We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Fortinet FortiClient 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."
"Provides easily identifiable anomalies that you can't see with signature detections."
"Cisco Stealthwatch has predefined alerts for different types of security issues that might happen in the network. Whether it's PCs or servers that are used for botnets or Bitcoin mining we receive the alerts automatically. This functionality is what we receive from the solution out of the box."
"It has definitely helped us improve our mean time to resolution on network issues."
"It's a dependable product that is able to pinpoint where we have vulnerabilities if they occur."
"It has improved our internal knowledge of what's going on with the network, and that's helpful."
"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 of this solution is data hoarding because it catches threats on a frequent basis that we had no idea of."
"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."
"Overall Fortinet FortiClient has good functionality."
"I use the tool to connect server to an ISP Data Center."
"The Fortinet FortiClient is simple to use."
"It is a stable solution."
"It seems to be more scalable than we thought."
"The configuration is the most valuable feature."
"Fortinet FortiClient is not disruptive, and its interface is great. It has an in-built VPN, which is very useful."
"The integration of VPN services with endpoint security is valuable."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It is time-consuming to set it up and understand how the tool works."
"Initially, I felt Cisco Secure Network Analytics lacked integration with Splunk."
"I would like to see it better organized when I'm looking at it."
"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."
"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 a hybrid solution that can work without being connected directly to the internet for those destinations."
"They should include Citrix VDIs in the next release."
"The initial setup was complex."
"We'd like to see a deployment wizard to help implementation become streamlined."
"We do not use the solution every day and there are times when the new users have trouble reconnecting. The technology itself works but our users getting adopted to it is a major problem. Having the user adapt to the desktop landing page that it begins on is throwing them off a bit."
"The solution has some issues with stability on the user side."
"FortiClient is not communicating with the new version of the firewall."
"I haven't found that that solution does anything amazing."
"I would like to see an improvement in the web filter, because I think it can be more user-friendly."
"The pricing of the solution should be less expensive."
"The connectivity could be improved."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Fortinet FortiClient is ranked 16th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 85 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiClient is rated 8.0. 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 Fortinet FortiClient writes "Easy to set up and user-friendly with good support ". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Fortinet FortiClient is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, Fortinet FortiEDR, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway and Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business.
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