Fortinet FortiSIEM vs USM Anywhere comparison

Fortinet and LevelBlue are both solutions in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category. Fortinet is ranked #8 with an average rating of 7.9, while LevelBlue is ranked #31 with an average rating of 7.3. Fortinet holds a 3.1% 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)

8th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

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 (42nd), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (53rd), Compliance Management (12th)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of Fortinet FortiSIEM is 3.1%, up from 3.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of USM Anywhere is 0.9%, down from 2.1% 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

"Technical support is helpful."

"The interface is very easy to use. The connector in the core has FortiSIEM support from the vendor."

"The solution is very stable. It's run for years without the need to do anything except, add new patches when they are available, which are always a good idea to install."

"I like the various options, including the option for CMDB and the easier access to create rules, playbooks, or use cases. It's also easier to use for creating dashboards and reports."

"To add workers and even collectors is pretty easy."

"Fortinet FortiSIEM has its own validated and authentic IP database that marks malicious IP attacks against the firewall and generates an alert for the same."

"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."

"The stability is very reliable. It offers very good performance."

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"The most valuable feature of this solution is security management for PCI DSS."

"The pricing is amazing and really cheap."

"The feature that I liked the most is that they have a vulnerability assessment package that comes along with the SIEM solution. So, whenever I find any threat or alert for any of the devices or servers, I could immediately initiate a vulnerability assessment scan on that machine. That is one of a kind. The price at which AlienVault operates is also valuable."

"Every activity on the firewall is recorded, and notifications are sent with this solution."

"The solution has all the features that we need, however they do not work correctly."

"SIEM log collection is great, and all of the rules that support updates with maintenance."

"The best thing about AlienVault USM is it being a “Jack-of-All Trades” solution. It provides SIEM, HIDS/NIDS, FIM, NetFlow, Asset Management, Vulnerability Management, etc., under one USM platform. None of the commercial SIEM vendors like ArcSight, McAfee, etc., can boast of such a diverse feature set."

"The USM is a work horse, no matter what devices or the number of logs we throw at it, the system processes them in real time, correlates the events, and alerts on only events that need human review."

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Cons

"I would like to see more integration with other platforms."

"FortiSIEM is not a market leader in the SIEM space."

"We need to see incident reports about the event log, without events from the administrator or through human interaction."

"Fortinet FortiSIEM could improve by having a signature update."

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

"The reporting feature is not very attractive for the upper management and I am not able to perform complex/nested queries."

"Creating parsers to try make unknown events or currently unsupported devices produce meaningful information is extremely cumbersome."

"There could be improvements like introducing some solutions directly into FortiSIEM to avoid the need for separately purchasing additional tools like FortiStore."

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"There could be some type of integration with our existing portal. We have our own customer portals, and it would be good if there was an integration so that our portal can provide reports. There could be some type of API into the AlienVault system with the USM system so that it is easy to show the customers high-level reports of the system through our portal."

"AT&T AlienVault USM can improve searchable data. It should be available for more than 90 days. If you need more than 90 days of data, you have to put a request and they give you raw data, which is not easy to search. A good addition would be to allow users to search data older than 90 days."

"Reporting is convoluted and difficult at times, although they claim to have hundreds of pre-built reports, very few of them are actually useful for anything but what the USM is doing."

"The reporting module could be a little easier to handle, as it requires quite some trial and error until you get the reports you want. Also, it would be great to have a graphical interface for the Network Intrusion Detection System's rule management."

"The vulnerability scanning feature is one of the areas where the product has certain shortcomings and needs to improve. The tool has vulnerability scanning, but it is not that efficient."

"The solution is a bit complicated. It could be simplified quite a bit."

"Maybe logs are the problem, as the database query is too slow. If you want to search something, you need time to find it."

"The GUI needs to improve because it's not user-friendly."

More USM Anywhere cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We pay for a license for FortiSIEM. We pay for the license and renewal."

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

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

"There is a need to make yearly payments towards the licensing charges attached to the product. The free version license of the product is available for two months."

"Pricing is determined based on the customer's budget."

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

"Pricing is acceptable for more than 90% of our customers, as they normally get discounts."

"They have a yearly subscription."

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"They charge a license based on the storage. ATT AlienVault USM is a less expensive solution than IBM QRadar."

"It's saved security costs."

"Its price is much lower than McAfee ESM."

"AlienVault is certainly not nearly as expensive as Splunk or QRadar. It's decently priced, but I don't have the exact figure."

"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 think the product's pricing is a good value because they try to raise the price 50 percent every year... AlienVault needs to understand that not all customers are huge enterprises... Their sales team is way too aggressive. The price they advertise is not always the price you get."

"The price of this solution is reasonable, which is one of the reasons why we selected it over other solutions."

"We ran a few PoCs. The price and feature set were the best with AlienVault."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

Government

Comms Service Provider

Computer Software Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Educational Organization

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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.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Fortinet FortiSIEM?

As a service, the cost is reasonable and affordable with scalable pricing based on the number of monitored devices. However, setting it up for oneself as an enterprise-licensed product can be quite...

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What needs improvement with Fortinet FortiSIEM?

The built-in APIs in Fortinet FortiSIEM are somewhat lacking and could be improved for better integration with external ITSM products. Improving software stability and reducing bugs will make it a ...

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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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