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."This solution has helped improve productivity and detect attacks before they happen."
"Cisco NGIPS is a stable tool...The technical support provided by Cisco NGIPS is okay."
"We have found the IPS detection to be a very valuable feature of this solution. It is easy to use to stop policy violations."
"Its ease of use and its ability to block and allow ports in and out of our organization are the most valuable features. It works very well. It gives us all the information that we need."
"The initial setup wasn't complex or complicated."
"The solution is very stable."
"Cisco NGIPS is working well overall with our current needs."
"The solution very effectively provides malware protection and signature-based anomaly detection."
"Provides easily identifiable anomalies that you can't see with signature detections."
"It's easy to set up. The deployment takes one or two days. You need to collect the data from a device and then direct it to the portal."
"Able to drill down into a center's utilization, then create reports based on it."
"I believe this solution has reduced our incident response time."
"Most of the engineers I've worked with have been really good. Very knowledgeable and easy to work with."
"I value the feature which enables me to detect devices talking to suspect IPs."
"The most valuable feature is NetFlow. The beginning of any security investigation starts with NetFlow data."
"The most valuable part is that Stealthwatch is part of a portfolio of security devices from Cisco. Cisco literally can touch every single end point, every single ingress and egress point in the network. Nobody else has that."
"The solution would be better if it offered customers more integrations and more signatures."
"The solution requires better management. When it comes to central management capabilities, improvements can be made."
"Should include additional security features."
"The GUI could be improved. The pain point is really only focused toward the security engineer who configures it and the operation engineer who manages it."
"They could provide one solution to fit all the use cases."
"If there was a software-based solution for scaling up then it would be much better."
"Some Next-Generation Firewall solutions come with Intrusion Prevention. It would be nice if Cisco NGIPS included that."
"The initial setup is a bit complex because it requires a lot of configuration, firewall and zoning."
"It's not great as a standalone solution."
"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."
"Complexity on integration is not so straightforward and you really need an expert to help build it out."
"I would like to see a hybrid solution that can work without being connected directly to the internet for those destinations."
"The initial setup was straightforward but required a lot of data entry, to begin with building out the server types and network types."
"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."
"I would like to see it better organized when I'm looking at it."
"There's a lot of traffic on our network that we don't see sometimes."
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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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