We performed a comparison between Arbor DDoS and Cisco Secure Network Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cloudflare, NETSCOUT, Akamai and others in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection."The auto-mitigation, that signaling feature, where it automatically raises an alarm that a line is under attack, is important. The upstream service provider will then do something to reduce the load on our internet lines. The fact that it's automated means I don't have to sit and always be looking at threats coming through. It does it almost automatically, without any intervention by me."
"The artificial intelligence feature is most appreciated. This solution can lower the throughput and clear the traffic, which is something really important for us. It also provides good protection. It is user-friendly, and its integration has also been really fast. We have many critical applications, and it was easy to integrate Arbor DDoS with our website, mobile application, and web banking."
"Arbor DDoS is easy to use, provides effective blocking of DDoS attacks, and can be used for DNS, web, and main servers. Additionally, this solution is far easier to operate than others solutions, such as Fortinet DDoS."
"It provides packet capture and we can block or whitelist whichever IPs we need to. Whatever traffic we want to block - and we get IPs from internal teams and from national teams - we block at the Arbor level only, because if it gets to the firewall then firewall bandwidth will be taken."
"The stateless device format means that the box is very strong for preventing DDoS attacks."
"Valuable features include simple and centralized management of user access and capabilities, as well as Web 2.0 interactive attack alerting, traffic visualization, and mitigation service control."
"There were huge attacks in October, around 62 attacks at 30 gigabits per second, at one of our banks. We used Arbor DDoS to mitigate these attacks, and it performed great."
"The solution provides good protection against volumetric DDoS attacks."
"The most valuable feature is integration."
"Using the Cognitive Analytics feature, we have complete visibility that we didn’t have before."
"The solution has increased our threat detection rate. Cisco Stealthwatch has not reduced our incident response times. It has not reduced the amount of time it takes us to detect immediate threats. It has reduced false positives."
"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."
"Being able to identify specific date closed across the network is invaluable."
"It has been pretty stable since we deployed it, and everything seems to be working fine."
"The ability to send data flow from other places and have them all in one place is very valuable for us."
"From a security standpoint, it is just seeing pockets as well. Visibility is very key for us."
"The solution could be more granular to include logs per second and enhanced pipeline monitoring for router licenses."
"An improvement to Arbor DDoS would be to make evaluation licenses and virtual machines available."
"The regional support here in African could improve, such as marketing and account managers."
"There is always room for improvement for any product or service. If we can bring in more agility when deploying services, that is definitely a scope which we can work towards. Nowadays, everything is being offered as a service model. It is not that we have to deploy the physical hardware, many things move up to the cloud, or even can be delivered in the VNS form in the customer's environment as well. So, in that space, if we can add more features to make it more seamless for customers to use and make it available through some marketplace, not only at the hyperscalers, but also for any on-prem deployment, that definitely would be a big plus."
"They should improve the reporting section and make it a little bit more detailed. I would like to have much better and more detailed reports."
"The solution needs to enhance its features to compete with other tools."
"We need a SaaS model for the solution."
"The solution's shortcomings are related to its documentation, so it's an area that needs to improve."
"If they can make this product more web-based, that would be amazing."
"Complexity on integration is not so straightforward and you really need an expert to help build it out."
"Cisco could improve the administration for the customers."
"Better integration between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Cisco Secure Workload would be beneficial."
"It's a good solid solution but integration with Network Access Control products with Cisco ISE would be good."
"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."
"Stealthwatch needs improvement when it comes to speed."
"The reporting of day-to-day metrics still has room for improvement."
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Arbor DDoS is ranked 2nd in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 46 reviews while Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews. Arbor DDoS is rated 8.6, while Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Arbor DDoS writes "A critical solution for security, as it includes features that can automatically detect and prevent DDoS attacks". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Secure Network Analytics writes "Increased the visibility of what is happening in our network". Arbor DDoS is most compared with Radware DefensePro, Cloudflare, Corero, Imperva DDoS and A10 Thunder TPS, whereas Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR.
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