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We performed a comparison between Change Tracker Gen7 R2 and Cisco Sourcefire SNORT based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"Whitelisting services are the most valuable feature of Change Tracker Gen7 R2.""I have contacted the support once and the experience was good, I was satisfied."

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"The most valuable feature is the ability to automatically learn the traffic in our environment, and change the merit recommendations based on that.""The solution is rather easy to use.""The product is inexpensive compared to leading brands such as Palo Alto or Fortinet.""I like most of Cisco's features, like malware detection and URL filtering.""The URL filtering is very good and you can create a group for customized URLs.""The whole solution is very good, and stable.""It has a huge rate of protection. It's has a low level of positives and a huge rate of threat protection. It's easy to deploy and easy to implement. It has an incredible price rate compared to similar solutions.""The most valuable feature is the visibility that we have across the virtual environment."

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Cons
"The solution could improve by being more secure and have better integration.""The solution could include more integrations."

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"While the alerts they offer are good, it could improve it in the sense that they should be more detailed to make the alerts more useful to us in general. Sometimes the solution will offer up false positives. Due to the fact that the alerts aren't detailed, we have to go dig around to see why is it being blocked. The solution would be infinitely better if there was just a bit more detail in the alert information and logging we receive.""I would like to have analytics included in the suite.""The implementation could be a bit easier.""We are unhappy with technical support for this solution, and it is not as professional as what we typically expect from Cisco.""Performance needs improvement.""The cloud can be improved.""If the price is brought down then everybody will be happy.""With the next release, I would like to see some PBR, so that you can do the configuration with the features."

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  • "There is a license required for this solution."
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  • "We have a three-year license for this solution."
  • "Licensing for this solution is paid on a yearly basis."
  • "I don't know the exact amount, but most of the time when I go to a company with a proposition, they will say, "This thing that you are selling is good, but it's expensive. Why don't you propose something like FortiGate, Check Point, or Palo Alto?" Cisco device are expensive compared to other devices."
  • "The cost is per port and can be expensive but it does include training and support for three years."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Whitelisting services are the most valuable feature of Change Tracker Gen7 R2.
    Top Answer:The solution could include more integrations.
    Top Answer:We use Change Tracker Gen7 R2 for secure configuration management and file integrity monitoring.
    Top Answer:The product is inexpensive compared to leading brands such as Palo Alto or Fortinet.
    Top Answer:The product is inexpensive compared to leading brands such as Palo Alto or Fortinet. It is cheaper than Palo Alto and comparable to Fortinet. It also depends on Cisco’s discount. Sometimes it's… more »
    Top Answer:The solution has some stability issues. Also, it's complicated compared to other products like FortiGate.
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    NNT Change Tracker Enterprise
    Sourcefire SNORT
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    Overview

    Change Tracker Gen7R2 solves IT Security and the problems that plague all organizations – the overwhelming noise of change control and ensuring the integrity of IT systems. Completely redesigned with both security and IT operations in mind, Change Tracker Gen7 R2 is the only solution designed to reduce change noise and the complexity of integrity monitoring and policy management all while allowing for unprecedented scalability and management that meets the most demanding enterprise environments.

    Gen7R2 enables organizations to:

    - Define the systems that need protection

    - Ensure those systems are secured, compliant and fit for purpose at all times

    - Provide intelligent change control to ensure systems remain in a ‘known secure and compliant state’

    - Enable organizations to move projects securely from Development to Operations

    Gen7 R2 integrates with leading Service desks and Change Management solutions to reconcile the changes that are actually occurring within your environment with those that were expected and part of an approved Request for Change. Security and IT Service Management (ITSM) have traditionally observed and managed change in two very different ways. By linking the changes approved and expected within the ITSM world with those that are actually happening from a security perspective, SecureOps is delivered and underpins effective, ongoing security and operational availability.

    With Gen7R2 you have the ability to reduce change noise by more than 90%, leaving only changes that are unknown, unwanted, unexpected or potentially malicious in nature for further investigation.

    Snort is an open-source, rule-based, intrusion detection and prevention system. It combines the benefits of signature-, protocol-, and anomaly-based inspection methods to deliver flexible protection from malware attacks. Snort gained notoriety for being able to accurately detect threats at high speeds.

    Sample Customers
    US Army, Xerox, Hewlett Packard, LiveTV, Universal Studios, Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative, ACAS, Chanel, Live Nation, Union Bank, Ohio Valley Electric Corporation, Bank of China, Cornell University, Jetblue, Royal Albert Hall, Chaparral Energy, RyanAir
    CareCore, City of Biel, Dimension Data, LightEdge, Lone Star College System, National Rugby League, Port Aventura, Smart City Networks, Telecom Italia, The Department of Education in Western Australia
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    Midsize Enterprise39%
    Large Enterprise39%
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    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise62%
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    Change Tracker Gen7 R2 is ranked 21st in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 2 reviews while Cisco Sourcefire SNORT is ranked 12th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 18 reviews. Change Tracker Gen7 R2 is rated 9.0, while Cisco Sourcefire SNORT is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Change Tracker Gen7 R2 writes "A stable solution that can be used for secure configuration management and file integrity monitoring". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Sourcefire SNORT writes "An IPS solution for security and protection but lacks stability". Change Tracker Gen7 R2 is most compared with Fortra's Tripwire Enterprise, whereas Cisco Sourcefire SNORT is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate IPS, Cisco NGIPS, Check Point IPS, Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention and Darktrace.

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