Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs Pico Corvil Analytics comparison

Cisco and PICO are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Cisco is ranked #33 with an average rating of 8.5, while PICO is ranked #69. Cisco holds a 0.9% mindshare in NMS, compared to PICO’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Cisco users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of PICO users who would recommend it.

Cisco Secure Network Analytics

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Cisco Secure Network Analytics

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

Pico Corvil Analytics and Cisco Secure Network Analytics are competing in the network data analysis and security category. Cisco offers more comprehensive enterprise features, making it the preferred choice for organizations seeking a robust system.

Features: Pico Corvil Analytics provides real-time data analytics, customizable dashboards, and effective support for performance analytics. Cisco Secure Network Analytics offers comprehensive threat detection, integration with Cisco products, and access to a wide threat intelligence network.

Room for Improvement: Pico Corvil Analytics could benefit from enhanced threat detection capabilities, broader integration options beyond performance analytics, and more advanced security features. Cisco Secure Network Analytics could focus on simplifying integration within non-Cisco environments, reducing deployment complexities, and lowering additional support costs.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Cisco Secure Network Analytics integrates seamlessly with existing Cisco systems but can be complex for organizations without Cisco infrastructure, and its comprehensive customer support may come with additional costs. Pico Corvil Analytics requires less complex integration and offers strong customer service with quick issue resolution.

Pricing and ROI: Pico Corvil Analytics is cost-effective with low setup costs, delivering quick ROI, appealing to smaller enterprises. Cisco Secure Network Analytics involves higher upfront costs but delivers long-term ROI through its robust security and analytics capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

Cisco Secure Network Analytics

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

33rd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) (5th), Network Detection and Response (NDR) (6th), Cisco Security Portfolio (8th)

Pico Corvil Analytics

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

69th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of Cisco Secure Network Analytics is 0.9%, down from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Pico Corvil Analytics is 0.6%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Monitoring Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Cisco Secure Network Analytics	0.9%
Pico Corvil Analytics	0.6%
Other	98.5%

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Muhammad Harun-Owr-Roshid

CEO at BRIGHT-i SYSTEMS LIMITED

Have streamlined network visibility and troubleshooting while seeing benefits from AI integration

In terms of improvements for Cisco Secure Network Analytics, from the implementation point of view, now that AI is in use, some other features need to be upgraded considering AI solutions. Proper management of the database is also important; it should be centralized for easier data collection from a single database. When precise manual analysis is needed, it's sometimes difficult, so having a centralized database will allow network admins to find actual scenarios more effectively, especially since some information may not be visible on the GUI. Cisco should upgrade their hardware part to run the database, because sometimes it cannot handle the load while all features are running in the network. The database management should indeed be centralized because while AI runs behind the systems, central management is essential. For example, in a network with 100 Cisco switches, a few routers, firewalls, and access points, all data generated should be preserved in a central database. This approach simplifies management and analysis for troubleshooting, as GUI interfaces may not always provide visible information. Centralizing the database will allow for better understanding of which information is preserved for each specific device.

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Ted Hruzd

Founder at AI Fit LLC

Helpful support agents, beneficial issue detection, and high availability

The creation of charts and real-time windows was somewhat cumbersome. The vendor's website had an application called App Agent that required improvement. This API was designed to track message rates between microservers ingested into a microservice memory map. It allowed users to monitor the number of transactions that occurred at specific points within the application, and it was quite impressive. However, it had some limitations, and it mainly served as a tool for basic tracking. The protocols it employed could reveal the type of server-to-server communication and the specific order types, but it was not able to provide a more in-depth analysis of the application. The vendor has the potential to integrate application metrics more extensively into their product suite. The product suite could benefit from more out-of-the-box predictive analytics capabilities, such as projecting market or symbol movements. However, it is unclear whether the vendor currently provides this functionality. Users may need to adjust their software to perform such analysis independently.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"Stealthwatch doubled our threat detection rate, while halving our incident response time and the time it takes us to detect and remediate threats."

"Cisco Stealthwatch has reduced the amount of time to detect an immediate threat."

"From a security standpoint, it is just seeing pockets as well. Visibility is very key for us."

"The most valuable feature is having visibility into the data segments throughout our network."

"Cisco Stealthwatch has improved our organization's analytics and threat protection capabilities by catching threats early on and it saved us a net fortune when we caught an employee constantly pulling three or four GBs of data from an FTP server."

"Stealthwatch reduced our incident response rate, as well as the amount of time it takes to detect and remediate threats by about 25%."

