We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Fortinet FortiOS 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 has improved our internal knowledge of what's going on with the network, and that's helpful."
"Cisco Secure Network Analytics has increased the visibility of what is happening in our network, and I think that's the most important reason to use it. We can see what is really happening instead of just looking at numbers from routers or switches."
"The most valuable feature is having visibility into the data segments throughout our network."
"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."
"Using the Cognitive Analytics feature, we have complete visibility that we didn’t have before."
"It has been pretty stable since we deployed it, and everything seems to be working fine."
"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."
"The ability to send data flow from other places and have them all in one place is very valuable for us."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are the SD-WAN, SSL inspection, and IDS/IPS functions."
"We've been happy with the pricing."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are the granular control and their interoperability is good."
"We have expanded the wireless access point and switches using Fortinet FortiOS."
"Fortinet has optimized the WAN environment for connecting users to the application."
"The technical support is very good and the assistance they gave was very good."
"The product is scalable and easily expands."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiOS are the ability to block and make white and black lists. Additionally, the filtering of user access to websites is useful."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The initial setup is complex, as there is a lot to configure."
"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 Stealthwatch needs more integration with device discovery. We have to do a lot of hard work to figure out what things are. Better service integration is required."
"If there was one improvement I’d suggest it would be that it detect traffic through an intranet. The product requires that traffic flow through a managed network device. The product is designed mostly for enterprise environments and not smaller environments or businesses."
"I would like to see more expansion in artificial intelligence and machine learning features."
"We would like the solution to make more advances in the way that Extreme Networks has been doing."
"We determined that Stealthwatch wouldn't provide the machine learning model that we required."
"The customizability of the UI should improve."
"In terms of what needs improvement, the pricing could be lower. The price is very steep."
"The solution's graphic interface could be a bit more responsive and include notations when changes are made."
"Real-time threat monitoring is not there."
"Fortinet FortiOS can improve the GUI and remove the command line interface. All the functionality should be available from the GUI. Day-to-day management can be tough for IT administrators. Additionally, the reporting is not very good."
"I would like to see smaller and more frequent updates."
"The solution is good, but they have poor marketing in Nigeria. They need to market their product better."
"I can only compare it with SonicWall, and it is missing many advanced features that SonicWall has."
"Right now, all the features meet my requirements."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4. 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 FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiWeb, Fortinet FortiGate-VM and Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection.
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