LogRhythm SIEM Reviews

The AI engine is what I like the most. It’s all in how LogRhythm correlates the events that it is receiving. It takes a lot of guesswork away from the analyst. We don’t have to reinvent the wheel. Out of the box, it's very easy and intuitive to get started. It’s easy to see the impact of the event in which you are receiving.

For me right now, I have not used it long enough to give an evaluation of what the product is lacking. As far as room for improvement, I would like to see the solution be a more hardened operating system other than Windows. I’d prefer that they didn’t use the Microsoft Windows platform. I think that they lose a lot of efficiency and performance that way.

When I first deployed the product, I did find some issues with log consumption. The appliance we had was rated at 25,000 messages per second and we run an average of 1,204 messages per second. We are seeing performance issues with the appliance. It appears that there are some inconsistencies that are running with the hardware of the solution.

It seems pretty good, but they do seem to be plagued with what a lot of new companies are plagued with -- their internal staff are still learning the product as well. Some of the sessions I’ve had were with technical support, not professional services. We have discovered some answers together instead of the technical support person knowing it off-hand. Some things we stumbled on by accident, some things I had to point out to the agent. Seeing as I have only used the product for two months, that person should know more than I do.

I previously used McAfee ESM, QRadar, and ArcSight. McAfee is by far my favorite SIEM to utilize. It is very robust, very quick. The ability to query is much faster than all other popular SIEM tools. Now that it requires a lot more hardware investment, it almost requires a developer mentality to massage the tool to make it do exactly what you want. This is where LogRhythm really outshines McAfee.

It was done in-house. A person from a different state logged on and helped me via web conference and helped me through the initial configuration.

I foresee a ROI. You need to understand what an ROI is. We are trying to buy peace of mind. It’s almost an insurance policy. It’s really measured in soft dollars.

We really appreciate the new cloud functionality. The cloud is really showing its dominance. 

Technical support is very helpful and responsive.

The product has a lot of useful features.

There aren't really any missing features. It's quite a complete solution.

Most of the clients using the on-prem are using customized applications. In the customized applications, we are facing parsing issues and a minimum of two days is required by the LogRhythm team for parsing logs. 

Parsing is totally controlled by LogRhythm and they do not allow any partner or any third-party to handle this part and this is a key challenge on my end. This is a huge cost impact -at least on the Pakistani market. It needs to be addressed.

The solution should be less expensive.

It would be very helpful if there was Kashif a package to help users migrate from QRadar to LogRhythm.

In Pakistan, the government is in the process of developing its final recommendation of cybersecurity and data protection process. We hope this solution will prove to be compliant and will meet the requirements in the future.

I've been using the solution for approximately one and a half years at this point. It hasn't been too long just yet.

We have four or five people using the solution in our organization. They are managing the LogRhythm infrastructure.

We are in touch with their support. It's government support, and they're quite supportive, and they are quite responsive. They have a divisional team is quite responsive. 

The initial setup is complex with LogRhythm. In that Pakistan market, with LogRhythm, the climate is very limited at this point. For the on-prem, there may be only two customers, for example. One is a bank and one is serving as an MSSP.

We've added four customers to a pay-as-you-go model. You apply Windows 2000 MPS or a cloud environment. The initial setup is quite difficult, however, after making certifications we are able to provide the initial setup and got it working with the LogRhythm support team.

For maintenance, I have five engineers that are part of my security team, including me and my sales and operations. Approximately we have 14 to 15 people that can handle maintenance.

We had some assistance from the LogRhythm support team. We did not entirely do it ourselves.

The cost of the solution should be reduced. In the Pakistan market, they have competition from IBM QRadar. They have quite a significant core difference. While the quality of this product is better, IBM has a stronger penetration in the market base don price. 90% of financial institutions are doing the QRadar in Pakistan. The Central Bank is using QRadar and simply due to the cost differences.

Initially, we tested out the QRadar, however, due to some delay and due to some market awareness tests, we did not continue.

We are using the solution for our own infrastructure and we are also offering it as a service. We are the largest service provider, cloud service provider, in Pakistan. However, we use a variety of deployment models - including cloud and hybrid.

