Fortinet FortiSIEM vs vRealize Network Insight comparison

Fortinet FortiSIEM

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Fortinet FortiSIEM

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiSIEM and vRealize Network Insight 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.

To learn more, read our detailed Fortinet FortiSIEM vs. vRealize Network Insight Report (Updated: May 2020).

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Fortinet FortiSIEM vs. vRealize Network Insight

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Categories and Ranking

Fortinet FortiSIEM

Average Rating

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (10th)

vRealize Network Insight

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (22nd), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (23rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2024, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of Fortinet FortiSIEM is 4.0%, up from 3.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of vRealize Network Insight is 0.1%, down from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Unique Categories:

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Network Monitoring Software

1.1%

IT Infrastructure Monitoring

0.7%

Featured Reviews

reviewer1905006

Senior Product Manager at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

Jul 4, 2022

Simple implementation, good performance, but scalability lacking

I am using Fortinet FortiSIEM to correlate events in our enterprise Fortinet FortiSIEM has helped our organization by providing us with business monitoring. The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiSIEM is the correlation of many events. Fortinet FortiSIEM could improve to extend to several…

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Paul Bryant

Private Consultant at Freelance

Mar 9, 2023

Provides deep analytical insights and makes migrations efficient with dependency mapping

I'm a consultant. I'm consulting and setting it up for my clients. I don't have one running in my environment. Its use cases include: Deeper analytical insights into network traffic. Ability to troubleshoot network performance issues within the environment. NSXT, micro-segmentation…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It's a very nice solution to work with."

"The stability is very reliable. It offers very good performance."

"Real-time monitoring makes life quite easy for me."

"The Threat Hunting feature provides complete traffic analysis."

"We have many application systems, and I can set up Fortinet FortiSIEM for users to monitor their systems."

"The ability to write my own parsers for the devices that are not supported by Fortinet is the most valuable feature."

"FortiSIEM's log correlation is good."

"The product's initial setup phase was easy."

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"It is user-friendly. It's pretty simple to deploy and to run. It gives you pretty easy-to-understand reports, very graphically intense, so you can visualize what's going on in your network."

"It has really tightened down the security. That was something that we were lacking. It has also given us deep visibility into our network. We can really get down and see all of the traffic within the data center, between the VMs, between the applications, database servers, other application servers, web servers. We can identify everything that is communicating, and we can see it all on one product."

"It gives the visibility that was either broken or there in pieces only. This solution provides a unified view of the whole system, back and forth. It has helped to reduce time to value, increase performance, more easily manage networks, and provide deep visibility."

"With this product, we can precisely identify communication patterns between virtual machines within our data center, whether it's east-east or east-west communication."

"It allows us to go from virtual through NSX, up to the core, and see all of that in one pane of glass, it's pretty easy."

"vRNI can trace the flow of each and every packet and it is easy for us to troubleshoot all the issues that we do have with the networking. We can trace down the packet to a point where it has been dropped."

"The tool's ease of configuration and use and the availability of information and artifacts through professional services and the web are key factors that customers find valuable."

"I like being able to see the flows coming in and out of the product. In terms of monitoring network flows, we use it to verify whether or not different servers/applications should be communicating with each other."

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Cons

"The biggest thing that could be better is a quicker response to support cases."

"Its training can be improved. Its price also needs to be improved."

"When compared with some competitors, in terms of performance, the CPU and RAM requirements and the capability of coordination with development all need some improvement."

"I would like to see easier implementation in the future."

"When our team tried configuring logs for Microsoft SQL, it did not work."

"Our customers are noticing configuration available in the GUI interface and I think that they should be equal."

"Sometimes, if there are changes made by a user on a database server, it can be difficult to get that information on the fly. I would like to see a situation where once I specify a user with the database server I need, and with the changes they have performed on that, I don't need to continue my search pattern to drill down just to get the information."

"Fortinet FortiSIEM needs to provide better API integrations to users."

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"Support could be much better."

"I would like to see application identification. That would be cool."

"There are some random glitches in the Web UI, but they are usually pretty cosmetic in nature. I don't really seem to use any browser other than Chrome with it. I also get some weird errors from time to time on the hardware NetFlow Collectors, where it doesn't sync data."

"The only reason I would not give it a nine or a 10 is for cost reasons. It seems to be one of those things that really belongs as part of the product inherently and not as an add-on. That would be my only concern."

