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Within the Fortinet Security Fabric FortiAnalyzer is a powerful tool to aggregate logging, manipulate advanced analytics, and provide reporting across Fortinet devices. For network administrators, security professionals who want to gain visibility into the activity within the network they are responsible for, detect threats quicker, and improve their overall security position within their organization, mastering FortiAnalyzer is a must.

The FortiAnalyzer essentially is the tool the collects log data from multiple Fortinet devices, such as FortiGate firewalls, FortiMail and FortiWeb appliances. This centralised logging capability means siloed log management is unnecessary, making it simpler to watch for security events across a distributed network. Having real time log aggregation, administrators can identify possible anomalous activity or potentially security breaches as they happen and respond swiftly to threats.

FortiAnalyzer has one of the best mechanisms to perform threat analytics in depth. FortiAnalyzer leverages AI driven intelligence to establish patterns and correlations within log data to identify advanced persistent threats (APTs), malware, or insider risk that may otherwise be missed. Real time updates from FortiGuard Labs enriches analytics by providing knowledge on emerging threats to enhance and optimise the performance of analytics.

Furthermore, the tool also generates awesome actionable reports. They’re particularly useful toward meeting regulatory requirements like GDPR, HIPAA, or PCI-DSS, as they will keep a log of security activities and system performance. FortiAnalyzer was simple to configure requiring a good understanding of log forwarding, device registration and system settings. First, administrators should link FortiAnalyzer to devices from its Fortinet peer, and define log storage settings, with enough capacity for data retention.