We have an ISO position for government-certified infrastructure. We have a PCI-certified infrastructure as well as a GDPI compliant infrastructure.

We work closely with this product in particular. We have a lot of hands-on experience.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. If it weren't for some parsing limitations in the product, I would rate it even higher.

It monitors any potential security threats within any of our important network security appliances, like our firewall, or any of our important databases. The idea being that you can't look at all the logs at once, so we now have a central point of monitoring for all potential threats.

I have been using LogRhythm for just a few months, but the college has had it for over a year. Until I worked with it, there was no monitoring it and the solution just sat there. The solution is just picking up speed now.

• The threat analytics
• Seeing what potentially could be happening; what are the riskiest things going on.

I would like it to do a lot of the automation (which I still need to learn more about), because I am essentially a one man shop doing all the jobs. I'd like for it to be able to do more for me, so I can focus my attention on my other job responsibilities, because there are a lot of them.

The only issues that we have had with it were Windows-based. The actual appliance has been up and continuously logging everything that we have, and CIS logging through it. There have been no signs of any problems nor instability.

When it comes to dealing with support, all my interactions have been great. Everyone has known what they're doing and have been quick to respond. They seem to always know the answer. I haven't stumped anybody yet. That's not something that I typically encounter. Usually, I wind up being the person finding the weird thing where people have to get back to me and it is left up to the developers.The few issues that I have had while doing upgrades, LogRhythm's support answered them incredibly quickly.

When it comes to dealing with support, all my interactions have been great. Everyone has known what they're doing and have been quick to respond. They seem to always know the answer. I haven't stumped anybody yet. That's not something that I typically encounter. Usually, I wind up being the person finding the weird thing where people have to get back to me and it is left up to the developers.

The few issues that I have had while doing upgrades, LogRhythm's support answered them incredibly quickly.

I have never used a competing product.

I love the potential of this solution. It sounds like a "set it and forget" type of solution. Let it deal with all the problems. It is good at doing that.

On the day-to-day, I haven't had a huge amount of time to work with the full-spectrum analytics. I have been focusing on getting it updated and up-and-running.

Currently, we have a Windows agent. Therefore, we technically have just two log sources, because the Windows agent is picking up all the domain logs onto one box and forwarding them on. It is taking all the Windows Servers and single-sourcing them. Then, currently, the only other thing that we have actively logging is our Sonic logs and CIS logs. We only have two individual sources listed, but it is more logs than that.

It has improved our ability to see incidents when they occur, instead of maybe a few weeks or a few months down the road.

Overall effectiveness is very good. I like how it is oriented to both analysts and technical support people. It's easily adopted by end users as much as by technologists.

Key challenges are going to be maintaining visibility as the technology changes, especially with cloud coming onboard, probably fairly soon. Also, the implementation of a SOC, which is relatively new to what we've been doing.

• The overall view of the solution: It encompasses end-to-end analysis and response.
• Log management
• Threat management: Threat hunting is going to be a large topic for us as well, which being a big data engine, will go a long way for us, too.

We have not move into cloud security so much, but eventually we will be there.

I would like to see case management become more independent from LogRhythm itself. Right now, it is very oriented to LogRhythm based events, but not manual events, such as user reported things and incidents where we might have large volumes of data that we have to store as part of the case. It works real well as a workflow device, but not real well for overall case management for an organization.

It's highly scalable, though we have not really been able to take advantage of all of its scalability yet. We're moving into the new architecture as we speak with having separate data processors and indexers. I am hoping to find out how scalable that becomes.

We're currently between seven and 11,000 logs per second. By next year, we'll probably be close to 20,000 logs per second. We have 14,000 branch offices and two large data centers. We're growing rapidly and trying to improve our visibility.

As far as technical support, professional support, and overall organizational support, LogRhythm has probably been one of the best companies that I have worked with since I have been in technology.

We did not have a previous solution.

When we originally put in this solution, it was for log collection and analysis of all of our branch network devices, but it has evolved over the last seven years to encompass pretty much anything that provides some kind of security visibility.