"Most valuable features are the network maps and server and network response time."

"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."

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"It allows us to trace the flow. The logic is built sufficiently for us to be able to break down clients' orders, underlying child orders, and execution. Thus, it's a good way for us to trace client flow through a myriad of different internal systems."

"Corvil definitely delivers a performance advantage for our firm over our competition because we are able to address all issues on a near real-time basis."

"Time-series graphs are very good for performance analysis. We can do comparisons... We can say this is the latency in the last 24 hours, and this was the same 24-hour period a week ago and overlay the two time-series graphs on top of each other, so we can see the difference. That's a really powerful tool for us."

"Corvil is really useful, if you want to produce statistics for your application across different platforms then I would definitely recommend it."

"We can use CLI with the UI for configuring the new monitoring system, which is good."

"It has all the decoders so it's capturing every network packet and it's decoding in real-time and it's giving us latency information in real-time... It's the real-time decoding and getting the latency information statistics that we find the most useful."

"The analytics features of Corvil are really good... As long as you know what the field is in the message, you can build your metrics based on that field... It means you can do the analytics that you actually care for. You can customize it..."

"We like the dashboards because they essentially organize all the sessions into one viewpoint."

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Cons

"The initial setup was straightforward but required a lot of data entry, to begin with building out the server types and network types."

"At my company, we might not be using it enough with other applications that we have that can integrate with it."

"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."

"We are continuing down the road of ACI and ISE with Cisco, so we would like to see the continuation of Stealthwatch integrating into ISE for exchange of information, and also, more into the ACI environment too."

"The ability to be natively integrated into Port Aggregator would be beneficial because it would reduce just one more component that's needed in order to have that type of view."

"It's too complicated to install, when starting out."

"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 initial setup was complex."

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"While the product is scalable, it's not easy to scale. It needs investment hardware and network bandwidth consideration. It's not something you can just do overnight."

"Before I got the Corvil training... one thing that was not very efficient was that every time you had to create a new stream or a new session from within Corvil... you had to tell it what protocol the message is going to come through and how to correlate messages, etc... After I went for the training, they had already added these nice features in the 9.4 version where it could do auto-discovery... Based on the traffic that it has already seen, it could create sessions on the fly."

"The analytics feature is very nice, but it's mostly software. We are hoping that it could be embedded in ASICs, so it could be faster."

"For FIX protocol, maybe we could have built-in configurations for signatures and decoders. Also, for certain protocols, which are newer, we would like to just add the signatures within the decoders itself."

"Sometimes, when you are saving any configuration and making changes, there are times something is missing. An error comes up, or sometimes there is no error, and the errors are not very straightforward as to the issue."

"It's quite difficult to see, sometimes, how hard your Corvil is working. When we had a very busy feed that chucked out a lot of data it wasn't working very well on Corvil. We had to raise a case for it. It turned out to be that, in fact, we were overloading Corvil."

"With the architecture that Corvil is built on, it's cumbersome."

"Alerting isn't great... you can only put in one email address in. And that's for all kinds of alerting on the box."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"One of the things which bugs me about Lancope is the licensing. We understand how licensing works. Our problem is when we bought and purchased most of these Lancope devices, we did so with our sister company. Somewhere within the purchase and distribution, licensing got mixed up. That is all on Cisco, and it is their responsibility. They allotted some of our sister company's equipment to us, and some of our equipment to them. To date, they have never been able to fix it."

"Licensing is done by flows per second, not including outside>in traffic."

"This is an expensive product. We have quit paying for support because we don't want to have to upgrade it and keep paying for it."

"The pricing for this solution is good."

"The licensing costs are outrageous."

"The tool is not cheaply priced."

"We pay for support costs on a yearly basis."

"Pricing is much higher compared to other solutions."

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"I like the way they've decoupled the hardware now... Everything's based on the licensing side now. The way they do the packs is fair. It's very flexible in that we're not charged per decoder, we're charged for a certain pack. Whether we use one decoder or 20 decoders, as long as they're in the same pack, there's no extra charge. Expensive but fair is how I'd summarize it."

"Corvil has reduced the time it takes us to isolate root causes."

"As I am working more with Corvil, it looks like it is improving diagnostic times."

"The pricing is very expensive. Corvil could work on the pricing."

"Pico Corvil Analytics is expensive. There are several competitors in the market. Selling this solution to a trading firm might be challenging as there are several other solutions available that can perform basic similar operations, such as using Wireshark and Python scripts to obtain the required values. However, that does not nearly approach the comprehensive end-2-end automated depth of metrics and their correlations that Pico Corvil Analytics provides."

