FortiAnalyzer vs. Microsoft Defender XDR

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
FortiAnalyzer
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
As part of the Fortinet Security Fabric, FortiAnalyzer provides security fabric analytics and automation to provide better detection and response against cyber risks.N/A
Microsoft Defender XDR
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft 365 Defender combines SIEM and XDR capabilities for Microsoft 365 environments, encompassing threat detection, post-breach detection, automated investigation, and response for endpoints. Additionally, it protects cloud apps, emails and documents, and employee identities.N/A
Pricing
FortiAnalyzerMicrosoft Defender XDR
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
FortiAnalyzerMicrosoft Defender XDR
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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User Ratings
FortiAnalyzerMicrosoft Defender XDR
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(2 ratings)
8.7
(83 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
7.7
(4 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
FortiAnalyzerMicrosoft Defender XDR
Likelihood to Recommend
Fortinet
FortiAnalyzer is a must have when you administer multiple FortiGate firewalls in a defense in depth enterprise environment. Total visibility can be achieved across multiple physical and virtual firewalls. Complete analysis of your threat landscape is possible along with real time detection, compliance reporting, and wholistic firewall rule analysis and reporting. Eliminating shadow rules, tuning unnecessarily permissive rules, automation and other analysis are built in to this easy to deploy software.
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Microsoft
Microsoft Defender XDR is well suited for organizations already invested in the Microsoft Ecosystem - including Microsoft 365, Azure Ad and INTune. For example, in scenarios where you need to correlament the fishing attacks with the closing point behavior and identity agreement, Microsoft Defender XDR does a big task of sewing the timeline of a full attack simultaneously and even automatically removing.
This hybrid function is also ideal for the environment, where safety visibility in distance tools, cloud apps and email is important. Microsoft Defender XDR provides centralized insight and response in all these domains without the requirement of many devices.
However, it is less suitable in the atmosphere with diverse or non-microsoft infrastructure, such as an organization running a mixture of Linux server, Google work area or third-party EDR tools. Cross-platform support is still developing, and integration of the microsoft ecosystem often requires additional configurations or third-party connectors. For companies of that situation, Microsoft Defender XDR cannot give its full value from the XDR box.
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Pros
Fortinet
  • Custom dashboard
  • VPN traffic monitoring
  • Internet traffic monitoring
  • Users behavior analysis
  • Integrate well with the FortiGate firewall
  • Log analysis
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Microsoft
  • The software uses advanced AI and machine learning algorithms to monitor activities and detect any anomalies immediately, protecting our financial data.
  • Automated responses to known threats reduce the impact of possible incidents and improve our security posture.
  • Microsoft 365 Defender easily combines with other Microsoft 365 services and external security solutions, providing a complete and unified security solution.
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Cons
Fortinet
  • Administrative Domains and Software Versions are difficult to maintain
  • managing different FortiOS versions gets complicated quite easily
  • Administrative Domains must be well architected from the beginning
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Microsoft
  • Enhanced False Positive Mitigation:
  • Improved algorithms to minimize false positives in threat detection, reducing the impact on security teams and preventing unnecessary investigations into non-threatening incidents.
  • Advanced User-Friendly Interface:
  • Streamlined and intuitive user interface for the centralized dashboard, making it more accessible for security professionals with varying levels of expertise.
  • Greater Third-Party Integration:
  • Increased compatibility and integration capabilities with a broader range of third-party security tools
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Likelihood to Renew
Fortinet
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Microsoft
We are likely to renew our used of Microsoft defender XDR due to its comprehensive security features, integration capabilities, and the proactive approach to threat detection and response it enables. It’s often seen as a valuable asset in maintaining robust cybersecurity defenses. The automated responses aids the IT team in our business to respond to threats as soon as they appear.
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Usability
Fortinet
FortiAnalyzer is easy to deploy are ready to use right out of the box. The user interface is intuitive and the reporting engine is very customizable however most of the 'canned' reports are usable right away. It is easy to add firewalls under management and event correlation happens immediately. FortiAnalyzer is a great log aggregator for all of your firewalls and then upload meaningful data to a SEIM.
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Microsoft
integrated with windows OS, so pre installed and no mucking around afterwards
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Support Rating
Fortinet
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Microsoft
Their support throughout our onboarding of the product was fabulous. They not only took the time to carefully explain to teams not as well equipped with the lingo but explained to the tech team how to teach the other teams to be successful. They never once seemed impatient or annoyed with basic questions and didn’t pretend to know something when they needed to research an answer
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In-Person Training
Fortinet
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Microsoft
Good and hard to find someonme who can explain everything for you beside Microsoft they provide you everything you need.
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Online Training
Fortinet
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Microsoft
Microsoft Provides a good training for the Microsoft 365 Defender and has a good learning paths to learn and take the exams and get your Certifications.
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Implementation Rating
Fortinet
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Microsoft
seemless and almost transparent. can be deployed by script if needed so every endpoint on our system get's it. if you have intune it gets dumped on the the endpoint by policy so nothing escapes it
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Alternatives Considered
Fortinet
The cost of FortiAnalyzer is lower compared to other products, and the benefits it provides at this cost are notably superior. Given the presence of multiple FortiGate products in our network, its seamless integration enhances efficiency and usage, allowing us to maximize the utility of the product to a great extent.
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Microsoft
Our product in that area, for instance as a security platform and for us it is for the moment really bad point. We started to move in that direction that there is that disconnect from the client management. So if there is some action that needs to be executed detected by security team, there is not an easy way to make that available to the team that is responsible for managing the identities as users, as the devices
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Return on Investment
Fortinet
  • We are able to report to the management the real-time attacks on the network
  • User behavior analysis has become easy
  • Achieving a favorable return on investment (ROI) is easily attainable, given that the product cost is relatively moderate. Without the product, the amount of human work time required is significantly higher, further emphasizing the cost-effectiveness of its implementation.
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Microsoft
  • Security incident cannot be measured, once you down you down, hence the security applications like this is just a must have
  • The subscription model will be cheaper and can be a good point if you want to free resources within the IT Team
  • The SaaS model, if measured correctly can and will reduce long term cost in Infrastructure and Man Power
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ScreenShots

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