What is our primary use case?
We have a security operations center, and we tailor the use cases to our customer's specific requirements. The majority of use cases focus on protecting against cybersecurity attacks, increasing cybersecurity posture, and defending against security threats.
The specific use cases depend on the customer's environment. For example, if the customer has a Windows-based solution, we focus on Windows-based use cases. If there are other applications and operating systems, we select relevant use cases accordingly.
How has it helped my organization?
Many features enhance the incident response capabilities. Logpoint has an agent, Agent X, which is a kind of EDR that doesn't have its own response capability. The response capability has to come from the central software, the Logpoint SIEM solution.
However, the agent is capable of executing commands at the user endpoint. That is one thing that enhances the sole capability. The good thing about Logpoint is that it has a built-in SOAR. When our customers purchase Logpoint, they also get a SOAR license. In our case, we see that the SOAR part is very helpful when we create playbooks for any kind of response or incident responses. We get a lot of support from Logpoint to come up with the actual response patterns, response sequences, and all those instances. Along with Agent X, we can execute it very effectively.
The more important thing is the investigation part. Logpoint has integration with some IOCs, which is an easy thing and helps us with a lot of cases. The integration bits, such as threat intelligence or the recorded feature application, give us a good capability to identify threats and come up with proper solutions.
The recorded feature is an integration, which is a natural integration or which is by default, already integrated with the product. It's also giving us a good kind of capability to respond to incidents as well.
What is most valuable?
The integrations with third-party SIEMs are good. There are roughly 800 to 1000 integrations available with various security products and applications. These integrations act as add-ons to our system.
Once we upload the plugins, we get all the dashboards and alarms, and the instances are preconfigured. This is helpful when onboarding customers.
We identify the services they're running, download the corresponding plugins from LogPoint, and install them, significantly reducing our initial startup time.
What needs improvement?
The documentation part is something that needs to be improved, as well as the threat intelligence investigation part.
Logpoint has a kind of site to describe what kinds of threats they are investigating. But that, I think, maybe Logpoint can improve more. The threat investigations and reporting to the end-users can be improved.
Logpoint can also come up with IR [incident response] capabilities. Other important SIEM solutions have some IR services. If I am an MSSP working with LogPoint for SIEM/SOAR solutions and I need immediate support, I should be able to get some support. It can be paid support, like SecureWorks, which has those kinds of functionalities. They will immediately get in and start working on helping us identify the threats, isolate them, and give us remedies to take care of and recover from any kind of attacks. Whereas in LogPoint, that functionality is missing. We will be on our own if something happens. We will get other support from them, but there's no paid support before taking ownership and helping us recover from those kinds of attacks.
They have a kind of integration for AI, but the incident response capability is what they should improve.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using it for two years. We are currently at version 7.8, the latest one.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would rate the stability level of LogPoint an eight out of ten. It definitely has a lot of dependencies on the customer's cluster server and VMs.
On the software side:
I have had some situations where the system would not come up by default.
We had to manually intervene and do some configurations to clean the system up. But the procedures are known, and it is not very difficult. I think the newer versions are improving and becoming easier to use.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
In my experience with medium-sized operations, LogPoint's scalability is excellent, so I would rate it a ten out of ten. It is highly scalable. Scalability is not an issue.
The scalability is really good. First of all, LogPoint is an appliance, not hardware. So, on the hardware side, it depends on the customer. If the customer has a VMware infrastructure, the hardware scalability is endless. They can put whatever they want.
Architecture-wise, LogPoint is architected in a way that scalability is not an issue. I haven't deployed LogPoint for more than 12 locations, but the architecture seems to provide any kind of scalability.
Customer Base
We currently have eight customers using LogPoint through our MSSP model and three customers with on-site implementations. Most of them are medium-sized, with a few small-sized businesses. We do not have any enterprise customers yet.
Suitability for Different Business Sizes
While my experience so far is mainly with medium and small businesses, it doesn't mean that LogPoint cannot work for enterprises. However, enterprises would require the kind of support they are looking for, such as IR capabilities and better technical support. I think the quality of the technical support team needs improvement when it comes to enterprise deployments.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support team needs improvement when it comes to enterprise deployments.
How would you rate customer service and support?
How was the initial setup?
It's fairly easy for us to implement it. The initial implementation and initial configurations are easy. There are a lot of out-of-the-box alerts. You can just look through that, and depending on our client's infrastructure, we can immediately enable some of the alerts, and the system will start working. So the out-of-the-box capabilities of Logpoint are very good.
I would rate my experience with the initial setup a nine out of ten, with ten being easy and one being difficult.
Deployment model:
My customers have on-premises solutions, and also, when it comes to the cloud, it is an MSSP kind of model. I haven't used any Logpoint cloud version, meaning the one hosted by LogPoint. But we have our security operation center where we have a centralized deployment of LogPoint, which our customers can subscribe to.
Deployment time:
For an all-in-one kind of implementation, it will take a maximum of one day. Again, I'm not talking about onboarding devices. Onboarding devices depend on different kinds of devices. However, the basic setup for LogPoint can be finished within a day, and then we can be ready to onboard devices.
Deployment process/steps:
Initially, we will try to find out whether the client wants an all-in-one kind of deployment, a distributed deployment, or an MSSP model of deployment. In our case, most of them will be going for an MSSP-based kind of deployment.
Then, our main job is to identify the collector for the client's location. We will also see whether it's going to be a distributed collector or a centralized one. After deploying the collector, we will see how many kinds of processes we need to configure, based on the type of devices and logs generated from different devices.
Depending on the log types, we will decide how many kinds of processes we need to configure. Depending on their knowledge and policies, we will also ask about the amount of storage needed on different LogPoint collectors.
Centralized Deployment (if applicable): If it is a centralized kind of deployment, we will integrate with our Logpoint Director, which is sitting in our SOC. We will integrate with that and start monitoring from our SOC, meaning we will start analyzing their logs from the central collector or the central director installed in our office.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
On a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I would rate LogPoint's pricing a seven. It is not very expensive compared to some of the more costly products, and it is not very cheap compared to some of the cheaper products in the SIEM market.
In the Middle East (Dubai), where I work, LogPoint is willing to give better prices to attract customers. So, there are places where customers are not very price-sensitive and are okay to pay the price. They are slightly flexible on the pricing part.
What other advice do I have?
Overall, I would rate LogPoint an eight out of ten.
I would say that if you want to start with a SIEM solution without having too much knowledge and don't want to spend too much time on day-to-day work, LogPoint would be an easy tool. The out-of-the-box capabilities are really good. It has lots of material insight that you can immediately start monitoring. However, to make it very effective with very few false positives and false negatives, it will take some time.
For organizations (initial startups) that don't have too many security people and want to immediately start monitoring the system and start doing some kind of responses, LogPoint is going to be a good solution.
Plus, on the pricing side, LogPoint's pricing is based on the number of log sources, not on events per second (EPS). This gives customers a good way to budget their expenses for the next year. They know that if they have a certain number of devices, this is the amount of money they are going to spend, whereas with EPS, you never know. EPS might go high, and their renewal prices will really go high. So that way, the pricing part is also good with LogPoint's log source-based pricing.
The out-of-the-box capabilities are very good, so you can immediately start showing something on the screen and working on it. The technical team is very cooperative to get any kind of support that we need. But, the quality of the technical support team needs some improvement.