We performed a comparison between Cisco NGIPS and Cisco Secure Network Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The features that I find most valuable are the DDoS protection, IPS/IDS, and Firepower for web application filtering."
"It is more or less stable. Sometimes I have some issues normally when we need to upgrade it to newer versions. I think it does the job."
"We are satisfied with the technical support."
"The technical support is impressive."
"It has good intelligence. It does a great job at stopping threats."
"The thing about this solution that I like the most is that it's intuitive."
"The solution is very stable."
"We have found the IPS detection to be a very valuable feature of this solution. It is easy to use to stop policy violations."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is data hoarding because it catches threats on a frequent basis that we had no idea of."
"StealthWatch lets me see the ports running in and out and the country. It has excellent reporting, telemetry, and artificial intelligence features. With the telemetry, I can set thresholds to detect sudden changes and the alarms go through the PLC parts. I can see all the ports running on that trunk."
"The solution has increased our threat detection rate. Cisco Stealthwatch has not reduced our incident response times. It has not reduced the amount of time it takes us to detect immediate threats. It has reduced false positives."
"The most valuable feature is integration."
"Being able to identify specific date closed across the network is invaluable."
"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."
"This product alleviates the day-to-day headaches for us, in regards to metrics."
"It provides good visibility to the customers. People are still evaluating it, but it provides visibility and helps them to take action to remediate and mitigate the issues that are highlighted on the dashboard. It has good integration with the Cisco switching platform."
"It is no longer scalable because it has gone end of life."
"There are some features not found in Firepower, like data loss prevention, and SSO, to have a connection between Cisco and Active Directory which was introduced on other products."
"The file trajectory, the trace in contamination files, could be improved."
"If there was a software-based solution for scaling up then it would be much better."
"The user interface needs some improvement, it is a little rudimentary and not very intuitive."
"We would like an option to search through the logs to be added to this solution."
"The solution would be better if it offered customers more integrations and more signatures."
"The attack patterns and payloads go undetected in Cisco. We would like to see a new solution with more effective detection of attack patterns. There should be more data analyzing patterns as well which provides useful information."
"The initial setup was straightforward but required a lot of data entry, to begin with building out the server types and network types."
"The version with the Dell server had iDRAC problems. Often, it reported iDRAC failure."
"It hasn't really improved our direct detection rate but it has definitely reduced our incident response time as we wouldn't have been able to detect threats or immediate risks without this solution."
"We would like the solution to make more advances in the way that Extreme Networks has been doing."
"Better integration between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Cisco Secure Workload would be beneficial."
"I would like to see more expansion in artificial intelligence and machine learning features."
"The visualization could be improved, the GUI is not the best."
"At my company, we might not be using it enough with other applications that we have that can integrate with it."
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Cisco NGIPS is ranked 5th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 62 reviews while Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 25th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews. Cisco NGIPS is rated 8.2, while Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco NGIPS writes "Very effective for malware and signature-based anomalies but stability needs improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Secure Network Analytics writes "Increased the visibility of what is happening in our network". Cisco NGIPS is most compared with Check Point IPS, Fortinet FortiGate IPS, Trend Micro TippingPoint Threat Protection System, Cisco Sourcefire SNORT and KerioControl, whereas Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR. See our Cisco NGIPS vs. Cisco Secure Network Analytics report.
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