LevelBlue USM Anywhere vs Sangfor Endpoint Secure comparison

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LevelBlue and Sangfor are both solutions in the Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) category. LevelBlue is ranked #33 with an average rating of 8.0, while Sangfor is ranked #54. LevelBlue holds a 1.4% mindshare in EDR, compared to Sangfor’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of LevelBlue users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Sangfor users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 24, 2026

USM Anywhere and Sangfor Endpoint Secure compete in the cybersecurity category. USM Anywhere is preferred for its pricing flexibility and support features, while Sangfor Endpoint Secure is seen as superior for its comprehensive feature set.

Features: USM Anywhere provides extensive network visibility with centralized logging, host-based IDS, and network IDS. Its cloud deployment allows easy setup and diverse integrations. Advanced reporting and centralized alert systems enhance security management. Sangfor Endpoint Secure offers real-time monitoring, AI-powered detection, and behavior analysis. It integrates with next-generation firewalls for a unified security model.

Room for Improvement: USM Anywhere needs better IPv6 support and improved directive creation and search functionality. Cloud control issues also disrupt users. Sangfor Endpoint Secure could strengthen VPN security and refine the management console. Support service improvements are suggested for better customer care.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: USM Anywhere offers flexible deployment in cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments, with praised technical support. Sangfor Endpoint Secure focuses on on-premises deployment, where enhancements in response times and support effectiveness are needed.

Pricing and ROI: USM Anywhere is lauded for competitive pricing beneficial for medium-sized enterprises, offering a holistic security solution at a lower cost than some competitors. Sangfor Endpoint Secure's "pay as you grow" model is financially adaptable, but potential higher costs compared to public clouds can be a deterrent.

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Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Net...

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) category, the mindshare of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is 3.8%, down from 3.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of LevelBlue USM Anywhere is 1.4%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sangfor Endpoint Secure is 0.9%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks	3.8%
LevelBlue USM Anywhere	1.4%
Sangfor Endpoint Secure	0.9%
Other	93.9%

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

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ABHISHEK_SINGH

Senior Process Expert at A.P. Moller - Maersk

Gained full visibility and streamlined threat detection through behavior-based insights and AI integration

Initially, we got to have a lot of false positives when we onboarded, but nowadays it's quite smooth. We have fine-tuned our security policies and allowed different levels of policies to get rid of those false positives. Currently, we are getting a fairly good amount of incidents that are not false positives or benign, but actionable items. The process is streamlined. In the initial days, the operations used to get involved in a lot of benign and other activities, but now the process is streamlined. We are leveraging the auto-detection and remediation plans. The operations teams are now more involved in other business roles as well, not just looking into the logs and fetching out what's happening there. They have fixed a lot of things. Initially, they didn't have IAC code drift detection, cloud posture management, or security posture management, but they have those now. They purchased different vendors and did a merger with that. They have now Prisma Cloud that gets integrated and now they are working with Cortex Cloud. Everything that was negative has now been addressed, and the product altogether looks to be in a very better and mature shape now. Currently, it's more or less detecting the workloads with AI-based best practices. Since most organizations are consuming AI agents and other things, we are looking forward to seeing what other feature enhancements Palo Alto can support in that.

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Kris Nawani

Co-Founder/Director at Bangkok MSP Company Limited

Offers complete coverage without the need to install additional software

USM Anywhere is used for threat detection and investigation. It provides a solution with built-in threat intelligence and various other investigation tools The solution offers complete coverage without the need to install additional software, as it is maintained by the vendor. It helps in saving…

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Hasan Dawood

Cloud Engineer at REDtone Digital Services

Robust security with features like antivirus protection and centralized management, but it may have limitations in supporting migrations from public clouds

While it excels in migrating VMs from on-premises and local infrastructure, it does not provide support for public cloud migrations. Attempting to migrate from public clouds like AWS encountered challenges, and Sangfor's support team clarified that they don't offer assistance for migrations from public cloud environments. It would be much more convenient if the migration tool could be installed directly on the customer's VMs, enabling a smoother migration process to the new infrastructure, with potential restrictions addressed accordingly.