I was involved in the initial setup. It was straightforward, but it was seven years ago. We have gotten more complex as the system's evolved.

The SIEM solutions comparison we did included QRadar, RSA, and LogRhythm.

LogRhythm stood out due to ease of deployment, cost of ownership, and ease of use.

Look at all of the factors, including total cost of ownership and your roadmap of where you are going, and compare those to the needs that you have going forward. There are a lot of solutions out there that are either way too complex to manage, don't have a good roadmap, are a secondary solution in a larger company, or are going to just be astronomically expensive when they get to a useful state.

If the solution is a unified end-to-end platform, it helps with the overall management, skill set training, and retention. It does provide some long-term benefits.

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor:

• Usability
• Growth potential based off of cost.
• Architecture.

So, where could we grow the system, because a lot of systems were either too complex, too expensive, or very oriented for that particular network-based solution. I was looking for some kind of compromise in the middle.

We're using LogRhythm NextGen SIEM only for a few databases. Members keep their data on our FTP server, and we monitor firewalls, endpoint management solutions, and some critical endpoints.

LogRhythm NextGen SIEM has improved the organization through the alarm system my team has configured. The alarm system is key to looking after all the hardware and endpoints.

What I found most valuable in LogRhythm NextGen SIEM is that it's user-friendly. I also like its dashboard, which shows all the logs and information I want to see.

One area for improvement in LogRhythm NextGen SIEM is that it's a Windows-based tool, and I feel it should be on the Linux operating system instead.

Another area for improvement in the tool is the UI. There should be minor changes in the UI to make it better, though I like the dashboards in LogRhythm NextGen SIEM.

I've been using LogRhythm NextGen SIEM for one month now.

LogRhythm NextGen SIEM is a stable tool. I didn't find any instability in it.

LogRhythm NextGen SIEM is a scalable tool. Scalability is one of the reasons why my organization uses it.

When I joined the company, a ticket was previously opened with the LogRhythm NextGen SIEM technical support team. Though I didn't directly connect with support, I have information that the problem was resolved and that the support team was very cooperative and very technical in solving the problem.

Though I didn't configure LogRhythm NextGen SIEM as it was pre-configured when I joined the company, any solution won't be difficult to implement, as long as you have an understanding and knowledge of the product or tool. I was an implementer once.

Senior management is in charge of purchasing the license for LogRhythm NextGen SIEM, so I have no information on how much it costs.

I worked on McAfee SIEM for six months, but that was when I was part of another team. If you compare McAfee SIEM with LogRhythm NextGen SIEM, I prefer LogRhythm NextGen SIEM because it's a user-friendly tool. It's also very easy to configure. The dashboards in LogRhythm NextGen SIEM are also very simple and very informative, and I've configured them to better understand what's happening in the organization. You can also create an alarm system in LogRhythm NextGen SIEM, that's very helpful.

I also evaluated IBM QRadar, and I found IBM QRadar to be a better tool than LogRhythm NextGen SIEM.

I work in the enterprise security department or the SOC, and I just have to deal with the logs. The tool being used within the organization for log management is LogRhythm NextGen SIEM, particularly the N-1 version.

My organization uses the on-premise version of the tool, and it's been applied to the data center.

I belong to a very small organization with a data center that has sixty people using LogRhythm NextGen SIEM. In terms of maintenance, the tool isn't difficult to maintain.

The only advice I have for anyone who'd like to start using LogRhythm NextGen SIEM is that it's a very good tool, with good features and functions.

My rating for LogRhythm NextGen SIEM is seven out of ten. I didn't give it a ten because it's Windows-based, plus I also don't like its UI that much. LogRhythm NextGen SIEM is also not as good as IBM QRadar.

My primary use case is for log retention. I've been using it for analysis, and to troubleshoot potential issues on my network and infrastructure. To find out what I have in my network that may be causing problems.

We can sit and see what's going on, as well as to be able to see errors as they populate immediately since spending time looking at logs is ridiculous, trying to put all that in place.

