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Google Security Operations vs. SolarWinds Security Event Manager

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricGoogle Security Operations

by Google

SolarWinds Security Event Manager

by SolarWinds Worldwide LLC

Overall rating4.44.0
Review count14076
Ease of use8.78.4
Ease of setup8.67.7
Quality of support8.78.4
Meets requirements9.08.8
NPS66.39344326.760563
Small Business34.5%9.3%
Mid-Market35.3%40.0%
Enterprise30.2%50.7%
Total page views1,946234
Total LLM citations3,855327

Google Security Operations

Google Security Operations offers a unified experience across SIEM, SOAR, and threat intelligence to drive better detection, investigation, and response. Collect security telemetry data, apply threat intel to identify high priority threats, drive response with playbook automation, case management, and collaboration. It also provides Gemini-native agentic defense to help autonomously handle workflows like alert triage, threat hunting, and detection engineering.

Pros

  • Security
  • Threat Detection
  • Ease of Use
  • Integrations
  • Comprehensive Security
  • Easy Integrations

SolarWinds Security Event Manager

Security Event Manager (SEM) is a powerful, real-time Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution designed to act as a virtual Security Operations Center (SOC). It provides active monitoring and automated threat detection across multi-vendor network devices, servers, workstations, and applications. SEM is delivered as a downloadable virtual appliance for rapid deployment, and allows IT teams to centralize log data and enable real-time event correlation right out of the box. SEM goes beyond simple alerting by offering automated remediation actions.

Pros

  • Detection Efficiency
  • Ease of Use