Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics [EOL] vs Vectra AI comparison

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Cisco Secure Cloud Analytic...

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Vectra AI

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

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Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) (6th), Network Detection and Response (NDR) (3rd), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (19th), Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) (10th), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (7th)

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Sudhanshu Pandey

Security Analyst at Orange España

Efficiently generates alerts for suspicious activities and scales easily

There are two areas of improvement. Firstly, extend the log retrieval limit to at least three months. For example, there is a limit on the number of log messages that can be received. So, I would like to expand the log retrieval limit. And another thing, if we migrate these things to an event or send us an email if there is any critical event, I would like to configure these things on the initial launch. Because if a system is compromised, there will be a lot of data movement from one post to another post to the outside. Then, we should also get an alert on email as well. We have since we have integrated these things. But a direct email for critical alerts should be there. So, I would like to enhance the critical event configuration. If a new user wants to learn how it should work, how policies work, and where we can configure policies, there should be some learning material for this product.

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reviewer2783214

Strategic RAN Lead | Network Transformation & Optimization | Philippines & South Africa at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

AI‑driven threat detection has transformed alert fatigue and now enables faster response and leaner soc operations

The best features of Vectra AI are related to AI. For the NDR part, Attack Signal Intelligence features were mainly responsible for behavior AI, high-fidelity signaling, and prioritization. These features were great for anomaly detection and behavioral-based detection, able to catch zero-day attacks and living-off-the-land attacks. For high-fidelity signaling, it automatically triaged, filtered, and correlated signals, which dramatically reduced alert fatigue noise on the customer side by approximately 80% and eliminated alert fatigue on the SOC teams. Regarding the identity detection and response IDR solution, it monitored Active Directory and Entra ID for any attacks, allowing the SOC to detect any compromised credentials. Alert noise was dramatically reduced by nearly 80%, allowing SOC analysts to focus more on true threats, which made them more productive and resulted in higher operational efficiency. Attack Signal Intelligence helped reduce irrelevant alerts by 80% to 90%, with metrics showing a 100-plus reduction in investigation workloads and roughly saving about 55,000 hours of investigation time. Investigation time has decreased significantly, empowering analysts with detection and advanced unknown threats that Vectra AI provided. Its knowledge base and database are very up to date, allowing for spotting zero-day attacks with full visibility and helping to stop attacks in minutes. Vectra AI has reduced the MTTD and MTTR, increasing operational and process efficiency, and has helped reduce the number of SOC analysts that needed to be hired. Thanks to the AI features, the number of employees and SOC analysts hired has been reduced.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The logs in Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud are very good when doing the API integration in the team. It is able to give you important information for the correlations."

"Monitoring the traffic, making sure you have the visibility."

"When it comes to scalability, there's no size limit. It varies based on licenses and requirements."

"Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud is scalable because it is on the cloud."

"It tells you if there is any communication going to command and control servers, or if there is any traffic that violates your internal policy, or if any data hoarding is happening where data is being dumped from your machine to outside of the environment. It provides all such meaningful reports to help you understand what's happening."

"The product helps me to see malware."

"We were able to prevent an electric fraud of almost $200,000."

"The tool's best feature is its ability to monitor network traffic. It will also inform users whether the traffic generated by a network is legitimate. The tool helps to capture and analyze the network traffic."

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"The fact that we get the visualization of what's happening on our network, which is a way of improving our security in-depth is most valuable."

"Vectra AI can bring the ability to detect intrusion on the network more so than legacy IDS tools."

"One of the key advantages for us is we define a 24/7 service around it. We use far more of Vectra alerts than we do with our SIEM product because we understand that when we get an alert from Vectra we actually need to do something about it."

"Vectra was the only tool that picked up almost all the red team penetration activities, helped us detect threats in their initial recon phase before they caused damage, and has significantly reduced the time it takes us to respond to attacks."

"If I look at the value I can extract from every Euro that I spend on Vectra, and compare it to every Euro I spend on other solutions, the return on investment on Vectra is way better."

"The solution provide visibility into behaviors across the full lifecycle of an attack in our network, beyond just the Internet gateway. It makes our security operations much more effective because we are now looking not just at traffic on the border, but we're looking at east-west internal traffic. Now, not only will we see if an exploit kit is being downloaded, but we would be able to see then if that exploit kit was then laterally distributed into our environment."

"Vectra AI offers artificial intelligence capabilities with visibility that can be integrated into our day-to-day operations and other tools, including malware detection tools and cyber threat tools."

"What I like best about Vectra AI is that it alerts you about suspicious activities."

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Cons

"Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud could improve the graphical user interface. It could be a more user-friendly graphical user interface. so that. Not everybody's a cyber security professional, most of the customers that I deal with are not very skilled. The terms that they use in the solution are quite understandable for a normal CIO."

"The initial setup of Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud is complex."

"When I used to work on it, I just didn't see anything new happening for about a year and a half. Providing newer data and newer reports constantly would help. There should be more classifications and more interesting data."

"The product needs to improve its user-friendliness. It is very tricky and you need to study it before using the standard functionalities."

"If we migrate these things to an event or send us an email if there is any critical event, I would like to configure these things on the initial launch. Because if a system is compromised, there will be a lot of data movement from one post to another post to the outside. Then, we should also get an alert on email as well. We have since we have integrated these things. But a direct email for critical alerts should be there. So, I would like to enhance the critical event configuration."

