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We performed a comparison between Exabeam Fusion SIEM and Fortinet FortiSOAR based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Exabeam Fusion SIEM vs. Fortinet FortiSOAR Report (Updated: May 2024).
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Pros
"Free ingestion for Azure logs (with E5 licence)""Sentinel pricing is good""The Identity Behavior tab furnishes us with the entire history linked to each IP or domain that has either accessed or attempted to access our system.""I like the unified security console. You can close incidents using Sentinel in all other Microsoft Security portals, when it comes to incident response.""Native integration with Microsoft security products or other Microsoft software is also crucial. For example, we can integrate Sentinel with Office 365 with one click. Other integrations aren't as easy. Sometimes, we have to do it manually.""I like the KQL query. It simplifies getting data from the table and seeing the logs. All you need to know are the table names. It's quite easy to build use cases by using KQL.""I believe one of the main advantages is Microsoft Sentinel's seamless integration with other Microsoft products.""The automation rules and playbooks are the most useful that I've seen. A number of other places segregate the automation and playbook as separate tools, whereas Microsoft is a SIEM and SOAR tool in one."

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"The advanced analytics has a really great overview of user behavior.""The way it can connect with AWS is very useful, and the integrations are pretty good.""The setup is not difficult. It was easy.""It's a very user-friendly product and it's a very comprehensive technology.""The user interface and the timelines they use are the most valuable features. The price model is very simple so that one can understand it easily and there are no surprises within it.""I have customers that like the EUBA functionality of it. The solution has the ability to build a session, basically. It pulls a lot of information together, for example, everything a user does in a specific timeframe. It's quite helpful.""The most valuable feature of Exabeam Fusion SIEM is the easy-to-use user interface.""Timeline based analysis; good platform support"

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"We use the product for security.""The good news is that FortiSOAR is not hard to maintain. If you prepared well and deployed strong initially, then maintenance will take half an hour every other week, not more than that. A single person can do it.""The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiSOAR is the playbook, which has to be defined to apply the policies.""The product can be automated for network security purposes. The solution offers a great security automation response.""It's great that the solution is integrated with FortiAnalyzer.""Fortinet FortiSOAR is a very interactive and user-friendly solution.""The initial setup is straightforward.""The reputation of the brand is very good."

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Cons
"Microsoft should improve Sentinel, considering that from the legacy systems, it cannot collect logs.""Add more out-of-the-box connectors with other SaaS platforms/applications.""There is a wider thing called Jupyter Notebooks, which is around the automation side of things. It would be good if there are playbooks that you can utilize without having to have the developer experience to do it in-house. Microsoft could provide more playbooks or more Jupyter Notebooks around MITRE ATT&CK Framework.""The playbook development environment is not as rich as it should be. There are multiple occasions when we face problems while creating the playbook.""I would like to see more AI used in processes.""Sentinel still has some anomalies. For example, sometimes when we write a query for log analysis with KQL, it doesn't give us the data in a proper way... Also, the fields or columns could be improved. Sometimes, it is not giving the desired results and there is a blank field.""The solution could be more user-friendly; some query languages are required to operate it.""Given that I am in the small business space, I wish they would make it easier to operate Sentinel without being a Sentinel expert. Examples of things that could be easier are creating alerts and automations from scratch and designing workbooks."

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"The only problem is that the UI is not very impressive.""We had a large volume right from the beginning and they weren't quite prepared for that. That's something that they should think about when it comes to customers that have a large volume to start off with.""The organzation is rigid and not flexible in the way they operate""They need to focus on more of the MITRE ATT&CK Framework and coverage. They claim they cover about 70 to 80%. I'm not sure if it's really quite that much, however.""Updating the new release of Exabeam Fusion SIEM takes time and slows our performance.""I believe if it were more flexible it would be a better product.""We still have questions surrounding hardware deployment.""Adding to the number of certifications that they have, for example, ISO 27001, would be helpful."

