We performed a comparison between Cisco NGIPS and Flowmon 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 NGIPS is its protection."
"Among all the different solutions I have worked with, such as Palo Alto many other firewalls. Cisco has the support, documentation, and design. The documentation is widely available and it can help you a lot with implementation. It makes the implementation much easier."
"The features that I find most valuable are the DDoS protection, IPS/IDS, and Firepower for web application filtering."
"The most valuable feature is its IPS ability. You are able to balance security and connectivity."
"We are satisfied with the technical support."
"The most valuable features are the intrusion detection ones."
"I like how NGIPS has everything in one console."
"The tracking intelligence feature is very good. This solution provides us with the opportunity to detect threats in real-time."
"The solution is stable."
"It is an open platform, so in terms of integration, we are quite happy. We can integrate it with other SNMP solutions. We can also integrate it with security solutions, such as a SIEM solution."
"The artificial intelligence and automatic detection system in Flowmon Solution are perfect for every, type of customer, such as government and commerce."
"I would like to see Cisco NGIPS to include home office support in one single product."
"The price of Cisco NGIPS could improve."
"The solution should contain the sandbox features which we find in Check Point."
"The initial setup is a bit complex because it requires a lot of configuration, firewall and zoning."
"Better integration with other products, such as a SIEM tool, would provide better peer visibility about your security posture."
"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 look and feel of the console could be updated."
"We have a separate management controller for Cisco NGIPS. If they have not done it already they should integrate Cisco NGIPS with the Cloud Portal."
"If there was better visualization in Flowmon Solution it would be good."
"The licensing price could be better."
"It would be helpful to have more details about the monitoring of the infrastructure. It should have support for SNMP. This is something that is currently not there in the product."
Cisco NGIPS is ranked 5th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 62 reviews while Flowmon is ranked 70th in Network Monitoring Software. Cisco NGIPS is rated 8.2, while Flowmon is rated 8.0. 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 Flowmon writes "A stable and scalable solution allowing for the visibility of and the blocking of threats". Cisco NGIPS is most compared with Check Point IPS, Fortinet FortiGate IPS, Trend Micro TippingPoint Threat Protection System, Cisco Sourcefire SNORT and Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, whereas Flowmon is most compared with Darktrace, SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, Cisco Secure Network Analytics, WhatsUp Gold and Plixer Scrutinizer.
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