We performed a comparison between AlienVault OSSIM and Fortinet FortiSIEM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product is easy to use."
"Better than other SIEM solutions because almost everything can be integrated."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the data correlation and vulnerability assessment."
"You pay monthly for the solution. I think it's one of the best products. If you compare with other companies, like LogRhythm, etc., the top 8 or 10 CMs, I think Alien Vault has the best price-performance ratio."
"AlienVault OSSIM is an enterprise solution that sells easily. It is rated highly by organizations."
"The initial setup was straightforward. I didn't have any problems."
"Asset discovery is good."
"The paid version of the solution has reporting and better scalability options."
"To add workers and even collectors is pretty easy."
"Our customer did not have security monitoring in the first place. With this solution, it provided security posture management and visibility about the security landscape and threats that they had."
"The advanced agents used to collect logs have been most valuable. We have also made use of the advanced intelligence this solution offers."
"Both the collecting logs and duo correlation are valuable features for us."
"It's a very nice solution to work with."
"FortiSIEM provides a single PIN to monitor SOC and NOC. It's a nice tool for integration and monitoring. It provides multiple categories for monitoring based on security designations like low, medium, and high."
"We have many application systems, and I can set up Fortinet FortiSIEM for users to monitor their systems."
"It's easy to manage. There's a web interface and a command line, depending on what the user is comfortable with. There's a large knowledge base available, and the support is timely."
"AlienVault OSSIM is costly."
"AlienVault OSSIM gives unwanted notifications."
"The documentation could be improved."
"We need more dashboards and we need more customization for dashboards."
"It's so hard to configure and explore something new on it."
"They can add more compliance templates."
"Sometimes technical issues take very long to get resolved."
"AlienVault OSSIM could improve by having better integration with some of the newer tools."
"With FortiSIEM, the issue has to do with the ways we can generate a report. It's not as flexible compared to that with other SIEM tools, like Splunk."
"The dashboards need to be improved. It gives you so much detail, but sometimes too much detail, especially to an executive, it's too much."
"There is no proper guide for integration or configuration."
"The nodes on our network did not comply with the SIEM solution. They use a different format parking log."
"We need to see incident reports about the event log, without events from the administrator or through human interaction."
"The backup and recovery process for this solution needs improvement."
"If there is a configuration on the wrong side of the network or there are changes that result in harm to our IT infrastructure, the solution should immediately fix it."
"Our customers are noticing configuration available in the GUI interface and I think that they should be equal."
AlienVault OSSIM is ranked 11th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 28 reviews while Fortinet FortiSIEM is ranked 10th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 65 reviews. AlienVault OSSIM is rated 7.4, while Fortinet FortiSIEM is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of AlienVault OSSIM writes "An easy-to-scale open-source solution used for monitoring events on devices ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiSIEM writes "It's cheaper than other solutions with the same features but lacks integration with many third-party vendors". AlienVault OSSIM is most compared with Wazuh, Elastic Security, USM Anywhere, Splunk Enterprise Security and Rapid7 InsightIDR, whereas Fortinet FortiSIEM is most compared with IBM Security QRadar, Splunk Enterprise Security, Wazuh, Microsoft Sentinel and Meraki Dashboard. See our AlienVault OSSIM vs. Fortinet FortiSIEM report.
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