Fortinet FortiSIEM Scalability
We haven't scaled FortiSIEM much until recently. Our customers typically implement it on one node, so I'm not sure how easy it is to scale. We often work with large enterprise companies, so we've used the solution in healthcare. For example, we deployed FortiSIEM at a children's cancer hospital in Egypt. We also used it for banking clients, including an investment bank.
View full review »We don’t have users per se. We are selling it. We have just started selling it. At this point, we have more than double-digit customers onboarded who are using the services.
My understanding is that the solution is entirely scalable.
View full review »The solution is scalable. We initially configured five devices and then could scale it to 20 without any challenges. Ten to fifteen people in the security operation center team use the solution.
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Fortinet FortiSIEM
April 2024
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FortiSIEM scales enough for our company. After the initial deployment, we added some servers and increased the resources to enable FortiSIEM to take the logs from the servers.
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reviewer2305767
CISO at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
We've not had any troubles with the tool’s scalability. We are a small growing bank. We have around 800 endpoints at the moment.
View full review »We have found that it is possible to scale the solution.
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Cletus Okolie
Senior Network Associate at AMCON, Inc.
It is a scalable solution on-prem environment. We will be testing the scalability when we migrate to the cloud.
We have between 300 and 400 users. There are three administrators on the system who manage devices for 25 EPS and close to 100 EPS. We are only licensed for 200 EPS, but we have plans to increase the number of users.
View full review »Fortinet FortiSIEM is a scalable product. We initially configured five devices, and then we could scale it to twenty. There could be some issues if the device count goes up to hundreds and thousands. Around 10 to 15 engineers use Fortinet FortiSIEM in our company.
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reviewer1755144
Director, Infrastructure and Operations at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
Scaling is problematic because of the architecture. It is very hard to figure out the required compute, memory, and disk space because the documentation is so bad. Like any SIEM, it is very compute-heavy. So, scaling is always a problem. We've come to the conclusion that it is not scalable to the magnitude that we require.
I have two system administrators at the moment who are a part of my SOC. We have a very small operation. My SOC right now is comprised of two analysts, a senior analyst, and a manager. All of them are technical, and all of them are involved in managing this solution in one way, shape, or form.
We use the product as one of our internal controls. We have several others, which I won't get into, and we do not plan on scaling it beyond that. We have been piloting some customer-facing use cases, and we will be deprecating those, scaling them back, and moving them to the Microsoft product.
FortiSIEM is highly scalable, but you need to consider the costs. It will be expensive if you want to scale it up.
View full review »Around 50 users are using Fortinet FortiSIEM in our organization.
I rate the solution an eight out of ten for scalability.
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Andre Boettcher
Solution Consultant at 1&1 Versatel Deutschland GmbH
I rate FortiSIEM nine out of 10 for scalability.
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Sami Isoaho
Principal Cloud Architect at Viria Security Oy
This solution is not very scalable if you have a lot of security events; it's focused more around smaller companies. We've become too big for it with 48,000 devices which we are monitoring and we had to create another instance and split things. It's not perfect because it requires purchase of a second license. We use the solution all the time.
Fortinet FortiSIEM has good scalability.
View full review »Fortinet FortiSIEM is known for its scalability, it scales well.
We have a couple of customers using this solution.
I rate the scalability of Fortinet FortiSIEM a nine out of ten.
View full review »I rate the solution's scalability as an eight. It works well with medium to large-scale enterprises.
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COCO BABY
Soc analyst at Konvergenz
It is a scalable tool. The product can handle a considerable number of customers.
At the moment, there are only two people in my company who use the solution. In the future, the number of uses may increase, especially if my company has to deal with more customers who want to use Fortinet FortiSIEM.
Scalability is excellent, especially for our enterprise-level clients.
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reviewer1051230
Asst Programmer Data Center at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Scalability is good; you just add extra licenses. We have 15 admin users and around 10,000 EPS.
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reviewer1061847
Research Associate at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Fortinet FortiSIEM is scalable.
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reviewer1051230
Asst Programmer Data Center at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
The solution is scalable. However, this depends on the license we purchase. Additionally, to scale the solution requires a large investment for computer hardware, such as SSD, memory, and CPUs.
We have approximately 25 security engineers using the solution and approximately 10,000 end users.
We do not have plans to increase the usage of the solution at this time.
View full review »The scalability of Fortinet FortiSIEM is good.
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SahrahMohammed
Network Security Engineer at Go Faster
It's a scalable product.
Fortinet has a large number of products with many modules.
We can use it for small, medium, and large enterprise companies. This product is suitable for all business sizes.
