We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and IBM Security Network IPS 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 most valuable feature is its alerts and dashboard."
"It works efficiently for encrypted traffic analysis."
"The ability to send data flow from other places and have them all in one place is very valuable for us."
"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."
"It has been pretty stable since we deployed it, and everything seems to be working fine."
"Cisco Stealthwatch has reduced the amount of time to detect an immediate threat."
"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 its simplicity."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"We had some trouble with the installation as we migrated from our previous solution."
"I would like to see it better organized when I'm looking at it."
"If they can make this product more web-based, that would be amazing."
"The initial setup is complex, as there is a lot to configure."
"It's a good solid solution but integration with Network Access Control products with Cisco ISE would be good."
"Its granularity for RBAC roles-based access control needs improvement."
"We need to be able to filter out internal IPs as non-threats."
"Complexity on integration is not so straightforward and you really need an expert to help build it out."
"In the future, I would like to see a hybrid option so that we can work both on-premises and in the cloud."
"I'd like to see more integration with other tools and technologies."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while IBM Security Network IPS is ranked 24th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 4 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while IBM Security Network IPS is rated 7.2. 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 IBM Security Network IPS writes "User-friendly and has a good blocking feature but is quite expensive". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas IBM Security Network IPS is most compared with Darktrace and Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention.
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