We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiSIEM and SolarWinds NPM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I believe one of the main advantages is Microsoft Sentinel's seamless integration with other Microsoft products."
"Sentinel pricing is good"
"The data connectors that Microsoft Sentinel provides are easy to integrate when we work with a Microsoft agent."
"It is able to connect to an ever-growing number of platforms and systems within the Microsoft ecosystem, such as Azure Active Directory and Microsoft 365 or Office 365, as well as to external services and systems that can be brought in and managed. We can manage on-premises infrastructure. We can manage not just the things that are running in Azure in the public cloud, but through Azure Arc and the hybrid capabilities, we can monitor on-premises servers and endpoints. We can monitor VMware infrastructure, for instance, running as part of a hybrid environment."
"There are some very powerful features to Sentinel, such as the integration of various connectors. We have a lot of departments that use both IaaS and SaaS services, including M365 as well as Azure services. The ability to leverage connectors into these environments allows for large-scale data injection."
"The pricing of the product is excellent."
"Native integration with Microsoft security products or other Microsoft software is also crucial. For example, we can integrate Sentinel with Office 365 with one click. Other integrations aren't as easy. Sometimes, we have to do it manually."
"The analytics has a lot of advantages because there are 300 default use cases for rules and we can modify them per our environment. We can create other rules as well. Analytics is a useful feature."
"This solution offers extensive customization options, making it possible to adapt it precisely to their requirements."
"FortiSIEM helped us discover all the threats at the time that were attacking the IT services of the company. We now have multiple-level authentication."
"We like the integration of all of these Fortinet platforms together. Everything is integrated well, and we are able to sell that as a service to our customers."
"It's easy to manage. There's a web interface and a command line, depending on what the user is comfortable with. There's a large knowledge base available, and the support is timely."
"We're able to get real-timec as well as our customer networks that we're monitoring at all times."
"It is used as an alerting platform."
"The solution is very stable. It's run for years without the need to do anything except, add new patches when they are available, which are always a good idea to install."
"Real-time monitoring makes life quite easy for me."
"SolarWinds is reasonably priced."
"The product covers our needs for the basic care and feeding of servers, whether they are physical or virtual."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the monitoring capabilities."
"The connectivity of the solution is very good."
"This has helped us to monitor the availability of our routers, switches, servers, and virtual environments."
"It combines and presents information from many different sources, giving a corporate-wide vision on a single pane of glass."
"SolarWinds' network and server application monitoring features are strong."
"It did a good job of the collection and then an investigation of the net flow of information for understanding the applications that were being used at certain locations."
"There is some relatively advanced knowledge that you have to have to properly leverage Sentinel's full capabilities. I'm thinking about things like the creation of workbooks, how you do threat-hunting, and the kinds of notifications you're getting... It takes time for people to ramp up on that and develop a familiarity or expertise with it."
"Only one thing is missing: NDR is not available out-of-the-box. The competitive cloud-native SIEM providers have the NDR component. Currently, Sentinel needs NDR to be powered from either Corelight or some other NDR provider."
"The built-in SOAR is not really good out-of-the-box. The SOAR relies on logic apps and you almost need to have some kind of developer background to be able to make these logic apps. Most security people cannot develop anything..."
"Azure Sentinel will be directly competing with tools such as Splunk or Qradar. These are very established kinds of a product that have been around for the last seven, eight years or more."
"Some of the data connectors are outdated, at least the ones that utilize Linux machines for log forwarding. I believe that Microsoft is already working on improving this."
"The solution could be more user-friendly; some query languages are required to operate it."
"For certain vendors, some of the data that Microsoft Sentinel captures is redacted due to privacy reasons."
"The learning curve could be improved. I am still learning it. We were able to implement the basic features to get them up and running, but there are still so many things that I don't know about all its features. They have a lot of features that we have not been able to use or apply. If they could work on reducing the solution's learning curve, that would be good. While there is a training course held by Microsoft to learn more about this solution, there is a cost associated with it."
"I would like to see easier implementation in the future."
"Patching is not great - we're not getting the support we'd expect."
"The biggest thing that could be better is a quicker response to support cases."
"There could be more AI features included in the product."
"Their product support, in general, is not that great. The product support is in the same ecosystem. Their support is improving but it's not that great.vvv"
"The graphs on the user interface could be improved as we often experience glitches."
"The log collection and configuration management are not great."
"The performance can be improved. Sometimes it takes a long time to fetch data."
"It is difficult for stakeholders to translate technical requirements, which results in difficulties selecting a platform or implementing a solution."
"The console could be more user-friendly. It would be better if SolarWinds updated the user interface."
"Sometimes there are issues when upgrading to a new version of the product."
"It would be nice if SolarWinds could have a polling engine on the site that would collect the reporting and then manage everything itself."
"The scalability can be better."
"Fortigate firewalls are one example of a product that we are unable to monitor properly via SolarWinds NPM."
"The solution could improve in many areas, such as the marketing and description of the products, providing areas of improvement, cloud capabilities, and being able to be more streamlined with the current integration points with other applications."
"A feature I would ask for is for them to have this solution available for Linux systems instead of Windows."
Fortinet FortiSIEM is ranked 9th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 65 reviews while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 reviews. Fortinet FortiSIEM is rated 7.6, while SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiSIEM writes "It's cheaper than other solutions with the same features but lacks integration with many third-party vendors". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". Fortinet FortiSIEM is most compared with IBM Security QRadar, Splunk Enterprise Security, Wazuh, LogRhythm SIEM and ThousandEyes, whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and Entuity. See our Fortinet FortiSIEM vs. SolarWinds NPM report.
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