AlienVault OSSIM vs FileAudit comparison

AT&T and IS Decisions are both solutions in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category. AT&T is ranked #12 with an average rating of 7.2, while IS Decisions is ranked #61. AT&T holds a 1.9% mindshare in SIEM, compared to IS Decisions’s 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 80% of AT&T users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of IS Decisions users who would recommend it.

AlienVault OSSIM

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80% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

AlienVault OSSIM

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

FileAudit and AlienVault OSSIM are both strong contenders in IT security. AlienVault OSSIM seems to have the upper hand due to its comprehensive feature set.

Features: FileAudit offers straightforward file monitoring and auditing capabilities, real-time alerts, detailed reporting, and easy configuration. AlienVault OSSIM provides extensive SIEM features, including comprehensive threat detection, integrated threat intelligence, and network monitoring.

Room for Improvement: FileAudit users suggest enhancements in reporting flexibility, integration with other systems, and more customization options. AlienVault OSSIM users desire improvements in scalability, a more intuitive setup process, and reduced resource consumption.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: FileAudit is noted for its quick and simple deployment with strong customer support. AlienVault OSSIM, despite having a more challenging deployment process, provides high-quality customer service once established.

Pricing and ROI: FileAudit is recognized for cost-effectiveness and attractive setup costs, offering solid ROI through straightforward pricing. AlienVault OSSIM tends to have higher setup costs, justified by its extensive feature set, providing a valuable return on investment for those needing advanced capabilities.

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AlienVault OSSIM vs. FileAudit

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Categories and Ranking

AlienVault OSSIM

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

12th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

FileAudit

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

61st

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (54th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of AlienVault OSSIM is 1.9%, down from 4.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of FileAudit is 0.5%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
AlienVault OSSIM	1.9%
FileAudit	0.5%
Other	97.6%

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

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Brandon Pearce

Independent Contractor at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

Enables cost-effective security management for small businesses

Scaling for USM is always challenging for any product unless it is purpose-built or overbuilt at the front end. They will use Palo Alto and its competitors, and LevelBlue will manage that implementation. The main area where the AlienVault product was lacking around the 2018 timeframe was in its ability to scale. By pushing it to a cloud-based system, they've largely alleviated scale issues. It's native in Amazon but will also run in Azure. They have worked with cloud service providers to offer enough throughput at a cost reasonable for a corporation. Scaling was their biggest problem, and they've largely conquered those issues.

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AntoSebastin

Cyber Security Consultant - APAC at Logon Software

A scalable SIEM solution for monitoring a user's activity in the file server

The most valuable features of the solution are its quick and simple features related to advanced permissions for files, allowing for what permission needs to be granted to the users when it comes to the monitoring folder in the solution. If someone who has been denied permission to use a particular folder tries to go to that folder, then the administrator gets a notification. In general, the administrator can easily gather and maintain records if a person who has been denied permission to a particular confidential folder tries to access it.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Asset discovery is good."

"The solution is free to use."

"The initial setup is straightforward."

"The tool's security detection is good. It helps us with login tracking and generating reports. We aim to identify potential issues, such as brute-force attacks on user accounts or server-level anomalies. For instance, if I receive a report indicating a server is at an abnormal level, I investigate and address the issue."

"Its user-friendliness is the most valuable. It is very easy to use and explore. The dashboard is very well packaged and integrated. You don't have to spend a lot of time in configuring it and checking out the RPM etc. It is also free and very powerful."

"With AlienVault you get everything in one box."

"It has helped us remediate threats in the past by providing significant events that assisted in identifying suspicious activities, such as logins from multiple countries."

"Network traffic analysis is highly efficient."

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"Alerting upon file changes is the most valuable aspect of the product."

"Our customer acquires the complete report which is kept for future auditing purposes."

"It is a good and stable solution...It is a scalable solution."

Cons

"The price of this solution is very high and it could be cheaper."

"The solution is not scalable."

"AlienVault OSSIM should improve the deployment and make it unified like the USM."

"It's under heavy traffic. If you have heavy traffic, the system is slow."

"The main area where the AlienVault product was lacking around the 2018 timeframe was in its ability to scale."

"The incidence reporting could be better."

"There are somewhat more false positives with the user behavior analytics, which could benefit from an additional machine learning model to detect user patterns more rapidly."

"We need more dashboards and we need more customization for dashboards."

More AlienVault OSSIM cons

"The updates management and central management console could be improved."

"Whenever someone cuts and paste, it shows as "file is deleted"."

"The DLP function, including installation of the agent on the workstation and controlling the DLP restrictions, are areas where the product lacks."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I used the paid version of the tool and found it to be expensive. It has been a while since I changed to Securonix. I will have to check whether AlienVault charges per device, user, or log."

"The price of AlienVault OSSIM is too high sometimes for us to present to our customers. The price should be lower. We are on a three-year license to use the solution. We had to pay extra for the support."

"AlienVault OSSIM is expensive compared to its competitors."

"The solution is open source, so it's free to use."

"The licensing fees for the non-community edition are paid on an annual basis, and there are no costs in addition to this."

"The tool's licensing costs are yearly."

"We are using the community version, which can be used for free."

"AlienVault pricing is the best. Whatever cost you are paying, you are getting a return on every penny... It's not like your IBM, your QRadar, or Splunk, where the cost is too high."

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"FileAudit provides a trial license for 30 days, and after that, customers can choose between perpetual licensing or the annual-based licensing option offered by FileAudit."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

13%

Comms Service Provider

11%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

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Company Size

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Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	18
Midsize Enterprise	9
Large Enterprise	8

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about AlienVault OSSIM?

Asset discovery is good.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AlienVault OSSIM?

It depends. I would need to review their cost models, but generally, they are on a scaled basis based on throughput usage. Because it's a software as a service solution for their core product for U...

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Also Known As

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Overview

AlienVault OSSIM, Open Source Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), provides you with a feature-rich open source SIEM complete with event collection, normalization and correlation. Launched by security engineers because of the lack of available open source products, AlienVault OSSIM was created specifically to address the reality many security professionals face: A SIEM, whether it is open source or commercial, is virtually useless without the basic security controls necessary for security visibility.

AT&T

Agentless, remote and non-intrusive, FileAudit offers a simple more user-friendly way to safeguard and secure file access in a Windows environment. FileAudit provides real-time monitoring and alerting on all access (or access attempts). FileAudit also implements contextual functions such as mass access and alteration alerts, tracking source IP address information for remote data access, and providing granular time and date alerting parameters to monitor folder and file access at unusual or unexpected times.

IS Decisions

Sample Customers

Council Rock School District

CommuniCare Health Centre, DP World, BAE Systems, Moet Hennessy, Ernst & Young, Honda, Volswagon, VTech, GlakoSmithKline, Lockheed Martin, US Navy, University of Alabama, Ministry of Interior Saudi Arabia, Total

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