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"The area that needs improvement is integration with multiple third-party vendors.""Fortinet FortiSOAR should add more documentation for some use cases.""Fortinet's tech support overall is not great when they are at their best.""Technical support could be improved.""Fortinet FortiSOAR should improve its analysis.""I don't currently see where the solution is lacking features. For us and for our clients it works very well and we're pleased with it.""I have found that Fortinet FortiSOAR needs a lot of improvement. The Orchestration needs to be improved.""The technology and integrations are important so should continue to be enhanced."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "It comes with a Microsoft subscription which the customer has, so they don't have to invest somewhere else."
  • "It is a consumption-based license model. bands at 100, 200, 400 GB per day etc. Azure Sentinel Pricing | Microsoft Azure"
  • "Good monthly operational cost model for the detection and response outcomes delivered, M365 logs don't count toward the limits which is a good benefit."
  • "I have had mixed feedback. At one point, I heard a client say that it sometimes seems more expensive. Most of the clients are on Office 365 or M365, and they are forced to take Azure SIEM because of the integration."
  • "It is kind of like a sliding scale. There are different tiers of pricing that go from $100 per day up to $3,500 per day. So, it just kind of depends on how much data is being stored. There can be additional costs to the standard license other than the additional data. It just kind of depends on what other services you're spinning up in Azure, or if you're using something like Azure log analytics."
  • "I am just paying for the log space with Azure Sentinel. It costs us about $2,000 a month. Most of the logs are free. We are only paying money for Azure Firewall logs because email logs or Azure AD logs are free to use for us."
  • "Sentinel is a bit expensive. If you can figure a way of configuring it to meet your needs, then you can find a way around the cost."
  • "Azure Sentinel is very costly, or at least it appears to be very costly. The costs vary based on your ingestion and your retention charges."
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  • "They have a great model for pricing that can be based either on user count or gigabits per day."
  • "There is an annual license required to use Exabeam Fusion SIEM. The price of the solution should be reduced."
  • "Exabeam Fusion SIEM's pricing is reasonable."
  • "The solution is expensive."
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  • "Pricing is fine compared to other solutions."
  • "The price of the product should be lower. The brand value that Fortinet has, it has the reputation of being a reasonably priced product, and they have an enormous customer base in India. Most of the SME market is covered by FortiGate firewalls. It becomes an easy way for consultants, such as us, or even system integrators, to open the door with the Fortinet product lines."
  • "The solution offers both licensing and subscription models that are similar in price to other products."
  • "Considering all the features of Fortinet FortiSOAR, I think it has a good price."
  • "If you compare Fortinet FortiSOAR's price with the prices of the market leader, Palo Alto, then it can be considered a cheaper product."
  • "Fortinet FortiSOAR is expensive."
  • "Fortinet FortiSOAR is an expensive solution."
  • "Since Africa is struggling with foreign exchange, the solution is pretty expensive there."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Yes, Azure Sentinel is a SIEM on the Cloud. Multiple data sources can be uploaded and analyzed with Azure Sentinel and… more »
    Top Answer:It would really depend on (1) which logs you need to ingest and (2) what are your use cases Splunk is easy for… more »
    Top Answer:We like that Azure Sentinel does not require as much maintenance as legacy SIEMs that are on-premises. Azure Sentinel is… more »
    Top Answer:It mostly depends on your use-cases and environment. Exabeam and Securonix have a stronger UEBA feature set, friendlier… more »
    Top Answer:The solution's initial setup process is easy.
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiSOAR is the playbook, which has to be defined to apply the policies.
    Top Answer:Fortinet FortiSOAR's dashboard is not easy to understand.
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    Also Known As
    Azure Sentinel
    CyberSponse, FortiSOAR
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    Overview

    Microsoft Sentinel is a scalable, cloud-native, security information event management (SIEM) and security orchestration automated response (SOAR) solution that lets you see and stop threats before they cause harm. Microsoft Sentinel delivers intelligent security analytics and threat intelligence across the enterprise, providing a single solution for alert detection, threat visibility, proactive hunting, and threat response. Eliminate security infrastructure setup and maintenance, and elastically scale to meet your security needs—while reducing IT costs. With Microsoft Sentinel, you can:

    - Collect data at cloud scale—across all users, devices, applications, and infrastructure, both on-premises and in multiple clouds

    - Detect previously uncovered threats and minimize false positives using analytics and unparalleled threat intelligence from Microsoft

    - Investigate threats with AI and hunt suspicious activities at scale, tapping into decades of cybersecurity work at Microsoft

    - Respond to incidents rapidly with built-in orchestration and automation of common tasks

    To learn more about our solution, ask questions, and share feedback, join our Microsoft Security, Compliance and Identity Community.

    Exabeam Fusion SIEM is a cloud-delivered solution that that enables you to:

    -Leverage turnkey threat detection, investigation, and response
    -Collect, search and enhance data from anywhere
    -Detect threats missed by other tools, using market-leading behavior analytics
    -Achieve successful SecOps outcomes with prescriptive, threat-centric use case packages
    -Enhance productivity and reduce response times with automation
    -Meet regulatory compliance and audit requirements with ease

    Fortinet FortiSOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response) is a comprehensive security operations platform created to help SOC teams effectively respond to the growing volume of alarms, repetitive manual tasks, and resource shortage. This patented and customizable security operations workbench provides companies with automated playbooks, incident triaging, and real-time remediation to identify, defend, and counter threats. FortiSOAR effortlessly integrates with more than 350 security products and performs more than 3,000 actions to increase SOC team productivity. With this solution, response times are accelerated, containment is simplified, and mitigation times are cut from hours to seconds.

