USM Anywhere 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview
Pricing and Plans
Features
User Reviews

Overview

USM Anywhere

4.4

(14)

Pricing

Starting at $1,075.00 per month

About USM Anywhere

USM Anywhere is a cloud-based security platform which helps midsize to large enterprises with risk detection, vulnerability assessment, security monitoring and threat response.

The security platform enables users to collect and detect information such as software services, number of users logged in and the operating system of assets. It comes with an active scanner, which lets users scan for known vulnerabilities, and an intrusion-detection system to conduct file integrity monitoring, gather operating system logs and perform rootkit checking. Further, its behavioral monitoring capability includes netflow information, bandwidth and traffic capture.

Additionally, USM users can participate in the open threat exchange (OTX) threat-sharing network and identify known malicious attackers. The solution integrates with third-party applications such as Jira, Office 365, Amazon Web Services, Palo Alto Networks and more.

USM Anywhere is available on a monthly subscription basis and comes with online and phone support.

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USM Anywhere Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $1,075.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Essentials

$1,075.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

Analytics
Assessment
Asset Discovery
Detection
Query Responding
Reports

Standard

$1,695.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

Analytics
Assessment
Asset Discovery
Detection
Query Responding
Reports

Premium

$2,595.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

Analytics
Assessment
Asset Discovery
Detection
Query Responding
Reports

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USM Anywhere Features

Popular features found in GDPR Compliance
Compliance Management
Consent Management
Data Mapping
Policy Management
Risk Management
More features of USM Anywhere
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Monitoring
API
Application Security
Asset Discovery
Asset Tagging
Compliance Tracking
File Integrity Monitoring
Incident Management
Intrusion Detection System
Log Management
Monitoring
Network Scanning
Patch Management
PCI Assessment
Prioritization
Real-Time Analytics
Real-Time Monitoring
Reporting/Analytics
Runtime Container Security
Sensitive Data Identification
Threat Intelligence
Threat Response
Vulnerability Assessment
Vulnerability Protection
Vulnerability Scanning
Vulnerability/Threat Prioritization
Web-Application Security

USM Anywhere User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.4

Ratings Breakdown

50%

43%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.4

Value for money

4.1

Customer support

4.3

Functionality

4.4

Have you used USM Anywhere and would like to share your experience with others?

Ivan M.

Verified reviewer

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed February 2018

More than just a SIEM

AlienVault USM is ready for making compliance easy, so the value we get as a company is that we make tangible, real progress towards compliance and security management. It also allows to save costs on other tools since it comes with many integrations for every aspect you should take care of as a security administrator.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

AlienVault got it right with the integrations of their product, it makes compliance very handy. They selected the best breed of products to integrate in a single console and make it easy to the customer to become fully compliant, be it PCI DSS, DISA STIG, HIPAA, ISO 27002, etc.

Cons:

If you don't keep it "clean," your console might get cluttered. Sometimes it takes too much RAM if the solution was not properly sized, and can cripple performance, especially if you implemented it as a VM, it can take down performance of other VMs at your hypervisor as well.

shabbir s.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2021

Crucial role in Security Operations for mId-tier companys

Alienvault USM is better and the best SIEM solution interms of financial and also in terms cyber security risk complaince. Build SOC makes it very easy with Alienvault rather going for complicated stuff. A Sensor is installed and looksafter for logs collection and server takes over from there. During Forensics we do have logger which helps us to deep dive in searching the logs. It satisfys most of compaliances like ISO, PCI, SCADA, HIPAA etc...

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Alienvault USM had best features in assets discovery, Vulnerability Assessment, IDS and Log monitoring etc.. OTX pulse which is a free service comes at no cost an external threat intelligence tool. Log correlations and retention is very easty in managing and administrations. A lot og inbuilt correlations which is really helpful.

Cons:

As I said mid-tier comapanys are easy in managing but companys looking for more than ! TB storage and 10000EPS rate cannot be done and adminstration becomes very complecated as half of time require for maintainence of server.

Reasons for choosing USM Anywhere

Financially effective, best in Incidence Response and Threat Intelligence. Easy stuff to built SOC and reduce man hours.

Paul S.