"The initial setup is a bit complex in terms of deployment and configuration."

"Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud could improve the graphical user interface. It could be a more user-friendly graphical user interface."

"The product's price is high."

"I think Vectra AI's automation, reporting, and integration could be improved."

"I would like to see ways they can look to bring out new cloud functionality without introducing additional costs for them as additional subscriptions."

"The UI/UX and detection could be improved. More detections of specific security events could be useful. We've had a few incidents that were not detected by Vectra. The teams are working on it right now, but more detection is always better."

"The solution has not reduced the security analyst workload in our organization because we still need to SIEM. Unfortunately, while Vectra, for us, is a brilliant tool for network investigations, giving wonderful visibility, it doesn't go the whole way to replace our SIEM that is needed for compliance. So, I still have the same amount of alerting and logging that I did before. It gives us more defined ability to see incidents, but it doesn't give us enough information to satisfy a PCI or 27001 audit."

"There could be an option where Vectra manages the solution remotely, and when there is an attack, there could be a notification center to give us information about the attack."

"The reporting from Cognito Detect is very limited and doesn't give you too many options."

"Other alternatives, like Darktrace, have a fancier UI."

"The rules for threats are not always precise and Vectra AI should improve this."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is quite expensive."

"Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud is an expensive enterprise solution."

"The price of Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud is expensive."

"At the time of purchase, we found the pricing acceptable. We had an urgency to get something in place because we had a minor breach that occurred at the tail end of 2016 to the beginning of 2017. This indicated we had a lack of ability to detect things on the network. Hence, why we moved quickly to get into the tool in place. We found things like Bitcoin mining and botnets which we closed quickly. In that regard, it was worth the money."

"The upfront pricing model that we have would have been more beneficial if it had been a recurring license fee, but that wasn't a massive issue for us. It's fairly priced."

"The pricing and licensing are quite straightforward because they're based on the IP licenses. As a result, they are easy to count."

"The pricing is high."

"The pricing is very good. It's less expensive than many of the tools out there."

"The license is based on the concurrent IP addresses that it's investigating. We have 9,800 to 10,000 IP addresses."

"Vectra's pricing is too high. All schools will not be able to afford it. Vectra will only end up targeting higher education and higher value independence purely because of the price. A lot of schools would love to have a product like Vectra AI, but they simply can't because they struggle to even pay the high E5 licensing from Microsoft. When you're up against that, Vectra AI is never going to be within the sector's price range."

"We have a desire to increase our use. However, it all comes down to budget. It's a very expensive tool that is very difficult to prove business support for. We would like to have two separate networks. We have our corporate network and PCI network, which is segregated due to payment processing. We don't have it for deployed in the PCI network. It would be good to have it fully deployed there to provide us with additional monitoring and control, but the cost associated with their licensing model makes it prohibitively expensive to deploy."

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Top Industries

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Construction Company

13%

Comms Service Provider

12%

Outsourcing Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

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Comms Service Provider

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Midsize Enterprise

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Small Business	1
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	6

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Small Business	10
Midsize Enterprise	10
Large Enterprise	29

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Also Known As

Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud, Observable Networks

Vectra Networks, Vectra AI NDR

Overview

Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics is a cloud-based security solution that provides visibility and threat detection for cloud environments. It offers software mapping and automation for incident response, forensic analysis, and segmentation of IT architecture. The solution can be used on-premise or on the cloud and is used in various sectors such as insurance and government.

The logs in Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics are valuable for API integration in a team as they provide important information for correlations. The solution also offers automated incident response and integration with next-generation firewalls and antivirus solutions."

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Vectra AI offers advanced hybrid network and identity security, detecting threats traditional tools miss. It uses AI to identify lateral attacks and credential misuse, providing a proactive defense for enterprises.

Vectra AI enhances security by using AI-driven detection across network, cloud, and identity layers, surpassing EDR and SIEMs by offering real-time threat detection. It ensures continuous observability and automates SOC workflows to minimize manual efforts, creating an efficient security environment. Its AI-powered approach significantly reduces noise, focusing on true threats, and provides insights into complex threat landscapes, with seamless integration into environments like EDR and Office 365.

What are Vectra AI's key features?

AI-driven detection: Identifies lateral movement and credential misuse across networks.
Continuous observability: Monitors data centers, cloud, SaaS, and OT environments.
SOC automation: Reduces manual processes, lowering analyst fatigue.
Attack Signal Intelligence: Filters noise to deliver relevant alerts quickly.
Network visibility: Provides insight into encrypted traffic and unmanaged assets.

What benefits should users expect?

Improved threat detection: Faster identification of potential threats.
Efficiency in response: Automated processes free resources for high-impact tasks.
Reduced alert fatigue: Intelligent alerts reduce false positives.
Operational integration: Works seamlessly with existing platforms and tools.

Vectra AI is utilized across industries for comprehensive network and anomaly detection. Organizations deploy it for threat hunting and incident response, monitoring both on-premises and cloud activities. By placing sensors across sites, they optimize security practices and streamline their detection processes.

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Sample Customers

Options, Schneider Electric, Washington University in St Louis, Gotcha, Kraft Kennedy, PartnerRe, Sumologic, Veterans United, AFGE, Agraform, Artesys, Dynamic Ideas Financials, Department of Agriculture and Commerce

Tribune Media Group, Barry University, Aruba Networks, Good Technology, Riverbed, Santa Clara University, Securities Exchange, Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association

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