We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiSIEM and NetWitness Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The primary valuable feature is that it has replaced a whole lot of other products with one platform."
"The event correlation is pretty robust. The GUI is pretty good."
"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."
"Some of our customers who use this solution have seen improvement in their connection with load balancing on both connections."
"It gives us the opportunity to generate notifications based upon rules that get triggered, and the rules could be specific to PCI, HIPAA, GIBA, NIST, and so forth."
"We're able to get real-timec as well as our customer networks that we're monitoring at all times."
"FortiSIEM provides a single PIN to monitor SOC and NOC. It's a nice tool for integration and monitoring. It provides multiple categories for monitoring based on security designations like low, medium, and high."
"It's easy to manage. There's a web interface and a command line, depending on what the user is comfortable with. There's a large knowledge base available, and the support is timely."
"Offers a good wireless feature."
"I can have enterprise security, email security, next generation firewall security log, HIDS and NIDS logs, etc. all on the same dashboard. It makes it easy to pinpoint or correlate our server to this. I can find out if there is lateral movement. This is the biggest advantage of this solution."
"The product's initial setup phase was not at all difficult."
"The most valuable features are the threat prediction and network forensics."
"It's quite economical compared to other solutions in the market."
"The product has a user-friendly interface and a valuable feature for threat intelligence integration."
"Alerting Module: It provides real-time event processing language on all the logs/packets stream for advanced alerting, i.e., using SQL LIKE statements."
"The most valuable feature of RSA NetWitness Logs and Packets are the alerts and correlations tools."
"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."
"There could be more AI features included in the product."
"Creating parsers to try make unknown events or currently unsupported devices produce meaningful information is extremely cumbersome."
"The interface needs some improvements because it's a bit cumbersome when you're trying to view items. It takes some time to get used to. Additionally, sometimes the scrolling does not work."
"I would like to see easier implementation in the future."
"The solution's interface could be modernized and improved."
"Their product support, in general, is not that great. The product support is in the same ecosystem. Their support is improving but it's not that great.vvv"
"Fortinet FortiSIEM needs to provide better API integrations to users."
"There is no support for this product in this country, so problems have to be resolved through global technical teams."
"The log system is a bit complex and has room for improvement."
"The system architecture is complex and sometimes it’s hard to troubleshoot potential problems."
"They should implement algorithms to digest that data and produce additional, more advanced reporting, alerting and support of internal security teams."
"The initial setup was complex because it takes a lot of time to complete the implementation."
"It is not so easy to customize this product."
"The solution should have more integration capabilities with different platforms."
"I'd like to see improvement in its ease of use. It's basically unusable. It's overly complex."
Fortinet FortiSIEM is ranked 10th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 65 reviews while NetWitness Platform is ranked 15th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 36 reviews. Fortinet FortiSIEM is rated 7.6, while NetWitness Platform is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiSIEM writes "It's cheaper than other solutions with the same features but lacks integration with many third-party vendors". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetWitness Platform writes "Can find out if there is lateral movement, but integration and workflow need improvement". Fortinet FortiSIEM is most compared with IBM Security QRadar, Splunk Enterprise Security, Wazuh, Microsoft Sentinel and LogRhythm SIEM, whereas NetWitness Platform is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, RSA enVision, IBM Security QRadar, Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Arbor DDoS. See our Fortinet FortiSIEM vs. NetWitness Platform report.
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