We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiAnalyzer and Security Onion 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 anti-virus protection it offers our clients is solid."
"The report templates are valuable. It works very well, and integrations also work well."
"It is very stable and reliable."
"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 most valuable feature is the capability to gather logs and generate reports."
"Overall we are satisfied with all the features the solution provides."
"Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is a complete package for managing our equipment."
"It gives us reporting features, which are helpful in the case of troubleshooting and audit purposes."
"We use Security Onion for internal vulnerability assessment."
"Security Onion is the most mature solution in the market."
"The most valuable feature of Security Onion for security monitoring is its ability to find infected ports."
"In future releases, we'd like to see more granular reporting. The reports on offer right now are pretty short."
"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."
"One thing we struggled with FortiAnalyzer was integration with SIEM. We also had issues with the new threats and APTs. There were false positives, so we needed to have some ratings related to false positives."
"The deployment is complex and has room for improvement."
"They could improve the user interface a bit."
"The user interface could be a bit more user-friendly."
"When somebody is new to the system they find it difficult to perform certain operations, like backups, and to see where the reports are."
"The solution is expensive."
"The initial setup of the solution is a little bit difficult."
"The product is not easy to learn."
"Security Onion's user interface could be improved."
Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is ranked 8th in Log Management with 81 reviews while Security Onion is ranked 37th in Log Management with 3 reviews. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is rated 8.0, while Security Onion is rated 7.6. 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 Security Onion writes "A mature and affordable solution that is easy to install and easy to update". Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Graylog, Grafana Loki and LogRhythm SIEM, whereas Security Onion is most compared with Wazuh, Elastic Stack, TheHive, Splunk Enterprise Security and Nagios Log Server. See our Fortinet FortiAnalyzer vs. Security Onion report.
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