We performed a comparison between Arbor DDoS and Cisco Secure Network Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NETSCOUT, Cloudflare, Imperva and others in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection."The auto-mitigation, that signaling feature, where it automatically raises an alarm that a line is under attack, is important. The upstream service provider will then do something to reduce the load on our internet lines. The fact that it's automated means I don't have to sit and always be looking at threats coming through. It does it almost automatically, without any intervention by me."
"The artificial intelligence feature is most appreciated. This solution can lower the throughput and clear the traffic, which is something really important for us. It also provides good protection. It is user-friendly, and its integration has also been really fast. We have many critical applications, and it was easy to integrate Arbor DDoS with our website, mobile application, and web banking."
"The most valuable feature is mitigation, which can blackhole the IP."
"Companies that live from their presence on the internet will get a very high return on investment from Arbor."
"The most valuable features include the traffic categorization and control of the traffic. The filtering of the traffic is very precise. When you want to stop some traffic, you precisely stop that traffic."
"I like all the features together as a whole."
"There were huge attacks in October, around 62 attacks at 30 gigabits per second, at one of our banks. We used Arbor DDoS to mitigate these attacks, and it performed great."
"Arbor DDoS's best feature is that we can put the certificates in, and it will look at layer seven and the encrypted traffic and do the required signaling."
"If you are using Darktrace or NAC solutions you can integrate Stealthwatch."
"Cisco Stealthwatch has predefined alerts for different types of security issues that might happen in the network. Whether it's PCs or servers that are used for botnets or Bitcoin mining we receive the alerts automatically. This functionality is what we receive from the solution out of the box."
"Great network monitoring, looking at anomaly detection and evaluation."
"From what I understand, you can encrypt and unencrypt traffic moving in transit. This is one of the features that we liked about it."
"It has definitely helped us improve our mean time to resolution on network issues."
"It provides good visibility to the customers. People are still evaluating it, but it provides visibility and helps them to take action to remediate and mitigate the issues that are highlighted on the dashboard. It has good integration with the Cisco switching platform."
"Overall, the implementation is very good."
"We find that Stealthwatch can detect the unseen."
"They should improve the reporting section and make it a little bit more detailed. I would like to have much better and more detailed reports."
"The solution could be more granular to include logs per second and enhanced pipeline monitoring for router licenses."
"An improvement would be to provide information on how pricing is done on different customer levels."
"Arbor's SSL decryption is confusing and needs external cards to be installed in the devices. This is not the best solution from an architectural point of view for protecting HTTPS and every other protocol that is SSL encrypted."
"The regional support here in African could improve, such as marketing and account managers."
"Implementation could be better."
"An improvement to Arbor DDoS would be to make evaluation licenses and virtual machines available."
"An issue which needs to be addressed concerns information I received of attacks on the radar and Arbor, allegedly, not taking any action."
"Many of these tools require extensive on-premises hardware to run."
"It's not great as a standalone solution."
"Stealthwatch is still maturing in AI. It uses artificial intelligence for predictions, but AI still needs to mature. It is in a phase where you get 95% correct detection. As its AI engine learns more, it will become more accurate. This is applicable to all the devices that are using AI because they support both supervised and unsupervised machine learning. The accuracy in the case of supervised machine learning is dependent on the data you feed into the box. The accuracy in the case of unsupervised machine learning is dependent on the algorithm. The algorithm matures depending on retrospective learning, and this is how it is able to detect zero-day attacks."
"We would like the solution to make more advances in the way that Extreme Networks has been doing."
"Cisco Stealthwatch can improve by having bundled packages for popular add-ons. It would be a lot easier for people implementing it, have let's say a better way to use the product."
"There could be better integration on the programming side, which uses Python. StealthWatch could provide a template for Python to manage the switches. For example, it would be nice if StealthWatch bounced a port automatically it detected something anomalous."
"It's a good solid solution but integration with Network Access Control products with Cisco ISE would be good."
"The visualization could be improved, the GUI is not the best."
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Arbor DDoS is ranked 1st in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 16 reviews while Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 4th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 9 reviews. Arbor DDoS is rated 8.6, while Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Arbor DDoS writes "The Cloud subscription makes the scalability limitless and you secure yourself for anything beyond your current mitigation capacity". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Secure Network Analytics writes "Provides valuable security knowledge and helps us improve network performance". Arbor DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Radware DefensePro, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Corero and Akamai Prolexic Routed, whereas Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, ThousandEyes and Palo Alto Networks Threat Prevention.
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