We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and NetWitness Platform 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 single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"Most valuable features are the network maps and server and network response time."
"The most valuable feature is integration."
"The solution allowed us to not only get gain insight but also start collaborating with other tools."
"It has been pretty stable since we deployed it, and everything seems to be working fine."
"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."
"The most valuable features provided by this solution are visibility and information."
"The most valuable features of this solution are its reporting and mitigation capabilities."
"This product alleviates the day-to-day headaches for us, in regards to metrics."
"NetWitness can be highly beneficial for incident detection and response."
"The most valuable features are the packet decoder, log decoder, and concentrator."
"The most valuable feature is the correlation. It can report in real-time and monitor the management."
"It gives the ability to investigate into network traffic in the Net and the organization what we couldn't do before."
"The most valuable features are the threat prediction and network forensics."
"The product's initial setup phase was not at all difficult."
"The most valuable features are the integration and ease of use."
"Setting up NetWitness is straightforward. There are multiple connectors, including standard and specialized connectors. One purpose of the connectors is the enhanced capability integrate the custom applications. NetWitness comes with E6 appliances and application images that we use for the initial configurations and for the OS stack information. From there, you can consider the correlation rules, integrate the different log sources, and easily create correlation rules and backlog reports."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It is time-consuming to set it up and understand how the tool works."
"It's a good solid solution but integration with Network Access Control products with Cisco ISE would be good."
"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."
"There could be better integration on the programming side, which uses Python. StealthWatch could provide a template for Python to manage the switches. For example, it would be nice if StealthWatch bounced a port automatically it detected something anomalous."
"One area that could be improved in SNA is the integration with Cisco ISE for user and session details, which currently requires additional setup."
"Stealthwatch needs improvement when it comes to speed."
"There's a lot of traffic on our network that we don't see sometimes."
"They should include Citrix VDIs in the next release."
"Health monitoring of the event sources and devices."
"Its technical support could be better."
"The initial setup is complex. There are other solutions that are easier to implement."
"The multi-tenant capabilities are lagging compared to IBM QRadar."
"Technical support could be improved."
"Security needs improvement."
"The user interface is a little bit difficult for new users and it needs to be improved."
"If we have the ability to run a dynamic analysis through malware in the same suite, it would be great to have a sandbox solution to analyze malware through dynamic analysis."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 25th in Network Monitoring Software with 58 reviews while NetWitness Platform is ranked 18th in Log Management with 36 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while NetWitness Platform is rated 7.4. 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 NetWitness Platform writes "Can find out if there is lateral movement, but integration and workflow need improvement". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas NetWitness Platform is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, RSA enVision, IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel and Trellix Network Detection and Response.
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