We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiSIEM and Wazuh based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Fortinet FortiSIEM is praised for its advanced agents and effective correlation capabilities. Reviews say FortiSIEM excels at anomaly reporting and threat hunting. Wazuh stands out for its effortless integration, excellent log monitoring capabilities, and ELK-based investigation. Fortinet FortiSIEM could benefit from better integration guides, more flexible reporting, and reduced resource consumption. Users also suggest adding more AI capabilities and improving database monitoring. Wazuh needs improvements in event source coverage, threat intelligence integration, and real-time monitoring of Unix systems.
Service and Support: Some FortiSIEM customers consider Fortinet support to be satisfactory and efficient, while others were unhappy and thought the engineers could be more knowledgeable. Wazuh's customer service is generally deemed satisfactory, and many customers noted that they could easily find answers from community forums.
Ease of Deployment: Some FortiSIEM users found it effortless to install within a day or two. Nonetheless, others encountered difficulties regarding CPU and memory requirements, as well as a lengthier deployment time. Some users said that Wazuh’s setup is easy and fast, while others perceived it as complicated and said it required a significant amount of time.
Pricing: FortiSIEM is generally regarded as reasonably priced and competitive. However, FortiSIEM may still be deemed costly in developing markets. Wazuh is a cost-effective option as it is open-source and completely free to acquire.
ROI: Fortinet FortiSIEM has consistently delivered a positive return on investment for businesses. Wazuh's MSP program and partnerships offer opportunities to generate revenue from the platform.
"The most valuable features in my experience are the UEBA, LDAP, the threat scheduler, and integration with third-party straight perform like the MISP."
"The standout feature of Sentinel is that, because it's cloud-based and because it's from Microsoft, it integrates really well with all the other Microsoft products. It's really simple to set up and get going."
"The analytic rule is the most valuable feature."
"I like the unified security console. You can close incidents using Sentinel in all other Microsoft Security portals, when it comes to incident response."
"The analytics has a lot of advantages because there are 300 default use cases for rules and we can modify them per our environment. We can create other rules as well. Analytics is a useful feature."
"The AI capability is one of the main features of the solution because I believe that in the market, there are few solutions that are providing security solutions based on AI and machine learning."
"Microsoft Sentinel comes preloaded with templates for teaching and analytics rules."
"Previously, it was a little bit difficult to find where an incident came from, including which IP address and which country. So in Sentinel, it's very easy to find where the incident came from since we can easily get the information from the dashboard, after which we take action quickly."
"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."
"Fortinet FortiSIEM is less costly than other products and is available 24/7."
"The product is quite well-organized. The GUI makes it easy to navigate."
"I like FortiSIEM because it integrates natively with our other Fortinet solutions and the Fortinet Fabric, but it also integrates with Cisco, Palo Alto and other security fabrics."
"The advanced agents used to collect logs have been most valuable. We have also made use of the advanced intelligence this solution offers."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiSIEM are the SD-WAN, Global LAN, and application controls."
"We find the solution to be stable."
"Fortinet FortiSIEM is easy to use."
"Wazuh's most beneficial features for our security needs are flexibility, built-in rules, integration capabilities, and documentation."
"If they support a solution, it is easy to do an integration."
"It offers built-in modules for file integrity and vulnerability management."
"Wazuh is simple to use for PCI compliance."
"I like that the solution is on top of the Kubernetes stack."
"The most valuable features are the modules and metrics."
"The product’s interface is intuitive."
"The tool is stable."
"The product can be improved by reducing the cost to use AI machine learning."
"We're satisfied with the comprehensiveness of the security protection. That said, we do have issues sometimes where there have been global outages and we need to raise a ticket with Microsoft."
"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."
"Sentinel should be improved with more connectors. At the moment, it only covers a few vendors. If I remember correctly, only 100 products are supported natively in Sentinel, although you can connect them with syslog. But Microsoft should increase the number of native connectors to get logs into Sentinel."
"If Sentinel had a graphical user interface, it would be easier to use. I would also like it to be more customizable."
"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."
"Sentinel's alerts and notifications are not fully optimized for mobile devices. The overall reporting and the analytics processes for the end user should also be improved. Also, the compatibility and availability of data sources and reports are not always perfect."
"We'd like to see more connectors."
"We need to see incident reports about the event log, without events from the administrator or through human interaction."
"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 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."
"I would like to see easier implementation in the future."
"The solution's interface could be modernized and improved."
"Not very good on non-API features, lacks that functionality."
"FortiSIEM is not a market leader in the SIEM space."
"The biggest thing that could be better is a quicker response to support cases."
"Integration with Vyara could be better."
"They need to go towards integrating with more cloud applications and not just OS like Windows and Linux."
"The computing resources are consuming and do not make sense."
"Adding the flexibility to integrate various plug-ins or modules into its core system would enhance functionality."
"The biggest part that's missing is threat intelligence. It isn't inbuilt, and if a sudden incident occurs, we don't get that feedback inside the SIEM tool. That's a big gap, I see. It would be better if we could get the threat intelligence feeds integrated with the SIEM tools. That would help us push value solutions to the clients in a big way."
"Scalability is a constraint in the on-prem version of Wazuh in terms of the volume of logs we can manage."
"The support team could be more responsive and provide quicker replies during our working hours in Indonesia, which would be a significant improvement."
"Since it's an open-source tool, scalability is the main issue."
Fortinet FortiSIEM is ranked 8th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 63 reviews while Wazuh is ranked 3rd in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 38 reviews. Fortinet FortiSIEM is rated 7.6, while Wazuh is rated 7.4. 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 Wazuh writes "It integrates seamlessly with AWS cloud-native services". Fortinet FortiSIEM is most compared with IBM Security QRadar, Splunk Enterprise Security, LogRhythm SIEM, ThousandEyes and PRTG Network Monitor, whereas Wazuh is most compared with Elastic Security, Security Onion, Splunk Enterprise Security, AlienVault OSSIM and Fortinet FortiAnalyzer. See our Fortinet FortiSIEM vs. Wazuh report.
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