We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Rapid7 Metasploit 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."
"Visibility. The ability to look East and West. To see what is passing through your circuits, where it is coming from, and how big it is."
"From what I understand, you can encrypt and unencrypt traffic moving in transit. This is one of the features that we liked about it."
"It provides good visibility to the customers. People are still evaluating it, but it provides visibility and helps them to take action to remediate and mitigate the issues that are highlighted on the dashboard. It has good integration with the Cisco switching platform."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the way the net flow is being merged together in a single pane. That's been extremely useful for us, because can see what's going on with traffic in one single place."
"The solution reduces the amount of time it takes to detect and remediate threats."
"The search options on Cisco Stealthwatch are the most valuable. You can get very granular with it, down to the kilobits or the seconds if you want. The product supports any time frame that you need, so that is nice."
"Using the Cognitive Analytics feature, we have complete visibility that we didn’t have before."
"It has improved our internal knowledge of what's going on with the network, and that's helpful."
"It is scalable. It's in line with our needs."
"The solution is open source and has many small targetted penetration tests that have been written by many people that are useful. You can choose different subjects for the test, such as Oracle databases or Apache servers."
"All of the features are great."
"Rapid7 Metasploit is a useful product."
"The greatest advantage of Rapid7 Metasploit is that it is the only system that can directly exploit vulnerabilities on the Metasploit platform."
"The option to generate phishing emails has proven to be very valuable in understanding the behavior of users."
"It contains almost all the available exploits and payloads."
"The most valuable feature for us is the support for testing Linux-based web server components."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The visualization could be improved, the GUI is not the best."
"The initial setup was straightforward but required a lot of data entry, to begin with building out the server types and network types."
"I would like to see a hybrid solution that can work without being connected directly to the internet for those destinations."
"One update that I would like to see is an agent-based client. Currently, Stealthwatch is network-based. A local agent could help manage endpoints."
"Its granularity for RBAC roles-based access control needs improvement."
"I would like to see interoperability with other Cisco products because we have ThousandEyes, Cisco Prime, and others. The interaction among these is important to us."
"It is time-consuming to set it up and understand how the tool works."
"One update I would like to see is an agent-based client. Currently StealthWatch is network based."
"The open-source version has reporting limitations. You need to develop these capabilities yourself. Built-in reporting is an excellent feature for penetration testing, but it isn't a must-have. The solution could also cover more vulnerabilities. Metasploit has around 10,000 exploits in its library, but more is always better."
"Metasploit cannot be installed on a machine with an antivirus."
"I think areas with shortcomings that need improvement are more integration and automation."
"The initial setup was a bit "tweaky" for the open-source version."
"I would like to see more capabilities, more functions, and more features. More types of attack vectors."
"There are numerous outdated exploits in their database that should be updated."
"The solution is not very scalable, it does not provide any automation to be able to scale it."
"Better automation capabilities would be an improvement."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Rapid7 Metasploit is ranked 11th in Vulnerability Management with 18 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Rapid7 Metasploit is rated 7.6. 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 Rapid7 Metasploit writes "Helps find vulnerabilities in a system to determine whether the system needs to be upgraded". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Rapid7 Metasploit is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Pentera, Rapid7 InsightVM, Acunetix and Nucleus.
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