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Fortinet FortiSIEM vs USM Anywhere comparison

Fortinet and LevelBlue are both solutions in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category. Fortinet is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.1, while LevelBlue is ranked #31 with an average rating of 7.3. Fortinet holds a 3.3% mindshare in SIEM, compared to LevelBlue’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 82% of Fortinet users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of LevelBlue users who would recommend it.
Fortinet FortiSIEM
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82% willing to recommend
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92% willing to recommend
 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

USM Anywhere and Fortinet FortiSIEM are both popular solutions in the SIEM market. Based on user reviews, Fortinet FortiSIEM seems to have the upper hand due to its robust features that justify its higher cost.

Features: USM Anywhere users value the product's threat detection, compliance capabilities, and ease of use. Fortinet FortiSIEM stands out with its scalability, advanced analytics, and comprehensive monitoring tools.

Room for Improvement: USM Anywhere could benefit from better performance, more frequent updates, and improved reporting. Fortinet FortiSIEM users desire an enhanced alerting system, more intuitive navigation, and simplified administration.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: USM Anywhere is praised for its straightforward deployment process and responsive customer service. Fortinet FortiSIEM, while more complex to deploy, provides excellent customer support to ease the process.

Pricing and ROI: USM Anywhere is seen as more cost-effective with a quicker ROI. Fortinet FortiSIEM, despite higher initial setup costs, delivers significant long-term value through its extensive feature set.

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Categories and Ranking

Fortinet FortiSIEM
Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
7th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
74
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
USM Anywhere
Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
31st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
115
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (46th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (52nd), Compliance Management (13th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of Fortinet FortiSIEM is 3.3%, up from 3.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of USM Anywhere is 0.9%, down from 1.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
 

Featured Reviews

Oliver Jackson - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems monitoring enhanced by firewall and intrusion detection features
My primary use case for Fortinet FortiSIEM is systems monitoring and alerting. I use it for standard functions like log monitoring, incident detection, and notification.  My customers are mostly medium-sized enterprises ranging from engineering companies, mining companies, independent schools, and…
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Kris Nawani - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers complete coverage without the need to install additional software
USM Anywhere is used for threat detection and investigation. It provides a solution with built-in threat intelligence and various other investigation tools The solution offers complete coverage without the need to install additional software, as it is maintained by the vendor. It helps in saving…
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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

"We have found the most important features in Fortinet FortiSIEM to be the correlation, file utility check, latest file, and hash changes. These features are important for us."
"Fortinet FortiSIEM needs to provide better API integrations to users."
"FortiSIEM provides a single PIN to monitor SOC and NOC. It's a nice tool for integration and monitoring. It provides multiple categories for monitoring based on security designations like low, medium, and high."
"The Threat Hunting feature provides complete traffic analysis."
"The seamless integration with FortiGate is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiSIEM is the user and entity behave as analytics(UEBA). This feature mixes your data and provides useful information based on the behavior of the targeted."
"I like FortiSIEM because it integrates natively with our other Fortinet solutions and the Fortinet Fabric, but it also integrates with Cisco, Palo Alto and other security fabrics."
"Our customer did not have security monitoring in the first place. With this solution, it provided security posture management and visibility about the security landscape and threats that they had."
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"Every activity on the firewall is recorded, and notifications are sent with this solution."
"The ease of implementation is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is vulnerability management because it gives you insight into your environment to know what systems need to be updated or patched."
"AlienVault provides a checklist answer when using SIEM."
"Vulnerability scanning helped out shortcomings of what was not patched in the past and what needed to be patched. This assisted with fine tuning the environment for compliance."
"It brought our logs into one place for review and set up alarms based on changes we were missing due to lack of having one place for everything to go."
"The other big selling feature for us was its integration capabilities with all the other security-based products."
"Our main focus was intrusion detection, alerts, and correlation. It's easy to use AlienVault and integrate it with other alert tools because it includes lots of connectors. Either the tool is already there, or AlienVault will write an API for us if they don't have a connector for the solution that is providing the logs."
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Cons

