# BMC AMI Security Reviews **Vendor:** BMC Software **Category:** [Cloud Security Monitoring and Analytics Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-security-monitoring-and-analytics) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 14 ## About BMC AMI Security BMC AMI Security is a comprehensive mainframe security and compliance solution for IBM Z environments. It helps organizations protect mission-critical systems by strengthening access control, monitoring security activity, and reducing the risk of unauthorized access or compliance violations. BMC AMI Security provides centralized visibility, automated controls, and real-time insights across z/OS and key security components, enabling security teams to detect threats earlier, enforce policy consistently, and respond more effectively to incidents. The solution supports regulatory compliance while minimizing operational overhead in complex mainframe environments. Key capabilities include: - Security monitoring and auditing for z/OS environments - Access control analysis and policy enforcement - Threat detection and anomaly identification - Compliance reporting and risk visibility - On-premises execution that keeps sensitive security data on the mainframe By modernizing mainframe security operations, BMC AMI Security helps enterprises reduce security risk, improve compliance posture, and maintain control over critical IBM Z systems. ## BMC AMI Security Reviews ### 1. Complete Threat Protection **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rohit M. | Project Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2022 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Security?** BMC AMI Defender is one of the best tool for Automated Security Scan on Mainframe systems. Best feature is policy scanning which is based on real world penetration tests which remove configuration vulnerabilities before they gets exploited to other systems. **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Security?** There is nothing more to dislike in BMC AMI Defender. I think threat protection is the key, and they should continue evolving around it, which can make software stronger. **What problems is BMC AMI Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** BMC AMO Defender solving multiple threats across systems. 1. It protects against vulnerabilites,data thefts. 2.Real time alerts to act fast. 3.AI loaded inteligence for incident resolution. ### 2. Auditor tool for organizational security **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Randika Y. | Senior Security Specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 29, 2022 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Security?** A powerful dashboard that helped me to achieve organizational ISO 27001 goals. Currently working on GDPR assessment too **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Security?** There is nothing I could say about this powerful tool when achieving my organizational goals. **What problems is BMC AMI Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fully equipped tool for analyzing real-time events and helped me to identify the areas that I need to improve my security posture. ### 3. Good Auditing Experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel W. | Title Processor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2022 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Security?** Straightforward login process and easy to operate. **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Security?** There is nothing that I would say that I dislike about this product **What problems is BMC AMI Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** The fact that BMC AMI Defender is so secure and helps my team do their job. ### 4. Auditing Tool - Not Bad **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2022 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Security?** Helps us with ISO 27001 standards, big plus!!! **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Security?** UI is so-so, could be a bit more intuitive but with practice was decent. **What problems is BMC AMI Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Assists us with real time analysis ### 5. Auditing of the security **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Deepak P. | IT Support Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 13, 2022 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Security?** Wholesome & modular dashboard.meets standards like gdpr, ISO 27001 **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Security?** Nothing I could find in my review, not missing anything on what it's supposed to do **What problems is BMC AMI Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** I think it helps us to analyze the events in realtime ### 6. Review of BMC AMI Defender **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ravi Shankar T. | Senior Project Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 06, 2022 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Security?** it's really well structured and easy to identify mechanism with splun **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Security?** UI improvement can be done. Apart from that there is nothing much to add. **What problems is BMC AMI Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** The security events are the core thig which helps a lot. ### 7. BMC AMI Defender Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 03, 2022 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Security?** BMC AMI Defender much useful in security perspective and allow us to identify threads that may affect our system and secures our data. **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Security?** No much cons with BMC AMI since it's really well structured and easy to identify mechanism with splunk. **Recommendations to others considering BMC AMI Security:** Yes I recommend to others to use AMI **What problems is BMC AMI Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** I much use BMC for dashboard creations and monitoring for potential effects on the systems and resolving than and there.This make our performance increase and ease to complete our jobs on time. ### 8. Great experience **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 28, 2022 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Security?** BMC AMI is great in that it'd helpful and delivers on all the specs. **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Security?** I would say BMC AMI defender is not missing anything on what it's supposed to do. **What problems is BMC AMI Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Real-time Cross platform view Multiframe access Security ### 9. Good experience with BMC AMI so far. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2022 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Security?** The real time data access to SIEM for a one dashboard view of security events. **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Security?** UI can improve a bit. If it can be made more intuitive, it'd be awesome. **Recommendations to others considering BMC AMI Security:** A must use product. **What problems is BMC AMI Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** The security events as mentioned above. Yes, benefited for sure. ### 10. It helps security team to secure the environment and maintain the company policies. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2022 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Security?** The login part is rapid and smooth. It works excellent with low internet bandwidth. **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Security?** There is nothing to dislike but need to maintain connectivity even with low network bandwidth. **What problems is BMC AMI Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Security is getting an increase, and most team members are using it. ### 11. BMC AMI defender review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2021 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Security?** Fits my compliance requirements and meets standards like gdpr, ISO 27001 , PCI DSS, hippa **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Security?** I don't have any cons to say about it this point in time **What problems is BMC AMI Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is easy to configure with any SIEM soulution like splunk and Qradar.it has become easy to analyse the events in realtime ### 12. Security at its best **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 13, 2021 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Security?** Real-time alerts, actionable intelligence, and correlated data delivered to your SIEM **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Security?** Nothing as such. UI could have been a bit better. **What problems is BMC AMI Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** I really like the real-time alert feature. ### 13. A great tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2021 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Security?** It provides dashboard views, text message alerts **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Security?** Nothing. It indeed helps in terms of security concern **What problems is BMC AMI Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Main frame activities ### 14. User friendly **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 07, 2021 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Security?** User friendly and easy to apply policy, also have weekly security patches **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Security?** Need to improve live update and want more technical information about the software **Recommendations to others considering BMC AMI Security:** Like the user friendly approach **What problems is BMC AMI Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fixing the vulnerability in servers and easy to get the log files ## BMC AMI Security Discussions - [What is BMC AMI Defender used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-bmc-ami-defender-used-for) - [View BMC AMI Security pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/bmc-ami-security/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-14+14%3A24%3A06+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=f4344bdf-571c-4455-9d30-7c1cfa7b554f&secure%5Btoken%5D=8e87a050de8587e426b2721329056da7f1da7e61a390dcc5595a6f0cf6268efe&format=llm_user) ## BMC AMI Security Features **Activity Monitoring** - Usage Monitoring - Database Monitoring - API Monitoring - Activity Monitoring **Cloud Visibility** - Data Discovery - Cloud Registry - Cloud Gap Analytics **Security** - Compliance Monitoring - Risk Analysis - Reporting **Security** - Data Security - Data loss Prevention - Security Auditing **Administration** - Security Automation - Security Integration - Multicloud Visibility **Identity** - SSO - Governance - User Analytics **Agentic AI - Cloud Security Monitoring and Analytics** - Autonomous Task Execution - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making ## Top BMC AMI Security Alternatives - [IBM QRadar SIEM](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-ibm-qradar-siem/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (280 reviews) - [Wiz](https://www.g2.com/products/wiz-wiz/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (773 reviews) - [Sumo Logic](https://www.g2.com/products/sumo-logic/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (382 reviews)