We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Fortinet FortiWeb based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The most valuable feature is NetFlow. The beginning of any security investigation starts with NetFlow data."
"Cisco Stealthwatch has reduced the amount of time to detect an immediate threat."
"The ability to send data flow from other places and have them all in one place is very valuable for us."
"It is a good application, providing for real-time monitoring of the organization of data. It can basically identify points of peak traffic where possible issues are being caused."
"Being able to identify specific date closed across the network is invaluable."
"The most valuable feature is having visibility into the data segments throughout our network."
"Stealthwatch has greatly improved our network visibility, in terms of bandwidth, malware, and PCI violations."
"It has improved our internal knowledge of what's going on with the network, and that's helpful."
"It offers some feedback and suggestions that guide our system development while helping our vendors to update their applications and fix any issues or bugs."
"The GUI is user-friendly and it's easy to understand how to manage it."
"High-performance and detection engines, provide a high rate of exposure of web attacks."
"This product is very user-friendly."
"The most valuable features are support and security."
"The policies and the filtering are the most valuable features, especially traffic, URL, and application filtering. The solution is excellent at detecting vulnerabilities."
"FortiWeb provides the level of security we need at an excellent price point. It's easy to deploy and operationally efficient."
"Also, if you serve files or you accept files with your server, Fortiweb has built-in antivirus. The Fortinet product family also provides good IP intelligence (botnet C&C, etc.)."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"One update I would like to see is an agent-based client. Currently StealthWatch is network based."
"It's not great as a standalone solution."
"We are continuing down the road of ACI and ISE with Cisco, so we would like to see the continuation of Stealthwatch integrating into ISE for exchange of information, and also, more into the ACI environment too."
"It hasn't really improved our direct detection rate but it has definitely reduced our incident response time as we wouldn't have been able to detect threats or immediate risks without this solution."
"It is time-consuming to set it up and understand how the tool works."
"They should include Citrix VDIs in the next release."
"Many of these tools require extensive on-premises hardware to run."
"I would like to see interoperability with other Cisco products because we have ThousandEyes, Cisco Prime, and others. The interaction among these is important to us."
"The support side of things can be improved."
"Their documentation is fairly complete, but it's sometimes a little bit difficult to search for exactly what you're looking for to resolve an issue. There have been times when we've gone to try to search for areas that we needed to get information on, and it has not always been extremely clear exactly how a particular thing needs to be set up."
"The initial setup in our data center was somewhat complex."
"The automation piece can be improved. Although they say it can be automated very well, there is still manual work. Its usability should be improved in terms of automation because we want to build an infrastructure with code, but you can't do that easily with this solution. If they can give us APIs in the firewalls that we can tap into, it would be perfect."
"Another area for improvement is logging. When troubleshooting, the logs sometimes take a while to update. We've had people report that some things aren't logged if they're successful. It's a bit hit-and-miss. For example, sometimes people access one of our services, and it's successful, but we don't see that in the logs."
"It may be better if it were easier to create roles."
"Fortinet FortiWeb could improve in reference architecture for different deployment scenarios."
"Sometimes, even if you follow the documentation, it doesn't work as expected."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 58 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Network Analytics writes "Increased the visibility of what is happening in our network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiWeb writes "Cost-effective, easy to configure, and works very well as a single solution for multiple environments". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Imperva Web Application Firewall.
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