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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

"The live terminal is probably the best thing ever. It gives you the access to get straight onto any machine."

"Once you become familiar with it, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is a more powerful tool and I would say that I prefer it over MDE because it is a stronger tool for me."

"Cortex XDR features advanced threat detection capabilities."

"The initial setup isn't too bad."

"But overall, when we speak about security and protection, they are one of the top providers."

"The dashboard is customizable."

"The main benefit of using Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks while employing Palo Alto Firewall at the internet edge is that it improves security on our endpoint devices, integrating seamlessly with Palo Alto Firewalls to deliver comprehensive network, analyst, and security details all in a single dashboard, which allows us to manage everything from our network devices."

"Cortex XDR can integrate the firewalls and determine the tendencies of the attacks. It's a new generation antivirus, with protection endpoints and detection response. It is very easy to use and everybody can operate the solution."

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"With AlienVault we are able to respond to incidents and take necessary action faster than we could before without the solution in place."

"The ease of implementation is the most valuable feature."

"From my perspective, it saves me about two to seven hours weekly, as now I can easily check in one place all the logs and data in relation to attacks, and it also gives me an overview if a server is not configured properly."

"AlienVault provides you with a unified view for all aspects of what is going on in your environment."

"AlienVault provides excellent visibility into your network by combining centralized logging, host-based IDS and network IDS."

"The USM is a work horse, no matter what devices or the number of logs we throw at it, the system processes them in real time, correlates the events, and alerts on only events that need human review."

"Asset discovery seems to be good."

"The solution is stable."

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"What stands out to me is the dual-end user interface they provide."

"The product's initial setup phase was straightforward."

"I like the tool's honeypot feature. Some features include having a honeypot to detect attacks in a certain area. Additionally, there is RDP protection, which means that when we remote into our server or any endpoint, we must enter a password as a second layer of security. It can also integrate with next-generation firewalls."

"The most valuable feature I have found in the system is its comprehensive end-to-end protection."

"It has a quick response time, threat intelligence, cybersecurity features, quick report generation, behavior analysis, dynamic detection, and quarantine features."

"Sangfor Endpoint Secure has some good policy certificates."

"The tool's AI feature is helpful in endpoint security."

"The real-time monitoring feature of Sangfor Endpoint Secure is truly real-time, with no delay compared to other solutions."

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Cons

"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks could improve by adding a sandbox feature to better compete with their competitors which have it."

"This product has not improved my organization - in fact, we are in the process of moving back to another product as a result of Cortex's horrible impact on system performance."

"It would be good to have a better way to search for a file within the UI."

"The downsides of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks are that in many incidents, when I enter the causality chain, there are numerous logs."

"It should support more mobile operating systems. That is one of the cons of their infrastructure right now."

"Currently, we are monitoring all USB drives and ports but we would like to improve our device control capabilities."

"There's an overall lack of features."

"The setup is quite easy. We had appropriate support from the manager. One thing that was missing was the integration part."

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"Reporting and Windows log collection is the biggest drawback."

"Technical Support: We received average support. As observed, the support engineers take a long time for issue resolution."

"Adding a parsing interface for the customers would make AT&T AlienVault USM better."

"There is room for improvement in Log parsing."

"There were deployment issues. At the time, it was right after USM Anywhere had been released, and not all of the documentation was posted."

"There are scalability issues due to a 60 TB limit, which restricts its use for large customers like banks."

"There are many reports included but would be nice to have better access to the data."

"Their threat intelligence platform needs to be broadened. They should integrate it with more threat intelligence platforms. For the threat feed that they get from open intelligence, I would like them to add a few premium threat intelligence platforms. They can provide a bundle in which AlienVault has the threat intelligence background of other premium products."

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"Currently, the tool lacks reporting functionalities."

"Sangfor Endpoint Secure should include healing capabilities."

"It is complicated to establish a tunnel due to technical issues in the VPN system."

"I face issues while migrating from Kaspersky to Sangfor Endpoint Secure."