We will be using the playbooks in the future as we get everything implemented and put in place. The idea is it's going to help automate a lot of what we're doing and make it more efficient, as well as be able to preempt, potentially, a lot of other errors.

The most valuable feature has just been the log reporting. Within three hours of installation of LogRhythm, we were pulling error reports that actually indicated we had a switch about to fail. It saved us about ten thousand dollars of a potential failed switch.

We are ramping up the analysis and the analytics part of the LogRhythm. We're in the process of building a lot of that. We're trying to build out as clean as possible, so what we have in place is a lot of the intrusion detection and basic PCI compliance.

For me it would be the efficiency and signing up and standing up systems, as well as a little bit cleaner on case management. That can be a little bit complicated to go through and actually be able to analyze it and compile the information that I have. At least that's what I've found so far. Those would be the two biggest things.

Stability thus far has been really good. We've had it up for about six months and I've had no failure points with it. Little bugs here and there, but that's expected as you're working through and getting everything stood up. But it's been pretty stable and pretty rock-solid.

I'm probably gonna be around seven hundred and fifty sources that I'm using right now. Somewhere in that realm. It's been robust enough to handle everything that we've been putting through it. I have about 150 to 200 more that I need to stand into it, but it's been pretty stable there.

The times I've used tech support, it's been really efficient. I've gotten responses usually within 24 hours.

The initial setup was actually me and the technician. I did 90% of the installation myself and he basically came on board and verified everything I did and gave me some pointers as I went through.

Installation was incredibly straightforward. I was able to get it set up. I said, I stood it up on my own about ninety percent of the way, without any input from anybody else and just the final pieces of staging was done with somebody else.

We needed to set up a new solution based on our company requirements that were being ruled out. We needed to step-up and add something. When I came on with the company, I wanted to add-on a SIEM solution immediately, I just got the funding and benefit because the company said we had to. There wasn't anything in place before hand. So it was just very much me saying this is what we need and this is how we need to roll it out. Through my research is where I fell back on to LogRhythm.

The most important criteria on a vendor is ease of use. Since I have a small team, it's pretty much me running everything, so I need to make sure that I am able to do it efficiently and be able to pass it off to somebody when I need to be able to hand it off to do. Next piece is what it can provide and the amount of tools they can provide to me in a very short order.

My short list for SIEM solutions would have been Splunk. Also looked at Spiceworks, SolarWinds, and a few other smaller ones out there. But basically Splunk and LogRhythm are my primary two.

My security program was non-existent when I started, so this was basically one of the first implementations that I did to step-up my security implementation. Before this there really wasn't anything to work with. So it's slowly building its maturity through LogRhythm and a couple of other sources.

I would rate this product an eight out of ten, just because there's always room for improvement and there's always room we can work on. So there's always benefits, but it's been really good with what we needed and it's been very stable for our implementation.

My advice to somebody who's looking to stand-up a SIEM solution is to do your research, look at the white papers, look at their documentation they have available on how other people have responded and how many people have stood it up on their own. Get this information and then start playing with it before you start doing implementation. Gives you a lot of foundation and makes the implementation part a lot easier.

My primary use case for this solution is to basically monitor the network to make sure that we don't have unknown users or individuals that should not be in our network. So we use it basically to aggregate our logs within our system and to watch it for possible threats.

It has improved the organization a great deal. Now we're able to see what activity that's actually being used, or what activity is actually being found in the network. So we're monitoring our firewall systems and different areas like that. So it's a great help to us because we're able to see whatever that's out there that would not have been seen previously because it aggregates all the logs together and it flags us according to the alerts that are being triggered at that time.

Right now we have just grown to eight security analysts in our group, but all have different roles. Now there's two individuals that's mainly responsible for SIEM and that's myself and my coworker and he's been cross trained. He just recently went through the LogRhythm University training which is great. So right now we do have about four analysts in this system but the main number is two.

Currently we haven't seen a measurable mean time to detect because we're not using that at this time. But after this session, we will probably go ahead and start using that for metrics.

