Blumira

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Automated SIEM + XDR for IT Teams

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Robert
Robert
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  • Industry: Telecommunications
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1+ year
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Fantastic SIEM for my customers

Reviewed on 2021/12/22

your sales reps are fantastic and responsive

your sales reps are fantastic and responsive

Pros

much cheaper than say Splunk plus easier to set up

Cons

not alot of folks have heard of your company

Steven
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  • Industry: Research
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Blumira SIEM

Reviewed on 2021/12/22

Blumira implementation was easy, with log collector setup done by script, templates for event...

Blumira implementation was easy, with log collector setup done by script, templates for event forwarding from log sources. Use of this product has greatly reduced the time required of our limited staff searching logs for suspicious activity or indications of misconfiguration. Alert Event information and explanations enable rapid investigation and resolution of most incidents.

Pros

Automatic event alerts for suspicious activities allows us to begin investigation soon after a suspicious event. Automated report generation for less sensitive activities allows us to monitor actions of interest to our organization. The Report Builder UI is straightforward and with practice can be used to create detailed reports of log activity for specific events, as is needed during investigations. Event management UI provides for communication to Blumira staff for additional support, attachment of documents from investigations and documenting the resolution of the event.

Cons

It takes some practice and experimentation to identify which fields to use in filtering logs into reports. Blumira normalizes the logs for storage in the database and it can be challenging to get the right data items into the report you want. However, Blumira support is always ready to help figure it out.

Alternatives Considered

AlienVault OSSIM and Splunk Enterprise

Reasons for Choosing Blumira

Primarily due to issues with the other company's understanding and support of their SIEM solution.

Reasons for Switching to Blumira

Automated alerts from the system based on patterns known to the system to indicate suspicious activities. The alerts link to the Event management system which provides explanation of why the event was suspicious and what actions can be taken to investigate and/or mitigate. A large part of the decision was having Blumira Staff filter the logs for events of interest and having a good report builder for investigations.
Khan
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  • Industry: Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Make sifting thru mountains of data something of a mole hill.

Reviewed on 2022/04/21

I've sent support tickets in and responses have been fast and personalized. Makes our jobs easier.

I've sent support tickets in and responses have been fast and personalized. Makes our jobs easier.

Pros

Being able to send logs from clients, servers, network equipment, and cloud sources is very important. Knowing what is going on at all times and being alerted to something occurring allows us to look into who did what, when, and find out what was going on which triggered the alert allows us to respond very quickly.

Cons

Filtering data in reports by date or date range is not as simple as it should be. I had to get a coworker to look at this feature with me in order to figure out how to filter by date range.

Response from Blumira

Thank you for your review and feedback, Khan! We've passed your insights about reporting filtering to our team so that we can continue to improve and make this process easier.

Craig
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  • Industry: Accounting
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Product is great, and one of the best software onboarding experiences I've had

Reviewed on 2022/12/02

It is a perfect fit for our small environment and team. It provides advanced log collection and...

It is a perfect fit for our small environment and team. It provides advanced log collection and processing with ease, and is very cost effective. I am becoming a cheerleader for this product and service. It's been very impressive... ease of setup, ease of use, customer service, reasonable cost, and of course product performance. Try it out.

Pros

Easy setup and operation. It includes a honeypot feature. Attractive cost for a small organization compared to other options.

Cons

When the local "sensor" was powered off recently we weren't alerted. It doesn't tell us if we aren't receiving logs from a particular device that has been previously sending logs.

Reasons for Switching to Blumira

Lower price than most, super-easy setup, unlimited logs, intuitive interface
Kevin
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Blumira solves the problem of SOC

Reviewed on 2020/08/11

Extremely positive; they are engaged with their customers and are transparent with their development...

Extremely positive; they are engaged with their customers and are transparent with their development efforts which help make us successful. Their rapid and knowledgeable communication has blown me away.

Pros

The platform has done an amazing job of taking the various events, alerts, alarms, and other notifications and boiling them down into actionable alerts that any member of an IT team can work with and react against. Alert fatigue is a real concern, and the fact that our support staff can be given the infrequent and important findings -- while being given a playbook on how to respond -- is the reason this software is successful.

Cons

While the initial setup was straightforward, it did not include the same large amount of documentation that other vendors provide. This did involve then reaching out to Blumira support, which has been, hands-down, the most knowledgeable and fastest support team that I have ever used in my 20 years of utilizing untold numbers of networking and security vendors.

Alternatives Considered

USM Anywhere

Reasons for Switching to Blumira

Ease of use for the entire alert workflow, including playbook style responses for generated alerts. Much higher fidelity alerts were generated by the Blumira platform.

Response from Blumira

Thanks for the positive response! We greatly appreciate having you as a customer. Your feedback is also welcomed. We also felt we didn't have accessible documentation and have published our documentation publicly on Blumira's website for all at https://www.blumira.com/integrations/

Michael
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  • Industry: Government Administration
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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A great solution that works as promised.

