We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"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'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."
"The most valuable feature is NetFlow. The beginning of any security investigation starts with NetFlow data."
"It has been pretty stable since we deployed it, and everything seems to be working fine."
"It's a dependable product that is able to pinpoint where we have vulnerabilities if they occur."
"From what I understand, you can encrypt and unencrypt traffic moving in transit. This is one of the features that we liked about it."
"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."
"I believe this solution has reduced our incident response time."
"The simplicity of the solution is its most valuable asset. It's very user-friendly."
"The people we deal with is a local partner in Cambodia and we can get good support from them."
"The most valuable feature is SD-WAN."
"I like the IPS. IPS is the master feature. I depend on the firewall and sandbox."
"Next Generation Firewall's best feature is that it can be managed on one platform."
"It is a scalable product. I know a customer who has deployed more than 4,000 firewalls in a single deployment."
"It is stable and scalable. In addition, their support is great. When you ask them for something, they provide support, and if required, they also involve the R&D team to help you to resolve the issues in your configuration."
"The feature that we like the most about Forcepoint is that we know the technology and have confidence in it. We can have several functionalities to simplify operations and management. We can combine functionalities like log ownership to review the number of devices in the infrastructure."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Initially, I felt Cisco Secure Network Analytics lacked integration with Splunk."
"If they can make this product more web-based, that would be amazing."
"I would like to see a hybrid solution that can work without being connected directly to the internet for those destinations."
"We need to be able to filter out internal IPs as non-threats."
"I would like to see interoperability with other Cisco products because we have ThousandEyes, Cisco Prime, and others. The interaction among these is important to us."
"Cisco could improve the administration for the customers."
"At my company, we might not be using it enough with other applications that we have that can integrate with it."
"The overall visibility into the actual device itself would be helpful. I don't just want support-specific data, but also to be able to see information such as CPU and other internal components or usage of the devices."
"My team is looking for more throughput and better integration with our security framework."
"The solution's support could use improvement."
"They should have a local vendor who can provide support. Most of the support is overseas, so the time zones can be a problem."
"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of custom reporting."
"Configuration is not easy because it has an old-fashioned interface. The configuration interface is highly complex, and it's been the same for years. They have to change the interface."
"The security features need to be improved."
"Its management center should be easier to use. The management interface of Forcepoint is unique and a little bit different from some of the firewall solutions on which people might have worked before. Sometimes, the customers say that it is not very friendly, and we help them with how to use this management interface. It just takes a little bit of time, and after some time, it gets easy to manage or use. It is quite similar to Palo Alto, Fortinet, and legacy Juniper solutions. Their support should be faster. We have received complaints that they are not responding fast, which is not good for the vendor and us."
"Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall could change its interface, allowing standard or direct connect modes to be configured."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 40 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Network Analytics writes "Increased the visibility of what is happening in our network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall writes "Provides decent protection for the LAN but complicated interface". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Check Point NGFW, Cisco Secure Firewall and Sophos XG.
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