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“Core SIEM Features Accessible for Small Teams, Advanced Search Capabilities Limited”
“Straightforward Reporting and Balanced Features Offset Chunky Task Experience”
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SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI) provides simple, powerful, secure observability and IT management software built to enable customers to accelerate their digital transformation. Our solutions provide organizations worldwide—regardless of type, size, or complexity—with a comprehensive and unified view of today’s modern, distributed, and hybrid environments. We continuously engage with IT service and operations professionals, DevOps and SecOps professionals, and database administrators (DBAs) to understand the challenges they face in maintaining high-performing and highly available hybrid IT infrastructures, applications, and environments. The insights we gain from them, in places like our THWACK community, help us to address customers’ needs in solutions for observability, IT service management, application performance, and database management now and in the future.
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The best part about SEM is its fantastic value proposition. For a very reasonable price, you get a full-featured SIEM that is relatively straightforward to deploy as a virtual appliance. We were collecting and correlating logs from our critical Windows servers, firewalls, and network devices within a couple of days, not weeks. I'm also a big fan of the pre-built correlation rules and compliance reports. For a team like ours without dedicated security analysts, having those out-of-the-box templates for things like PCI DSS or GDPR is a huge time-saver and provides immediate value.
Clear Dashboards, Straightforward Reporting Good Balance of Features vs Cost
-Compliance Reporting: Simplifies regulatory requirements and reporting for certifying bodies. Creates templates highlighting and easily articulating this information for reporting. -User Activity Monitoring: Encapsulating all logon events, any usage of privileged accounts and services and throttling file transfers to understand what is leaving the machines/the network. - Forensic Evidence and Analysis: Can perform historical searches and filtering to aid in in-depth investigations and can be used as a post-incident tool to gather deeper understanding of root cause analysis.
While it's great for the price, you can see where the trade-offs were made. The user interface, while functional, feels a bit dated and can be sluggish at times, especially when running broad queries over a long period. The search capabilities are adequate for responding to alerts and running canned reports, but they lack the power and flexibility of the more expensive SIEMs when you need to perform a deep, unstructured threat hunt. It's more of a guided experience, which is good for daily tasks but can feel restrictive during a complex investigation.
The system feels outdated in some areas and can be cumbersome for certain tasks. Improved reporting templates would be helpful and there arent enough third-party integrations.
Not much to dislike, but if anything, the automated responsive actions capability does have some issues/concerns with larger scale implementations in the enterprise. Support does help and assist with issues, which has helped our organization tremendously.
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- SENIOR CYBERSECURITY ENGINEER1B-10B USDTransportationReview Source
Core SIEM Features Accessible for Small Teams, Advanced Search Capabilities Limited
We needed a SIEM in our smaller subsidiary to meet compliance requirements and get real-time visibility into our environment, but we simply did not have the budget or the dedicated personnel for an enterprise-level SIEM. SolarWinds SEM has been the perfect fit for us. It delivers the core functionality we need in a package that is both affordable and manageable for a small team. It does the fundamentals of log collection, correlation, and alerting very well, providing a level of security insight we were previously blind to. - SECURITY ANALYST50M-1B USDEnergy and UtilitiesReview Source
SolarWinds Security Event Manager Enhances Compliance and Monitoring for SOC Teams
I enjoyed my experience with SolarWinds Security Event Manager and its capabilities. Implementing this into our SOC has allowed us to adequately meet regulatory requirements regarding audit trails of log data, as well as real-time detection and response work flows for seamless configuration. - LEGAL AND COMPLIANCE ASSOCIATE50M-1B USDIT ServicesReview Source
Scalability and Simple Deployment Highlight Network Monitoring Experience With SolarWinds
SolarWinds has helped to facilitate a pretty good experience for my unit’s IT operations in the areas of network monitoring, observation and service management. It is easy to deploy, create and read dashboards and scales very nicely to most environments. - IT-INFRASTRUCTURE1B-10B USDHardwareReview Source
Compliance Features Streamline Audits While Performance Declines With Log Volume Growth
It is a very reliable and complete solution for mid sized organizations. Deployment is quick and easy and with the built in reports and filters you can get a good overview in a matter of hours. - BUSINESS SALES ENGINEER<50M USDIT ServicesReview Source
Powerful security monitoring and log management tool with a steep learning curve
My overall experience with SolarWinds Event Manager has been positive. it provides powerful log management, real time threat detection and automated responses that helps improve security visibility and compliance, the the interface is intuitive once familiarized and the reporting tools are very effective