We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series 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."
"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 fact that it can identify down to an IP address of a system that is causing problems, or potentially causing problems, is very valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco Secure Network Analytics is the Threat Intelligence integration."
"The most valuable feature is its alerts and dashboard."
"The feature most valuable for us is to gain visibility of what is actually floating through, so we can stop it based on whether it's good or bad traffic."
"Most of the engineers I've worked with have been really good. Very knowledgeable and easy to work with."
"There are already many functionalities, so I don't think there is anything to improve."
"The most valuable feature about this solution is that it gives me insight of my network."
"The solution strengthens our IT posture."
"It is nice to have a rock solid security platform that we can count on."
"I like the UI. Most things are accessible from the user interface and it is quite user-friendly. With respect to both VM-based firewalls and physical firewalls, it's easy to create updates."
"The most valuable features are web control and IPS/IDS."
"We use the product on our Azure network firewalls."
"The interface with Panorama makes it very easy to use."
"It scales linearly with load and no issues."
"The Palo Alto VM-Series is nice because I can move the firewalls easily."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Complexity on integration is not so straightforward and you really need an expert to help build it out."
"One update I would like to see is an agent-based client. Currently StealthWatch is network based."
"I would like to see more expansion in artificial intelligence and machine learning features."
"Stealthwatch is still maturing in AI. It uses artificial intelligence for predictions, but AI still needs to mature. It is in a phase where you get 95% correct detection. As its AI engine learns more, it will become more accurate. This is applicable to all the devices that are using AI because they support both supervised and unsupervised machine learning. The accuracy in the case of supervised machine learning is dependent on the data you feed into the box. The accuracy in the case of unsupervised machine learning is dependent on the algorithm. The algorithm matures depending on retrospective learning, and this is how it is able to detect zero-day attacks."
"It's a good solid solution but integration with Network Access Control products with Cisco ISE would be good."
"We've had problems with element licensing costs so scalability is a concern."
"The initial setup is complex, as there is a lot to configure."
"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 only minor issue we've faced is with the app's ID configuration, which requires specific matching for application filtering."
"The current licensing model can be a sore point as we're paying for features we're not fully utilizing."
"We have run into some issues with scaling and limitations associated with some of the configurations."
"The product needs improvement in their Secure Access Service Edge."
"They made only a halfhearted attempt to put in DLP (Data Loss Prevention)."
"The utilization monitoring and GUI have room for improvement."
"The solution must improve Zero Trust integration and use cases."
"The product's AIOps process needs improvement."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 52 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. 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 VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Fortinet FortiGate, Cisco Secure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls.
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