We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Email and Cisco Secure Network Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cisco Security Portfolio solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Spam controls are excellent because they are a powerful feature that operates almost effortlessly."
"It has an intuitive, clear graphical interface where you can deploy your policies and understand the overall flow. There are a lot of things that you cannot handle on the graphic interface, like message filters. For this, you need to go to a lower level where you have more power, like command line interface. So, this solution has the best of both worlds. There are not a lot of bells and whistles. It is more practical with access to most features that you can configure."
"It does a great job of preventing spam, malware, and ransomware. I can only go by what people have told me and what I've seen, but I have not seen spam in a year and a half to two years in my own company mailbox. And there are not a lot of catches where it's catching something that should have gotten through, either."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The solution works well."
"The tool has a DLP solution which we can implement. Its database is updated regularly."
"The most valuable feature is the different content filters we are using, such as DKIM."
"The system provides our service desk with the means to troubleshoot email delivery issues with ease."
"I believe this solution has reduced our incident response time."
"This product alleviates the day-to-day headaches for us, in regards to metrics."
"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 artifacts available in the tool provide better information for analyzing network traffic. It enables a holistic view of network traffic and general packet analysis. It's easy to identify anomalies without the use of signatures. The way in which we implemented Stealthwatch Cloud has enabled my team to analyze traffic behind proxies."
"It has definitely helped us improve our mean time to resolution on network issues."
"We find that Stealthwatch can detect the unseen."
"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."
"Being able to graph and show data to management has improved our organization. We can show the data to the higher-ups. It shows them that it's picking up on these anomalies and doing its job."
"The configuration UI should be made more intuitive. Currently, it takes a while to understand how to do the basic configurations."
"One of the things that Cisco could improve on with IronPort is the support. Cisco doesn't really have enough engineers who have full, hands-on knowledge of IronPort. Knowledge of it is not something you can find easily compared to other security appliances."
"The product's GUI for the dashboard needs improvement."
"The scalability must be improved."
"Scalability has certain shortcomings and needs to be improved because there are service providers who provide better scalability.v"
"Cisco Email Secure's pricing needs to be less. We have vendors who provide cheaper solutions with the same features."
"The graphical user interface is not user-friendly like other vendors. I find it very difficult at times to find some options on the UI."
"My opinion on the licensing of this solution is that it is a mess that needs sorting out. I am not particularly bothered by pricing as I administer it and make recommendations for people to buy or not to buy."
"There's a lot of traffic on our network that we don't see sometimes."
"We've run into some issues with the configuration."
"We would like the solution to make more advances in the way that Extreme Networks has been doing."
"The GUI could use some improvement. Being able to find features more easily would be a great improvement if it was simplified."
"We determined that Stealthwatch wouldn't provide the machine learning model that we required."
"Cisco Stealthwatch can improve by having bundled packages for popular add-ons. It would be a lot easier for people implementing it, have let's say a better way to use the product."
"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."
"It's a good solid solution but integration with Network Access Control products with Cisco ISE would be good."
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Cisco Secure Email is ranked 10th in Cisco Security Portfolio with 56 reviews while Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 3rd in Cisco Security Portfolio with 57 reviews. Cisco Secure Email is rated 8.4, while Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Email writes "Has effortless spam control, improves security posture, and frees up our IT department's time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Secure Network Analytics writes "Increased the visibility of what is happening in our network". Cisco Secure Email is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Trellix Collaboration Security, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Fortinet FortiMail and Proofpoint Email Protection, whereas Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR. See our Cisco Secure Email vs. Cisco Secure Network Analytics report.
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