"While it's not exactly a feature, what normally happens when we are trying to look at the VM flow portion is - although Network Insight does have options to integrate a few physical switches into it - we can't really get an end-to-end flow of the network. We might be using a few switches that are not supported by Network Insight. That is where they can improve, in the support for more physical switches and network devices."

"There's enough information there, especially in the visualizations, but I would love to see this in a kiosk mode, where I could have a dashboard for interested stakeholders to see and appreciate what's going on. Then, moving on to a more practical level for our Help Desk, our operations team could benefit by seeing, in real-time, a visual view of the network."

"In a very general way, I would like to see an improvement in interoperability with third-party product, from other vendors."

"I want to be able to monitor a network flow that is approximately two weeks back, but I haven't found an easy way to do this."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price is competitive."

"Pricing is determined based on the customer's budget."

"The price of Fortinet FortiSIEM is a lot less when compared to other solutions."

"Fortinet FortiSIEM is very cost-efficient compared to other SIEM solutions."

"The solution is available for both, perpetual and subscription licenses."

"We pay for a license for FortiSIEM. We pay for the license and renewal."

"Pricing is acceptable for more than 90% of our customers, as they normally get discounts."

"Fortinet FortiSIEM is cheaper compared to other products."

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"It's a little expensive, but for what you're getting out of the product, you often see the trade-off. It depends on the type of licensing you have. It might be a little too pricey for some."

"It has brought more money into our company."

"Cost always has room for improvement, you could always make it cheaper. But I think it's a good value for what you pay for it."

"It reduces costs. It takes something that may be challenging and makes it more usable and visual by being able to bring in tools, seeing what their impact is, such as microsegmentation and application rationalization, and seeing it quickly."

"The solution has helped us to reduce time, increase performance, reduce costs, and even easily manage networks. We are probably seeing 10 to 20 percent labor savings because we are able to be very specific and focused on what we want to do. It ends up saving the customer money and makes us be more efficient on our cost deliveries."

"They should include the product in NSX because it's important to have it for deployment."

"It's an expensive product because we have a lot of nodes."

"We have spent less time investigating network flows, so it is absolutely cost-effective."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

16%

Government

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

13%

Government

11%

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Company Size

By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Fortinet FortiSIEM?

Fortinet FortiSIEM needs to provide better API integrations to users.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Fortinet FortiSIEM?

I don't have the price list of any of the competitors of Fortinet FortiSIEM. I work with the technical part of the tool. There is a need to make yearly payments towards the licensing charges attach...

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What needs improvement with Fortinet FortiSIEM?

Fortinet FortiSIEM is a better solution than other products. As a SIEM solution, it can meet all the requirements of customers. The product already offers good integration capabilities with multipl...

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What do you like most about vRealize Network Insight?

The tool's ease of configuration and use and the availability of information and artifacts through professional services and the web are key factors that customers find valuable.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for vRealize Network Insight?

I rate vRealize Network Insight's pricing a seven point five out of ten.

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What needs improvement with vRealize Network Insight?

The IT infrastructure industry is expected to evolve towards a hybrid cloud model in the next five to ten years. In this model, most of the customer's resources reside on-premise within a private c...

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Also Known As

FortiSIEM, AccelOps

Arkin

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Fortinet

VMware

Overview

FortiSIEM (formerly AccelOps 4) provides an actionable security intelligence platform to monitor security, performance and compliance through a single pane of glass.

Companies around the world use FortiSIEM for the following use cases:

Threat management and intelligence that provide situational awareness and anomaly detection
Alleviating compliance mandate concerns for PCI, HIPAA and SOX
Managing “alert overload”
Handling the “too many tools” reporting issue
Addressing the MSPs/MSSPs pain of meeting service level agreements

VMware vRealize Network Insight delivers intelligent operations for software-defined networking and security. It helps customers build an optimized, highly-available and secure network infrastructure across multi-cloud environments. It accelerates micro-segmentation planning and deployment, enables visibility across virtual and physical networks and provides operational views to manage and scale VMware NSX deployments.

Sample Customers

FortiSIEM has hundreds of customers worldwide in markets including managed services, technology, financial services, healthcare, and government. Customers include Aruba Networks, Compushare, Port of San Diego, Cleveland Indians, Infoblox, Healthways, and Referentia.

NTTi3, VCIX-NV, VMware Networking and Security Business Unit, Illumio, CompuNet

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