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Administration Guide

26.2.0

FortiSIEM

FortiSIEM

FortiSIEM is an advanced Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution that combines advanced log and traffic analysis with performance and availability monitoring, change analysis, and accurate knowledge of the infrastructure to provide accurate threat detection, remediation, incident response and compliance reporting.

Benefits

FortiSIEM provides a centralized, unified view of security events across an organization. By forwarding FortiCNAPP alerts directly into FortiSIEM, customers gain several advantages.

Benefits of integrating FortiSIEM with FortiCNAPP include:

Benefit

Description

End-to-end visibility across Cloud and on-prem

FortiCNAPP covers cloud misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, identity risks, workload behavior and more. FortiSIEM enriches this by correlating these cloud-native risks with events from firewalls, endpoints, IAM logs, and applications — giving security teams a single source of truth.

Faster incident response through correlation

FortiSIEM’s analytics engine correlates FortiCNAPP alerts with:

  • Lateral movement attempts

  • Network anomalies

  • Threat intel from FortiGuard

  • User behavior events

This turns isolated cloud alerts into actionable incidents, improving response speed and accuracy.

Reduce alert fatigue

Instead of jumping between dashboards, FortiSIEM aggregates, de-duplicates, and prioritizes FortiCNAPP alerts. Customers get noise-reduced, severity-aligned event streams that match their SOC workflows.

SOC-ready integration (Ticketing, playbooks, compliance)

Once FortiCNAPP alerts land in FortiSIEM, SOC teams can:

  • Trigger automated response playbooks

  • Open or route tickets

  • Meet compliance obligations (e.g., PCI, ISO, SOC2)

  • Retain logs in long-term storage for audits

This makes FortiCNAPP alerts fit seamlessly into existing SOC processes.

Stronger attack surface understanding

By combining FortiCNAPP findings (cloud configuration, vulnerabilities, and identity risks) with network and on-prem telemetry in FortiSIEM, customers can:

  • Understand the blast radius of issues

  • See which cloud assets impact critical business services

  • Detect active exploitation of cloud weaknesses

This is cloud context meets operational reality.

Reduces tool sprawl

Teams already running FortiSIEM can expand visibility to cloud without adding a new SIEM vendor or integration layer. FortiCNAPP becomes a native data source in the Fortinet Inc. ecosystem.

How to configure FortiSIEM

To configure FortiSIEM, see:

How to configure FortiCNAPP

To configure FortiCNAPP, see:

FortiSIEM

FortiSIEM

FortiSIEM is an advanced Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution that combines advanced log and traffic analysis with performance and availability monitoring, change analysis, and accurate knowledge of the infrastructure to provide accurate threat detection, remediation, incident response and compliance reporting.

Benefits

FortiSIEM provides a centralized, unified view of security events across an organization. By forwarding FortiCNAPP alerts directly into FortiSIEM, customers gain several advantages.

Benefits of integrating FortiSIEM with FortiCNAPP include:

Benefit

Description

End-to-end visibility across Cloud and on-prem

FortiCNAPP covers cloud misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, identity risks, workload behavior and more. FortiSIEM enriches this by correlating these cloud-native risks with events from firewalls, endpoints, IAM logs, and applications — giving security teams a single source of truth.

Faster incident response through correlation

FortiSIEM’s analytics engine correlates FortiCNAPP alerts with:

  • Lateral movement attempts

  • Network anomalies

  • Threat intel from FortiGuard

  • User behavior events

This turns isolated cloud alerts into actionable incidents, improving response speed and accuracy.

Reduce alert fatigue

Instead of jumping between dashboards, FortiSIEM aggregates, de-duplicates, and prioritizes FortiCNAPP alerts. Customers get noise-reduced, severity-aligned event streams that match their SOC workflows.

SOC-ready integration (Ticketing, playbooks, compliance)

Once FortiCNAPP alerts land in FortiSIEM, SOC teams can:

  • Trigger automated response playbooks

  • Open or route tickets

  • Meet compliance obligations (e.g., PCI, ISO, SOC2)

  • Retain logs in long-term storage for audits

This makes FortiCNAPP alerts fit seamlessly into existing SOC processes.

Stronger attack surface understanding

By combining FortiCNAPP findings (cloud configuration, vulnerabilities, and identity risks) with network and on-prem telemetry in FortiSIEM, customers can:

  • Understand the blast radius of issues

  • See which cloud assets impact critical business services

  • Detect active exploitation of cloud weaknesses

This is cloud context meets operational reality.

Reduces tool sprawl

Teams already running FortiSIEM can expand visibility to cloud without adding a new SIEM vendor or integration layer. FortiCNAPP becomes a native data source in the Fortinet Inc. ecosystem.

How to configure FortiSIEM

To configure FortiSIEM, see:

How to configure FortiCNAPP

To configure FortiCNAPP, see: