We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Skybox Security Suite 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 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 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 solution allowed us to not only get gain insight but also start collaborating with other tools."
"Stealthwatch has greatly improved our network visibility, in terms of bandwidth, malware, and PCI violations."
"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."
"The deployment was a breeze. It is a very innovative and robust platform that allows us to bi-directionally stitch together data elements from Netflow-enabled devices to provide a context for network utilization."
"The beginning of any security investigation starts with net flow data."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco Secure Network Analytics is the Threat Intelligence integration."
"It's given us more visibility in terms of what are the kinds of configurations that are on these devices, and how many of these are stale rules. So it's helped greatly in terms of cleaning up of rules, for sure. And it has definitely given us a more secure way of backing up the configuration on these devices."
"The performance could be good because we chose it at the time, but it is too complex for us to appreciate its performance because we lack the necessary skills."
"The revalidation and policy recertifications are most valuable."
"Correlates logs and threats and prioritizes; provides network maps;p provides change result context and resulting vulnerability."
"This type of tool does a great job of reaching into those other devices producing risk recommendations, compliance recommendations, and a single plane of glass to do your queries, so you can find where these rules might exist."
"The port division management was the solution's most valuable aspect for our organization."
"The way that it's built with three-tier architecture, it makes it very horizontally scalable, so I can have multiple fallbacks. If one machine does fall offline, there are four other machines that are doing the exact same job to pick it up"
"Aside from Firewall Assurance, we are using Network Assurance and Change Manager for an overview of the whole network and for documenting requests and the recertification of the ruleset."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"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."
"It's not great as a standalone solution."
"We need to be able to filter out internal IPs as non-threats."
"The initial setup was complex."
"It's too complicated to install, when starting out."
"We determined that Stealthwatch wouldn't provide the machine learning model that we required."
"Cisco Stealthwatch needs more integration with device discovery. We have to do a lot of hard work to figure out what things are. Better service integration is required."
"Its granularity for RBAC roles-based access control needs improvement."
"Skybox should improve their UX features by making them easier to use."
"The initial setup with Skybox Security is hard. You need one or two strong security engineers on your team."
"If anything could be improved it would be staying on top of the collector scripts, but I understand that's a very tough challenge."
"There is room for improvement in pricing. It would be better, especially if a customer bought all four modules."
"The vendor's support is terrible."
"They are not satisfied with the complexity of the solution and the price."
"Modifications and the deletion of existing policies are currently unavailable."
"There are multiple dashboards but no custom dashboard. It would be good to include a custom dashboard so that we can actually choose which field and what kinds of things we want to look at."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Skybox Security Suite is ranked 19th in Vulnerability Management with 34 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Skybox Security Suite is rated 7.8. 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 Skybox Security Suite writes "Efficient in vulnerability management, stable and easy to use ". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Skybox Security Suite is most compared with AlgoSec, Tufin Orchestration Suite, FireMon Security Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama and RedSeal.
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