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FortiSIEM

Score7.6 out of 10

12 Reviews and Ratings

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What is FortiSIEM?

Fortinet offers security information and event management via FortiSIEM, their product line featuring asset discovery and rapid assessment for location of threat and their remediation.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features FortiSIEM has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 12 ratings of FortiSIEM's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Correlation

    Correlation of logs and events to pinpoint significant threats

    Category average: 8.4

  • Centralized event and log data collection

    Effectiveness of real-time centralized event and log data collection

    Category average: 8.5

  • Event and log normalization/management

    Ability to normalize event syntax so that logs can be compared and are machine-understandable

    Category average: 8.6

Areas for Improvement

  • Host and network-based intrusion detection

    Ability to detect both endpoint intrusion and network ingress detection

    Category average: 8.1

  • Custom dashboards and workspaces

    dashboards that can be customized to meet the needs of specific groups

    Category average: 8.3

  • Deployment flexibility

    Ability to tune system to maximize threat detection and minimize false positives

    Category average: 7.3

Reviews

What users are saying about FortiSIEM.
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To FortiSIEM or Not

Incentivized
Eric V. ZarghamiView profile
Deputy CIO in Information Technology at Elizabeth City State University (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • 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 .

Cons

  • 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.

Return on Investment

  • 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.

Other Software Used

Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series, Fischer Identity as a Service, BlueCat Address Manager