Fortinet FortiSIEM vs USM Anywhere comparison

Fortinet and LevelBlue are both solutions in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category. Fortinet is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.1, while LevelBlue is ranked #31 with an average rating of 7.3. Fortinet holds a 3.3% mindshare in SIEM, compared to LevelBlue’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 82% of Fortinet users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of LevelBlue users who would recommend it.

Fortinet FortiSIEM

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82% willing to recommend

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92% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

USM Anywhere and Fortinet FortiSIEM are both popular solutions in the SIEM market. Based on user reviews, Fortinet FortiSIEM seems to have the upper hand due to its robust features that justify its higher cost.

Features: USM Anywhere users value the product's threat detection, compliance capabilities, and ease of use. Fortinet FortiSIEM stands out with its scalability, advanced analytics, and comprehensive monitoring tools.

Room for Improvement: USM Anywhere could benefit from better performance, more frequent updates, and improved reporting. Fortinet FortiSIEM users desire an enhanced alerting system, more intuitive navigation, and simplified administration.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: USM Anywhere is praised for its straightforward deployment process and responsive customer service. Fortinet FortiSIEM, while more complex to deploy, provides excellent customer support to ease the process.

Pricing and ROI: USM Anywhere is seen as more cost-effective with a quicker ROI. Fortinet FortiSIEM, despite higher initial setup costs, delivers significant long-term value through its extensive feature set.

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Categories and Ranking

Fortinet FortiSIEM

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

7th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

USM Anywhere

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

31st

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

115

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (46th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (52nd), Compliance Management (13th)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of Fortinet FortiSIEM is 3.3%, up from 3.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of USM Anywhere is 0.9%, down from 1.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Featured Reviews

Oliver Jackson

Network Engineer at Laminar Communications Pty Ltd

Systems monitoring enhanced by firewall and intrusion detection features

My primary use case for Fortinet FortiSIEM is systems monitoring and alerting. I use it for standard functions like log monitoring, incident detection, and notification. My customers are mostly medium-sized enterprises ranging from engineering companies, mining companies, independent schools, and…

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Kris Nawani

Co-Founder/Director at Bangkok MSP Company Limited

Offers complete coverage without the need to install additional software

USM Anywhere is used for threat detection and investigation. It provides a solution with built-in threat intelligence and various other investigation tools The solution offers complete coverage without the need to install additional software, as it is maintained by the vendor. It helps in saving…

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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

"Real-time monitoring makes life quite easy for me."

"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."

"FortiSIEM sends an email or SMS notifications to admins when there are significant incidents. It's a highly efficient way of responding to incidents."

"We find the solution to be stable."

"The most fascinating aspect of FortiSIEM is its integration with the MITRE ATT&CK framework."

"It is used as an alerting platform."

"We have found the most important features in Fortinet FortiSIEM to be the correlation, file utility check, latest file, and hash changes. These features are important for us."

"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiSIEM are the SD-WAN, Global LAN, and application controls."

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"Easy to use, scalable, stable, and very intuitive platform that provides protection against security threats."

"Asset discovery seems to be good."

"Our main focus was intrusion detection, alerts, and correlation. It's easy to use AlienVault and integrate it with other alert tools because it includes lots of connectors. Either the tool is already there, or AlienVault will write an API for us if they don't have a connector for the solution that is providing the logs."

"On any given day I could give you a different answer regarding the most valuable features of the product. The feature that is most important is the fact that it has a lot of features, that it's not just a log collection and correlation system, that it has a lot of other components built in. The bundle of features is really the killer feature."

"The setup is very easy and straightforward."

"The other big selling feature for us was its integration capabilities with all the other security-based products."

"This is a USM, so being able to get all the features under one roof makes it a good product with good new features."

"The solution also provides basic log storage options for periods of 15, 30, and 90 days."

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Cons

"The stability of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."

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

"Fortinet FortiSIEM should broaden its remediation part to include more features for incident management. Currently, to manage repetitive incidents or for remediation, I need to use a separate software called FortiSOAR."

"It's difficult to integrate unsupported devices with FortiSIEM compared to QRadar. It's easier to integrate and develop processes in QRadar. It's harder to develop a custom process in FortiSIEM."

"Our customers are noticing configuration available in the GUI interface and I think that they should be equal."

"Sometimes, if there are changes made by a user on a database server, it can be difficult to get that information on the fly. I would like to see a situation where once I specify a user with the database server I need, and with the changes they have performed on that, I don't need to continue my search pattern to drill down just to get the information."

"The nodes on our network did not comply with the SIEM solution. They use a different format parking log."

"The policy editing should be easier. Right now, it's too hard."

