8.622 Ratings
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    AlienVault OSSIM (discontinued)Microsoft Sentinel
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    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Security QRadar SIEM
    Score9 out of 10
    IBM Security QRadar SIEM
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    Score8 out of 10
    SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AlienVault OSSIM (discontinued)Microsoft Sentinel
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.3
    (10 ratings)
    8.6
    (43 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.9
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AlienVault OSSIM (discontinued)Microsoft Sentinel
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    If this is your first experience with a SIEM, this one can get you started. Take the time to learn the ins and outs of the product and you'll most likely be satisfied with it if your company is an SMB. If you need compliance reports, OSSIM is too small for you, you'll need to go with USM or USM Anywhere.
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    Microsoft
    Microsoft Sentinel excels in centralized monitoring, AI-driven threat detection, and automation, but improvements in cost transparency, user experience, third-party integrations, and support for emerging technologies could make it even more effective. Addressing these areas would enhance its appeal for small-to-medium businesses, large enterprises, and organizations with complex or specialized IT environments.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Asset discovery. Once installed in a centric, network-accessible server, OSSIM can poll all your endpoints with common protocols (SSH, SNMP, WMI) to detect and discover site-wide assets to monitor. You only need to group them by your own criteria once added to the product.
    • SIEM Event Correlation. You can define quite complex correlation rules to detect possible suspicious or malicious actions or attempts in your network, in order to categorize them as real threats or as false positives, thus streamlining your risk assessment and management.
    • Ease of installation. The entire AlienVault OSSIM is self-contained in an ISO file, which can be burned into a DVD or just mounted in your server of choice (physical or virtual) for deployment. The installation process is automated and quote verbosed, with options for static IP, email messaging and others.
    • Ease of access. Being AlienVault OSSIM a self-contained appliance, it can be accessed via web by any device that supports a web browser, being that desktops, workstation, mobile devices, etc. The OSSIM dashboard and other features are automatically rearranged to adapt to the particular device being in use.
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    Microsoft
    • I appreciate that it keeps the data within our, what we call our, authorization boundary. The fact that the data remains within Microsoft's, I guess, walled garden if you will, is very helpful for certain compliance needs in particular.
    • The large library of ingestion: ability to ingest is basically as easy as I can basically get it to be most of the time. There's occasionally some vendors that it's a little bit more challenging for, but given the ease of integration for a lot of things, basically it's become one of my requirements when I am looking at other tools is how easily do they integrate with Sentinel.
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • Creating custom rules is a bit complicated
    • Reporting could be improved
    • Agent has caused conflicts with a couple of our other applications
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    Microsoft
    • I think it should include more third party integration with non microsoft products as well as with other cloud providers. These integrations should be native.
    • It should improve ML and AI capabilities.
    • I find its documentation a little bit difficult to understand at the start. So the words should be simple.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    it does the job reasonably well
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    AlienVault OSSIM is far easy to use and manage - provided you know what you're doing. As any SIEM application, there is some background knowledge required in order to take advantage of the product's functionalities, such as the log correlation and analysis. Other than that, the application is quite usable and robust.
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    Microsoft
    The Microsoft Azure Sentinel solution is very good and even better if you use Azure. It's easy to implement and learn how to use the tool with an intuitive and simple interface. New updates are happening to always bring new news and improve the experience and usability. The solution brings reliability as it is from a very reliable manufacturer.
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    Everything is done through MSSP and installation pro services. Once those hours are burned up, then you're on your own without a lot of help. Typically the pro services hours aren't enough to get past 60 days and MSSP are hit and miss. We had a miss for installation helpers.
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    Microsoft
    Azure Sentinel is very easy to use and configure. If you are stuck somewhere, Microsoft support is excellent in assisting and solving your issue.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    Originally my organization leveraged alien value due to the lower cost of entry and ability to manage it as a service provider. Unfortunately, after several years of working with this tool, it became unwieldy to use as it felt that almost every useful report had to be created by hand. As other tools have come out with the ability to do automated responses such as Stellar Data processor, we have begun to evaluate alternatives.
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    Microsoft
    We decided to go with Microsoft Sentinel because it works really well with Microsoft tools we are already using. Microsoft Sentinel's intelligent features detect and resolve problems more quickly than Sumo Logic. It also allows us to pay for what we use and grow as we need. While Sumo Logic is good at analyzing data, Microsoft Sentinel fits our needs.
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    Professional Services
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Did not use professional services
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • It's difficult to put a monetary value on security, but with proper monitoring and alerting, incidents will be easier to avoid.
    • Helps with your compliancy, as it automatically alerts you for critical events.
    • Collects logs in the cloud, so protected from local issues, like SAN failures.
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    Microsoft
    • As any cybersecurity product, this has to be more with risk to avoid loss in case of a ransomware that more than relate to a productivity increase. Maybe the impact could be that instead of having people that are checking 24/7 the dashboard, you could implement Sentinel and have less people checking that or people with less expertise. So the saving will be a minor but will be a saving in the cost of your team.
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