Reviewed on 2021/08/03

We have had a couple of instances where users clicked on a malicious link and their machine started...

We have had a couple of instances where users clicked on a malicious link and their machine started password spraying. Alerted and the device was isolated and remediated in less than a half hour. I am afraid to think how long it would have been that we had this malicious software in our environment without Blumira.

Pros

The ease of implementation was incredible. Other solutions were going to be months to a year to fully deploy.

Cons

Not really any cons about the solution. They are a newer company and are great to work with when we need to new features added.

Reasons for Switching to Blumira

Cost, implementation time, great demo and features that our company needed.
Jon
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  • Industry: Computer & Network Security
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Blumira is an AWESOME hosted SIEM/MDR solution

Reviewed on 2021/12/24

Overall, Blumira is an AWESOME hosted SIEM/MDR solution at an extremely reasonable price point....

Overall, Blumira is an AWESOME hosted SIEM/MDR solution at an extremely reasonable price point. It's no Splunk, but it's also a fraction of the cost, and top-notch support is included in the price. It should be able solve most organizations' problems for log collection and compliance, and their out-of-the-box detections catch most bad things without false-positives or needing to be tuned. If they continue adding the features they say they're adding, Blumira's definitely a solution to keep your eye on.

Pros

Blumira doesn't need agents, and it's really easy to setup and use. The built-in detections will quickly start to call-out risky behavior or settings that could be dangerous. So far, we haven't seen any missed detections or false-positives.

Cons

Requirement for a VM to collect logs - even if your integrations are all cloud (e.g. AWS, M365, etc), you still need to deploy a VM on your network to connect your cloud apps to Blumira's cloud. I was told this may change in the future.
Detections aren't user-configurable, but Blumira's support is extremely helpful and will change configurations for you if required. I was told this may change soon.
Views/dashboards aren't configurable, and reports aren't 'very sexy' (i.e. they give you the data you want in a CSV - no fancy PDF with graphs, logos, etc.)

Joe
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great Product at a great price

Reviewed on 2022/02/07

As a small to mid-size business with a limited crew and budget, this has been a huge success for...

As a small to mid-size business with a limited crew and budget, this has been a huge success for us. It gives us the logging and insight into the network to help feel secure without all the extra costs of the bigger players.

Pros

Had software up and running in an afternoon. Tools and instructions made it easy to deploy ourselves. The portal has numerous reports to help get a visual into the network. We started getting alerts within the first hour on stuff that we were not aware of.

Cons

Older computers without SSD drives showed a performance hit due to amount of logging. Alerts need to be addressed with customer service to setup or quiet.

James
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Set it and Forget it

Reviewed on 2022/02/07

Blumira is scanning all of our logs and only showing the issues that need to be addressed. This...

Blumira is scanning all of our logs and only showing the issues that need to be addressed. This solves the issue of dedicating a person to comb through 10's of thousands of logs each day.

Pros

We have been using Blumira for about 6 months now. It has been a great addition to our company's security profile. The best part is that I don't have to have my staff constantly monitor event logs all day long.

Cons

There are times when I want to see the raw logs. It takes some experience to decipher the raw log area. I think this will be a non-issue when I get some more exposure to using the raw log area.

Response from Blumira

Thank you for your review! We are glad to hear you are seeing the value in Blumira and we always welcome your feedback.

Arlie
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

All detection and response should be this easy

Reviewed on 2021/01/29

Increased visibility and managing my security operations efforts.

Increased visibility and managing my security operations efforts.

Pros

Easy deployment, easy integration. High fidelity findings and alerts. Context in consideration backed by threat intelligence. Plain actionable language in alerts.

If you are a Cisco shop and you are struggling with Secure-X, just stop and call Blumira today.

Cons

Reporting and search could be more user friendly.

Colin
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  • Industry: Security & Investigations
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Peace of mind!

Reviewed on 2021/03/25

Overall, very happy. Our [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] was super helpful in making sure we totally...

Overall, very happy. Our [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] was super helpful in making sure we totally understood the ins and outs of the product. They were able to help us connect all of our 3rd party integrations, get our Windows and Linux logs ingested into Blumira, explained how to make best use of the software for our particular organization, and tons more.

Pros

With the Technical Account Management team guiding you along every step of the way, getting everything up and running was a breeze!

Cons

Currently, no bulk action abilities. I was told this will be coming soon though so, not really a big deal for us.

Jason
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Review of Blumira

Reviewed on 2021/01/13

Pros

The Blumira team has been super responsive to any of my requests and willing to jump on a call if needed. The platform is straight forward and easy to use.

Cons

Nothing so far, everything has been working just fine...

Alternatives Considered

Datadog and Elastic Stack

Response from Blumira

We appreciate your great review, Jason!