We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Fortinet FortiWeb 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."
"From what I understand, you can encrypt and unencrypt traffic moving in transit. This is one of the features that we liked about it."
"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."
"From a security standpoint, it is just seeing pockets as well. Visibility is very key for us."
"The beginning of any security investigation starts with net flow data."
"The fact that it can identify down to an IP address of a system that is causing problems, or potentially causing problems, is very valuable."
"The most valuable feature is anomaly detection, where it finds things that are not allowed internally."
"Stability is the most valuable feature we have seen in this solution."
"We find that Stealthwatch can detect the unseen."
"It's stable and works efficiently against OWASP Top 10 attacks."
"The valuable feature of Fortinet FortiWeb vulnerability scanner"
"The solution is easy to configure and deploy."
"The product has a very user-friendly dashboard."
"The support services, performance, and pricing are all valuable features. The performance is excellent."
"It's easy to use and allows us to integrate solutions together."
"It helps us prevent attacks on servers."
"Technical support is very good."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"They should include Citrix VDIs in the next release."
"Reliance on Java. Get away from that."
"The GUI could use some improvement. Being able to find features more easily would be a great improvement if it was simplified."
"Cisco Stealthwatch can improve by having bundled packages for popular add-ons. It would be a lot easier for people implementing it, have let's say a better way to use the product."
"The usability of this solution needs to be improved."
"I would like Cisco to make it easier for the administrators to use it."
"The initial setup was straightforward but required a lot of data entry, to begin with building out the server types and network types."
"If they can make this product more web-based, that would be amazing."
"FortiGate could be improved on the security end because we've had some incidents with the customer. Otherwise, there is no problem."
"No solution is 100% secure and the security could always be worked on."
"It would also be helpful if they could introduce easier reporting. It's good to have those reports that go to C-level management, and Fortinet does provide some graphs, but if they went into some more detail, that would be great."
"Lacks a VM demo to enable testing prior to purchase."
"A better load balancer is needed when multiple servers are used for the same website."
"Describing security rules should be improved. It's tricky to define new feature tools when you want to describe an attack pattern and want to block it."
"I would like to have an antivirus option."
"We have had problems with deployments where we've had to contact technical support to resolve them."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiWeb 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 FortiWeb writes "Cost-effective, easy to configure, and works very well as a single solution for multiple environments". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Imperva Web Application Firewall.
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