Security Event Manager 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Security Event Manager

4.7

(9)

Pricing

Starting at $5,093.00 one time

About Security Event Manager

Security & Event Manager by SolarWinds is a log management solution that caters to businesses across various industries. Key features include compliance reporting, real-time event correlation, file-integrity monitoring, USB device monitoring and log forwarding.

Security & Event Manager helps businesses detect suspicious activities in real-time, conduct security event investigations and forensics for threat mitigation and demonstrate compliance via audit reporting for HIPAA, PCI DCC and SOX. The solution also allows users to monitor and set alerts on registries, files and folder activities that help them to recognize malicious behavior.

Additionally, Security & Event Manager enables users to forward correlated and normalized logs or specific log data to external sources. The solution can either be deployed on-premise or hosted in the cloud.

Services are offered for a one-time fee that includes support via phone and email.

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Security Event Manager Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $5,093.00 one time

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$5,093.00

per feature, one time

No plan information available

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Security Event Manager Features

Popular features found in Risk Management
Alerts/Notifications
Audit Management
Compliance Management
Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA)
Document Management
Incident Management
Internal Controls Management
Mobile Access
Response Management
Risk Analysis
Risk Scoring
Scenario Planning
More features of Security Event Manager
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Dashboard
Activity Monitoring
Activity Tracking
API
Application Security
Archiving & Retention
Audit Trail
Compliance Tracking
Dashboard
Data Import/Export
Data Visualization
Endpoint Protection
Event Logs
File Integrity Monitoring
Firewalls
HIPAA Compliant
Intrusion Detection System
IP Filtering
IT Incident Management
IT Reporting
Log Analysis
Log Collection
Log Management
Monitoring
Network Monitoring
Network Provisioning
PCI Assessment
PCI Compliance
Prioritization
Real-Time Monitoring
Real-Time Notifications
Remediation Management
Reporting/Analytics
Risk Alerts
Risk Assessment
Risk Reporting
Search/Filter
Secure Login
Server Logs
Single Sign On
Threat Intelligence
Threat Response
Threshold Alerts
User Management
Vulnerability Management
Web Traffic Monitoring

Security Event Manager User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.7

Ratings Breakdown

67%

33%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

3.9

Value for money

4.4

Customer support

4.4

Functionality

4.3

Have you used Security Event Manager and would like to share your experience with others?

Jeremy M.

Verified reviewer

Mining & Metals

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2018

LEM for everyone needing SIEM products

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

There is not enough room in this windows to tell you everything good about LEM. The log monitoring across the enterprise, compliance, and KPI monitoring. It has a good dashboard.

Cons:

I wish they had taken the time to plan out the development in to SolarWinds Orion suite so it was all one product rather than a running appliance in my virtual cluster

Reda E.

Verified reviewer

Outsourcing/ Offshoring

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed January 2024

VERY COMPLETE ET EFFICIENT SIEM

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to set up devices Easy to set up features Lots of security rules templates that are used in different standards (PCI DSS, SOX, Best practices...)

Cons:

The price is a little high The licence is for 30 devices minimum, so, you can have to pay for something that you don't use

Reasons for switching to Security Event Manager

Some features doesn't work as they should

Verified

Reviewer

Banking

51-200 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2018

This is a great tool that allow for very robust access to all syslog data in your environment.

This software allowed us to pass an audit requirement for logging and retrieval of data. We also have been able to use it to notify us of penetration tests and various other events that need immediate attention.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This is a single point for all of your logging needs. The agents make collecting non-syslog data easy and very manageable. There are a lot of alerts, searches, and such that are included out of the box. The platform scales well and allows for a lot of data to be logged and searched. There are multiple users and each can configure their own alerts and notifications. Being able to customize the notifications is a very big plus.

Cons:

Log and Event Manager can be very unwieldy and grow too large very quickly. The search building is not that intuitive and the logic sometimes fails in the queries when building them. If you have to search through a large number of events, it can be quite slow and take 30+ minuted to return results.

Jeremy M.

Verified reviewer

Mining & Metals

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2017

It is simply put a great program. Delivers detail to the nth degree

Node Health, compliance, and i like to call that Audit protection. We have a series of audits we go through annually. The addition of LEM has enabled us to quickly generate reports and show how good or how bad we are doing but also reduces the amount of time spent with the Auditors as they can see we are addressing it and work with us to find resolutions vs picking us apart for what we don't do. Being able to Zero in on issues like never before has opened my eyes and now keeps me awake at night to the reality of the threats and issues facing me and my limited team each day. Automatic notifications and help ticket generation has also been something that assists us knowing we are reducing guess work to fact check.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Compliance, IT Operations, and dashboards. These tools are essential for knowing and preventing security issues before they are major issues. The Dashboard is your guide. The ability to create custom monitors on the fly and all the builtin logic behind LEM is simply amazing. I had no idea what i did not know. The only trouble i have now is having enough time to spend using it properly in my Small IT shop.

Cons:

SolarWinds has a great suite of software, and LEM is one of the jewels. however they as of yet have failed to fully integrate it in to the Orion package. you have to have it on a separate browser tab, and although the Dashboard is fantastic, not being able to put it in Orion prevents the NOC from building a Dashboard with LEM data on it with other data from other applications in Orion.

Matthew G.

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2018

When it works its great, when it does not then it can be problematic.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is easy to setup and use. I use this for auditing on systems and all of the data collects on a Syslog Server also from SolarWinds. It provides me with all of the data I need and is very reliable for the most part.

Cons:

When it stops working it is almost impossible to get it to work again. I have had a handful of systems where the client stopped working and no matter how many times I uninstall and reinstall it does not work again. Also in the selection menu to pick what you want to log it tends to take forever and locks up a lot.

Gavin L.

Information Technology and Services

51-200 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2018

Use to analyze logs for PCI and other SSAE 16 compliance.

Helpful display and insight of your application and systems logs.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Allow to setup triggers, alerts, and email base on any keyword or filters that you want to setup to filer out the logs. Agent base installation make it itself, no configuration required on systems side.

Cons:

Difficult to configure the settings / filters for different OS type. Default disk storage on allow support up to 3TB, you will have to find an alternative solution to ship the logs to another disk / location if your logs are over 3TB.

Zachary R.

Verified reviewer

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2018

Very good experience. The company did a walk through so we could use it to its fullest.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It can alert those who need to be, to USB devices, and any log alert that you could want. It captures pretty much every log you want, and you can stop it from capturing those you don't want.

Cons:

It has a bit of a learning curve on a few features, but with the walk through they did with us, that wasn't really a problem.

Verified

Reviewer

Financial Services

201-500 employees

Used monthly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed March 2018

Good product that windows already does but does better.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Lets your set filters on the log and display certain type of logs based on the filter you have set. Depends on what you want to view, they allow you to show the more important logs

Cons:

The selection of what you want is tricky. Requires more research or help. A lot of logs you can view or have sent to emails.

Michael G.

Verified reviewer

Transportation/ Trucking/ Railroad

1001-5000 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2017

Twackers Ahoy!

Logs on the fly - which can be essential to my job. There isn't much to really complain about this program. If you do run in to any issues, you can always ask support or just make a post on the forums and the THWACK community will help.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Ease of use has always been Symantec's forte, but the real winner here is the legendary THWACK community that supports Solarwinds. The app itself does that it needs to, logs and manages events.

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