We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiSIEM and USM Anywhere based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Fortinet FortiSIEM is praised for its advanced agents and effective correlation capabilities. Reviews say FortiSIEM excels at anomaly reporting and threat hunting. USM Anywhere is highly regarded for its extensive reporting capabilities, thorough vulnerability assessment, seamless file integration, and user-friendly management features. Fortinet FortiSIEM could benefit from better integration guides, more flexible reporting, and reduced resource consumption. Users also suggest adding more AI capabilities and improving database monitoring. USM Anywhere users have suggested improvements in self-service plugin management, database optimization, and third-party threat intelligence integration.
Service and Support: Some FortiSIEM customers consider Fortinet support to be satisfactory and efficient, while others were unhappy and thought the engineers could be more knowledgeable. Some users say that USM Anywhere's customer service is knowledgeable and responsive, while others have faced delays and incomplete answers.
Ease of Deployment: Some FortiSIEM users found it effortless to install within a day or two. Nonetheless, others encountered difficulties regarding CPU and memory requirements, as well as a lengthier deployment time. The initial setup for USM Anywhere is generally considered to be straightforward if the user has technical knowledge. Vendor assistance is also available during the deployment phase.
Pricing: FortiSIEM is generally regarded as reasonably priced and competitive. However, FortiSIEM may still be deemed costly in developing markets. USM Anywhere is seen as more cost-effective than premium solutions like IBM QRadar and Splunk, with pricing considered reasonable and relatively low.
ROI: Fortinet FortiSIEM has consistently delivered a positive return on investment for businesses. USM Anywhere has garnered favorable feedback regarding its ROI.
"Analytics. It can provide log information from the device. With log information, I can see if there is a threat"
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiSIEM is the correlation of many events."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"FortiSIEM is a great tool for making security processes transparent."
"The advanced agents used to collect logs have been most valuable. We have also made use of the advanced intelligence this solution offers."
"We have many application systems, and I can set up Fortinet FortiSIEM for users to monitor their systems."
"The event correlation is pretty robust. The GUI is pretty good."
"The seamless integration with FortiGate is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"Reports are customized, so you can present them to executives or engineers."
"It is my "security person" looking at irregularities and letting me know when something has occurred."
"As we have to service several servers, we can manage them in a economical way, which is beneficial to our team and business."
"The most valuable feature is vulnerability management because it gives you insight into your environment to know what systems need to be updated or patched."
"It has allowed us to see what is happening on our servers."
"The most valuable features of AT&T AlienVault USM are the ease of management and knowledge of what is on the network of my customers. It's easy to understand the problems, and management our alarms and events."
"The setup is very easy and straightforward."
"It has streamlined log aggregation and analysis to meet organizational and regulatory needs."
"The policy editing should be easier. Right now, it's too hard."
"The biggest thing that could be better is a quicker response to support cases."
"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."
"Our customers are noticing configuration available in the GUI interface and I think that they should be equal."
"Our team tried configuring MS SQL database logs with Fortinet FortiSIEM, but it did not work for some time."
"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."
"When our team tried configuring logs for Microsoft SQL, it did not work."
"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."
"More complimentary training needs to be done for use with this tool. If you get into a bind, then it will cost you."
"The reporting tools are a bit lacking for building reports to give directly to customers, but support has been helpful in giving our requests for new features to the development team and following up with us."
"We would like more plugins. This being the main point of improvement which would benefit the users."
"It should be able to communicate with other security solutions to stop threats."
"We've had some stability problems, not a lot, but a few. Updates seem to be the worst. That seems to be when the stability problems come up."
"I want to see more compliance management capability. The quality of integrations seems to be a little bit low."
"Different functions to customize reports should be added."
"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."
Fortinet FortiSIEM is ranked 9th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 65 reviews while USM Anywhere is ranked 11th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 113 reviews. Fortinet FortiSIEM is rated 7.6, while USM Anywhere 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 USM Anywhere writes "Easy to use and affordable". Fortinet FortiSIEM is most compared with IBM Security QRadar, Splunk Enterprise Security, Wazuh, Microsoft Sentinel and LogRhythm SIEM, whereas USM Anywhere is most compared with Wazuh, AlienVault OSSIM, IBM Security QRadar, Splunk Enterprise Security and Elastic Security. See our Fortinet FortiSIEM vs. USM Anywhere report.
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