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"More complimentary training needs to be done for use with this tool. If you get into a bind, then it will cost you."

"they seem to have bugs from time to time that go unfixed for a while and that is frustrating. I'm not saying the product needs to be bug-free, but they need to be responsive to bugs."

"I've been told that AlienVault doesn't have a full version of NES running in there, but I'm not sure if that's accurate or if my engineer made it that way. I'm not sure he was completely honest either because we had NES in the environment before. Those tools could be improved because AlienVault is a SIEM, and it added all these other features."

"We would like more plugins. This being the main point of improvement which would benefit the users."

"I think plugin management should be self-service on AlienVault USM. The other product is self-service but on the USM side. You have to submit a ticket then AT&T creates and updates the plugins."

"USM Anywhere relies a lot on the community putting the data in. Often, you'll right-click on the attack, but nothing will be found. That's a weakness of it."

"The dashboard could be improved as well as the level of customization."

"The price of AT&T AlienVault USM could be reduced."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"Fortinet FortiSIEM is cheaper compared to other products."

"Please be cheaper and more simplified."

"The tool is really expensive. For what the tool does for our team, the price is fair."

"We bought the perpetual license, so we own the product, but there is a three-year support renewal fee for that."

"There are additional features that cost more than the standard licensing fees."

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

"If one is cheap and ten is expensive. I rate the tool's price as an eight out of ten. Compared with Splunk or Oracle, Fortinet is cheap."

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"The licensing fees are dependent on usage."

"Do the one month trial and try to work out the kinks during it, as it has free support and service hours."

"I don't know exactly, but I know it is based on the number of logs and the retention duration, such as 30 days or something like that. So, the smallest package is about 500 a month for 30 days of logs. There is a virtual machine. You need resources for it. It is a log collecting VM. They provide the software, and you just have to load a virtual machine. So, you're going to incur some CPU RAM and storage for wherever this log collecting appliance is running, which typically is in our cloud and on our platform for the customer."

"So far, I feel the product's pricing is a good value. The technology is decent. You get what you pay for. I think it's fair."

"AT&T AlienVault USM is an expensive solution and we pay for the license and the support separately. We paid for the license and support for three years."

"I rate the price of AT&T AlienVault USM a four out of five."

"It is a product that is priced in a medium range, making it neither a cheap nor a costly product."

"The vulnerability management solution is worse than buying a Nessus Professional license."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Comms Service Provider

Government

Computer Software Company

19%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Comms Service Provider

Educational Organization

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

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?

The pricing is reasonable, which is why it is preferred by government customers. Windows agent licenses cost around 3,000 Rupees per device per year.

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What needs improvement with Fortinet FortiSIEM?

Fortinet FortiSIEM should broaden its remediation part to include more features for incident management. Currently, to manage repetitive incidents or for remediation, I need to use a separate softw...

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What do you like most about AT&T AlienVault USM?

The most valuable feature of the solution is the ease of deployment that it provides to users. The integrations that the product has with third-party applications are useful.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AT&T AlienVault USM?

The pricing is amazing and really cheap.

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What needs improvement with AT&T AlienVault USM?

There are scalability issues due to a 60 TB limit, which restricts its use for large customers like banks. It is also limited when used with bigger products and has complex password requirements.

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Also Known As

FortiSIEM, AccelOps

AT&T AlienVault USM, AlienVault, AlienVault USM, Alienvault Cybersecurity

Overview

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

Fortinet

USM Anywhere centralizes security monitoring of networks and devices in the cloud, on premises, and in remote locations, helping you to detect threats virtually anywhere.

Discover

Network asset discovery
Software & services discovery
AWS asset discovery
Azure asset discovery
Google Cloud Platform asset discovery

Analyze

SIEM event correlation, auto-prioritized alarms
User activity monitoring
Up to 90-days of online, searchable events

Detect

Cloud intrusion detection (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Network intrusion detection (NIDS)
Host intrusion detection (HIDS)
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

Respond

Forensics querying
Automate & orchestrate response
Notifications and ticketing

Assess

Vulnerability scanning
Cloud infrastructure assessment
User & asset configuration
Dark web monitoring

Report

Pre-built compliance reporting templates
Pre-built event reporting templates
Customizable views and dashboards
Log storage

LevelBlue

Sample Customers

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.

Abel & Cole, Bank of Ireland, Bluegrass Cellular, CareerBuilder, Claire's, Hays Medical Center, Hope International, McCurrach, McKinsey & Company, Party Delights, Pepco Holdings, Richland School District, Ricoh, SaveMart, Shake Shack, Steelcase, TaxAct, Taylor Morrison, Vonage and Zoom

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