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."Asset discovery is good."
"AlienVault OSSIM is an enterprise solution that sells easily. It is rated highly by organizations."
"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 solution has a very good open source community, and whenever we have problems, we are always able to resolve it online."
"Inbuilt IDS, inbuilt integration with threat intelligence platform and with vulnerability assessment modules."
"The most valuable features of AlienVault OSSIM are case management, ease of configuration, and investigation."
"OSSIM is the only solution that includes the large number of modules that we need: a vulnerability scanner, a network IDS system, a host IDS system."
"There are a lot of people you will find using OSSIM since they are also offering OTX as a service"
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiSIEM is the correlation of many events."
"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."
"The most valuable features for us are the built-in reports and alerts, along with the extreme flexibility in reporting and rule generation."
"Its automated response feature has benefited our customer communication. Analysts feel more confident in providing timely responses."
"We like the integration of all of these Fortinet platforms together. Everything is integrated well, and we are able to sell that as a service to our customers."
"The stability is very reliable. It offers very good performance."
"The primary valuable feature is that it has replaced a whole lot of other products with one platform."
"The advanced agents used to collect logs have been most valuable. We have also made use of the advanced intelligence this solution offers."
"I don't like to work on OSSIM because it is unpredictable."
"When comparing AlienVault OSSIM to other solutions it looks a bit outdated. Additionally, they need to improve their integration."
"Sometimes technical issues take very long to get resolved."
"The solution is not scalable."
"AlienVault OSSIM is costly."
"I would like the solution to be able to integrate with my firewall, my IDS and my Honeypot solutions so that it can provide real-time reporting as things occur and then have alert sent to me on my phone when suspicious activity is happening."
"The documentation could be improved."
"It's under heavy traffic. If you have heavy traffic, the system is slow."
"With FortiSIEM, the issue has to do with the ways we can generate a report. It's not as flexible compared to that with other SIEM tools, like Splunk."
"The interface needs some improvements because it's a bit cumbersome when you're trying to view items. It takes some time to get used to. Additionally, sometimes the scrolling does not work."
"Our team tried configuring MS SQL database logs with Fortinet FortiSIEM, but it did not work for some time."
"Customer support service could be better."
"If there is a configuration on the wrong side of the network or there are changes that result in harm to our IT infrastructure, the solution should immediately fix it."
"The challenge I face with Fortinet FortiSIEM is the lack of support."
"Not very good on non-API features, lacks that functionality."
"The only drawback is the licensing model. It can get expensive if you want to integrate more solutions."
AlienVault OSSIM is ranked 11th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 28 reviews while Fortinet FortiSIEM is ranked 10th 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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