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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    FortiSIEM

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AFortinet offers security information and event management via FortiSIEM, their product line featuring asset discovery and rapid assessment for location of threat and their remediation.N/A

    Icinga

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AIcinga is an open source network monitoring platform. It includes automation, modularized integration packages, and prebuilt alerts and reporting capabilities.N/A
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    FortiSIEMIcinga
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    FortiSIEMIcinga
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    FortiSIEMIcinga
    Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
    Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of FortiSIEM and Icinga
    Feature
    FortiSIEM
    5.3
    1 Ratings
    40% below category average
    Icinga
    -
    Ratings
    Centralized event and log data collection6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Correlation7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event and log normalization/management6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deployment flexibility3.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom dashboards and workspaces4.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Host and network-based intrusion detection6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    FortiSIEMIcinga
    Small Businesses
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    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Security QRadar SIEM
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Nagios Core
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    Score8 out of 10
    HPE OneView
    Score6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    FortiSIEMIcinga
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    FortiSIEMIcinga
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Fortinet
    If budget is an issue then Fortisiem fits well, as it's more than a typical SIEM solution. It can integrate with environmental monitoring systems, UPS HVAC etc. It can be used as the CMDB solution etc. If fine-tuned and looked after it can actually bring a lot of value for less.
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    Icinga GmbH
    Icinga is a world-class monitoring system. It can be used for most general monitoring situations. It is not a silver bullet, however, and there are instances where domain-specific monitoring systems are necessary. However, the output from those monitoring systems can be funneled into Icinga as a central monitoring and alerting system.
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    Pros
    Fortinet
    • Log aggregation and analytics
    • CMDB
    • Device inventory and remote management .
    • It can be used by Managed Security Providers who have multiple customers as it offers multi organization support .
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    Icinga GmbH
    • Wealth of community-developed plugins.
    • Stable codebase.
    • Icinga 2 supports distributed monitoring.
    • Very performant, can support tens of thousands of checks per server.
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    Cons
    Fortinet
    • Non-intuitive/unattractive user interface
    • Too many features that will usually remain unused
    • Very crowded (too many icons) portal
    • The reporting feature is confusing, e.g. you have to click on the "refresh" button to get the result of your inquiry. The report generation process can be much easier, as the user interaction is not pleasant.
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    Icinga GmbH
    • High learning curve, setting up Icinga from scratch can be a bit of a challenge starting out.
    • If the io2db process fails you UI stops updating, which can be very frustrating.
    • There is no simple mechanism for adding new hosts and services through the web UI, it's all very config-file based.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Fortinet
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    Icinga GmbH
    Icinga is a solid solution which does everything it promises. It is backwards compatible with most Nagios instances, making the transition very easy. Once you get the hang of installing new plugins and editing configuration files expanding its monitoring capabilities are easy.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Fortinet
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    Icinga GmbH
    Icinga is better than Nagios because of its nicer user interface. New Relic can monitor CPU/memory and disk usage, but it's more of a performance and application troubleshooting tool rather than monitoring
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    Return on Investment
    Fortinet
    • Other SIEM solutions were cost prohibitive at the time of purchase (2016).
    • Just like any other SIEM, it helped draw a better picture of our current security posture.
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    Icinga GmbH
    • With one check you know which applications are faulty e.g. after an upgrade. Which is big time saver
    • You easily detect outages ion the applications so that your customer ideally does not even realize there was an outage.
    • Detect if the environment does deliver the same result as in the same time as before to detect shortages.
    • Additional information when debugging. Saved us several hours where we could simply point to a database which was slow.
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