    Fortinet FortiSOAR Features

    Fortinet FortiSOAR has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • Streamlined, role-based incident management: With the help of FortiSOAR's Enterprise Role-Based Incident Management solution, businesses can handle sensitive data in accordance with SOC rules and guidelines while maintaining strong field level role-based access control.
    • Visual Playbook Builder: FortiSOAR's Visual Playbook Designer enables SOC teams to efficiently create, build, debug, control, and deploy playbooks.
    • Truly multi-tenant: FortiSOAR is a truly distributed multi-tenant solution with a scalable, resilient, secure, and distributed architecture that enables MSSPs to offer MDR-like services while supporting operations in regional and global SOC environments.

    Fortinet FortiSOAR Benefits

    There are many benefits to implementing Fortinet FortiSOAR. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • Manage security alerts, incidents, indicators, assets, and tasks using a streamlined, user-friendly GUI.
    • By eliminating false positives and concentrating solely on the important alerts, the SOC team can work more productively.
    • Track ROI, MTTD, and MTTR with configurable reports and dashboards.
    • Automate using the Visual Playbook Designer's 3,000+ actions for automated workflows and connections and 350+ security platform integrations.
    • Reduce human error by using concise, auditable playbooks and custom modules to handle constantly changing investigative requirements.
    • From a single, collaborative console, scale your network security solution with a multi-tenant distributed architecture.
    • Detect real threats with automatic false positive filtering and forecast similar threats and campaigns with FortiSOAR's ML-powered recommendation engine.
    • Reduce repetitive activities by using automation, incident correlation, threat intelligence, and vulnerability data.
    • Utilize the built-in Incident War Room to streamline crisis management and collaborative P1 incident investigations.
    • Reduce the time it takes to find security incidents from hours to seconds.
    • Use the FortiSOAR mobile app to keep informed and make important decisions while you're on the go.
    • Utilizing the Connector Builder Wizard, you can quickly create and edit connectors within the product's user interface.
    • Flexible deployment options: VM, hosted, or cloud. Available on FortiCloud, AWS, Azure, and as management extensions on FAZ/FMG.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Another PeerSpot reviewer, a Vice President of Global Technology Infrastructure Automation at a financial services firm, notes of the product, “The most valuable feature is its centralization as you don't want to be going to different locations to correlate items or to piece anything together to derive meaningful insights.”

    Zaidoon A., sales product manager at Nourneti, writes, “I like that the solution is integrated with FortiAnalyzer. The solution is scalable. The solution is stable.”

    Sample Customers
    Microsoft Sentinel is trusted by companies of all sizes including ABM, ASOS, Uniper, First West Credit Union, Avanade, and more.
    Hulu, ADP, Safeway, BBCN Bank
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    Top Industries
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    Financial Services Firm22%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Comms Service Provider8%
    Manufacturing Company8%
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    Computer Software Company16%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Government9%
    Manufacturing Company7%
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    Computer Software Company14%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Government8%
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    Computer Software Company29%
    Comms Service Provider29%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    University14%
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    Computer Software Company16%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Government9%
    Educational Organization6%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise21%
    Large Enterprise47%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise59%
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    Small Business54%
    Midsize Enterprise23%
    Large Enterprise23%
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    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise61%
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    Small Business58%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise25%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise58%
    Buyer's Guide
    Exabeam Fusion SIEM vs. Fortinet FortiSOAR
    May 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Exabeam Fusion SIEM vs. Fortinet FortiSOAR and other solutions. Updated: May 2024.
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    Exabeam Fusion SIEM is ranked 12th in Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) with 10 reviews while Fortinet FortiSOAR is ranked 10th in Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) with 12 reviews. Exabeam Fusion SIEM is rated 8.0, while Fortinet FortiSOAR is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Exabeam Fusion SIEM writes "Enables centralized log collection on a single platform". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiSOAR writes "A stable solution that has a number of available connectors and is simple to automate". Exabeam Fusion SIEM is most compared with IBM Security QRadar, Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk User Behavior Analytics, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR and Gurucul UEBA, whereas Fortinet FortiSOAR is most compared with Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR, Splunk SOAR, Swimlane, ServiceNow Security Operations and SECDO Platform. See our Exabeam Fusion SIEM vs. Fortinet FortiSOAR report.

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