Fortinet FortiAnalyzer Primary Use Case
We have multiple firewalls linked through a VPN. There is traffic from several branches and multiple points of failure, so you need to analyze this traffic to know what's coming in and going out. When you have more chains, there are more points of failure that can be exploited.
I use FortiAnalyzer on-premise and on the cloud. I update the solution at least once a year. I always update the firewall to the latest edition, so I can have three months or four months to test it in the VM. I use even more products and also AWS and Azure Cloud. About 9 percent of my company is responsible for security and networking. Everybody's on my team works with FortiAnalyzer.
Our department has three security architects and four network engineers. They are beginning to place assistant administrators on the network.
View full review »We use Splunk over SOC, the security operations center because it is more user-friendly for our team. Our team uses the solution extensively for traffic analysis and threat hunting.
View full review »Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is a solution that focuses specifically on analyzing and monitoring the performance and security of Fortinet security products. By utilizing this solution in conjunction with Fortinet products such as FortiSwitch, FortiGate, and FortiClient, the user is able to centralize all logging services and analysis in one place, allowing for easy correlation, playbook automation, and comprehensive visibility within the Fortinet services. However, the limitations of the solution are highlighted by the speaker, who wishes for expanded compatibility with other non-Fortinet products such as servers.
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Fortinet FortiAnalyzer
March 2024
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reviewer2255289
IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
We take all the logs from FortiGate.
We have it deployed on-premises, and we are definitely using its latest version because we are creating a new virtual machine.
View full review »Our organization uses Fortinet FortiAnalyzer for logging purposes, including looking and digging deeper into the logs. The second use of the solution is for reporting, especially when we need some bandwidth utilization report with specific applications being used. We even use the solution's alerting functionality, especially during scenarios when our interface goes down.
View full review »It's a lock storage correlation device. You can connect locks from different devices. Not just from Fortinet, but you can send locks from other devices to FortiAnalyzer. Basically, it is a centralized repository.
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Yati Gharat
Chief Technology Officer at Litmus
Most of our clients are banking and financial institutions, so their data doesn't go to the cloud as such. Their data is on-premises only. Some of our clients can go to the cloud to save the price and do management, administration, and so on, but then most of our clients, use on-premises FortiAnalyzer.
View full review »We collect the logs from Fortinet in order to search and get a better view of everything that's coming from FortiGate because the overview on FortiGate isn't the same. FortiAnalyzer provides an overview of the logs and everything that's happening there. We integrate FortiGate and FortiAnalyzer with the SOC that we're working on, which is an open-source security solution.
The other use case is to have logs. Because otherwise, in FortiGate, you don't have logs for a long period of time. You only have seven days if you don't have an account in FortiGuard. So, FortiAnalyzer provides a better understanding of what's happening there. And for our clients, we always recommend FortiAnalyzer.
FortiGate by itself is a good choice, but without FortiAnalyzer, you lose a lot of features. Even the free version of FortiAnalyzer provides some useful features.
View full review »The primary use case for our clients revolves around robust reporting capabilities, addressing key aspects such as understanding diverse utilizations and the performance of network links. They specifically sought insights into bandwidth usage and detailed reporting at the application level. Additionally, an essential requirement was efficient log management. This is crucial because FortiGate has limitations on retaining logs for an extended duration, and our clients needed a solution, such as FortiAnalyzer, to effectively manage and analyze logs over an extended period.
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Solutions Consultant at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
The customer purchased a Fortinet Firewall in order to run it as a decentralized block and collect amazing security logs from their internet usage or other data from the box. The benefit of having an on-premise firewall is that they don't have to worry about any subscription, and the storage space it consumes is minimal due to the internal hard drive of the FortiAnalyzer. Furthermore, the firewall does not consume a lot of traffic from the internet due to it being on-premise.
View full review »We have some customers that have more than just two branches, and we use FortiManager to manage the network and have FortiAnalyzer in case we have an attack or need more information to understand when something happens. If you have some sort of loss, it's very difficult to identify what is happening without this solution's help.
We are using the solution only for ticket logs and security logs, et cetera.
View full review »Most importantly, it is for the administration of Forti fabric devices and reporting of Forti fabric, and being able to generate reports. It's for logging. All 40 fabric devices are able to send logs to FortiAnalyzer. Basically, the use cases are for administration, reporting, and logging.
