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 solution is free to use."
"The dashboard is the solution's most valuable aspect. It brings everything into one central point where I can actually look at it and go, "Okay, I understand what's going on.""
"The most valuable features of this solution are the data correlation and vulnerability assessment."
"There are a lot of people you will find using OSSIM since they are also offering OTX as a service"
"AlienVault OSSIM's GUI is very user-friendly."
"The threat alerts it gives me from time to time on harmful code within the network, or if they are generating any network traffic, are very useful."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Better than other SIEM solutions because almost everything can be integrated."
"To add workers and even collectors is pretty easy."
"One of the most valuable features is that we can combine SOC and NOC operations in the same tool. We can provide NOC and SOC services in the same tool for two separate teams. There are plenty of third-party solutions that integrate with FortiSIEM. All these solutions already have a ready integration, and we have the possibility to create a custom connector for these solutions. Its reports are also very good."
"It works well with medium to large-scale enterprises."
"The Threat Hunting feature provides complete traffic analysis."
"Technical support is helpful."
"We have many application systems, and I can set up Fortinet FortiSIEM for users to monitor their systems."
"This solution offers extensive customization options, making it possible to adapt it precisely to their requirements."
"Fortinet FortiSIEM has its own validated and authentic IP database that marks malicious IP attacks against the firewall and generates an alert for the same."
"The solution needs more integration with cyber intelligence systems."
"It takes some time. It does not give me a prompt response for any such [malicious] traffic. It takes time to get that alert from the AlienVault system."
"AlienVault OSSIM should improve the deployment and make it unified like the USM."
"I don't like to work on OSSIM because it is unpredictable."
"AlienVault OSSIM on-premise version is more difficult to implement than the cloud version. Additionally, they should add integration between several different environments at once and improve their online knowledge base."
"Sometimes technical issues take very long to get resolved."
"AlienVault OSSIM could improve by having better integration with some of the newer tools."
"There needs to be more support or some kind of training program so users can self-learn the system more effectively."
"Fortinet FortiSIEM is a little out of sight and needs more marketing efforts to be popular in the market."
"FortiSIEM needs to expand its integration with third-party vendors. I don't know if Forcepoint has been added, but there were limited resources for integrating Forcepoint solutions when we implemented FortiSIEM. It integrates well with other Fortinet products and solutions from established cybersecurity companies like Palo Alto but doesn't integrate with some of the newer vendors."
"Customer support service could be better."
"We need to see incident reports about the event log, without events from the administrator or through human interaction."
"Creating parsers to try make unknown events or currently unsupported devices produce meaningful information is extremely cumbersome."
"There is no proper guide for integration or configuration."
"The solution's interface could be modernized and improved."
"FortiSIEM could be better integrated with other vendors."
AlienVault OSSIM is ranked 14th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 28 reviews while Fortinet FortiSIEM is ranked 9th 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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