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We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiSOAR and Splunk SOAR 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 Fortinet FortiSOAR vs. Splunk SOAR Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"The Log analytics are useful.""The SOAR playbooks are Sentinel's most valuable feature. It gives you a unified toolset for detecting, investigating, and responding to incidents. That's what clearly differentiates Sentinels from its competitors. It's cloud-native, offering end-to-end coverage with more than 120 connectors. All types of data logs can be poured into the system so analysis can happen. That end-to-end visibility gives it the advantage.""Sentinel improved how we investigate incidents. We can create watchlists and update them to align with the latest threat intelligence. The information Microsoft provides enables us to understand thoroughly and improve as we go along. It allows us to provide monthly reports to our clients on their security posture.""The best functionality that you can get from Azure Sentinel is the SOAR capability. So, you can estimate any type of activity, such as when an alert was triggered or an incident was found.""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 machine learning and artificial intelligence on offer are great.""The data connectors that Microsoft Sentinel provides are easy to integrate when we work with a Microsoft agent.""One of the most valuable features is that it creates a kind of a single pane of glass for organizations that already use Microsoft software. So, when they have things like Microsoft 365, it is very easy for them to kind of plug in or enroll those endpoints into the Azure Sentinel service."

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"We use the product for security.""The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiSOAR is the playbook, which has to be defined to apply the policies.""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 reputation of the brand is very good.""The product can be automated for network security purposes. The solution offers a great security automation response.""It is a scalable solution...The implementation phase of the product was not tough or difficult.""It has a quick detection and response time.""It's great that the solution is integrated with FortiAnalyzer."

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"I have found all the security automation platform features of Splunk SOAR to be good. The Automation playbook development is highly useful.""I like the integration capabilities of Phantom. It has a lot of integrations with other products. Its searching methodologies are also good. It is also easy to understand and easy to create playbooks.""Our customers find it easy to conduct searches and consider it an excellent content management system.""It has definitely saved a decent amount of time for our analysts so they can focus on other tasks.""The customization continues to be excellent.""The solution allows us to customize playbooks and incorporate custom code, allowing us to drag and drop elements while still writing code to build the integrations we need.""The most valuable feature is the API connector, depending on how it's formatted and who made the actual app offering for it. The REST API is my favorite component. It's very easy to use. The filters are also really valuable. Those are the two primary features but I enjoy using the rest of it.""Before its use, analyzing each email would take at least 15 to 20 minutes, with some complex cases taking up to 30 minutes...With the automation provided by Splunk Phantom, we could significantly reduce the amount of time and human effort required to complete this task."

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Cons
"Microsoft should improve Sentinel, considering that from the legacy systems, it cannot collect logs.""If we want to use more features, we have to pay more. There are multiple solutions on the cloud itself, but the pricing model package isn't consistent, which is confusing to clients.""If Sentinel had a graphical user interface, it would be easier to use. I would also like it to be more customizable.""Currently, the watchlist feature is being utilized, and although there have been improvements, it is still not fully optimized.""Azure Sentinel will be directly competing with tools such as Splunk or Qradar. These are very established kinds of a product that have been around for the last seven, eight years or more.""The reporting could be more structured.""If I see an alert and I want to drill down and get more details about the alert, it's not just one click. In other SIEM tools, you just have to click the IP address of the entity and they give you the complete picture. In Sentinel, you have to write queries or use saved queries to get details.""We are invoiced according to the amount of data generated within each log."

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"Fortinet FortiSOAR should improve its analysis.""The UI design of the solution needs to be changed since it can get difficult for a newbie to operate.""The technology and integrations are important so should continue to be enhanced.""Fortinet's tech support overall is not great when they are at their best.""The area that needs improvement is integration with multiple third-party vendors.""I have found that Fortinet FortiSOAR needs a lot of improvement. The Orchestration needs to be improved.""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.""Technical support could be improved."