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reviewer1217868
Information security officer at a financial services firm with 1-10 employees
The solution is used for grabbing logs. It is designed for log aggregation of all Fortigate firewalls and to give visibility of traffic and usage.
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Viswanathan Selvakumar
Senior Manager at Allsec Technologies Ltd
I find it to be a valuable tool for utilizing traffic logs. The product's continuous improvements and Fortinet's commitment to enhancing its capabilities contribute to its effectiveness.
Our company uses the solution to capture our Forti Firewall into a centralized box and auditing folder that is analyzed at least once per year. Four staff members use the solution, produce detailed reports, and manage operations.
We initially implemented the solution on-premises at our data center in Colombo City. Now, we are implementing things to the cloud so our next plan is to secure cloud-level protection.
View full review »We are an IT company. One of our clients utilizes FortiGate, FortiAnalyzer, and FortiManager. Thus, this is the sole customer in our portfolio using Fortinet FortiAnalyzer. Among our other clients, some exclusively employ FortiGate. Our responsibility encompasses network management for these clients.
View full review »I primarily use the solution to analyze issues with internet connections and traffic.
View full review »I mainly use FortiAnalyzer to centralize logs from multiple devices and generate local reports. It can work in two operation modes: as a collector only or an analyzer.
View full review »We primarily use the solution as a firewall and security gateway.
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reviewer2132547
solution architect at a non-profit with 51-200 employees
We primarily use the solution as an analysis tool.
View full review »Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is for log collection and reporting.
View full review »I use the solution for the configuration process.
View full review »Our customers are working with this product in their companies.
I haven't really played around with it so much. Basically, we're just doing log reviews, and that's it.
View full review »We use Fortinet FortiAnalyzer for logs and reports. We have a SOC subscription to monitor the end users' login activity and traffic.
Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is deployed by us in both on-premises and cloud environments.
View full review »FortiAnalyzer provides a centralized dashboard for analyzing the output of all our Fortinet solutions, like FortiGate, FortiManager, FortiSandbox, etc. It aggregates and correlates all the events.
View full review »We are using it only for integration and getting information from FortiAnalyzer to use and analyze important events.
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MatteoMazzei
Security Manager at Yarix S.r.l.
Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is utilized to gather logs from all Fortinet products and generate reports.
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MahmoodAbdollahi
Senior Network Engineer at Dejpaad
We use the solution for just one company for the analysis of the FortiGate switch.
View full review »We use this solution to centralize the monitoring on Forti Fabrics. We monitor all firewalls and use this solution for incident management.
View full review »I utilize Fortinet FortiAnalyzer to gather various logs from FortiGate, enabling me to conduct specific investigations in particular cases.
View full review »Our company is partners with Fortinet and we provide log monitoring services to our customers. More than one hundred people in our company use the solution.
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Jan Christiaan
Network Security Engineer at Social Security Commission
We use this solution to actively pick up and report on all activities and connectivity going through the FortiGate firewall.
The product is for reporting about the use or detecting some issues or activities.
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AhmedNatil
Security Manager at Alternative Solutions
My clients mainly use Fortinet FortiAnalyzer for the log and automation.
This solution can be deployed on-premise and on the cloud.
View full review »Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is primarily utilized to generate quarterly reports showcasing blocked attacks and vulnerabilities. It employs features like WAV porting triggers and DNS triggers to effectively demonstrate to the client the security of their environment.
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Lawrence Leung
Section Head, Enterprise Solutions & SI Management at HGC Global Communications Limited
We are using Fortinet FortiAnalyzer for the managing surface for our customers. We are a service provider and we are focusing on providing a service to our customers.
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reviewer1392267
Fraud Risk Analyst at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
The primary use cases are log management and the reporting fraud forum. It provides a vision of the network.
View full review »We have the most data visibility with this solution.
View full review »We use it for reports and analysis.
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Sayed Qurany Ali
Senior System Administrator at Citystars Properties
I am using Fortinet FortiAnalyzer for tracing anything that happens in the network.
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Sylvan
Works at renesas
We use the product to review firewall logs.
View full review »FortiAnalyzer is a log analytics tool. Our company has around 600 to 700 people.
View full review »We use the solution for log analysis.
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Fortinet FortiAnalyzer
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Fortinet FortiAnalyzer. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
763,955 professionals have used our research since 2012.