Our security improvement or maturity level definitely has increased. We started out with three security analysts and it has grown to eight. LogRhythm has improved it because we're able to see much more data. We're able to see much more of what's out there, what type of threats we're encountering, different things like that. So it's been a great improvement.

The most valuable features for me is just to be able know who's in the network, being able to drill down on the alarms, to being able to look at the different rules or whatever that's been impacted within the network for anyone being in the network.

At this point we don't use the full spectrum of analytics. We're still fairly new and trying to tweak our system to get the information that we want out of it. So we're still at the beginning stage.

We are not using the playbooks, we're still on a version that doesn't support them. But yes, after going through the session today, the preview session, we definitely want to use the playbooks.

For me, room for improvement is the upgrade process. Whenever we have to do an upgrade to the next version, we're a little nervous and apprehensive about that.

Stability, it's very stable within our organization. What we're at is 7.25 right now, we do wanna go up to 7.4. we're a little nervous about that at the point because it's so new but eventually we will make that jump.

Scalability is very good for us. We are able to use it in different areas within the organization. Different groups and stuff like that.

I have used tech support in the past and it is great. I definitely recommend tech support, we do go to the LogRhythm Community first but with me, when I was first introduced to the SIEM LogRhythm, I was new to the environment and so I leaned on tech support to help me understand the environment, and as I was making those calls with them I was like "Okay, teach me like I'm a two year old. Walk me through this so I can do this on my own."

On a scale of one to ten, I rate LogRhythm as a nine because it is a wonderful tool that definitely helps with identifying different threats within the organization. I would definitely recommend this tool. It's a very, I would say beasty application, you always will be on top of things when it comes to LogRhythm because it's always changing, but that's a good thing because the environment, the threat environment is always changing. So I'd definitely highly recommend it.

The target I would give to an individual that's looking for the best SIEM tools to put in their environment would be definitely look at one that's growing, that's not stagnant and LogRhythm is definitely one of those too that look for ways to improve it, user friendly and the different things that's out there in the environment to be able to catch the types of the bad guys or the different threats. They always try to stay on top of things. So I definitely recommend LogRhythm in that case.

We use it for all of our log correlations and event management. We try to do some external troubleshooting for other groups, like WebOps, but it's primarily our security and event manager.

For the same price, we have been able to go from a SIEM that could only manage about 20 percent of our environment to a full 100 percent coverage of all the devices on our network. Thus, we have seen a massive increase in the amount of data that we can collect, the type of things that we can see, the way we can look at logs, the way we can get alerts, and the way can create our own customer roles, which has allowed us to customize the work in our environment.

We find the user interface and the ability to pivot near search from one particular item to the next part item to be highly valuable. 

Its ability to work with all different sorts of log sources has been extremely valuable. 

The reporting could be improved. 

There are other security technologies outside of this SIEM that should be inside of this SIEM. I can see in their roadmap that they're trying to address a lot of these things, and have these technologies built into the solution, because there is no point in going to another vendor or opening up a second window to obtain the data that you need.

It is stable. We haven't had any major problems. We had a slight hiccup when we went through our upgrade procedure, but it wasn't anything overly complex, and support was there to help us. Therefore, we had it back up and running very quickly.

It should meet our needs going forward. The way we have it designed right now, we should be able to bring in single boxes and multi boxes to increase storage capacity performance whenever we need it. It's well-designed in that sense, allowing us to grow as needed.

Everything experience I have had with them has been awesome. I have had no issues going to them. They are willing to get on the phone with you. They will get on Webex with you and control the system to see what's going on, getting their hands deep in to it, then resolving the issue.

In previous and other support departments, they will just email you some suggestions and then leave you to take care of it yourself. That is not really what LogRhythm is about.

It is more intuitive than the previous solution (IBM QRadar) that we had in the environment.

We definitely had to get some assistance, because we didn't have the expertise. Once we got the product in place, it's good at maintaining itself, along with the support. 

If you're going anything more than the single box solution, I would not try to set it up by yourself. I would get the expertise to help you get it right.

In comparison to the competition, they are more affordable. This allows us to do more with less.