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OpenText ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) vs. SolarWinds Security Event Manager

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

MetricOpenText ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM)

by OpenText

SolarWinds Security Event Manager

by SolarWinds Worldwide LLC

Overall rating3.74.0
Review count1776
Ease of use8.28.4
Ease of setup6.87.7
Quality of support7.18.4
Meets requirements8.88.8
NPS7.14285726.760563
Small Business17.6%9.3%
Mid-Market52.9%40.0%
Enterprise29.4%50.7%
Total page views120234
Total LLM citations326327

OpenText ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM)

ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) is a comprehensive threat detection, analysis, triage, and compliance management SIEM platform that dramatically reduces the time to mitigate cyber-security threats.

Pros

    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