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Overall experience with SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
“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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SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) Likes & Dislikes
-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.
Clear Dashboards, Straightforward Reporting Good Balance of Features vs Cost
I like the fact that I can monitor large and small environments from a single machine. Scalability is great and the implementation of the tool is pretty simple and straight forward.
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.
The system feels outdated in some areas and can be cumbersome for certain tasks.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.
Some of the available modules are not as intuitive as expressed by SW. Some of these modules have a much steeper learning curve and take longer to figure out...with our training.
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SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) Reviews and Ratings
- 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 ASSOCIATE50M-1B USDIT ServicesReview Source
Seamless Platform Integration and Comprehensive Filtering Aid Multi-Source Analysis
The overall experience for this product has been nice and positive. The logs provided and its bifurcation is very good. It helps to audit things and filter out very well from multiple platforms. - IT ANALYST10B+ USDHealthcare and BiotechReview Source
SolarWinds Frequently Updates Features But Some Configurations Are Challenging and Costly
solarwinds is a great option as they constantly stay up to date with features and their compatibility is constantly improving. However configuring and setup can sometimes be difficult. - ENGINEER<50M USDIT ServicesReview Source
Built-In Correlation Templates Enhance Security, Excessive Customization Causes Confusion
It's a seamless experience, It creates security incident and compliance reporting capabilities that are way easier to handle. Just love it.



