We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection 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."
"Cisco Stealthwatch provides the solutions analytics and threat detection capabilities that I am looking for. It has also improved the network visibility of our organization."
"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 most valuable feature is anomaly detection, where it finds things that are not allowed internally."
"The most valuable feature about this solution is that it gives me insight of my network."
"Cisco Stealthwatch has reduced the amount of time to detect an immediate threat."
"Ease of deployment, once you get your ducks in a row."
"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."
"This product alleviates the day-to-day headaches for us, in regards to metrics."
"Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection allows us to manage our overall addresses and IT in one location. Many companies are using this solution, it is very popular."
"The solution helps to identify and mitigate DNS attacks."
"I like that Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is one hundred percent good, performance-wise."
"The most valuable features of Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection are the services, DHCP, and debugging. Additionally, we can use APIs and ansible scripts."
"Infoblox offers granularity and advanced DNS protection to mitigate DNS attacks. It's a very secure solution."
"The solution's user interface is very smooth compared to other products."
"The security of the solution is perfect. It's very good at protecting us from attacks."
"DHCP is a basic service, and they've been doing it for years, so it's mature and stable."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The customizability of the UI should improve."
"Reliance on Java. Get away from that."
"I would like the search page available with Cisco Stealthwatch to be more intuitive. The previous release was better than the current one for the UI."
"Some of our customers find this solution to be a little bit tough because they don't understand how to configure and use it."
"Stealthwatch is still maturing in AI. It uses artificial intelligence for predictions, but AI still needs to mature. It is in a phase where you get 95% correct detection. As its AI engine learns more, it will become more accurate. This is applicable to all the devices that are using AI because they support both supervised and unsupervised machine learning. The accuracy in the case of supervised machine learning is dependent on the data you feed into the box. The accuracy in the case of unsupervised machine learning is dependent on the algorithm. The algorithm matures depending on retrospective learning, and this is how it is able to detect zero-day attacks."
"I would like Cisco to make it easier for the administrators to use it."
"There's a lot of traffic on our network that we don't see sometimes."
"It's a good solid solution but integration with Network Access Control products with Cisco ISE would be good."
"The solution is expensive."
"The service monitoring information could be simplified of this appliance and the information displayed on the dashboards could be improved. I have not found one dashboard to be perfect. For example, in Splunk, I can create a dashboard in Grafana. However, in Grafana, it takes a very long time to create them. There should be another API to do it better."
"There should be better alerts for when attacks are happening."
"The solution's logging could be improved."
"Infoblox lacks an extensive product portfolio."
"There needs to be more capabilities in order to configure the console itself instead of the user interface dashboard. Configuring the DNS or DHCP through the console instead of the GUI dashboard would be better."
"I think only the technical documentation and administration of box could be a little bit improved."
"They are not supporting high query logging. They have a very limited size for the syslog, so they are usually asking for external storage, external network, and integration in order to keep the syslog. If you are considering the high volume traffic of the carrier-grade, then the syslog will hold for around five to 10 minutes. This is not enough time and it is being rotated. This is the main issue and the main limitation that we face with them that they need to work on."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is ranked 2nd in Domain Name System (DNS) Security with 12 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection 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 Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection writes "Stable, with good performance, and has no issues, support-wise". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, F5 BIG-IP DNS, Palo Alto Networks DNS Security, Zscaler Internet Access and EfficientIP DNS Guardian.
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