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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Review summaries and opinions

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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

"FortiSIEM helped us discover all the threats at the time that were attacking the IT services of the company. We now have multiple-level authentication."

"The ability to write my own parsers for the devices that are not supported by Fortinet is the most valuable feature."

"The most valuable feature is the anomaly-reporting alarms."

"FortiSIEM's best features are the dashboards and customization."

"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."

"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."

"FortiSIEM sends an email or SMS notifications to admins when there are significant incidents. It's a highly efficient way of responding to incidents."

"We're able to get real-timec as well as our customer networks that we're monitoring at all times."

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"The IDS and the threat intelligence are very useful. They are very intuitive and data-rich."

"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."

"Log-monitoring and alerting enable us to know when things happen that we need to know about."

"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."

"The pricing is amazing and really cheap."

"The best feature of this product is the ease of use. It is extremely easy to set up and get going. This is a very useful tool for a small organization."

"Asset discovery and vulnerability scanner are good features. The integration between this solution and OTX, which is an AlienVault platform for Open Threat Exchange, is also a valuable feature. It is also quick and easy to deploy, so you can quickly engage with a customer's environment."

"Allowed us to help our customers satisfy compliance needs around logging and monitoring."

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Cons

"We expect the latest patch from Fortinet FortiSIEM to give the ability to work with signature files."

"FortiSIEM is a bit resource-hungry, so work should be done on hardware resource utilization to consume less hardware."

"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."

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

"They should enhance the solution's AI capabilities, including XDR and EDR."

"The built-in APIs in Fortinet FortiSIEM are somewhat lacking and could be improved for better integration with external ITSM products."

"The process of installing Fortinet FortiSIEM and the customization of the alerts take too long."

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

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"The price of AT&T AlienVault USM could be reduced."

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

"The solution already has quite good tools, however, they need better integration tools for linking with Office 365, Google Suite, and so on."

"There are scalability issues due to a 60 TB limit, which restricts its use for large customers like banks."

"Their threat intelligence platform needs to be broadened. They should integrate it with more threat intelligence platforms. For the threat feed that they get from open intelligence, I would like them to add a few premium threat intelligence platforms. They can provide a bundle in which AlienVault has the threat intelligence background of other premium products."

"In the future, I would like to see all these features of the solution working properly."

"Plugins could be better utilized, as some of them do not recognize all logs."

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Fortinet FortiSIEM is not an expensive solution."

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

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

"FortiSIEM's licensing is based on EPS, and its pricing is competitive in the market."

"The price of Fortinet FortiSIEM was reasonable compared to other solutions."

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

"There are additional features that cost more than the standard licensing fees."

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

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"We pay around $12,000 a year including storage."

"I don't know exactly, but I know it is based on the number of logs and the retention duration, such as 30 days or something like that. So, the smallest package is about 500 a month for 30 days of logs. There is a virtual machine. You need resources for it. It is a log collecting VM. They provide the software, and you just have to load a virtual machine. So, you're going to incur some CPU RAM and storage for wherever this log collecting appliance is running, which typically is in our cloud and on our platform for the customer."

"The vulnerability management solution is worse than buying a Nessus Professional license."

"Use the AlienVault team. They are helpful and the documentation that they provide is second to none."

"It's very reasonably priced. It was one of the lowest among the ones I looked at. Licensing is pretty flexible. They can do a two-year or a three-year, even a one-year, perhaps."

"The pricing is a good value. The key thing is that for the new product, the licensing of it, is subscription-based and it's based on data. Clients need to be really careful when thinking about that, because odds are they're going to need to put a lot more data into it than what they initially estimate, which is going to drive their subscription costs up."

"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."

"It has good pricing."

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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

Company Size

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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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