We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Fortinet FortiSandbox 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 solution reduces the amount of time it takes to detect and remediate threats."
"It has improved our internal knowledge of what's going on with the network, and that's helpful."
"It is a good application, providing for real-time monitoring of the organization of data. It can basically identify points of peak traffic where possible issues are being caused."
"The most valuable feature is NetFlow. The beginning of any security investigation starts with NetFlow data."
"It works efficiently for encrypted traffic analysis."
"Provides easily identifiable anomalies that you can't see with signature detections."
"Most valuable features are the network maps and server and network response time."
"It provides good visibility to the customers. People are still evaluating it, but it provides visibility and helps them to take action to remediate and mitigate the issues that are highlighted on the dashboard. It has good integration with the Cisco switching platform."
"Fortinet FortiSandbox puts suspicious files in quarantine, analyzes for virus risks, and lets them out of quarantine if it detects no risk."
"It is an easily scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature is the protection and the way it works, the technology is what I like the most."
"The solution has the highest stability...The solution's setup is not complex as they are already included in Fortinet."
"The analysis engine is a very valuable feature."
"The solution extracts an attached file before reaching the user and notifies the user if there's something malicious in the attachment received along with an email."
"The product is great. It can be deployed on the cloud or on-premises."
"The solution is very good because it catches a lot of threats in emails."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"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."
"It is time-consuming to set it up and understand how the tool works."
"I would like Cisco to make it easier for the administrators to use it."
"Some of our customers find this solution to be a little bit tough because they don't understand how to configure and use it."
"The GUI could use some improvement. Being able to find features more easily would be a great improvement if it was simplified."
"We haven't seen ROI."
"It's too complicated to install, when starting out."
"The version with the Dell server had iDRAC problems. Often, it reported iDRAC failure."
"It should be easier to import custom virtual machines. Some of the VMs that are in FortiSandbox don't have the applications that we have in our environment. We need to import a VM with specific applications that we use in our environment. Have all the licenses because this is a real environment. You need a license for the Windows client you run on it. It's possible to import custom VMs, but it's a pain to do it. I would like a tool that simplifies the process."
"I don't know if it is viable to do an improvement like this. When there are passwords in the password-protected files, it can't scan them or do things like this. I don't know if an algorithm or something else could make it better. Nowadays, many legitimate office documents have passwords."
"When you reach the maximum capacity, you cannot upgrade the solution because its hardware is very expensive."
"In future releases, I would like to see more automation capabilities."
"Fortinet FortiSandbox should improve its performance and security accuracy to keep competitive with other solutions, such as IBM."
"The area I would like this solution to be improved in is the integrations for Sandbox with AI and big data ML mechanisms. I think this would be a practical improvement."
"Product could include a user interface and be made simpler for customers to configure."
"In the next release, I would like to see machine learning and anti-exploitation included."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Fortinet FortiSandbox is ranked 4th in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 36 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiSandbox is rated 8.2. 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 FortiSandbox writes "Light and powerful solution design; useful to have". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Fortinet FortiSandbox is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Trellix Network Detection and Response, Check Point SandBlast Network, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and VMRay.
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