We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiSIEM and NetWitness Platform 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."The primary valuable feature is that it has replaced a whole lot of other products with one platform."
"The seamless integration with FortiGate is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"The most valuable features for us are the built-in reports and alerts, along with the extreme flexibility in reporting and rule generation."
"The event correlation is pretty robust. The GUI is pretty good."
"To add workers and even collectors is pretty easy."
"It's a very nice solution to work with."
"This solution offers extensive customization options, making it possible to adapt it precisely to their requirements."
"It gives us the opportunity to generate notifications based upon rules that get triggered, and the rules could be specific to PCI, HIPAA, GIBA, NIST, and so forth."
"I can have enterprise security, email security, next generation firewall security log, HIDS and NIDS logs, etc. all on the same dashboard. It makes it easy to pinpoint or correlate our server to this. I can find out if there is lateral movement. This is the biggest advantage of this solution."
"The packet capture aspect of it is a valuable feature because it is quite different from a traditional SIEM solution that only carries out investigations based on captured logs."
"It gives the capability for the incident response team to correlate logs to identify any kind of problem like malware and incidents in a general sense, both for logs and packets."
"The most valuable feature is the security that it provides."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to write rules and triggers for network communication, and then being able to investigate based on that."
"The most valuable features are its ingestion of logs and raising of alerts based on those logs."
"The most valuable features are the packet decoder, log decoder, and concentrator."
"Their technical support responds quickly and are knowledgable."
"We expect the latest patch from Fortinet FortiSIEM to give the ability to work with signature files."
"Their technical support is horrible. By horrible, I mean a train wreck of a disaster that has fallen off a bridge and caught fire."
"There could be more AI features included in the product."
"FortiSIEM is not a market leader in the SIEM space."
"The solution's interface could be modernized and improved."
"FortiSIEM could be better integrated with other vendors."
"It would be good if the solution offered even more configuration options, especially in relation to the VPN so that it continues to be a very flexible option."
"The support of the product changed recently, and I don't think it's for the better. They should work to improve the support they offer to clients."
"The tool's integration capability isn't so great."
"The initial setup was complex because it takes a lot of time to complete the implementation."
"The product's licensing models are complex to understand. This particular area needs improvement."
"It should have a monitoring feature. It would help us analyze the current state of attacks faster from a single platform."
"More customizability is required, which is something that they need to improve on."
"The initial setup is very complex and should be simplified."
"The documentation is not as structured as I would like, personally, and I think that it can be improved and made much more user-friendly."
"I'd like to see improvement in its ease of use. It's basically unusable. It's overly complex."
Fortinet FortiSIEM is ranked 10th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 65 reviews while NetWitness Platform is ranked 15th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 36 reviews. Fortinet FortiSIEM is rated 7.6, while NetWitness Platform 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 NetWitness Platform writes "Can find out if there is lateral movement, but integration and workflow need improvement". Fortinet FortiSIEM is most compared with IBM Security QRadar, Splunk Enterprise Security, Wazuh, Microsoft Sentinel and LogRhythm SIEM, whereas NetWitness Platform is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, RSA enVision, IBM Security QRadar, Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Arbor DDoS. See our Fortinet FortiSIEM vs. NetWitness Platform report.
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