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"The cost of Splunk SOAR has room for improvement.""In the beginning, we couldn't find any specific documents for every function. It wasn't easy to navigate to what we needed.""We've had trouble implementing the solution with Microsoft products. There seems to be an integration gap.""Some of the training materials are on a basic level.""And most of the challenges that I have faced with the solution can be found in the documentation itself.""We've run into a few minor issues. Some of the playbook writing is a bit complicated. We've had a few hiccups with the source control. We'd really like to use GitHub deployment keys for a dedicated account. We haven't been able to do that. I think those are some of the major ones.""The technical support for the Splunk SIEM solution was average.""Splunk's support for integration is subpar and has room for improvement."

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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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  • "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."
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  • "I don't know the exact price, but for my region, it is very expensive."
  • "In my opinion, the price is high, but if you want good products, you have to be willing to pay for them."
  • "It's very overpriced because it is based on the number of users. There is no bulk licensing."
  • "Splunk SOAR is more expensive compared to other options for SOAR."
  • "The licensing cost is reasonable."
  • "When we first purchased our Splunk SOAR license, it was based on an event-count model. It was based on the number of events. I had strong opinions at the time that automation should not be stifled by the amount of automation you can accomplish, so the previous structure was not as beneficial for us. Later that year, we got told or saw at a conference that they announced user-based pricing. We are now in a renewal period, so we migrated to a user-based license model, which is more appropriate for us so that we no longer have to worry about stifling our automation based on the quantity."
  • "Splunk SOAR is an expensive solution for an organization of our size."
  • "The cost is high and the licensing is on an annual basis."
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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: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.
    Top Answer:Splunk SOAR's quick response to incidents is the most valuable part.
    Top Answer:The cost is high and the licensing is on an annual basis.
    Top Answer:The cost of Splunk SOAR has room for improvement.
    Comparisons
    Also Known As
    Azure Sentinel
    CyberSponse, FortiSOAR
    Phantom
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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.

    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.”

    Splunk SOAR offers features like automation and orchestration of manual tasks, speeding up work, detection and response to advanced and emerging threats. 

    Go from overwhelmed to in-control

    Automate manual tasks. Address every alert, every day. Establish repeatable procedures that allow security analysts to stop being reactive and focus on mission-critical objectives to protect your business.

    Force multiply your team

    Orchestrate and automate repetitive tasks, investigation and response to increase efficiency and productivity, and do more with the people you already have. Make a team of three feel like a team of 10.

    From 30 minutes to 30 seconds

    Work faster with Splunk SOAR. Respond to threats in seconds. Lower your mean time to respond (MTTR) by automating security tasks and workflows across all of your security tools.

    End-to-end security operations made easy

    Take advantage of Splunk Enterprise Security and Splunk SOAR joining forces to provide a seamless and intuitive SecOps platform to prevent, detect and respond to advanced and emerging threats.

    Sample Customers
    Microsoft Sentinel is trusted by companies of all sizes including ABM, ASOS, Uniper, First West Credit Union, Avanade, and more.
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    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm22%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Comms Service Provider8%
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    Computer Software Company16%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Government9%
    Manufacturing Company7%
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    Comms Service Provider29%
    Computer Software Company29%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    University14%
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    Computer Software Company16%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Government9%
    Comms Service Provider6%
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    Financial Services Firm35%
    Computer Software Company18%
    University12%
    Logistics Company6%
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    Financial Services Firm14%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Government10%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Company Size
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    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise21%
    Large Enterprise47%
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    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise59%
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    Small Business55%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise27%
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    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise59%
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    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise53%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise69%
    Buyer's Guide
    Fortinet FortiSOAR vs. Splunk SOAR
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Fortinet FortiSOAR vs. Splunk SOAR and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Fortinet FortiSOAR is ranked 10th in Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) with 11 reviews while Splunk SOAR is ranked 3rd in Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) with 30 reviews. Fortinet FortiSOAR is rated 7.4, while Splunk SOAR is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiSOAR writes "A stable solution that has a number of available connectors and is simple to automate". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk SOAR writes "Takes most of the work away, but the time they take to implement new features is a little bit of concern". Fortinet FortiSOAR is most compared with Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR, Swimlane, Cisco SecureX, ServiceNow Security Operations and SECDO Platform, whereas Splunk SOAR is most compared with Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR, Cortex XSIAM, ServiceNow Security Operations, Torq and Cisco SecureX. See our Fortinet FortiSOAR vs. Splunk SOAR report.

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