We performed a comparison between Check Point IPS and Cisco Secure Network Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Darktrace, Vectra AI, Check Point Software Technologies and others in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS)."Check Point is one of the best security brands worldwide."
"The possibility of customizing the rules is great."
"Some of the features for views and visualization are already predefined as default files."
"Its event analysis and centralization features are very important for any organization."
"There's an automatic update after every 2 hours which makes sure that the database is up to date and providing zero-day vulnerability protection."
"I can easily monitor all of our connected devices and I get instant notification of reconnections and new connections, which removes some of the monitoring burden."
"The autonomous threat prevention is very easy to use. The APIs and SmartConsole tool also work well."
"The product's initial setup is easy."
"Cisco Secure Network Analytics has increased the visibility of what is happening in our network, and I think that's the most important reason to use it. We can see what is really happening instead of just looking at numbers from routers or switches."
"Most valuable features are the network maps and server and network response time."
"The search options on Cisco Stealthwatch are the most valuable. You can get very granular with it, down to the kilobits or the seconds if you want. The product supports any time frame that you need, so that is nice."
"We find that Stealthwatch can detect the unseen."
"Cisco Stealthwatch has reduced the amount of time to detect an immediate threat."
"The most valuable features provided by this solution are visibility and information."
"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."
"The solution reduces the amount of time it takes to detect and remediate threats."
"When exceptions need to be done for certain profiles, it is easy to get them done, however, implementation on some general ones may cause some extra work as the IPS is not easy to overwrite."
"There is a performance impact on the NGFW post-enabling the IPS blade/Module, which can even lead to downtime if IPS starts to monitor or block high-volume traffic."
"The service that we want to see in the future is a capacity to segment the IPS services by equipment."
"The hardware-based version of Check Point IPS could be more scalable. Right now, it's not scalable."
"The pain point that I have with this solution is contacting technical support."
"In my opinion, the Check Point software engineers should works on the performance of the blade - when it is activated with the big number of the protections in place, the monitoring shows us the significant increase in the CPU utilization for the gateway appliances - up to 30 percents, even so we are cherry-picking only the profiles that we really needed."
"Having additional reports available would be helpful."
"I am not aware of a preview channel or some repository to have a preview on upcoming signatures, however, this would be nice to have."
"The initial setup is complex, as there is a lot to configure."
"If there was one improvement I’d suggest it would be that it detect traffic through an intranet. The product requires that traffic flow through a managed network device. The product is designed mostly for enterprise environments and not smaller environments or businesses."
"I would like to see it better organized when I'm looking at it."
"One update that I would like to see is an agent-based client. Currently, Stealthwatch is network-based. A local agent could help manage endpoints."
"The configuration of the solution was quite complex."
"We've had problems with element licensing costs so scalability is a concern."
"Many of these tools require extensive on-premises hardware to run."
"Stealthwatch needs improvement when it comes to speed."
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Check Point IPS is ranked 3rd in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 45 reviews while Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews. Check Point IPS is rated 8.6, while Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Check Point IPS writes "Great for detection and access with the capabilities of defining specific rules". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Secure Network Analytics writes "Increased the visibility of what is happening in our network". Check Point IPS is most compared with Darktrace, Palo Alto Networks URL Filtering with PAN-DB, Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Trend Micro TippingPoint Threat Protection System and Cisco NGIPS, whereas Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR.
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