We performed a comparison between Elastic Security and Fortinet FortiAnalyzer based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Elastic Security is commended for its adaptability, extensive customization options, and seamless integration with the ELK Stack. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer features exceptional log collection capabilities and customizable reporting. Elastic Security could improve by reducing resource usage, automating threat response, and simplifying the user experience. FortiAnalyzer enables users to centrally manage and analyze logs in real time. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer could simplify its reporting module and cloud storage capabilities.
Service and Support: Some Elastic Security users found their support helpful, while others experienced difficulties and delays. Some Fortinet customers were dissatisfied with support, but others said it was helpful and responsive.
Ease of Deployment: Elastic Security generally has a straightforward setup but may require trained specialists. FortiAnalyzer's initial setup is uncomplicated and manageable, typically taking approximately 30 minutes to a few hours. Some IT knowledge may be required.
Pricing: Elastic Security is considered affordable and cost-effective, with pricing based on the size of the monitored environment. While FortiAnalyzer isn't the most expensive option, users say the pricing could be more competitive. FortiAnalyzer's cost depends on the storage requirements, and many customers consider it reasonable.
ROI: Elastic Security has shown mixed results in terms of ROI, with some users expressing concerns about the quality of their premium support. FortiAnalyzer helps customers by providing insight into network traffic and speeding up issue resolution.
"The product has huge integration varieties available."
"Elastic Security is very customizable, and the dashboards are very easy to build."
"The feature that we have found the most valuable is scalability."
"The solution is compatible with the cloud-native environment and they can adapt to it faster."
"The solution is quite stable. The performance has been good."
"It's very stable and reliable."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature is the speed, as it responds in a very short time."
"I have found incident management and also identifying new threats, analyzing the network traffic, and finding out the issues with the network traffic such as any security issues to be valuable. I also like the compliance reports."
"What I like the most is the monitoring system."
"Report generation is very easy"
"It's a very stable product."
"FortiAnalyzer's reporting features like graphs, threat intelligence, and vulnerabilities analysis are helpful. Fortinet knows how to do reporting. You can customize your reports to show exactly what you want to analyze. It's user-friendly and doesn't require a lot of effort."
"FortiAnalyzer has a user-friendly interface with a quick response and good analytics. It's very secure because it's taking the log from the devices on a secure channel, so there is no problem with that in your network."
"The analyzer is the most valuable feature."
"Log collection is the most valuable. The UI looks great. It has a very good look and feel. We don't have the need to use solid state drives. We use mechanic drives, and we don't see any performance issues, so basically, it is doing fine."
"Its documentation should be a bit better. I have to spend at least a couple of hours to find the solution for a simple thing. When we buy Elastic, training is not included for free with Elastic. We have to pay extra for the training. They should include training in the price."
"The solution needs to be more reactive to investigations. We need to be able to detect and prevent any attacks before it can damage our infrastructure. Currently, this solution doesn't offer that."
"The tool needs to integrate with legacy servers. Big companies can have legacy servers that may not always be updated."
"The process of designing dashboards is a little cumbersome in Kibana. Unless you are an expert, you will not be able to use it. The process should be pretty straightforward. The authentication feature is what we are looking for. We would love to have a central authentication system in the open-source edition without the need for a license or an enterprise license. If they can give at least a simple authentication system within a company. In a large organization, authentication is very essential for security because logs can contain a lot of confidential data. Therefore, an authentication feature for who accesses it should be there."
"With Elastic, you have to build the use cases for the specific requirement. Other products have a simple integration and more use cases to integrate out-of-the-box solutions for SIEM."
"There is an area of improvement in the Logs list. The load list may need to be paginated as there are limits."
"The setup process is complex. You need a solid working knowledge of networking, operating systems, and a little programming."
"We'd like to see some more artificial intelligence capabilities."
"The reports are good, but they are over-summarized."
"Fortinet FortiAnalyzer should come bundled with other Fortinet solutions. Additionally, the performance and updates could improve. They need to test their updates better so there are not as many bugs."
"If Fortinet could introduce some firewalling or maybe FortiAnalyzer on the cloud, that would be interesting because I've never seen it on a cloud."
"The product should be integrated with other third-party solutions for context exchange."
"It should have customized reports as well. While it currently has them, you need to write a script which is not straightforward."
"Fortinet FortiAnalyzer needs to have more out-of-the-box connectors for integration with other solutions."
"Fortinet FortiAnalyzer can improve by introducing integration with other Fortinet solutions with automation with one interface would be helpful."
"The FortiAnalyzer is not good at managing multi-version environments. If all your FortiGate are at different versions in the field, that's difficult. The one thing we didn't like is the fact you have to have 100% of your environment at the same release, which is not pleasant, to have it fully functional. You can have a different release, but to have it fully functional 100% of your environment has to be the same release."
Elastic Security is ranked 5th in Log Management with 59 reviews while Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is ranked 8th in Log Management with 85 reviews. Elastic Security is rated 7.6, while Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Elastic Security writes "A stable and scalable tool that provides visibility along with the consolidation of logs to its users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer writes "We can automate event-based handling solutions, is stable, and is great for heavy traffic". Elastic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM Security QRadar and ArcSight Logger, whereas Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Graylog, Grafana Loki and syslog-ng. See our Elastic Security vs. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer report.
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