"We bought a box from Corvil and it was $200,000 for one big CNE. Then there are obviously the recurring maintenance fees. The licensing is perpetual but the maintenance fees are not."

"It is pricey versus its competitors."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Construction Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

30%

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Small Business	12
Midsize Enterprise	7
Large Enterprise	52

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Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	6

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cisco Stealthwatch?

Regarding cost, for the Bangladesh context, Cisco Secure Network Analytics is a little bit high-priced because we are a developing country, making it tough to manage affordable solutions. However, ...

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What needs improvement with Cisco Stealthwatch?

Several features often look very promising during evaluation or implementation but end up being used only lightly in day-to-day operations. Advanced reporting and scheduled compliance reports look ...

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My main use case for Cisco Secure Network Analytics has been network visibility and anomaly-based threat detection within the enterprise environment. In security operations and VAPT-related activit...

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Also Known As

Cisco Stealthwatch, Cisco Stealthwatch Enterprise, Lancope StealthWatch

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Overview

Cisco Secure Network Analytics enhances network security through integrated threat detection and detailed traffic visibility, optimizing performance with AI analytics and strong platform integrations.

Cisco Secure Network Analytics offers deep visibility into network traffic, with tools like network maps and server response times. Its AI-driven analytics help detect threats, focusing on east-west traffic. Integration with platforms such as pxGrid and ISE complements its capabilities. Reporting and telemetry help in identifying bandwidth issues, yet improvements are desired in AI for better data organization. Installation complexity and false positives present challenges, and managing network loads effectively is a recognized need.

What are the key features of Cisco Secure Network Analytics?

Deep Visibility: Provides comprehensive insights into network traffic and server behavior.
Network Maps: Enhances understanding of traffic flow and infrastructure layout.
AI Analytics: Uses AI for superior threat detection and anomaly recognition.
Integration: Compatible with platforms like pxGrid and ISE for enhanced security management.
Telemetry: Delivers detailed bandwidth usage and traffic analysis reports.

How does Cisco Secure Network Analytics provide value?

Enhanced Security: Elevates threat detection and response capabilities.
Traffic Insights: Identifies encrypted and anomalous network behaviors.
Compliance Support: Assists in meeting industry standards for data protection.
Endpoint Protection: Guards network endpoints against potential threats.

Industries such as banking, defense, and police rely on Cisco Secure Network Analytics for securing networks against threats. Its capability to provide insights into encrypted traffic and facilitate device auditing makes it a sought-after choice for those requiring extensive network visibility. Users appreciate its application for threat prevention and response in demanding sectors.

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Pico Corvil Analytics offers advanced capabilities in latency measurement, data analysis, and real-time packet decoding. Its intuitive dashboards and comprehensive analytics support latency management and customizable metrics, enhancing performance monitoring and infrastructure optimization.

Designed to assist in latency monitoring and benchmarking, Pico Corvil Analytics is essential for tracking server and exchange latency, client connectivity, electronic trading environments, and order flows. It provides features like real-time analytics, custom dashboards, and anomaly detection, aiding in transaction scrutiny and market activity predictions. Users note the depth of analytics features, although there is a desire for iHub functionality within the app, simpler configurations, and more intuitive performance analytics and reporting.

What are the core features of Pico Corvil Analytics?

Latency Measurement: Precision tracking for server and exchange latency.
Data Analysis: Granular insights for enhanced trading efficiency.
Real-Time Packet Decoding: Immediate packet analysis for troubleshooting.
Visualization: Advanced dashboards enhancing data communication.
Intelligent Alerts: Proactive performance monitoring and collaborations.

What benefits can users expect from Pico Corvil Analytics?

Enhanced Trading Efficiency: Drives strategic upgrades and operational improvements.
Nuanced Network Analysis: Empowers detailed troubleshooting and network management.
Performance Monitoring: Aids infrastructure optimization through informed decisions.

Pico Corvil Analytics is widely implemented in industries requiring high-performance trading infrastructures, such as financial services and electronic trading environments. It supports users in predicting market activities and ensuring reliable, efficient trade execution. Custom dashboards and real-time analysis provide a competitive edge in these high-stakes arenas.

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Sample Customers

Edge Web Hosting, Telenor Norway, Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana, Webster Financial Corporation, Westinghouse Electric, VMware, TIAA-CREF

NASDAQ, Commerzbank, Pico Quantitative Trading, CME Group, Interactive Data, Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc.

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