We performed a comparison between Check Point SandBlast Network and Cisco Secure Network Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet and others in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)."One of its characteristics that we liked the most was its analysis and emulation of activities in the emails since it manages to review them and inspect them if they have an infected attachment."
"It looks out for new cyber threats and generates predictions based on behaviors that are already detected on a daily basis."
"The technology is impressive in general."
"The main feature of the solution is that it protects against malicious threats from the outside."
"The zero-day protection is its most valuable feature."
"The product gives us advanced protection, including artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies and services."
"Threat extraction can help us to remove malicious content from documents by converting them to PDF."
"Threat Emulation gives networks the necessary protection against unknown threats in files that are attached to emails. The Threat Emulation engine picks up malware at the exploit phase before it enters the network. It quickly quarantines and runs the files in a virtual sandbox, which imitates a standard operating system, to discover malicious behavior before hackers can apply evasion techniques to bypass the sandbox."
"Overall, the implementation is very good."
"Great network monitoring, looking at anomaly detection and evaluation."
"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."
"Using this solution has helped us to detect and identify viruses or malicious activity in the network early on."
"The solution's analytics and thrust detection capabilities are good. We're still adjusting it. It's a little hypersensitive, but it is working right now."
"The deployment was a breeze. It is a very innovative and robust platform that allows us to bi-directionally stitch together data elements from Netflow-enabled devices to provide a context for network utilization."
"It works efficiently for encrypted traffic analysis."
"EDR and EPM solutions like Carbon Black or CyberArk have integrations with the cloud version of Sandblast, however, there must be on-premise Sandblast options also."
"The technical support could use some work, but it's okay. It's a little bit of a tedious process to get through."
"I imagine there will be improvements in later versions. There are hotfixes that come out all the time."
"The initial setup was complex because of the lack of information from the consultant."
"I am very leery right now about the stability. We've had three outages in the last month because of Check Point, not because of something that the customer has done, but because of changes on the Check Point side."
"Using it in the beginning was difficult because I had never used anything similar. In terms of navigating the UI, it was all not too bad, but there is definitely a learning curve."
"The Threat Emulation software blade significantly affects the performance of the NGFWs, we have a significant increase in the CPU and memory consumption."
"Most of the time stability is okay, but sometimes, we're not able to contact the cloud. It won't last for long. The product could be faster."
"The usability of this solution needs to be improved."
"They should include Citrix VDIs in the next release."
"Initially, I felt Cisco Secure Network Analytics lacked integration with Splunk."
"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."
"The initial setup was complex."
"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."
"It is time-consuming to set it up and understand how the tool works."
"We determined that Stealthwatch wouldn't provide the machine learning model that we required."
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Check Point SandBlast Network is ranked 8th in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 33 reviews while Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews. Check Point SandBlast Network is rated 8.4, while Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Check Point SandBlast Network writes "High detection with few false positives and able to handle large volumes of data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Secure Network Analytics writes "Increased the visibility of what is happening in our network". Check Point SandBlast Network is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Fortinet FortiSandbox, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Trellix Network Detection and Response and Symantec Advanced Threat Protection, whereas Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR.
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