AlienVault OSSIM vs Fortinet FortiSIEM comparison

AT&T and Fortinet are both solutions in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category. AT&T is ranked #11 with an average rating of 7.3, while Fortinet is ranked #8 with an average rating of 7.8. AT&T holds a 5.0% mindshare in SIEM, compared to Fortinet’s 3.2% mindshare. Additionally, 80% of AT&T users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 82% of Fortinet users who would recommend it.

AlienVault OSSIM

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80% willing to recommend

Fortinet FortiSIEM

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82% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

Fortinet FortiSIEM and AlienVault OSSIM are two prominent SIEM solutions. Fortinet FortiSIEM appears to have the upper hand due to its ease of deployment and customer service.

Features: Fortinet FortiSIEM offers comprehensive alerting, robust integration capabilities, and intuitive configuration. AlienVault OSSIM provides extensive threat intelligence, powerful reporting tools, and a rich feature set.

Room for Improvement: Fortinet FortiSIEM could improve scalability, refine its analytics, and enhance its documentation. AlienVault OSSIM needs to lower its learning curve, improve its documentation, and simplify its deployment.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Fortinet FortiSIEM is noted for its smooth deployment process and excellent customer service, with straightforward implementation and responsive support. AlienVault OSSIM faces criticism for complex deployment and less accessible support.

Pricing and ROI: Fortinet FortiSIEM is recognized for competitive pricing and a solid return on investment. AlienVault OSSIM, although more expensive upfront, is considered worth the price for its feature-rich offering, but its complexity and support challenges can impact the overall ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

AlienVault OSSIM

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

11th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Fortinet FortiSIEM

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

8th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of AlienVault OSSIM is 5.0%, up from 3.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Fortinet FortiSIEM is 3.2%, up from 3.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

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HarshBhardiya

SOC Engineer at Just Dial Limited

An open-source solution that provide good detection and more visibility

The solution is not scalable. It impacts so hard. In the initial stages, AlienVault OSSIM can be suitable for small environments. There may be limitations if the customer expresses a desire to expand and add more devices. In such cases, we would need to either explore additional solutions or work within the constraints of the existing setup. We have set up alerts and configured everything in AlienVault OSSIM. It actively monitors for any security incidents. It provides us with regular updates and notifications about any ongoing activities. Only one person is using the solution. It is the perfect solution for small businesses. I rate the solution’s scalability a three out of ten.

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HamedWasel

Senior Network Security Engineer at Orange

It's cheaper than other solutions with the same features but lacks integration with many third-party vendors

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 also like to see FortiSIEM add more of the features available in FortiSOAR. You need to buy two separate solutions to get these features, but they should all be available in one product.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The solution has a very good open source community, and whenever we have problems, we are always able to resolve it online."

"The threat alerts it gives me from time to time on harmful code within the network, or if they are generating any network traffic, are very useful."

"The initial setup was straightforward. I didn't have any problems."

"The threat policies of the solution are always very advanced and the best in the market. They are very persistent in terms of keeping up with security protocols."

"The paid version of the solution has reporting and better scalability options."

"Its user-friendliness is the most valuable. It is very easy to use and explore. The dashboard is very well packaged and integrated. You don't have to spend a lot of time in configuring it and checking out the RPM etc. It is also free and very powerful."

"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 most valuable features of AlienVault OSSIM are case management, ease of configuration, and investigation."

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"Some of our customers who use this solution have seen improvement in their connection with load balancing on both connections."

"It works well with medium to large-scale enterprises."

"There are things like dashboards and reports (pre-configured and custom) that let me know that things are operating the way they should be, and when they are not."

"The solution is very stable. It's run for years without the need to do anything except, add new patches when they are available, which are always a good idea to install."

"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiSIEM is the correlation of many events."

"The product is quite well-organized. The GUI makes it easy to navigate."

"The ability to write my own parsers for the devices that are not supported by Fortinet is the most valuable feature."

"FortiSIEM is a great tool for making security processes transparent."

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Cons

"AlienVault OSSIM should improve the deployment and make it unified like the USM."

"The solution needs more integration with cyber intelligence systems."

"Sometimes technical issues take very long to get resolved."

"When comparing AlienVault OSSIM to other solutions it looks a bit outdated. Additionally, they need to improve their integration."

"The solution is not scalable."

"AlienVault OSSIM is costly."

