We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Fortinet FortiWeb 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 definitely helped us improve our mean time to resolution on network issues."
"Stealthwatch has greatly improved our network visibility, in terms of bandwidth, malware, and PCI violations."
"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 features provided by this solution are visibility and information."
"Able to drill down into a center's utilization, then create reports based on it."
"The solution reduces the amount of time it takes to detect and remediate threats."
"Stability is the most valuable feature we have seen in this solution."
"The solution is easy to configure and deploy."
"The customers are very happy with this solution because of two things. First, the IPS integration with a web application is very tightly done on Fortinet. Second, the ease of use is there. The management interface or the GUI interface is very easy to use, configure, and manage. These are the two main valuable features. It supports integration with other Fortinet products. It also integrates very well with the firewall and sandboxing technology. They already have enough integration with different technologies. They have got a complete tech intelligence view of the whole product."
"FortiWeb is easy to operate with a reasonably high level of protection. FortiWeb provides multiple deployment options with a physical or virtual (FortiWeb-VM) appliance, and acts either as a reverse/transparent proxy or out-of-band. It is also available on AWS and Azure."
"One main feature we are very happy about is file security and upload functionality."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiWeb is the reports and the AI-based features."
"High-performance and detection engines, provide a high rate of exposure of web attacks."
"Provides good vulnerability scanning, IPS, and geolocalization."
"FortiWeb provides the level of security we need at an excellent price point. It's easy to deploy and operationally efficient."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Many of these tools require extensive on-premises hardware to run."
"Complexity on integration is not so straightforward and you really need an expert to help build it out."
"The initial setup is complex, as there is a lot to configure."
"The usability of this solution needs to be improved."
"If they can make this product more web-based, that would be amazing."
"Its granularity for RBAC roles-based access control needs improvement."
"The customizability of the UI should improve."
"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."
"Their documentation is fairly complete, but it's sometimes a little bit difficult to search for exactly what you're looking for to resolve an issue. There have been times when we've gone to try to search for areas that we needed to get information on, and it has not always been extremely clear exactly how a particular thing needs to be set up."
"I know that we have run into some issues with an SSL certificate and how it functions. Sometimes this breaks connectivity or just limits certain websites that are whitelisted."
"The solution is not very scalable, to scale up would require another deployment with a new appliance and a change to the network."
"Fortinet FortiWeb is not scalable. You'll need more budget to change the hardware."
"The memory use in each of the appliances is problematic."
"For advanced users, it would be really useful to have access and the ability to manipulate packets. If we can access and manipulate the contents of packets, even encrypted packets... that would be powerful. Since we're looking at packets arriving at our network, we would have the private key to access those packets and their information."
"HA Architecture needs improvement. I would improve it by working on AP HA."
"The integration with other products should be improved."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiWeb 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 FortiWeb writes "Cost-effective, easy to configure, and works very well as a single solution for multiple environments". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Imperva Web Application Firewall.
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