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 Cloudflare, NETSCOUT, Akamai and others in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection."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."
"We use it not only for DDoS detection and protection, but we also use it for traffic analysis and capacity planning as well. We've also been able to extend the use of it to other security measures within our company, the front-line defense, not only for DDoS, but for any kind of scanning malware that may be picked up. It's also used for outbound attacks, which has helped us mitigate those and lower our bandwidth costs..."
"Arbor has a global ranking in reliability and credibility. They are very unique and can respond to a very wide scope of threats from their global deployment."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Arbor DDoS is easy to use, provides effective blocking of DDoS attacks, and can be used for DNS, web, and main servers. Additionally, this solution is far easier to operate than others solutions, such as Fortinet DDoS."
"Valuable features include simple and centralized management of user access and capabilities, as well as Web 2.0 interactive attack alerting, traffic visualization, and mitigation service control."
"Reporting is quite good. There are several pages of reporting on DDoS attacks, and you can find all the details that you need."
"The product allows us to check real-time progress, including latency and network activities."
"The most valuable feature is having visibility into the data segments throughout our network."
"The fact that it can identify down to an IP address of a system that is causing problems, or potentially causing problems, is very valuable."
"The most valuable features of this solution are its reporting and mitigation capabilities."
"The feature most valuable for us is to gain visibility of what is actually floating through, so we can stop it based on whether it's good or bad traffic."
"From what I understand, you can encrypt and unencrypt traffic moving in transit. This is one of the features that we liked about it."
"Most of the engineers I've worked with have been really good. Very knowledgeable and easy to work with."
"It has definitely helped us improve our mean time to resolution on network issues."
"From a security standpoint, it is just seeing pockets as well. Visibility is very key for us."
"The support got worse after NETSCOUT acquired Arbor."
"The look and feel of the management console is a little old, excessively simple. If you compare it with other solutions, the look and feel of the console is like you're using technology from five or six years ago. It doesn't show all the technology that is actually behind it. It looks like an older solution, even though it is not."
"The solution needs to enhance its features to compete with other tools."
"Arbor Pravail APS devices do not sync features or config the backup enough. This needs to be improved."
"We need a SaaS model for the solution."
"There is always room for improvement for any product or service. If we can bring in more agility when deploying services, that is definitely a scope which we can work towards. Nowadays, everything is being offered as a service model. It is not that we have to deploy the physical hardware, many things move up to the cloud, or even can be delivered in the VNS form in the customer's environment as well. So, in that space, if we can add more features to make it more seamless for customers to use and make it available through some marketplace, not only at the hyperscalers, but also for any on-prem deployment, that definitely would be a big plus."
"When it comes to some false positives, we need to tweak the system from time to time. There is room for improvement when it comes to the actual mitigation because of some false positives."
"Because we had some routers that were somewhat old, they were not integrated with Arbor. They did not support the NetFlow version that Arbor was running. That was a challenge. We had to upgrade the routers. Some backward-compatibility would be helpful."
"The reporting of day-to-day metrics still has room for improvement."
"At my company, we might not be using it enough with other applications that we have that can integrate with it."
"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."
"Stealthwatch needs improvement when it comes to speed."
"The initial setup was straightforward but required a lot of data entry, to begin with building out the server types and network types."
"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."
"The version with the Dell server had iDRAC problems. Often, it reported iDRAC failure."
"Better integration between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Cisco Secure Workload would be beneficial."
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Arbor DDoS is ranked 2nd in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 46 reviews while Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews. Arbor DDoS is rated 8.6, while Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Arbor DDoS writes "A critical solution for security, as it includes features that can automatically detect and prevent DDoS attacks". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Secure Network Analytics writes "Increased the visibility of what is happening in our network". Arbor DDoS is most compared with Radware DefensePro, Cloudflare, Imperva DDoS and Corero, whereas Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR.
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