SEM Agents for real-time event collection from endpoints, encryption and compression of data.

Manager for central management, log and event management, and storage.

SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) is composed of several key elements: It trades on the NYSE under the symbol SWI. Since 1999, SolarWinds has been providing management and monitoring software for security, networks, servers, applications, storage, databases, virtualization and the cloud.

The company targets tightly resourced, budget-conscious security teams, in organizations with up to 10,000 employees, and often cites compliance as a driver.įor a comparison with other products, see: These additional capabilities make the SolarWinds SEM a good fit for SMEs who may lack their own internal security teams - and particularly those looking for integrated IT management capabilities too.

SolarWinds lacks the full security suite presence of some competitors, but is well-integrated across a variety of bonus IT operation capabilities such as threat intelligence platform capabilities, privileged access management, USB security, and botnet detection.

Solarwinds license manager