Machinery

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2017

I've used the Ossim version of this product for about 10 years now. Good for a community SEIM

The free version has been a great help in watching our networks. But it has grown old and needs some major updates to compete with other products.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is free. The best free SIEM out there. Possibly the only one. There are a lot of moving parts that are very good at correlating network security events. The product has become very usable and is great for small companies looking for an entry level SIEM.

Cons:

Every upgrade is a possible chance for re-building the system. About 80% of the time, the upgrade will break something so badly, you need to re-install and start from scratch. The system slows down considerably when a large number of events are fed in. Their Sales people say the Free version is lightyears behind the commercial version, but from what i can tell, the Free version can be upgraded to the commercial version, so i don't see there being that many differences. The community is weak and there is rarely any input from the developers on the community to help out. So a lot of people try it out and then go somewhere else. While I think it is a great product, it seems to me like it is falling behind in the last few years. There are some more usable and better products in recent years that would make me buy them instead of AV USM.

Verified

Reviewer

Automotive

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for free trial

Review source

Reviewed October 2019

A Good SIEM Solution with good feature sets, but costs should be a bit lower then .

we wanted to have visibility and insight into our I.T infrastructure.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Good user interface. A very good vulnerability scanner included.

Cons:

costs a it higher with respect to features available. some time integrations can be a bit tricky. Very Limited trial period of only 15 days, Log Point SIEM offers 60 days trial period in comparison. also MacAfee, Solar Winds also provides 30 days trial period which could be extended.

Reasons for choosing USM Anywhere

AlienVault was shortlisted due to Lower Costs and meeting our requirements

Jose A G.

Verified reviewer

11-50 employees

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2018

Integrated Security Platform + Affordable

complete visibility across infrastructure, great help to demonstrate compliance, unauthorized access on network or environment. notifications and reports on security posture of the company

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

complete set of security capabilities out of the box Vulnerability Management IDS/HIDS File Integrity Monitoring Behavior Analysis Continuous Monitoring And appart of all that is a SIEM OTX is great for new threats and updates Dynamic and interactive dashboards single pane of glass visibility according to requirements alarms can be set according to the type of incident and priority great compatibility across software and devices vendors to collect logs from Great integration capabilities via APIs Great reporting capabilities predefined schemes to validate and ensure compliance

Cons:

Vulnerability management based on Openvas ticketing system can be limited in order to track or escalate it sensors for remote locations or new offices-branches will require a new purchase, so better define future expansions during the subscription before buy so you can consider the right amount of sensors and avoid delays because of that customer support tends to delay things

Shivakant D.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed February 2018

Effectiveness at Detecting Security Threats

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The like most of this software Shows all issues, vulnerabilities, and attack servers, Vulnerability scanning Up to date security definitions.

Cons:

some pos are the menu structure could be broken down into categories that make it easier to locate sub-menus and there are a couple of things that can only be done through the CLI and unless you're familiar with the CLI, there may be a large learning curve for some.

Alejandro A.

Internet

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2018

Detect everything in your system!!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

-THE PRICE FOR UTILITY IS RIDICULOUS. -THE CUSTOMER SUPPORT, IS QUICKLY AND EFFECTIVE. -Detect back doors, exploit, attacks in real time, is perfect for detect every problem on a server. -Is very easy to use! -Alienvault Is a great tool for detect any threat on your system, is a effective and fast software.

Cons:

-These software is only for a big enterprises, the price is good, but it is not for normal people, is expensive, yes, but is a great tool for detect any threat on any system.

Jake W.

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2017

Out of this world!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The price to feature ratio is epic. We use this product regularly and absolutely love it. It's so easy my mom could use it.

Cons:

It doesn't come in blaze orange. I can't take it hunting. Won't make me coffee or a sandwich (yes, I tried sudo)

Houcem H.

Verified reviewer

Telecommunications

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2020

An open source powered SIEM

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Integrates easily with other open source tools like Nagios and OSSEC Open source version (OSSIM) is free and simple to deploy OTX is useful, even for non USM users

Cons:

Log searching is not available in the open source version Advanced setup and tuning has sometimes to be done at the CLI (outside of the web interface)

Keith M.

Financial Services

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2017

Purchased AlienVault two years ago and have been very happy with the purchase thus far.