We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Fortinet FortiManager 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."
"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."
"It has been pretty stable since we deployed it, and everything seems to be working fine."
"The most valuable features are encrypted threat analysis and the ability to run jobs on entire flows."
"StealthWatch lets me see the ports running in and out and the country. It has excellent reporting, telemetry, and artificial intelligence features. With the telemetry, I can set thresholds to detect sudden changes and the alarms go through the PLC parts. I can see all the ports running on that trunk."
"The solution reduces the amount of time it takes to detect and remediate threats."
"The ability to send data flow from other places and have them all in one place is very valuable for us."
"The most valuable features provided by this solution are visibility and information."
"The most valuable feature is having visibility into the data segments throughout our network."
"Setup, setting policies, and reporting were all very easy. We had no issues whatsoever getting the solution up and running."
"FortiManager's best feature is the integration of administrator users."
"Fortinet FortiManager allows you to manage multiple FortiGate devices from a single console, and this is a valuable product feature."
"The user interface, along with user-friendly planning features, makes it straightforward to configure desired settings."
"Technical support is great. When we have sent urgent tickets and they do reply back within fifteen minutes."
"It can scale well."
"We look at the traffic to segment the network and it improves and increases the performance. When we have a mobile connection and local laptops are on the same network. We have seen a big performance upgrade."
"The capability of centralized management is valuable. We can configure all firewall boxes with the same configuration."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The initial setup is complex, as there is a lot to configure."
"I would like Cisco to make it easier for the administrators to use it."
"If there was one improvement I’d suggest it would be that it detect traffic through an intranet. The product requires that traffic flow through a managed network device. The product is designed mostly for enterprise environments and not smaller environments or businesses."
"Cisco could improve the administration for the customers."
"I think the interface is a little lacking. The interface seems like it just needs to be modernized. It's been the same interface now, ever since I've seen it probably four years ago."
"We need to be able to filter out internal IPs as non-threats."
"It is time-consuming to set it up and understand how the tool works."
"The visualization could be improved, the GUI is not the best."
"FortiManager could improve by making it easier to port larger policy packages to the FortiGate firewalls. Sometimes, there's an issue when we install a big package of policies. If you have a couple thousand policies for FortiGate firewalls, it can take a few minutes to receive a response from the remote devices. It's only an issue when you're dealing with thousands of policies and installing them on a large number of devices."
"The information extraction through command lines was could improve to some extent. Although there were some command lines available, there were not enough options. For instance, I needed to obtain the management IP address of my two Fortigates, but the Fortinet FortiManager did not provide me with the IP address on the LAN interface. I attempted to find this information through the command line but was unsuccessful. I also searched for articles on the internet, but could not find a solution. This is an aspect that could be improved or potentially there is a method to access this information that I have yet to discover."
"When we have a specific configuration pushed it does take some time to be deployed on the actual firewall."
"The solution has to be enhanced to manage new switches."
"Wizards could be improved in pushing policies."
"Its licensing model should be improved."
"Within the management of some features on FortiManager, specifically the management of user objects used for VPN service, FortiManager is quite weak."
"The solution could improve by having better integration with other solutions other than Fortinet."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 25th in Network Monitoring Software with 58 reviews while Fortinet FortiManager is ranked 3rd in Network Management Applications with 61 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiManager is rated 8.0. 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 Fortinet FortiManager writes "Easy to set up with good integration capabilities but we've had troubles when moving devices". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Fortinet FortiManager is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Fortinet FortiOS, Cisco DNA Center, Zabbix and Junos Space Network Director.
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