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Randy Olds
Infrastructure Operations Manager at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
I have scaled it out with multiple workers and collectors. It’s scaled in every direction that I would like it to, geographically and from a correlation and reporting capacity standpoint.
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Marcelo Canedo
Presales IT at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
We are located in Uruguay, which is a small country. We have no issues with scalability because we have so few people and our IT infrastructure is quite simple.
Our customers have between 200 and 400 users of Fortinet FortiSIEM.
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reviewer1905006
Senior Product Manager at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
We would like to increase the usage of Fortinet FortiSIEM.
What we really like about it is the ability to scale without costing an arm and a leg for us. They're highly virtualized and, as a result, we're able to deploy in a lot faster manner than shipping their metal to a location that might have to be purchased in another state or country.
View full review »The scalability is there, and you can expand on the EPS (Events Per Second) as needed.
We do plan on selling this service to our customers that can see the benefit in it. We will probably introduce an incident response application to help triage incidents at a faster level.
View full review »We've had no issues with scalability.
View full review »No issues encountered.
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Drissa DOUMBIA
Network Security Engineer at Technicom Mali
It is a scalable solution.
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reviewer1146195
Head - IT & SWIFT at a financial services firm with 1-10 employees
FortiSIEM is scalable, though this is constrained by the licensing model.
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MarioBrito
chief of cybersecurity at ECSSA El Salvador
It is very scalable. It is easy to grow with this tool. We are going step-by-step, and we are doing good so far.
Our clients are big enterprises, such as banks, and we also have small businesses. In Salvador, as per a local compliance requirement, every business or enterprise needs to have a SIEM solution. We have an installation for 1,000 users.
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TalhaAktas
Security Manager at BKL
We don't have any expansion requirements, so I've never looked into scalability.
View full review »We had to deploy several workers to keep up with event collection. This was one reason that the AO agent was developed and released -- to reduce the load on the managers and workers.
View full review »Fortinet FortiSIEM is the best soltuions here in Thailand. There are many users and partners here.
There are 10 to 3,000 users in my company. Most of the users are specialists in IT. We plan to increase usage in the future.
View full review »No issues since the product was installed.
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reviewer1051230
Asst Programmer Data Center at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
I personally have never tried to scale the solution. That said, the solution is scalable and companies shouldn't have any issue expanding it as needed.
The solution is being used pretty extensively in our organization and we have several teams on it.
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reviewer1497699
Partner at a security firm with 11-50 employees
The scalability of the solution is excellent. It's one of the main reasons we chose to go with this option. If a company needs to expand, it can do so easily. There aren't constraints.
We have about five to ten customers on the solution currently.
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Solutionbff1
Solutions Consultant at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
The solution is scalable.
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ICTenterprserv67
Manager, ICT Enterprise Services at a government with 201-500 employees
Scalability required a lot of training. If the training isn't adequate you cannot enjoy the end results.
There are currently around ten users using this solution. They are mostly system and network administrators using this solution. We don't have plans to increase the usage. We are going to switch to another product.
We require two staff members for the deployment and maintenance.
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reviewer993816
Senior Security Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
FortiSIEM is scalable.
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ParveshDhurmea
Assistant Engineer at Harel Mallac Technologies Ltd
Fortinet FortiSIEM is scalable.
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reviewer1720563
Technical manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It's a scalable product.
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reviewer1544661
Chief Technical Officer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Most of our clients are medium-sized businesses.
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JoshuaGardner
IT Executive: Operations & Security at Icon Information Systems (Pty) Ltd
The scalability component is easy. To add workers and even collectors is easy which is how we've deployed it, makes scalability much easier. We plan to grow our users into the thousands.
View full review »None. Far more scalable than is required for us.
View full review »There were no scalability issues; the product scales well for us.
View full review »We've not had any issues so far.
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Wander Menezes
Technical Lead at Arcon Labs at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I don't have any feature for load-sharing or high-availability, and these are important things to implement. I can do the same things in another way, but not naturally having these features makes it complicated. For example, the design is bad because you have one supervisor on one machine and you handle everything off this machine supervisor. It is a design problem. The technology also has limitations because you have a lot of memory and a lot of processors, but you have a limit with processors and memory, which causes problems with scalability.
View full review »No issues encountered.
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reviewer773925
ICT Architect at a insurance company with 51-200 employees
The scalability is ok and is improved by using Elasticsearch.
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reviewer773925
ICT Architect at a insurance company with 51-200 employees
Scalability is very good. We currently have 150 users using this solution. We don't have plans to increase usage at the moment.
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Fortinet FortiSIEM
April 2024
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