We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiSOAR and Splunk SOAR based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Mainly, this is a cloud-native product. So, there are zero concerns about managing the whole infrastructure on-premises."
"One of the most valuable features is that it creates a kind of a single pane of glass for organizations that already use Microsoft software. So, when they have things like Microsoft 365, it is very easy for them to kind of plug in or enroll those endpoints into the Azure Sentinel service."
"It's pretty powerful and its performance is pretty good."
"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."
"We are able to deploy within half an hour and we only require one person to complete the implementation."
"It has basic out-of-the-box integrations with multiple log sources."
"The most valuable feature is the onboarding of the workloads. You can see all that has been onboarded in your account on the dashboards."
"The most valuable feature is the UEBA. It's very easy for a security operations analyst. It has a one-touch analysis where you can search for a particular entity, and you can get a complete overview of that entity or user."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiSOAR is the number of available connectors and the simplicity to start to automate."
"It is a scalable solution...The implementation phase of the product was not tough or difficult."
"The product can be automated for network security purposes. The solution offers a great security automation response."
"The reputation of the brand is very good."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiSOAR is the playbook, which has to be defined to apply the policies."
"It's great that the solution is integrated with FortiAnalyzer."
"The solution is easy to implement and includes 450 built-in connectors."
"The good news is that FortiSOAR is not hard to maintain. If you prepared well and deployed strong initially, then maintenance will take half an hour every other week, not more than that. A single person can do it."
"So far, the interface is very easy to use."
"Splunk SOAR's quick response to incidents is the most valuable part."
"The ability to automate Splunk SOAR and customize the playbook use cases is the most valuable feature and is very exciting for me."
"It helps increase efficiency and productivity."
"The most valuable feature of Splunk SOAR that stands out is it has a great SOAR. The automation and orchestration module is highly mature. A lot of use cases are on user entity and behavioral analytics (UEBA), which is artificial intelligence and machine learning-based (AIML)."
"The most valuable feature of Splunk SOAR is the automated playbooks, which saves analysts time."
"When you design a playbook, you can integrate multiple log sources and define rules... After that, the platform automatically compiles all these activities and, based on the results, the analyst only has to indicate whether the result is a true or false positive. That reduces the time and effort involved."
"It's pretty easy when it comes to setting up assets. If you want to fetch emails or call a REST API, you can set up an asset and grab that information."
"The following would be a challenge for any product in the market, but we have some in-house apps in our environment... our apps were built with different parameters and the APIs for them are not present in Sentinel. We are working with Microsoft to build those custom APIs that we require. That is currently in progress."
"The on-prem log sources still require a lot of development."
"The playbook is a bit difficult and could be improved."
"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."
"At the network level, there is a limitation in integrating some of the switches or routers with Microsoft Sentinel. Currently, SPAN traffic monitoring is not available in Microsoft Sentinel. I have heard that it is available in Defender for Identity, which is a different product. It would be good if LAN traffic monitoring or SPAN traffic monitoring is available in Microsoft Sentinel. It would add a lot of value. It is available in some of the competitor products in the market."
"Multi-tenancy, in my opinion, needs to be improved. I believe it can do better as a managed service provider."
"Its documentation is not so simple. It is easy for somebody who is Microsoft certified or more closely attached to Microsoft solutions. It is not easy for those who are working on open-source platforms. There isn't a central point where everything is documented, and there is no specific training or certification."
"For certain vendors, some of the data that Microsoft Sentinel captures is redacted due to privacy reasons."
"I don't currently see where the solution is lacking features. For us and for our clients it works very well and we're pleased with it."
"The solution doesn't connect well with the network devices."
"The technology and integrations are important so should continue to be enhanced."
"The UI design of the solution needs to be changed since it can get difficult for a newbie to operate."
"Fortinet's tech support overall is not great when they are at their best."
"I have found that Fortinet FortiSOAR needs a lot of improvement. The Orchestration needs to be improved."
"Fortinet FortiSOAR's dashboard is not easy to understand."
"Fortinet FortiSOAR should add more documentation for some use cases."
"The pricing could be a bit more reasonable. It would be great if it were feasible for smaller organizations."
"Splunk's support for integration is subpar and has room for improvement."
"The number of playbooks on offer should be increased."
"We have playbooks written to extract these events and put them into the workflow since it wasn't structured as expected. It was a miss for us. We couldn't figure out why it broke or what actually happened there. It was something in this feed with legitimate and security events, so we tried to understand the names and what we would call them."
"It could be easier to implement."
"Suppose I am initially granted user rights or analyst rights, but later on, I also get admin rights. SOAR is unable to amend the limitations of my role. I raised a support ticket with Splunk about this. They said it's a bug in their 5.3.5 version. To fix this, I had to reinstall the entire platform from scratch.."
"The cost of Splunk SOAR has room for improvement."
"We've run into a few minor issues. Some of the playbook writing is a bit complicated. We've had a few hiccups with the source control. We'd really like to use GitHub deployment keys for a dedicated account. We haven't been able to do that. I think those are some of the major ones."
Fortinet FortiSOAR is ranked 10th in Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) with 11 reviews while Splunk SOAR is ranked 3rd in Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) with 30 reviews. Fortinet FortiSOAR is rated 7.4, while Splunk SOAR is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiSOAR writes "A stable solution that has a number of available connectors and is simple to automate". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Splunk SOAR writes "Takes most of the work away, but the time they take to implement new features is a little bit of concern". Fortinet FortiSOAR is most compared with Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR, Swimlane, ServiceNow Security Operations, Cisco SecureX and D3 Security, whereas Splunk SOAR is most compared with Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR, Cortex XSIAM, ServiceNow Security Operations, Torq and Cisco SecureX. See our Fortinet FortiSOAR vs. Splunk SOAR report.
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