We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Qualys VMDR 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."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is its alerts and dashboard."
"I believe this solution has reduced our incident response time."
"Ease of deployment, once you get your ducks in a row."
"Cisco Stealthwatch has predefined alerts for different types of security issues that might happen in the network. Whether it's PCs or servers that are used for botnets or Bitcoin mining we receive the alerts automatically. This functionality is what we receive from the solution out of the box."
"It has been pretty stable since we deployed it, and everything seems to be working fine."
"It works efficiently for encrypted traffic analysis."
"Stealthwatch has greatly improved our network visibility, in terms of bandwidth, malware, and PCI violations."
"Monitors workstations and servers for vulnerabilities and creates reports."
"Great web application security for scanning."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"This is one of the best products I have worked with so far. I like the power of Qualys, and it's a better solution because you can scan a compact file, a BIT file, or batch files. The product already knows what's happening inside, and you don't need to expand the package. Tenable will do the same thing, but you need to have a package issuance claim. With Qualys, we can immediately understand the file, even a compact file. If there's some kind of discovery or incident, you will know what happened in the environment."
"The initial setup was good. We didn't have any problems with it."
"Qualys has a continuous endpoint monitoring feature for agent-based scanning. Once you deploy the solution, it monitors everything that is happening every 30 minutes. Then, if there are any vulnerabilities, they are reported."
"The biggest benefit is from a security operations perspective, where we are able to drive our security posture upwards by remediating any discovered vulnerabilities."
"The Vulnerability Management and Patch Management features are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It is time-consuming to set it up and understand how the tool works."
"I would like to see more expansion in artificial intelligence and machine learning features."
"At my company, we might not be using it enough with other applications that we have that can integrate with it."
"I would like to see more and cleaner reporting. For example, if I pull up Steven and I want to look and maybe compare him to what you've done in the past week, and compare that to the past six months, the point would be to see what the difference in activity looks like over this time. I don't see that capability in reporting to date. You see that trend but you don't really see a straightforward comparison. That right there is key to what we want to see about the normal activity."
"The reporting of day-to-day metrics still has room for improvement."
"The usability of this solution needs to be improved."
"If there was one improvement I’d suggest it would be that it detect traffic through an intranet. The product requires that traffic flow through a managed network device. The product is designed mostly for enterprise environments and not smaller environments or businesses."
"Many of these tools require extensive on-premises hardware to run."
"They're still evolving their platform in terms of reporting capabilities."
"I would like to have CSPM, a continuous scan-like cloud added to the solution."
"Qualys VM could improve by having more skilled support personnel."
"Qualys could be improved in its overall performance compared to other vulnerability management or scanning tools."
"Sometimes the scanning can get overwhelmed and start to drag when a lot of users are trying to scan at once."
"Qualys could improve the inbuilt dashboards."
"It's not very user-friendly at times and requires in-depth understanding. So, a layman or someone new to Qualys won't be able to easily understand it. You need education to use the solution."
"It is a struggle to be able to pull our report and to be able to do onboarding using automated tools."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Qualys VMDR is ranked 3rd in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 77 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2. 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 Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Tenable Vulnerability Management.
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