We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiSIEM and SolarWinds Security Event Manager 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."I like the various options, including the option for CMDB and the easier access to create rules, playbooks, or use cases. It's also easier to use for creating dashboards and reports."
"This solution offers extensive customization options, making it possible to adapt it precisely to their requirements."
"The solution is easy to use and user-friendly."
"We have found the most important features in Fortinet FortiSIEM to be the correlation, file utility check, latest file, and hash changes. These features are important for us."
"The solution is very stable. It's run for years without the need to do anything except, add new patches when they are available, which are always a good idea to install."
"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."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiSIEM is the correlation of many events."
"SolarWinds is effective for server, network, and log monitoring. It's also good for IP address management. We also have a patch manager, but we're still working on getting that operational."
"Some of the rules are most valuable because you can be notified about various things, such as spyware or things that are going on in the internal network."
"It's easy to build rules and actions based on the logs and event types we collect with the software."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Security Event Manager is the analysis and the knowledge about the incidence that we trace."
"This tool is simple to use."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the visibility into both attempted and failed logins."
"SolarWinds Security Event Manager has been generally working well."
"SolarWinds' stability is fine. I don't think we've had any software issues."
"They should enhance the solution's AI capabilities, including XDR and EDR."
"They need to integrate better with Cisco and Palo Alto."
"When our team tried configuring logs for Microsoft SQL, it did not work."
"Fortinet FortiSIEM needs to provide better API integrations to users."
"Does not have load-sharing or high-availability, and these are important things to implement. I can do the same things in another way, but not naturally having these features makes it complicated."
"Its training can be improved. Its price also needs to be improved."
"Their product support, in general, is not that great. The product support is in the same ecosystem. Their support is improving but it's not that great.vvv"
"FortiSIEM is not a market leader in the SIEM space."
"The solution's technical support is okay, but we don't have an SLA, and sometimes the response times are very slow."
"I don't think SolarWinds is scalable enough. It is somewhat limited when I need to deploy it across multiple environments in a distributed architecture."
"The company had to use a third party for the implementation of the solution."
"I would like to be able to dig deeper into the visibility of events or incidents to determine whether they are malicious, such as by doing behavior analysis."
"The product should improve the ease with which you can create event alerts. They are not as hard now but you need to have an easier way."
"It is a very technical program. They can simplify it so that it isn't so hard to deal with."
"I would like to have a more customizable dashboard."
"The only issue is the pricetag. SolarWinds is a costly solution."
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Fortinet FortiSIEM is ranked 9th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 65 reviews while SolarWinds Security Event Manager is ranked 20th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 24 reviews. Fortinet FortiSIEM is rated 7.6, while SolarWinds Security Event Manager is rated 7.8. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Security Event Manager writes "A comprehensive network security with robust technical capabilities, effective threat response, and centralized management". Fortinet FortiSIEM is most compared with IBM Security QRadar, Splunk Enterprise Security, Wazuh, Microsoft Sentinel and LogRhythm SIEM, whereas SolarWinds Security Event Manager is most compared with ManageEngine Log360, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, Wazuh and Logpoint. See our Fortinet FortiSIEM vs. SolarWinds Security Event Manager report.
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