We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiSIEM and SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer 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 pricing of the product is excellent."
"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."
"Sentinel's most important feature is the ability to centralize all the logs in one place. There's no need to search multiple systems for information."
"Microsoft Sentinel comes preloaded with templates for teaching and analytics rules."
"It has basic out-of-the-box integrations with multiple log sources."
"Another area where it is helping us is in creating a single dashboard for our environment. We can collect all the logs into a log analytics workset and run queries on top of it. We get all the results in the dashboard. Even a layman can understand this stuff. The way Microsoft presents it is really incredible."
"If you know how to do KQL (kusto query language) queries, which are how you query the log data inside Sentinel, the information is pretty rich. You can get down to a good level of detail regarding event information or notifications."
"Sentinel has features that have helped improve our security poster. It helped us in going ahead and identifying the gaps via analysis and focusing on the key elements."
"To add workers and even collectors is pretty easy."
"Fortinet FortiSIEM is less costly than other products and is available 24/7."
"Some of our customers who use this solution have seen improvement in their connection with load balancing on both connections."
"AccelOps can handle a lot of data and it's just so important to true monitoring. Also, I can create a lot of rules to detect anything I like."
"The seamless integration with FortiGate is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"Real-time monitoring makes life quite easy for me."
"The product is quite well-organized. The GUI makes it easy to navigate."
"The most valuable features for us are the built-in reports and alerts, along with the extreme flexibility in reporting and rule generation."
"It is great at telling you if your devices are working and it keeps an eye on your network's overall performance."
"This solution gives us important information about the utilization of protocols, particularly in terms of how often they are used."
"The program is scalable enough for our usage."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"It helps us know when a branch is down because it has a graphic presentation of all the locations a node represents."
"For stability, I would give SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer a rating of ten out of ten."
"The monitoring is perfect, showing you the details for the utilization of resources and network bandwidth."
"The software management tools are very useful for our customers."
"I think the number one area of improvement for Sentinel would be the cost."
"They only classify alerts into three categories: high, medium, and low. So, from the user's point of view, having another critical category would be awesome."
"If Azure Sentinel had the ability to ingest Azure services from different tenants into another tenant that was hosting Azure Sentinel, and not lose any metadata, that would be a huge benefit to a lot of companies."
"The solution could be more user-friendly; some query languages are required to operate it."
"The AI capabilities must be improved."
"One key area that can be improved is by building a strong integration with our XDR platform."
"We have been working with multiple customers, and every time we onboard a customer, we are missing an essential feature that surprisingly doesn't exist in Sentinel. We searched the forums and knowledge bases but couldn't find a solution. When you onboard new customers, you need to enable the data connectors. That part is easy, but you must create rules from scratch for every associated connector. You click "next," "next," "next," and it requires five clicks for each analytical rule. Imagine we have a customer with 150 rules."
"It would be good to have some connectors for third-party SIEM solutions. Many customers are struggling with the integration of Azure Sentinel with their on-premise SIEM. Microsoft is changing the log structure many times a year, which can corrupt a custom integration. It would be good to have some connectors developed by Microsoft or supply vendors, but they are not providing such functionality or tools."
"The reporting feature is not very attractive for the upper management and I am not able to perform complex/nested queries."
"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."
"Fortinet FortiSIEM could improve by having a signature update."
"The log collection and configuration management are not great."
"They need to integrate better with Cisco and Palo Alto."
"The graphs on the user interface could be improved as we often experience glitches."
"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 more integration with other platforms."
"I'm expecting to see a little bit more artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms. They need a bit more sophistication in that."
"There is room for improvement when it comes to the traffic generated by the analyzer and the analysis of that traffic."
"It does not flow. It cannot do our metric performance monitoring. So it is very limited. They can do it but in a very limited fashion. It is only good for SNMP-based alerts."
"It is a scalable solution, but it is costly to scale. Therefore, I would rate scalability at eight out of ten."
"The problem is that SolarWinds is trying to bolt in too much and that can leave bugs, which you have to then sort out, leaving the product unstable. SolarWinds needs to try and slow down and improve the stability of the product, as opposed to bringing out more and more features."
"NTA's documentation for the implementation phase needs some enhancement."
"The licensing should be more realistic so that we can adjust the number of nodes according to my needs, rather than in fixed increments."
"An area for improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is application visibility because some applications aren't being recognized correctly. You can see applications such as Facebook and YouTube, but SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer needs to have more visibility into more applications. Currently, SolarWinds fails to detect more powerful applications, such as Zoom and Teams. If SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer can recognize every application and be able to report on each in terms of bandwidth, then that would be good. This is what I'd like to see in the next release of the solution."
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Fortinet FortiSIEM is ranked 8th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 63 reviews while SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is ranked 6th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 34 reviews. Fortinet FortiSIEM is rated 7.6, while SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is rated 7.6. 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 SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer writes "Displays traffic visibility and efficient traffic flows". Fortinet FortiSIEM is most compared with IBM Security QRadar, Splunk Enterprise Security, LogRhythm SIEM, Wazuh and ThousandEyes, whereas SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is most compared with ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer, Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM and Meraki Dashboard. See our Fortinet FortiSIEM vs. SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer report.
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