We performed a comparison between Cisco Cognitive Threat Analytics and Cisco IOS Security 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)."The most valuable feature of Cisco Cognitive Threat Analytics is its reliability."
"The stability of this solution is excellent."
"Cisco has always been a premium product. There's a lot of other entry-level solutions. This is more robust."
"Cisco Technical Assistance Center works on a follow-the-sun concept and gives real 24x7 customer support, which is a great advantage when you have a service contract with them."
"Cisco IOS Security is a mature product with extensive capabilities, serving as the base for the defense layer. It offers good network visibility, which helps in rapid response through the Rapid Threat Containment feature. Its deployment and configuration are straightforward."
"We use Cisco IOS Security mostly for routers to route off the firewall. It's a next-generation device."
"The product has valuable features for business intelligence."
"Cisco IOS Security is very robust and works very well."
"The most valuable feature is the scalability. The nice thing with the bigger vendors is that they're very good at scale."
"Cisco Cognitive Threat Analytics could improve by having quicker detection and response and web analysis."
"The configuration and reporting interfaces need a lot of improvement. It needs to be more accessible forsolide without a strong technical background. If you had a simplified dashboard, the lower-level techs could manage the solution and provide services. Cisco IOS Security requires someone who is highly trained to operate it."
"We have a very bad experience on the support. They take too much time requesting logs, and they are not coming directly online to resolve the issues."
"Cisco IOS Security's monitoring is rather rudimentary and could be improved."
"The pricing is the only con for this product."
"With respect to user-friendliness, it is a command-line interface and those with such experience will get along just fine, whereas others may struggle."
"It takes too much time to deploy a policy to FMC. It takes around eight minutes. You can't afford any downtime when you're changing policies."
"The configuration should be easier in the solution."
"Cisco is an expensive firewall, so the pricing can be improved."
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Cisco Cognitive Threat Analytics is ranked 23rd in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 1 review while Cisco IOS Security is ranked 10th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 47 reviews. Cisco Cognitive Threat Analytics is rated 10.0, while Cisco IOS Security is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco Cognitive Threat Analytics writes "Simple deployment, reliable, and helpful support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco IOS Security writes "User-friendly and excels in documentation, making it easier to resolve issues". Cisco Cognitive Threat Analytics is most compared with Cisco Secure Network Analytics, whereas Cisco IOS Security is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Meraki MX, Fortinet FortiOS and Netgate pfSense.
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