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 8.0, while LevelBlue is ranked #33 with an average rating of 7.3. Fortinet holds a 3.1% mindshare in SIEM, compared to LevelBlue’s 1.0% 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)

33rd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

115

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (41st), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (53rd), Compliance Management (12th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of Fortinet FortiSIEM is 3.1%, up from 3.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of USM Anywhere is 1.0%, down from 2.2% 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

"The most valuable feature is the dashboard. CMDB database collects data from a lot of pre-configured devices."

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

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

"FortiSIEM's log correlation is 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."

"One of the most valuable features is that we can combine SOC and NOC operations in the same tool. We can provide NOC and SOC services in the same tool for two separate teams. There are plenty of third-party solutions that integrate with FortiSIEM. All these solutions already have a ready integration, and we have the possibility to create a custom connector for these solutions. Its reports are also very good."

"The CMDB and the device discovery features are most valuable."

"FortiSIEM allows you to match IPs with threat intelligence feeds from sources like Kaspersky or Anomali, adding valuable context."

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"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 vulnerability manager and the file integration are very good."

"The main menu: You can see everything there, what is happening on the servers, and in the logs, you can view more details of each event."

"AT&T AlienVault USM is good for ELK Stack, the user experience is great because of its architecture. The ELK has a great performance and it has very good speed in the search and Kibana. Additionally, the visuals and dashboards and very nice and customizable."

"Our main focus was intrusion detection, alerts, and correlation. It's easy to use AlienVault and integrate it with other alert tools because it includes lots of connectors. Either the tool is already there, or AlienVault will write an API for us if they don't have a connector for the solution that is providing the logs."

"The solution also provides basic log storage options for periods of 15, 30, and 90 days."

"Ease of deployment across various environments."

"It provides a single pane of glass view, coupled with a whole security ecosystem. The ability to manage everything from a central point, including vulnerability assessments, asset management - including the services provided by the various hosts, NIDS, HIDS, etc. - provides a very efficient way of dealing with things."

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Cons

"They could work on their documentation. If there's anything about the solution that needs improvement, it's that. For example, documentation already is on a very high level but specifically on the CLI there are tons of features which can be fine-tuned and thousands of commands are very difficult to document. If they could make this easier, it would improve the overall solution."

"If there is a configuration on the wrong side of the network or there are changes that result in harm to our IT infrastructure, the solution should immediately fix it."

"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."

"The solution's interface could be modernized and improved."

"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."

"The deployment of the platform took some time to set up and configure."

"Patching is not great - we're not getting the support we'd expect."

"The stability of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."

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"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."

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

"The reporting is mediocre and is something that needs to be improved."

"I want to see more compliance management capability. The quality of integrations seems to be a little bit low."

"One area that has room for improvement is storage. AllienVault is a good place to put logs, but sometimes it's a tough place to go get logs... The logger can only hold so much data. If they improved that, that would help."

"The reporting and dashboards have room for improvement."

"Windows log collection works with HIDS, but documentation is sparse and confusing."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"They have a yearly subscription."

"Fortinet FortiSIEM is very cost-efficient compared to other SIEM solutions."

"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."

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

"The price is competitive."

"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."

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"It is affordable, and it also has many features that the premium products such as ArcSight and QRadar have. It is a very good platform for a SIEM solution. Everything is included in the price."

"The price point is good."

"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."

"So far, I feel the product's pricing is a good value. The technology is decent. You get what you pay for. I think it's fair."

"AlienVault is flexible on their pricing for unlimited licenses."

"It has good pricing."

"They are a little more expensive than Microsoft."

"QRadar, ArcSight and Splunk are some of the most expensive SIEM products out there in the market and not everyone has the budget to buy them. In such cases, AV USM is a very cost effective alternative."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

Government

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Educational Organization

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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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