Fortinet FortiSIEM vs Logpoint comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

Fortinet FortiSIEM and Logpoint are competitive products in the SIEM market. Fortinet FortiSIEM is preferred for pricing and support, while Logpoint is appreciated for its features, offering better long-term value despite higher costs.

Features: Fortinet FortiSIEM is praised for its comprehensive threat intelligence, network visibility, and integration with various security products. Logpoint stands out with customizable dashboards, advanced analytics, and detailed reporting capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Fortinet FortiSIEM needs improvements in user-friendliness, reporting features, and its interface. Logpoint requires better documentation, more efficient query responses, and enhanced performance metrics.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Fortinet FortiSIEM users find the deployment process smooth but note a steep learning curve, with highly rated customer service. Logpoint's deployment is straightforward with a faster setup, and its customer service is well-received but slightly less responsive than Fortinet's.

Pricing and ROI: Fortinet FortiSIEM users appreciate the reasonable setup costs with good ROI, making it cost-effective for smaller budgets. Logpoint users find the initial costs higher but justify them with robust features and long-term benefits through customization.

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Fortinet FortiSIEM vs. Logpoint

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Categories and Ranking

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

Logpoint

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

26th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (24th), User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) (7th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (32nd), Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) (14th)

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of Fortinet FortiSIEM is 3.2%, up from 3.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Logpoint is 0.9%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Featured Reviews

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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Subhash Sreenivasan

Head of Professional Services at NiyoSecure

Roughly 800 to 1000 integrations available with various security products and applications and offers built-in SOAR capabilities

The documentation part is something that needs to be improved, as well as the threat intelligence investigation part. Logpoint has a kind of site to describe what kinds of threats they are investigating. But that, I think, maybe Logpoint can improve more. The threat investigations and reporting to the end-users can be improved. Logpoint can also come up with IR [incident response] capabilities. Other important SIEM solutions have some IR services. If I am an MSSP working with LogPoint for SIEM/SOAR solutions and I need immediate support, I should be able to get some support. It can be paid support, like SecureWorks, which has those kinds of functionalities. They will immediately get in and start working on helping us identify the threats, isolate them, and give us remedies to take care of and recover from any kind of attacks. Whereas in LogPoint, that functionality is missing. We will be on our own if something happens. We will get other support from them, but there's no paid support before taking ownership and helping us recover from those kinds of attacks. They have a kind of integration for AI, but the incident response capability is what they should improve.

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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

"FortiSIEM's log correlation is good."

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

"I like FortiSIEM because it integrates natively with our other Fortinet solutions and the Fortinet Fabric, but it also integrates with Cisco, Palo Alto and other security fabrics."

"We find the solution to be stable."

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

"The event correlation is pretty robust. The GUI is pretty good."

"The solution’s IP database is awesome."

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

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"It is a very comprehensive solution for gathering data. It has got a lot of capabilities for collecting logs from different systems. Logs are notoriously difficult to collect because they come in all formats. LogPoint has a very sophisticated mechanism for you to be able to connect to or listen to a system, get the data, and parse it. Logs come in text formats that are not easily parseable because all logs are not the same, but with LogPoint, you can define a policy for collecting the data. You can create a parser very quickly to get the logs into a structured mechanism so that you can analyze them."

"What I like best about LogPoint is its cost-effectiveness compared to other solutions. LogPoint also has better dashboards which I find valuable. I also like that you can create use cases based on your assets."

"The most valuable features are the ones that we use the most, which are the search and report facilities."

"The solution is user-friendly."

"The solution's user interface is quite simple, and the integration is better than other products."

"The search feature is valuable. The dashboards are also valuable for our bosses. Another valuable feature, which is the main feature of the product, is the centralization of all the logs."

"Technical support is responsive and very friendly."

"In my experience with medium-sized operations, LogPoint's scalability is excellent, so I would rate it a ten out of ten."

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Cons

"We expect the latest patch from Fortinet FortiSIEM to give the ability to work with signature files."

"Fortinet FortiSIEM could improve to extend to several locations or sites."

"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."

"Customer support service could be better."

"The only drawback is the licensing model. It can get expensive if you want to integrate more solutions."

"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."

"When compared with some competitors, in terms of performance, the CPU and RAM requirements and the capability of coordination with development all need some improvement."

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

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"The documentation part is something that needs to be improved, as well as the threat intelligence investigation part."

"LogPoint can improve its dashboards. We are not able to customize the dashboard when creating them. They only have preset dashboards which do not have exactly what we are looking for."

"One of the things we faced last year was that we had some memory issues with the server running. We were running them as virtual services, and we were facing some performance issues. Back then, there were some things that had already been solved at the end, but one of the small issues we had was that it was quite memory-consuming. After one upgrade that we did, we faced some performance issues."

"Nowadays the trend is going towards the ransomware and the endpoint detection and response. So if they added something for that, that will be very, very good."

"In terms of functionality, it is very good. The only issue is the documentation. Its documentation should be improved."

"Logpoint is not flexible. Its documentation is not user-friendly."

"I know that they have user behavior analytics, but it's an extra cost for this feature. It would be nice if it was in with the standard products."

"What could be improved in LogPoint is its UI because it's less friendly to users than LogRhythm. The UI could be more aesthetically appealing to users. It's completely outdated."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Fortinet FortiSIEM is cheaper compared to other products."

