We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Palo Alto Networks WildFire based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The most valuable feature about this solution is that it gives me insight of my network."
"Cisco Secure Network Analytics has increased the visibility of what is happening in our network, and I think that's the most important reason to use it. We can see what is really happening instead of just looking at numbers from routers or switches."
"Overall, the implementation is very good."
"Another notable feature of Cisco Secure Network Analytics is its Layer 7 visibility, which allows us to monitor and analyze network communications at the application layer."
"The feature most valuable for us is to gain visibility of what is actually floating through, so we can stop it based on whether it's good or bad traffic."
"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 this solution has helped us to detect and identify viruses or malicious activity in the network early on."
"The beginning of any security investigation starts with net flow data."
"It gives a more accurate assessment of a virus in terms of whether it's truly a virus, malware, or a false positive. We have some legacy software that could pop up as being something that is malware. WildFire goes through and inspects it, and then it comes back and lets us know if it's a false positive. Usually, when it finds out that it's not a virus, it lets us know that it's benign, and it can exclude it from that scan, which means I don't even have to worry about that one popping up anymore."
"The most valuable features of the solution are user-friendliness, price, good security, and cloud-related options."
"The most valuable features are all of the security features in terms of protection and SSL and VPN."
"The analysis is very fast."
"The most valuable feature is the cloud-based protection against zero-day malware attacks."
"My primary use case for this solution is for a secure gateway."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks WildFire is its ability to adapt to environments and its robustness."
"Scalable ATP solution that's quick to set up. It demonstrates good performance and stability."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Cisco Stealthwatch can improve by having bundled packages for popular add-ons. It would be a lot easier for people implementing it, have let's say a better way to use the product."
"We would like the solution to make more advances in the way that Extreme Networks has been doing."
"Initially, I felt Cisco Secure Network Analytics lacked integration with Splunk."
"We've run into some issues with the configuration."
"It hasn't really improved our direct detection rate but it has definitely reduced our incident response time as we wouldn't have been able to detect threats or immediate risks without this solution."
"Some of our customers find this solution to be a little bit tough because they don't understand how to configure and use it."
"Its granularity for RBAC roles-based access control needs improvement."
"We determined that Stealthwatch wouldn't provide the machine learning model that we required."
"In the future, Palo Alto could reduce the time it takes to process the file."
"Any enhancements should likely be focused on the firewall appliance to further strengthen overall security capabilities, such as refining app and user identity features."
"They can keep on doing more updates. As new malware and viruses are coming out, they can make sure that WildFire is up to date."
"It would be nice if there was an easier way to install and deploy it, such as through the inclusion of wizards."
"The initial setup was a little bit complex, mainly due to the GUI console and management challenges."
"There are some formats that the solution cannot support ."
"When comparing this solution to others it is not as good overall."
"Management and web filtering can be improved. There should also be better reporting, particularly around web filtering."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 25th in Network Monitoring Software with 58 reviews while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is rated 8.4. 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 Palo Alto Networks WildFire writes "Good technical support and provides automatic analysis that saves us time in filtering email". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Proofpoint Email Protection and Fortinet FortiSandbox.
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