We performed a comparison between Cisco IOS Security and Cisco Secure Network Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution can scale well."
"It has improved our organization with control data."
"The multi-tenancy feature is most valuable. It integrates very well with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer."
"Good load balancing feature."
"Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"It's inexpensive compared to some of the other technology out there."
"In terms of security, we have not experienced any security flaws or loopholes, and it has proven to be quite stable."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"The product has valuable features for business intelligence."
"Completely integrates branch offices with perimeter security."
"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."
"The product's stability is good."
"We use Cisco IOS Security mostly for routers to route off the firewall. It's a next-generation device."
"The hardware is pretty stable. It's also a very good product performance-wise. Initially, it wasn't mature like a firewall and there were other leaders, but now they have included almost all the features of next-generation security. Basically, it's a good product to work with."
"The Intrusion Firewall is a valuable feature."
"The technical is excellent."
"The solution allowed us to not only get gain insight but also start collaborating with other tools."
"It works efficiently for encrypted traffic analysis."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the way the net flow is being merged together in a single pane. That's been extremely useful for us, because can see what's going on with traffic in one single place."
"The most valuable feature is having visibility into the data segments throughout our network."
"It has been pretty stable since we deployed it, and everything seems to be working fine."
"Great network monitoring, looking at anomaly detection and evaluation."
"Overall, the implementation is very good."
"Visibility. The ability to look East and West. To see what is passing through your circuits, where it is coming from, and how big it is."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"I don't like that anything more than very basic reporting is not included."
"The user interface could be improved."
"The cloud features can be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve to be on par with its competitors, such as Palo Alto and Sophos. They are the market leaders. Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve its capabilities. However, we are happy with Fortinet FortiGate."
"They should offer special pricing to premium partners and customers."
"It can be a little bit more user-friendly in terms of policy definition and implementation. It seems a little bit complicated, and it could be simplified."
"Reporting is limited to providing an external appliance for improving the reporting capabilities of the FortiAnalyzer. It does not offer a central management and is also sold separably as an appliance."
"Cisco IOS Security could improve by having more compatibility with other Cisco solutions."
"I would love it if it has a link-by-link feature, integration with Unified Threat Management (UTM), and load balancers. They haven't got any link-by-link feature right now, which can be a very attractive option. This link-by-link feature can also be made available for Cisco's UTM firewalls. The link-by-link feature is available in some of the other firewalls. Currently, integration with UTM is missing. Cisco IOS Security also doesn't have the load balancers and a few things that need to be done to get a good UTM firewall. Normally, other firewalls have UTM. As a next-generation firewall, it's good, but as a UTM, it has to do some work."
"If they could increase the performance a little better because the device sometimes gets slow."
"An area for improvement in Cisco IOS Security is the performance because it's not as stable sometimes. There's also some latency in the solution, which could be improved. Cisco IOS Security integrates with other solutions, but you'll encounter many errors after integration, so this is another area for improvement. I'd like to see enhanced performance and a simplified setup in the next version of Cisco IOS Security."
"There's a technology called SD-WAN that we would like to see. We are unable to handle multiple connections or to automatically load balance. I would like to have a feature that enables us to automatically prepare for load balancing."
"There are the usual bugs that are inherent to some software upgrades. Sometimes this provides some unexpected issues, however, it happens with all brands all the time."
"I think they should bring back remote VPN for users."
"The pricing is the only con for this 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."
"I would like to see more and cleaner reporting. For example, if I pull up Steven and I want to look and maybe compare him to what you've done in the past week, and compare that to the past six months, the point would be to see what the difference in activity looks like over this time. I don't see that capability in reporting to date. You see that trend but you don't really see a straightforward comparison. That right there is key to what we want to see about the normal activity."
"One thing I would like to see improved is if it could automatically be tied through ISE, instead of you having to manually get notifications and disable it yourself."
"At my company, we might not be using it enough with other applications that we have that can integrate with it."
"Complexity on integration is not so straightforward and you really need an expert to help build it out."
"If they can make this product more web-based, that would be amazing."
"The version with the Dell server had iDRAC problems. Often, it reported iDRAC failure."
"The configuration of the solution was quite complex."
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Cisco IOS Security is ranked 22nd in Firewalls with 47 reviews while Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews. Cisco IOS Security is rated 8.0, while Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco IOS Security writes "User-friendly and excels in documentation, making it easier to resolve issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Secure Network Analytics writes "Increased the visibility of what is happening in our network". Cisco IOS Security is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Meraki MX, Fortinet FortiOS, Netgate pfSense and OPNsense, whereas Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR. See our Cisco IOS Security vs. Cisco Secure Network Analytics report.
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