"Sangfor Endpoint Secure performs poorly."

"Sometimes, the VPN is not secure and doesn't work properly in Sangfor Endpoint Secure."

"There are a few areas for improvement. We have encountered licensing issues on occasion, and sometimes updates don't apply properly."

"I believe Sangfor Endpoint Secure could improve in terms of its user interface and management capabilities."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price was fine."

"I feel it is fairly priced."

"The cost of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is $55 to $90 USD per endpoint per month."

"If one wishes to work with another team or large number of users at a future point, he must purchase a license for them."

"Compared to CrowdStrike, Cortex XDR is an expensive solution."

"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is an expensive solution."

"Its pricing is kind of in line with its competitors and everybody else out there."

"It has a higher cost than other solutions, like CrowdStrike or Microsoft’s EDR tools, but it reduces the cost of our operations because it’s a new generation antivirus tool."

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"QRadar, ArcSight and Splunk are some of the most expensive SIEM products out there in the market and not everyone has the budget to buy them. In such cases, AV USM is a very cost effective alternative."

"It is affordable, and it also has many features that the premium products such as ArcSight and QRadar have. It is a very good platform for a SIEM solution. Everything is included in the price."

"Pricing is very competitive with other products and you get much more functionality from AlienVault."

"Negotiate the best package for your environment."

"The licensing fees are dependent on usage."

"The price for this solution is very good, but since the features do not work the price is expensive."

"I don't think the product's pricing is a good value because they try to raise the price 50 percent every year... AlienVault needs to understand that not all customers are huge enterprises... Their sales team is way too aggressive. The price they advertise is not always the price you get."

"I rate the price of AT&T AlienVault USM a four out of five."

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"Its "pay as you grow" model offers cost-effectiveness compared to major cloud providers."

"Sangfor Endpoint Secure's pricing is cheap. I rate it seven out of ten."

"We were using Hyper-V. So, we switched to Sangfor because of the pricing."

"Sangfor Endpoint Secure is not a cheap solution."

"Price-wise, Sangfor Endpoint Secure can be considered a competitively priced product in the market as it offers quite low prices compared to other solutions."

"The solution is cheap. It is cheaper than other products by 15-20 percent."

"The product is expensive compared to other vendors."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Comms Service Provider

14%

Outsourcing Company

12%

Construction Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Outsourcing Company

16%

Construction Company

16%

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

15%

Comms Service Provider

14%

Media Company

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Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	50
Midsize Enterprise	21
Large Enterprise	57

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Small Business	65
Midsize Enterprise	29
Large Enterprise	25

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Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	3

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AT&T AlienVault USM?

The pricing is amazing and really cheap.

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Compared 5% of the time

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Compared 4% of the time

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Compared 4% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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Compared 11% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Also Known As

Cyvera, Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Traps

AT&T AlienVault USM, AlienVault, AlienVault USM, Alienvault Cybersecurity

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Overview

Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks provides advanced threat detection with AI-driven endpoint protection and seamless integration, ensuring multi-layered security and automatic threat response.

Cortex XDR is designed to safeguard endpoints against malware and suspicious activities. It offers advanced threat detection and response capabilities using behavioral analysis, AI, and machine learning. It seamlessly integrates with security infrastructures, providing endpoint security, firewall integration, and enhanced visibility in both cloud-based and on-premises environments.

What are the key features of Cortex XDR?

Advanced Threat Detection: Uses AI and machine learning for proactive threat identification.
Multi-layered Security: Combines various security measures for comprehensive protection.
Endpoint Protection: Safeguards against malware and exploits.
Behavioral Analysis: Monitors suspicious activity for early detection.
Automatic Threat Response: Automates responses to neutralize threats.

What benefits should users expect?

Ease of Use: Simplifies security management with intuitive design.
Resource Efficiency: Minimizes impact on system resources.
Integration Capabilities: Works well with existing security setups.
Reduced Analyst Workload: Automates processes to decrease manual intervention.

