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Why Blumira
As complexity increases and threats evolve, customers are turning to more modern solutions to solve their problems. Here’s a look at why many customers are switching from AT&T Cybersecurity’s USM (Unified Security Management) — formerly known as AlienVault — to Blumira’s detection and response platform.
| AT&T AlienVault Challenges | Blumira Value |
|---|---|
| Cumbersome to manage and taxing on IT resources to deploy | Solution can be rapidly deployed in hours with the team you have today |
| Increasingly expensive, with costs rising year over year | Affordable, predictable software-as-a-service subscription pricing model |
| Too many noisy alerts and false positives that result in alert fatigue | Ease of management, multi-tenancy for different clients |
| Manual effort by already-overburdened IT teams on detection and remediation | Surface contextual threat analyses, near real-time & prioritized alerts |
| Lack of visibility due to IT complexity in their environments | Automated threat response workflows that guide IT through fast, easy remediation |
| Gaps in detection coverage across different platforms and vendors | Native integrations provide scalable, full coverage for on-premises & cloud security - at no additional cost |
| Quality of support decreased since the AT&T acquisition | Access to security reports and support from Blumira's security experts - at no additional cost |
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One particular customer was seeking a more modern solution that could help them fill their gaps in coverage across their entire environment with integrations for Microsoft 365, SonicWall, and Microsoft Windows Server.
Within less than two days, we were. Anything that could be vulnerable or exposed — I’ve got to find a way to get it integrated [with Blumira] so we can keep eyes on it and know what’s going on at all times.
Ronnie Baker IT Manager
Ultimately, this customer decided to rip and replace their existing AlienVault solution with Blumira’s detection and response platform, which reduced their annual costs by 36%. This cost savings, combined with the ease of deployment, management, reporting, support and wide security coverage across their entire environment, drove them to switch to Blumira.
I like the predictable model. I don’t have to worry about how many endpoints I have or additional hardware required as Duraflame grows over the next few years.
John Hwee Director of IT, Duraflame
Deploying a traditional detection and response solution can take a long time and require resources that companies haven’t budgeted for. But starting a free trial with Blumira isn’t a six-month long project — it can take as little as a few hours.
In a comparison of 12 other SIEM (security and information event management) vendors on G2, Blumira was ranked 5x faster to implement to help you realize security value right away.
Blumira’s demo and free trial period gave us a lot of value and it was pretty easy to do. The total implementation process took less than 4 hours to get fully functional.
John Hwee Director of IT at Duraflame
| Value | Blumira’s Detection & Response | AlienVault USM |
|---|---|---|
| Total Cost of Ownership | $$ | $$$ |
| Pricing Model | - Per user - No additional or hidden costs; unlimited integrations and logs | - Per devices managed - Additional costs for search and storage |
| Deployment Time | - 1-4 hours - Out-of-the-box alerts and playbooks to guide you through response | - 4 weeks to a few months - Alert development requires professional services engagement |
| Employees Required | - 1-2 people - No security experience required | - 3-6 engineers and security analysts |
| Complexity | - Low complexity - No need for in-house staff to manage servers and application | - High complexity - Requires training to manage |
| Alert Noise | - Low false positives - Comes pre-tuned | - Moderate false positives - Requires additional tuning |
| Automation | - Automated detection and remediation - Proactive blocking with dynamic blocklists - Remediation playbooks - Multi-cloud security monitoring - Scheduled reports | - Limited, requires add-on - No automated reports |
| Security Expertise | Access to Blumira’s security team for advice is included | Additional cost, not included |
Other solutions I was looking at — like Sophos and Splunk — seemed more enterprise and I felt that we would get lost trying to deploy and support them.
Ronnie Baker
IT Manager
Overall, Blumira is very straightforward and easy to use; much more so than our previous provider whose platform became so clunky that it was unusable.
Angela Bawcum
Interim Director of IT & InfoSec, LTU
When the Duraflame IT team started researching different SIEM (security information and event management) vendors and solutions, they faced similar challenges of high costs and complex implementation and management overheads while evaluating products like AT&T AlienVault and Splunk.
“I didn’t have the budget to spend on partnering with a managed SOC (security operations center) provider. All of the solutions we looked at required a long-term commitment with a high barrier of entry,” John H. said.
Duraflame evaluated a handful of industry-leading vendors, including Blumira. Duraflame needed a cloud-based solution that could be implemented quickly and provide complete and accurate security visibility. Duraflame’s IT team and executive management were concerned with the high cost and complex and lengthy implementation time that other solutions required.
“I was looking for something new and different from Splunks and AlienVaults of the world — a solution that focused on the user experience and security relationship.”
Making the switch doesn’t have to be a cumbersome process. Blumira’s detection and response platform is designed to be set up by the existing team you have today, in a matter of hours. Our security team is always accessible if you need more help, and our detailed documentation walks you through many different integration steps.
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