We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Cisco Umbrella based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cisco Security Portfolio solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The beginning of any security investigation starts with net flow data."
"The most valuable features of this solution are its reporting and mitigation capabilities."
"I value the feature which enables me to detect devices talking to suspect IPs."
"The most valuable feature we got out of Stealthwatch is to be able to, while troubleshooting, go deep into one of our interfaces and verify what the bandwidth is and if there's any activity there that's causing problems."
"Being able to graph and show data to management has improved our organization. We can show the data to the higher-ups. It shows them that it's picking up on these anomalies and doing its job."
"Being able to identify specific date closed across the network is invaluable."
"The most valuable feature about this solution is that it gives me insight of my network."
"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."
"One of the most important features is the security posture check which Umbrella offers when a user accesses any website. That is one of the most unique features that it offers."
"Cisco Umbrella is a totally different solution. They are the first to come up with this idea of security. It's a totally new concept of security for everybody, for every time, real time, perfectionism."
"There is much differentiation within the licensing so if anyone wants DNS security from the DNS security log, we are there already, and if anyone wants to go to a secure internet gateway, that is also available. We can get the integrated cloud DLP license keys. That is a good benefit with Cisco Umbrella. You can get a complete solution in a single licensing."
"The implementation is pretty easy."
"The solution is very easy to manage. We found the initial setup, for example, to be quite simple."
"Stability-wise, it's good. I have never encountered any bugs."
"It has helped reduce my unit's security events."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its reliability."
"At my company, we might not be using it enough with other applications that we have that can integrate with it."
"I would like to see more expansion in artificial intelligence and machine learning features."
"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."
"If they can make this product more web-based, that would be amazing."
"The ability to be natively integrated into Port Aggregator would be beneficial because it would reduce just one more component that's needed in order to have that type of view."
"I would like to see some improvement when it comes to reporting."
"Stealthwatch needs improvement when it comes to speed."
"One update I would like to see is an agent-based client. Currently StealthWatch is network based."
"If the virtual appliances could also gather traffic bandwidth reports, that would be great."
"Missing a real data leakage prevention solution."
"Cisco Umbrella hasn't integrated customized reporting yet. With Cisco Secure Endpoint Hub, I can see a report on user downloads and set it up to constantly get an email alert. Based on my understanding, Cisco Umbrella can't do that. You can set it up with third parties, but it would be better if that were built into the platform."
"The locks and management could be better. The product is fairly new, and it may take some time to get all the features up and running."
"I would like to see DLP integration in the next release of this solution."
"I am unsure if Cisco Umbrella offers a Windows option for running the server."
"I would like to see more integrability with other products."
"The integration with other solutions is a little complex. If you want to integrate with something like ArcSight or LogRhythm or Splunk, you need to do a lot of configuration. There are no easy ways to implement it."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 3rd in Cisco Security Portfolio with 57 reviews while Cisco Umbrella is ranked 2nd in Cisco Security Portfolio with 108 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Cisco Umbrella is rated 8.8. 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 Cisco Umbrella writes "Protects endpoints wherever they are, always pushing people to the right locations to avoid malicious intent". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Cisco SecureX, whereas Cisco Umbrella is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Palo Alto Networks DNS Security and Fortinet FortiGate SWG. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. Cisco Umbrella report.
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