"The deployment of the platform took some time to set up and configure."
"Fortinet FortiSIEM should broaden its remediation part to include more features for incident management. Currently, to manage repetitive incidents or for remediation, I need to use a separate software called FortiSOAR."
"The built-in APIs in Fortinet FortiSIEM are somewhat lacking and could be improved for better integration with external ITSM products."
"Our team tried configuring MS SQL database logs with Fortinet FortiSIEM, but it did not work for some time."
"Fortinet FortiSIEM could improve to extend to several locations or sites."
"Patching is not great - we're not getting the support we'd expect."
"The product does not have Security Orchestration and Automation Response, I would recommend adding this feature."
"The dashboards need to be improved. It gives you so much detail, but sometimes too much detail, especially to an executive, it's too much."
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"I feel that some areas of improvement would be vulnerability scanning. We use a separate product that seems to do a much better job."
"The solution is a bit complicated. It could be simplified quite a bit."
"There is room for improvement in Log parsing."
"It would be hard for any legitimate MSSP to use it."
"The GUI needs to improve because it's not user-friendly."
"Maybe logs are the problem, as the database query is too slow. If you want to search something, you need time to find it."
"I'd like to see a dashboard that's a little more descriptive."
"Support can be slow at times, but the quality is high. Posted knowledge base articles could use improvement."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Fortinet's products are not expensive, it is less than the competition."
"They have a yearly subscription."
"The tool is really expensive. For what the tool does for our team, the price is fair."
"There is a need to make yearly payments towards the licensing charges attached to the product. The free version license of the product is available for two months."
"This is probably more on the lower cost end of the spectrum compared to competing products. Fortinet's license model is based on events per second, which makes sense, but that's not typical. It makes it very hard to calculate what your costs are going to be as you scale the platform because some log sources, such as firewall logs, are very noisy, and there are lots and lots of events per second, but some of them are not. So, it becomes a bit of a science experiment trying to guess what your costs are going to be as you scale the solution. This is where other competing products perhaps have a more straightforward license model."
"Please be cheaper and more simplified."
"Fortinet FortiSIEM is cheaper compared to other products."
"The price of the solution is expensive. The license is scalable. If there are 10 devices it is simple to license."
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"We checked out several competitors. For what it can do and the cost, it was the best option!"
"The price of this solution is reasonable, which is one of the reasons why we selected it over other solutions."
"Its price is in the medium to upper range."
"Do the one month trial and try to work out the kinks during it, as it has free support and service hours."
"I rate the price of AT&T AlienVault USM a four out of five."
"Negotiate the best package for your environment."
"I don't think the product's pricing is a good value because they try to raise the price 50 percent every year... AlienVault needs to understand that not all customers are huge enterprises... Their sales team is way too aggressive. The price they advertise is not always the price you get."
"Use an MSSP instead. It is much cheaper."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Government
7%
Computer Software Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Educational Organization
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
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?
The pricing is reasonable, which is why it is preferred by government customers. Windows agent licenses cost around 3,000 Rupees per device per year.
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What needs improvement with Fortinet FortiSIEM?
Fortinet FortiSIEM should broaden its remediation part to include more features for incident management. Currently, to manage repetitive incidents or for remediation, I need to use a separate softw...
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What do you like most about AT&T AlienVault USM?
The most valuable feature of the solution is the ease of deployment that it provides to users. The integrations that the product has with third-party applications are useful.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AT&T AlienVault USM?
The pricing is amazing and really cheap.
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What needs improvement with AT&T AlienVault USM?
There are scalability issues due to a 60 TB limit, which restricts its use for large customers like banks. It is also limited when used with bigger products and has complex password requirements.
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Also Known As

FortiSIEM, AccelOps
AT&T AlienVault USM, AlienVault, AlienVault USM, Alienvault Cybersecurity
 

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
Fortinet

USM Anywhere centralizes security monitoring of networks and devices in the cloud, on premises, and in remote locations, helping you to detect threats virtually anywhere.

Discover

  • Network asset discovery
  • Software & services discovery
  • AWS asset discovery
  • Azure asset discovery
  • Google Cloud Platform asset discovery

Analyze

  • SIEM event correlation, auto-prioritized alarms
  • User activity monitoring
  • Up to 90-days of online, searchable events

Detect

  • Cloud intrusion detection (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Network intrusion detection (NIDS)
  • Host intrusion detection (HIDS)
  • Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

Respond

  • Forensics querying
  • Automate & orchestrate response
  • Notifications and ticketing

Assess

  • Vulnerability scanning
  • Cloud infrastructure assessment
  • User & asset configuration
  • Dark web monitoring

Report

  • Pre-built compliance reporting templates
  • Pre-built event reporting templates
  • Customizable views and dashboards
  • Log storage
LevelBlue
 

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.
Abel & Cole, Bank of Ireland, Bluegrass Cellular, CareerBuilder, Claire's, Hays Medical Center, Hope International, McCurrach, McKinsey & Company, Party Delights, Pepco Holdings, Richland School District, Ricoh, SaveMart, Shake Shack, Steelcase, TaxAct, Taylor Morrison, Vonage and Zoom
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