Organizations in diverse sectors deploy Cortex XDR to protect against malware, leveraging its advanced threat detection capabilities. Its integration with existing security infrastructures appeals to those seeking comprehensive protection in both cloud and on-premises environments, providing enhanced visibility and threat intelligence.

Palo Alto Networks

USM Anywhere provides centralized logging, vulnerability scanning, and real-time event correlation, enhancing cybersecurity management and compliance with standards like PCI DSS and ISO 27001. It integrates smoothly with third-party applications and offers diverse, flexible deployment options.

USM Anywhere stands out for its integrated network and host IDS, asset management, and intuitive deployment that enhances efficiency. The platform simplifies security tasks by offering a comprehensive view that aids in compliance and aligns with security regulations such as PCI and GDPR. Despite its strengths, areas like IPv6 support, custom rule creation, and reporting require attention. Users note awkward reporting features and limited integration options. Enhancements are needed in threat detection and vulnerability scanning for faster response times and better support.

What are the key features of USM Anywhere?

Centralized Logging: Streamlines log collection across environments for easy analysis.
Vulnerability Scanning: Identifies potential security gaps in systems and networks.
Real-time Event Correlation: Detects and correlates security events efficiently.
Network IDS and Host IDS: Provides intrusion detection at both network and host levels.
Asset Management: Manages and tracks company assets seamlessly.

What benefits and ROI can users expect?

Enhanced Compliance: Aligns security measures with standards like PCI DSS and ISO 27001.
Improved Efficiency: Simplifies deployment and interface, saving time and resources.
Security Management: Offers comprehensive monitoring for better security posture.
Flexible Integration: Connects with third-party applications to extend functionality.

In industries such as cloud services and enterprise security, USM Anywhere is used extensively for SIEM, managing logs, and detecting security incidents. It supports AWS environment monitoring, providing managed services to clients and facilitating compliance with standards like PCI and GDPR.

LevelBlue

Organizations use Sangfor Endpoint Secure for endpoint protection and security management, managing devices, servers, and networks against malicious threats. It also assists in blocking websites, managing infrastructure, applications, antivirus needs, and aids in migrating to cloud environments.

Sangfor Endpoint Secure offers end-to-end protection, incorporating file protection, AI detection, behavior analysis, access control, and ISP load balancing. It facilitates VM migration with minimal downtime and includes a dual-end user interface for creating firewall rules, uploading images, and configuring VM settings. Enhancements such as Hyper-V capabilities, policy certificates, honeypot features, and next-generation firewall integrations are available. However, Sangfor Endpoint Secure could improve on console management, reporting functionalities, public cloud migration support, navigation, VPN system issues, licensing, update management, transitioning processes, and incorporating healing capabilities.

What are its most important features?

Comprehensive end-to-end protection including file protection
AI detection and behavior analysis
Access control and ISP load balancing
Ease of VM migration with minimal downtime
Streamlined dual-end user interface for firewall rules and VM settings
Hyper-V capabilities and policy certificates
Honeypot feature for attack detection and RDP protection
Integration with next-generation firewalls

What benefits or ROI should users look for?

Enhanced device, server, and network security from malicious threats
Simplified migration from on-premises to cloud environments
User-friendly navigation and management capabilities
Advanced detection and behavior analysis reducing potential threats
Streamlined enforcement of robust security policies

Sangfor Endpoint Secure is implemented across various industries to ensure comprehensive security management and protection. IT departments leverage its VM migration capabilities for seamless transitions to cloud environments. Healthcare organizations use it to secure sensitive patient data, while educational institutions utilize it for safeguarding academic records and personal information. Financial services employ it to protect critical transactional data and adhere to stringent compliance requirements.

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Sample Customers

CBI Health Group, University Honda, VakifBank

Abel & Cole, Bank of Ireland, Bluegrass Cellular, CareerBuilder, Claire's, Hays Medical Center, Hope International, McCurrach, McKinsey & Company, Party Delights, Pepco Holdings, Richland School District, Ricoh, SaveMart, Shake Shack, Steelcase, TaxAct, Taylor Morrison, Vonage and Zoom

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