"I don't like to work on OSSIM because it is unpredictable."

"It's under heavy traffic. If you have heavy traffic, the system is slow."

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"The dashboards need to be improved. It gives you so much detail, but sometimes too much detail, especially to an executive, it's too much."

"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."

"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."

"The built-in APIs in Fortinet FortiSIEM are somewhat lacking and could be improved for better integration with external ITSM products."

"They could work on their documentation. If there's anything about the solution that needs improvement, it's that. For example, documentation already is on a very high level but specifically on the CLI there are tons of features which can be fine-tuned and thousands of commands are very difficult to document. If they could make this easier, it would improve the overall solution."

"Improvements include making it easier for users to create their normalizers. Fortinet FortiSIEM uses XML for normalizing and parsing, which can be tedious and time-consuming. A simpler way of using regex could be helpful."

"The solution needs to do a better job with third party integration. Right now, that's lacking on the solution. I specifically am talking about the AWS environment. Most of the AWS environment products do not have that capability to integrate."

"Areas for improvement would be the ease of use and the integration with Fortinet's own products."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of AlienVault OSSIM is too high sometimes for us to present to our customers. The price should be lower. We are on a three-year license to use the solution. We had to pay extra for the support."

"The tool's licensing costs are yearly."

"AlienVault OSSIM is expensive compared to its competitors."

"We are using the community version, which can be used for free."

"AlienVault pricing is the best. Whatever cost you are paying, you are getting a return on every penny... It's not like your IBM, your QRadar, or Splunk, where the cost is too high."

"The licensing fees for the non-community edition are paid on an annual basis, and there are no costs in addition to this."

"OSSIM is free."

"The solution is open source, so it's free to use."

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"There is a need to make yearly payments towards the licensing charges attached to the product. The free version license of the product is available for two months."

"The price is competitive."

"The price of Fortinet FortiSIEM is a lot less when compared to other solutions."

"The solution is available for both, perpetual and subscription licenses."

"Fortinet FortiSIEM is very cost-efficient compared to other SIEM solutions."

"They have a yearly subscription."

"Fortinet FortiSIEM is not an expensive solution."

"Fortinet's products are not expensive, it is less than the competition."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Educational Organization

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

Government

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Company Size

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about AlienVault OSSIM?

Asset discovery is good.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AlienVault OSSIM?

I used the paid version of the tool and found it to be expensive. It has been a while since I changed to Securonix. I will have to check whether AlienVault charges per device, user, or log.

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What needs improvement with AlienVault OSSIM?

There are somewhat more false positives with the user behavior analytics, which could benefit from an additional machine learning model to detect user patterns more rapidly. The integration capabil...

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What do you like most about Fortinet FortiSIEM?

Fortinet FortiSIEM needs to provide better API integrations to users.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Fortinet FortiSIEM?

Fortinet FortiSIEM is high-priced. Previously, its licensing model required separate licenses for devices, agents, and EPS, which was quite rigid. The revised model is subscription-based and more f...

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What needs improvement with Fortinet FortiSIEM?

FortiSIEM is a bit resource-hungry, so work should be done on hardware resource utilization to consume less hardware. Another major problem is its licensing model, which initially required separate...

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Also Known As

OSSIM

FortiSIEM, AccelOps

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Overview

AlienVault OSSIM, Open Source Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), provides you with a feature-rich open source SIEM complete with event collection, normalization and correlation. Launched by security engineers because of the lack of available open source products, AlienVault OSSIM was created specifically to address the reality many security professionals face: A SIEM, whether it is open source or commercial, is virtually useless without the basic security controls necessary for security visibility.

FortiSIEM (formerly AccelOps 4) provides an actionable security intelligence platform to monitor security, performance and compliance through a single pane of glass.

Companies around the world use FortiSIEM for the following use cases:

Threat management and intelligence that provide situational awareness and anomaly detection
Alleviating compliance mandate concerns for PCI, HIPAA and SOX
Managing “alert overload”
Handling the “too many tools” reporting issue
Addressing the MSPs/MSSPs pain of meeting service level agreements

Sample Customers

Council Rock School District

FortiSIEM has hundreds of customers worldwide in markets including managed services, technology, financial services, healthcare, and government. Customers include Aruba Networks, Compushare, Port of San Diego, Cleveland Indians, Infoblox, Healthways, and Referentia.

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