We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiSIEM and Rapid7 InsightIDR 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."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."
"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."
"Easy alert setup which enables different alerts in different categories."
"AccelOps can handle a lot of data and it's just so important to true monitoring. Also, I can create a lot of rules to detect anything I like."
"Fortinet FortiSIEM provides good detection against advanced threats."
"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."
"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 feature is the dashboard. CMDB database collects data from a lot of pre-configured devices."
"The solution's initial setup is easy."
"Enables the use of honey pots, honey users, and honey files to monitor for suspicious patterns."
"InsightIDR helps us investigate an environment to discover information about incidents."
"Rapid7 is easy to use and deploy. It is a simple solution and has easy data pulling."
"Great coverage of all systems within our network from endpoint to firewall."
"We were able to identify criminals attempting to login from China and put a stop on their IP locations."
"The solution is very scalable in terms of the licensing model."
"Simple configuration and automatically syncs to the cloud platform."
"Patching is not great - we're not getting the support we'd expect."
"There is no proper guide for integration or configuration."
"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."
"Customer support service could be better."
"It lacks a "wizard" that shows a particular user's activity or particular circumstance. I think the interface is intimidating because there's so much information there."
"Does not have 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."
"Fortinet FortiSIEM could improve to extend to several locations or sites."
"The UI could improve in Fortinet FortiSIEM. Humans view the UI frequently for data and if it was more visually pleasing it would be beneficial."
"The ability to tune the collector for custom logs would greatly help."
"The solution's XDR agents cannot compete with the XDR solutions out there yet."
"Sometimes, it is hard to get the right queries to use. Currently, the tool lacks a pre-made set of queries."
"Lacks a mobile application."
"The searching feature in Rapid7 InsightIDR needs to evolve"
"One of the things that could be better is digital forensics. It is there, but it can be better. They could provide more on the endpoint detection level."
"The dashboard is an area that could be simplified."
"It would be useful to import threat intelligence in YARA format along with known incorrect email addresses."
Fortinet FortiSIEM is ranked 10th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 65 reviews while Rapid7 InsightIDR is ranked 9th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 30 reviews. Fortinet FortiSIEM is rated 7.6, while Rapid7 InsightIDR is rated 8.4. 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 Rapid7 InsightIDR writes "Helps in the management of compliance, secret events and information". Fortinet FortiSIEM is most compared with IBM Security QRadar, Splunk Enterprise Security, Wazuh, Microsoft Sentinel and Zabbix, whereas Rapid7 InsightIDR is most compared with Darktrace, Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk Enterprise Security, Rapid7 InsightVM and Microsoft Defender for Identity. See our Fortinet FortiSIEM vs. Rapid7 InsightIDR report.
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