FortiAnalyzer vs. Splunk User Behavior Analytics (UBA)

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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Splunk User Behavior Analytics application is necessary when any company wants to capture the threat based on user behavior instead of just counting the number of occurrences of particular event. With Splunk UBA, we can analyse number of anomalies captured and which in turn creating threats which are nearly true positive.

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• Custom dashboard
• VPN traffic monitoring
• Internet traffic monitoring
• Users behavior analysis
• Integrate well with the FortiGate firewall
• Log analysis

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• Monitor and troubleshoot for any system errors.
• Get the insights on application data sets and do some predictive analysis.

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• 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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• Performance-wise, it can be improved. Queries take a long time.
• Dataset exploration - More data visualization charts can be added.

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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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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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Easier we were using Splunk Enterprise on heavy forwarder on which all the add-on were installed and were using Splunk Cloud with respect to search head and indexers stack. And with Splunk Enterprise Security premium app, we were relying on correlation rules which were throwing more number of false positive but after implementing Splunk UBA, we are now getting real-time true positive threat or incidents.

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• 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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• Fewer team members to work on real threats.
• Less time required to deal with real incidents.
• Easy to implement across the network.

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