2020-08-04T07:41:00Z
Rony_Sklar - PeerSpot reviewer
Community Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
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What are your top considerations when choosing a Network Traffic Analysis tool?

What are the most important criteria to keep in mind when choosing an NTA tool?

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Nicholas Arraje - PeerSpot reviewer
Regional Sales Director at Bricata
Vendor
2020-09-01T23:31:11Z
Sep 1, 2020

1. Visibility, ability to provide deep insight into all of the network traffic. 


2. Analytic engines, the ability to use multiple detection engines like ML-based, Zeek, Suricata, etc. 


3. Scale, ability to address policy requirements for N/S and E/W deployments on-prem or in the cloud along with scaleable retention (weeks/months) for PCAP or network metadata.  


4. Any and all NTA solutions need to be able to ingest threat intel and be able to integrate easily into SOAR and SIEM solutions. 


5. It needs to fit with budget!

Rony_Sklar - PeerSpot reviewer
Community Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Community Manager
Sep 2, 2020

Thanks @Nicholas Arraje ​this is really useful.

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