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Overview

Overall experience with SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)

SECURITY ANALYST
50M - 250M USD, Energy and Utilities
FAVORABLE

“SolarWinds Security Event Manager Enhances Compliance and Monitoring for SOC Teams”

4.0
Dec 2, 2025
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MANAGER, PROJECT MANAGEMENT
<50M USD, Media
CRITICAL

“Straightforward Reporting and Balanced Features Offset Chunky Task Experience”

3.0
Dec 2, 2025
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Market Presence: Security Information and Event Management, Removable Media Security

About Company

Company Description

Updated 25th July 2024

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.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Public
Year Founded
1999
Head office location
Austin, United States
Number of employees
1001 - 5000
Annual Revenue
500M-1B USD
Website
http://www.solarwinds.com

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SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) Likes & Dislikes

Like

-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.

Like

-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.

Like

-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.

Dislike

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.

Dislike

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.

Dislike

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.

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4.2

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Rating Distribution

5 Star
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4 Star
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3 Star
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  • SECURITY ANALYST
    50M-1B USD
    Energy and Utilities
    Review Source

    SolarWinds Security Event Manager Enhances Compliance and Monitoring for SOC Teams

    4.0
    Dec 2, 2025
    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.
  • SECURITY ANALYST
    50M-1B USD
    Energy and Utilities
    Review Source

    SolarWinds Security Event Manager Enhances Compliance and Monitoring for SOC Teams

    4.0
    Dec 2, 2025
    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.
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