"This is probably more on the lower cost end of the spectrum compared to competing products. Fortinet's license model is based on events per second, which makes sense, but that's not typical. It makes it very hard to calculate what your costs are going to be as you scale the platform because some log sources, such as firewall logs, are very noisy, and there are lots and lots of events per second, but some of them are not. So, it becomes a bit of a science experiment trying to guess what your costs are going to be as you scale the solution. This is where other competing products perhaps have a more straightforward license model."

"The price of the solution is expensive. The license is scalable. If there are 10 devices it is simple to license."

"FortiSIEM's licensing is based on EPS, and its pricing is competitive in the market."

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

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

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

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

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"For a hundred user deployment the cost is about $10,000. The next year it would be the same because it's a subscription-based license. There are separate costs as well, for example, if a customer asks for training for their staff."

"It has a fixed price, which is what I like about LogPoint. I bought the system and paid for it, and I pay maintenance. It is not a consumption model. Most SIEMs or most of the log management systems are consumption-based, which means that you pay for how many logs you have in the system. That's a real problem because logs can grow very quickly in different circumstances, and when you have a variable price model, you never know what you're going to pay. Splunk is notoriously expensive for that reason. If you use Splunk or QRadar, it becomes expensive because there are not just the logs; you also have to parse the logs and create indexes. Those indexes can be very expensive in terms of space. Therefore, if they charge you by this space, you can end up paying a significant amount of money. It can be more than what you expect to pay. I like the fact that LogPoint has a fixed cost. I know what I'm going to pay on a yearly basis. I pay that, and I pay the maintenance, and I just make it work."

"LogPoint seemed like it was a good product, but it was expensive and there wasn't any room to move the pricing when customers needed a lower-costing solution."

"Our licensing fees are about $10,000 USD per month, which I think is fair."

"It's less expensive than the competitors. The Logpoint marketing team is very accommodating and client-friendly. They offer very good reductions in price. They are pretty good in this aspect. They are transparent in their licensing and pricing."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I would rate LogPoint's pricing a seven. It is not very expensive compared to some of the more costly products, and it is not very cheap compared to some of the cheaper products in the SIEM market."

"My company used to pay for LogPoint costs annually. It's a cost-effective solution. I'm not part of the Finance team, though, so I'm not sure exactly what the licensing fee is or what license my company had."

"It was on a yearly basis at about $100K. It was not a huge environment. We were running it on our own virtual server environment, which, of course, had a cost. There was hardware and some energy cost, and then there were Microsoft Windows licenses for servers. That's all, but there was nothing in comparison to the licensing costs."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

Government

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

67%

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Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Fortinet FortiSIEM?

Fortinet FortiSIEM needs to provide better API integrations to users.

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...

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...

What do you like most about LogPoint?

The solution is user-friendly.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for LogPoint?

On a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I would rate LogPoint's pricing a seven. It is not very expensive compared to some of the more costly products, and it is not ver...

What needs improvement with LogPoint?

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Also Known As

FortiSIEM, AccelOps

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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

Logpoint is a cutting-edge security information and event management (SIEM) solution that is designed to be intuitive and flexible enough to be used by an array of different businesses. It is capable of expanding according to its users' needs.

Benefits of Logpoint

Some of the benefits of using Logpoint include:

Unifies data logs: Logpoint creates a single system of classification for collected data. It makes it easy for users to search for and find data, which aids users when they are creating reports or alerts. Users can conserve resources while at the same time seeing a rise in the efficiency of their business operations.

Intuitive solution design: Logpoint is designed so that anyone can utilize all of its features, even if they are not an expert in network security. Logpoint’s UI is simple enough that users can utilize it without undergoing extensive training.

Highly flexible: Logpoint is designed so that users can scale it linearly to accommodate projects that are large and complex. This allows users to expand the scope of their projects according to their needs without worrying that their infrastructure won’t be able to handle the increase in size. The solution’s security features can be deployed both on the cloud and in a physical environment.

Simple role-based access security: Logpoint allows administrators to employ Microsoft’s active directory (AD) and a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol to manage user access. These can help administrators protect their systems from being abused or otherwise harmed by bad actors.

Reviews from Real Users

Logpoint is a security and management solution that stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its data gathering and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. Logpoint enables users to not only gather the data, but also to maximize both the amount of data that can be gathered and its usefulness. It removes many of the challenges that users may face in data collection. The solution allows users to set rules for collection and then it pulls information from sources that meet the rules that have been set. This data is then broken into manageable segments and ordered. Users can then analyze these ordered segments with ease. Additionally, LogPoint utilizes both machine learning and AI technology. Users gain the ability to protect themselves from and if necessary resolve emerging threats as soon as they arise. The AI sets security parameters for a user’s system. These act as a baseline that are triggered and notify the user if anything deviates from the rules that it set up.

The chief infrastructure & security officer at a financial services firm writes, “It is a very comprehensive solution for gathering data. It has got a lot of capabilities for collecting logs from different systems. Logs are notoriously difficult to collect because they come in all formats. Logpoint has a very sophisticated mechanism for you to be able to connect to or listen to a system, get the data, and parse it. Logs come in text formats that are not easily parsed because all logs are not the same, but with Logpoint, you can define a policy for collecting the data. You can create a parser very quickly to get the logs into a structured mechanism so that you can analyze them.”

A. Secca., a Cyber Security Analyst at a transportation company, writes, “It is an AI technology because it is using machine learning technology. So far, there is nothing better out there for UEBA in terms of monitoring endpoints and user activity. It is using machine learning language, so it is right at the top. It provides that capability and monitors all of the user’s activities. It devises a baseline and monitors if there is any deviation from the baseline.”

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.

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