We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiAnalyzer and NetWitness Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Log Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The log events are quite useful for us."
"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."
"The user interface is good and it is quite easy to use."
"The feature I find most useful is the handy dashboard."
"FortiAnalyzer helps us discover what's happening on the network."
"There are a lot of monitoring features available."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Logging is the best feature."
"Their technical support responds quickly and are knowledgable."
"Setting up NetWitness is straightforward. There are multiple connectors, including standard and specialized connectors. One purpose of the connectors is the enhanced capability integrate the custom applications. NetWitness comes with E6 appliances and application images that we use for the initial configurations and for the OS stack information. From there, you can consider the correlation rules, integrate the different log sources, and easily create correlation rules and backlog reports."
"Offers a good wireless feature."
"The most valuable features are the threat prediction and network forensics."
"The most valuable features are the packet decoder, log decoder, and concentrator."
"The product's initial setup phase was not at all difficult."
"Incident management is its most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is the correlation. It can report in real-time and monitor the management."
"Their in-house technical support is extremely slow to respond. We have our own in-house team to manage issues so clients don't have to wait over two weeks for a response to issues."
"The interface or GUI does not work properly on Microsoft Edge. The behavior or the view is different on Microsoft Edge versus on Chrome or Firefox. When some buttons do not work, I am forced to switch to Firefox."
"From my point of view, at this time, the solution isn't lacking any features or functionalities."
"The solution costs too much."
"The support could be better for Fortinet FortiAnalyzer here in Mexico."
"The integration with other vendors for log collection could be enhanced."
"Pricing-wise, it not affordable for the normal customer. Most of the people want to see different types of reporting, but FortiAnalyzer's fee is a little bit difficult."
"It would be good if the product could provide data about the websites users visit."
"The initial setup was complex because it takes a lot of time to complete the implementation."
"Its technical support could be better."
"I believe that integrating the solution with other products such as Oracle would be beneficial."
"Health monitoring of the event sources and devices."
"Technical support could be improved."
"An area for improvement would be better automation and more inbuilt use cases."
"The product's licensing models are complex to understand. This particular area needs improvement."
"The documentation is not as structured as I would like, personally, and I think that it can be improved and made much more user-friendly."
Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is ranked 8th in Log Management with 81 reviews while NetWitness Platform is ranked 19th in Log Management with 36 reviews. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is rated 8.0, while NetWitness Platform is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer writes "We can automate event-based handling solutions, is stable, and is great for heavy traffic". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetWitness Platform writes "Can find out if there is lateral movement, but integration and workflow need improvement". Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Graylog, Grafana Loki and LogRhythm SIEM, whereas NetWitness Platform is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, RSA enVision, IBM Security QRadar, Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Microsoft Sentinel. See our Fortinet FortiAnalyzer vs. NetWitness Platform report.
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