We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The most valuable feature we got out of Stealthwatch is to be able to, while troubleshooting, go deep into one of our interfaces and verify what the bandwidth is and if there's any activity there that's causing problems."
"Most of the engineers I've worked with have been really good. Very knowledgeable and easy to work with."
"The most valuable feature is anomaly detection, where it finds things that are not allowed internally."
"From what I understand, you can encrypt and unencrypt traffic moving in transit. This is one of the features that we liked about it."
"I believe this solution has reduced our incident response time."
"Cisco Stealthwatch has reduced the amount of time to detect an immediate threat."
"Stealthwatch has greatly improved our network visibility, in terms of bandwidth, malware, and PCI violations."
"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."
"With the IP address flag, I was able to see that I was being hacked. The moment there was an interaction between somebody on my network and that IP, the solution was able to flag it, and we were able to protect ourselves."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Threat Prevention for our company is the next generation firewall."
"The sandboxing tools offer great prevention for cloud feeds."
"It is a stable product."
"We are currently using the URL filtering feature, which is the most popular."
"Everything has been okay with the solution. We are using all of the features."
"You can scale the product."
"It's very easy to use and configure. What is nice about Palo Alto is that even if you don't understand how to use it, you can just click on upload and upload everything that needs to be blocked."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Many of these tools require extensive on-premises hardware to run."
"It is time-consuming to set it up and understand how the tool works."
"Stealthwatch needs improvement when it comes to speed."
"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 usability of this solution needs to be improved."
"We determined that Stealthwatch wouldn't provide the machine learning model that we required."
"We would like the solution to make more advances in the way that Extreme Networks has been doing."
"I think they can use some improvement on FID."
"Generally, to deploy it will take some downtime, about a day."
"Palo Alto's maintenance needs to be improved."
"The installation was complicated."
"The technology firewall anomaly network could stand improvement."
"Mission learning techniques should continue to expand and detect unknown threats on the fly."
"Sometimes when you want to group a set of ports, and communicate with Palo Alto, you cannot group TCP and UDP ports together. This needs to be adjusted."
"Right now we are focusing on email. If Palo Alto can increase the features related to email filtering and the new malware, it would help us protect our systems."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is ranked 6th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 24 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is rated 8.8. 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 Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention writes "A good amount of granularity and advanced URL filtering capabilities". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Splunk User Behavior Analytics, whereas Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is most compared with Check Point IPS, Fortinet FortiGate IPS, Arista NDR, Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall and Cisco Sourcefire SNORT. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention report.
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