We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Flowmon based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Able to drill down into a center's utilization, then create reports based on it."
"The most valuable features provided by this solution are visibility and information."
"The most valuable feature is having visibility into the data segments throughout our network."
"The solution has increased our threat detection rate. Cisco Stealthwatch has not reduced our incident response times. It has not reduced the amount of time it takes us to detect immediate threats. It has reduced false positives."
"Stability is the most valuable feature we have seen in this solution."
"The most valuable features of this solution are its reporting and mitigation capabilities."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is data hoarding because it catches threats on a frequent basis that we had no idea of."
"Using the Cognitive Analytics feature, we have complete visibility that we didn’t have before."
"The solution is stable."
"It is an open platform, so in terms of integration, we are quite happy. We can integrate it with other SNMP solutions. We can also integrate it with security solutions, such as a SIEM solution."
"The artificial intelligence and automatic detection system in Flowmon Solution are perfect for every, type of customer, such as government and commerce."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"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."
"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."
"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's not great as a standalone solution."
"They should include Citrix VDIs in the next release."
"The version with the Dell server had iDRAC problems. Often, it reported iDRAC failure."
"If they can make this product more web-based, that would be amazing."
"It hasn't really improved our direct detection rate but it has definitely reduced our incident response time as we wouldn't have been able to detect threats or immediate risks without this solution."
"If there was better visualization in Flowmon Solution it would be good."
"It would be helpful to have more details about the monitoring of the infrastructure. It should have support for SNMP. This is something that is currently not there in the product."
"The licensing price could be better."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Flowmon is ranked 70th in Network Monitoring Software. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Flowmon 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 Flowmon writes "A stable and scalable solution allowing for the visibility of and the blocking of threats". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Flowmon is most compared with Darktrace, SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, WhatsUp Gold, Plixer Scrutinizer and Vectra AI. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. Flowmon report.
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