ArcSight

Heart of the SOC

Comments: Our company and our partners facing a lot incidents masked as a normal events. The SIEM helped us to be protected and to prioritize the events, based of the security risk. Automations of the responses is the other feauture that is a key differentiator.

Pros:

Very powerful SIEM with plenty of predefined corellation scenarios. Could be integrate easily with almost everything.

Cons:

For new users could be a little difficult to play with, but there are a lot of training materials and courses.

It provides powerful features to make every operation with received logs.

Comments: I have been using this product for about 3 years. We use ESM and Logger products. As a SIEM solution, we are able to host this product in our environment. We monitor the alarm and correlation rules, abnormal activities and cyber threats, which we write through the logs we receive from various security products and applications in our environment and monitor our incident response processes.

Pros:

ArcSight supports functions such as processing, categorizing, normalizing, converting alarms and correlations and receiving reports on SIEM with very powerful search and filter operators. The product also supports making and running trend reports. It offers very powerful features for SIEM. It has features that provide great flexibility on logs. My favorite feature is the trend report. With this feature, real-time logs over the logs of the report to match the results of the report with a different database to get instant reports to access the report provide quick access.

Cons:

Ticket management feature is one of the least favorite features. It does not have an interface that can be easily adapted and applied according to your environment. If you want to use this feature, you need professional support and software support.

Arcsight - Good but complex SIEM solution

Comments: Arcsight ESM is a powerful but complex tool that needs deep knowledge of the product.

Pros:

We are using Arcsight ESM and Logger for event logging and correlation. Events correlation is done at the ESM level and provides better visibility on organizations' security posture. Dashboards and reports can be generated on ESM and further, it facilitates case management so we can open a case on the tool itself. Arcsight was one of the most demanding tools at the time we implemented the tool. ESM's log supporting surface is very high and almost all the types of logs are supported which is one of the best features of the tool. Further logs can be routed through the smart connectors and through these connectors EPS count can be managed which is a good option when it comes to licensing. I like the option of Flex connectors which can be used for integrating non supporting devices or logs.

Cons:

Arcsight Smart connector setup needs deep knowledge of the tool and configuration is a bit hectic task. Flex connector configuration and correlation configuration is another complex task that cannot be done without product knowledge. Further case management tools need more features with a simple view. First level support should have a technically savvy team. Most of the time the first level support team provides generic solutions and references to knowledge-based articles rather than studying the case.

Micro Focus ArcSight SIEM

Comments: We have a lot of security products and applications. We gather all logs from these products and we can easily manage our logs according to rules. Reporting module and dashboard are the best feature of this product.

Pros:

We have been using Arcsight SIEM tool in Information Security department in our organization since 2013. We can integrated this product with all other security management products such as Firewall, IPS, Antivirus, Web Filtering etc. also in house softwares easily. We can gather all logs from these products and create rules and manage logs according to rules. Dashboard and alarm mechanism are done well.

Cons:

Sometimes we have some problems with search mechanism, it needs some improvements. Because of our big organization and large products which gather logs sometimes we have problems with troubleshooting issues that is little bit hard for us.

ArcSight Review

Pros:

ArcSight is a SIEM tool. Which is used to collecting, analyzing and managing the logs from multiple log sources.

Cons:

Its all good but it has components which we have to install and use separately. It should be all in one like Splunk.

Best On-prem SIEM tool

Pros:

The most impactful feature of the ArcSight is the rule co-relation engine and the capabilities that it has are almost exceptional and literally stand out when compared to its competitors.

Cons:

The least exciting feature of ArcSight is that it has some third party security devices that cannot be integrated with ArcSight leading it to be less effective sometimes.

World of Data

Comments: The ArcSight product is seen as one of the leaders and leaders in the Safety Information and Event Management category, according to Gartner's Magic Quadrant report. ArcSight's approach is to create a single point of communication for observation and control. Gathers all appropriate event data and puts it into a standard form. It collects at a central location for analysis. As a result, the company allows you to easily monitor and, if necessary, take measures. This increases your compliance with your legal requirements and business continuity.

Pros:

The most important feature of Arcsight is that it is the only point of communication for observation and control. collects all appropriate data and puts it into a standard form. these data are stored on a hard disk and are expected to be analyzed. With arcsight, it is monitored with the help of side applications and with the help of monitoring tool (see arcsight esm).

Cons:

The ESM platform is Java. This causes slowness and excessive welding in intensive processes.

Lack of Support

Pros:

The flexibility. I liked that even without good product support, the application was still flexible enough for our team to create work arounds.

Cons:

The lack of enterprise support. There are no out of the box connectors for new SSO products like Okta.

Excellent Enterprise Grade Security Log Analyzer

Comments: Very powerfull Security Log Analyzer and visualizer, simply enterprise grade

Pros:

Processing power is amazing, it can analyze hundreds of gigs per minute very easily and efficiently with not a lot of resource consumption.

Cons:

It's not so easy to set up and every connector requires a different setup so it takes some time to manage.

Outdated UI - Powerful backend

Comments: Poor. 'meat' of the product is good but the UI is difficult to use. Due to this, my company moved to Logrhythm, A company leveraging ex Arcsight employees to improve on the faults of Arcsight whilst retaining the benefits

Pros:

The 'meat' of this product is very powerful allowing for complex searches of ingested log data.

Cons:

The UI of this product is very outdated, relying on 90's looking themes.

First layer for enterprise SIEM

Comments: The current configuration of the platform allows the intake of millions of events and its ability to integrate third-party applications and addons facilitates the availability of a functional SIEM in a reasonable time. However, deepening and getting to have very customized configurations implies...

Pros:

Ease to perform the intake of virtually any data source.

Cons:

The learning curve is very complex and requires specialized personnel

Good tool for Network Security Monitoring

Pros:

Flexibility and scalability Third party integrations

Cons:

Reporting and searching becomes difficult when data pipe is huge above 10k EPS