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Security Onion vs TheHive comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Security Onion
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
5.5
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (29th)
TheHive
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
AWS Marketplace (54th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Security Onion and TheHive aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Security Onion is designed for Log Management and holds a mindshare of 2.3%, down 5.5% compared to last year.
TheHive, on the other hand, focuses on AWS Marketplace, holds 0.2% mindshare, down 0.3% since last year.
Log Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Security Onion2.3%
Splunk Enterprise Security6.8%
Wazuh5.4%
Other85.5%
Log Management
AWS Marketplace Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
TheHive0.2%
47Lining Enterprise PaaS- Adoption Catalyst0.4%
Alt/Finance - Crystal & Rhinestone Bag Index (CRI)0.4%
Other99.0%
AWS Marketplace
 

Featured Reviews

Jörg Kippe - PeerSpot reviewer
Scientist at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees
A mature and affordable solution that is easy to install and easy to update
The product takes time to learn, it's not that easy. In the beginning we had a lot of questions. If you want to use such a tool in an real (industrial) environment, you have to ask how to get the network data. Can we do a full packet capture? Can we provide agents to our end systems? There are no simple solutions to these questions. It's a general problem when running such systems in an industrial environment.
Karsh Trivedi - PeerSpot reviewer
Soc Analyst at Payatu
Automation has transformed incident response and case management has boosted daily productivity
TheHive is actually quite beautiful and very optimized. If I had to improve anything, I would say that it could improve costing. TheHive is pretty expensive right now. With a low number of users, it works for how the business runs, but I feel that it is pretty expensive when you want to go for the commercial versions, which is where people might not want to go with it. Cost is the only downside, but it is the major downside. I would like to share an incident with you about a recent meeting I had with a client regarding TheHive. The only trigger that they had not to go with TheHive was the cost. Everything looked very good and was very fine, but the costing part was hard. The costing part was something that made them hold off on TheHive and choose a different solution. Over the years, TheHive has improved significantly in how the platform is used and how cases are managed. One good feature that I appreciated when I moved from TheHive 4 to TheHive 5 was the dark mode. When Strange Bee did the rebranding and made it a closed-source product, they added the dark mode feature, which I need because I am not good with light screens. TheHive was the only tool having only white mode capabilities. Once they added it, they have improved a lot. Many connectors are added, and many more integrations are possible now with TheHive. Basically, the appearance, performance, and integrations have improved a lot over the years.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"We use Security Onion for internal vulnerability assessment."
"The most valuable feature of Security Onion for security monitoring is its ability to find infected ports."
"Security Onion is the most mature solution in the market."
"The people at TheHive have made it very customizable, flexible, and very security-centric, as they understand what a particular incident responder or security team needs and provide it quite well."
 

Cons

"Security Onion's user interface could be improved."
"The product is not easy to learn."
"The initial setup of the solution is a little bit difficult."
"Cost is the only downside, but it is the major downside."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Security Onion is a free solution."
"It is an open-source solution."
"Security Onion is an open-source solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
University
12%
Government
10%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Computer Software Company
7%
Construction Company
29%
Media Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

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Questions from the Community

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What needs improvement with TheHive?
TheHive can be improved by having better multi-tenant reporting and a dashboard that makes it easier to track KPIs per customer in one view. Additionally, I would suggest improving case to response...
What is your primary use case for TheHive?
My main use case for TheHive is for incident response case management across multi-customer SOC operations, tracking alerts, tasks, and investigations centrally. TheHive is integrated within our or...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TheHive?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that TheHive itself is open-source, so there is no license cost, but the total cost includes infrastructure, Cortex analyzers, and support s...
 

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