FortiAnalyzer vs. FortiSIEM

FortiAnalyzer is well-suited for deployment in large organizations characterized by substantial traffic volumes and extensive user bases, facilitating the acquisition of detailed logs and comprehensive dashboards. Nevertheless, in my opinion, its utility may be comparatively limited for smaller organizations, where the firewall alone can provide a sufficient overview of the network traffic.

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

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• 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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• 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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• 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.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

FortiAnalyzer is significantly cheaper and a better value for the money especially if you have FortiGate firewalls in the datacenter or in the cloud. FortiAnalyzer manages physical, virtual, and cloud firewalls in a single pane of glass providing a wholistic enterprise view of your security landscape. Compliance reporting comes built-in with the most popular reports ready at a click of a button. FortiAnalyzer is a great aggregation point before uploading logs to a SEIM / SOC tool.

Incentivized

• we were able to retire 3 legacy security tools in favor of FortiAnalyzer
• Automate 155 security tasks and reporting
• one click compliance reporting for PCI-DSS
• Enterprise security governance
• Visualize the security landscape
• Eliminate and or prune unnecessary rules
• Tune overly permissive rules for tighter security

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• 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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