We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and IBM Security Network IPS 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."
"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 features provided by this solution are visibility and information."
"It has improved our internal knowledge of what's going on with the network, and that's helpful."
"The ability to send data flow from other places and have them all in one place is very valuable for us."
"StealthWatch lets me see the ports running in and out and the country. It has excellent reporting, telemetry, and artificial intelligence features. With the telemetry, I can set thresholds to detect sudden changes and the alarms go through the PLC parts. I can see all the ports running on that trunk."
"Being able to identify specific date closed across the network is invaluable."
"Most valuable features are the network maps and server and network response time."
"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 initial setup is simple."
"The most valuable feature is its simplicity."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Reliance on Java. Get away from that."
"It hasn't really improved our direct detection rate but it has definitely reduced our incident response time as we wouldn't have been able to detect threats or immediate risks without this solution."
"It's not great as a standalone solution."
"One thing I would like to see improved is if it could automatically be tied through ISE, instead of you having to manually get notifications and disable it yourself."
"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."
"We've had problems with element licensing costs so scalability is a concern."
"Initially, I felt Cisco Secure Network Analytics lacked integration with Splunk."
"We haven't seen ROI."
"I'd like to see more integration with other tools and technologies."
"In the future, I would like to see a hybrid option so that we can work both on-premises and in the cloud."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while IBM Security Network IPS is ranked 24th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 4 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while IBM Security Network IPS is rated 7.2. 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 IBM Security Network IPS writes "User-friendly and has a good blocking feature but is quite expensive". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas IBM Security Network IPS is most compared with Darktrace and Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention.
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