We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Fortinet FortiSIEM 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."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the way the net flow is being merged together in a single pane. That's been extremely useful for us, because can see what's going on with traffic in one single place."
"We find that Stealthwatch can detect the unseen."
"Great network monitoring, looking at anomaly detection and evaluation."
"The most valuable feature is having visibility into the data segments throughout our network."
"The solution allowed us to not only get gain insight but also start collaborating with other tools."
"The deployment was a breeze. It is a very innovative and robust platform that allows us to bi-directionally stitch together data elements from Netflow-enabled devices to provide a context for network utilization."
"Provides easily identifiable anomalies that you can't see with signature detections."
"The most valuable feature about this solution is that it gives me insight of my network."
"FortiSIEM helped us discover all the threats at the time that were attacking the IT services of the company. We now have multiple-level authentication."
"Analytics. It can provide log information from the device. With log information, I can see if there is a threat"
"It works well with medium to large-scale enterprises."
"The stability is very reliable. It offers very good performance."
"The primary valuable feature is that it has replaced a whole lot of other products with one platform."
"The event correlation is pretty robust. The GUI is pretty good."
"Its automated response feature has benefited our customer communication. Analysts feel more confident in providing timely responses."
"The solution is very stable. It's run for years without the need to do anything except, add new patches when they are available, which are always a good idea to install."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The reporting of day-to-day metrics still has room for improvement."
"The initial setup was straightforward but required a lot of data entry, to begin with building out the server types and network types."
"Cisco Stealthwatch needs more integration with device discovery. We have to do a lot of hard work to figure out what things are. Better service integration is required."
"The visualization could be improved, the GUI is not the best."
"I would like to see interoperability with other Cisco products because we have ThousandEyes, Cisco Prime, and others. The interaction among these is important to us."
"We are continuing down the road of ACI and ISE with Cisco, so we would like to see the continuation of Stealthwatch integrating into ISE for exchange of information, and also, more into the ACI environment too."
"It is time-consuming to set it up and understand how the tool works."
"Initially, I felt Cisco Secure Network Analytics lacked integration with Splunk."
"Fortinet FortiSIEM could improve by having a signature update."
"Our customers are noticing configuration available in the GUI interface and I think that they should be equal."
"The process of installing Fortinet FortiSIEM and the customization of the alerts take too long."
"We expect the latest patch from Fortinet FortiSIEM to give the ability to work with signature files."
"Fortinet FortiSIEM could improve to extend to several locations or sites."
"I would like to see easier implementation in the future."
"The policy editing should be easier. Right now, it's too hard."
"When our team tried configuring logs for Microsoft SQL, it did not work."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Fortinet FortiSIEM is ranked 9th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 65 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiSIEM is rated 7.6. 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 FortiSIEM writes "It's cheaper than other solutions with the same features but lacks integration with many third-party vendors". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Fortinet FortiSIEM is most compared with IBM Security QRadar, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, Wazuh and LogRhythm SIEM. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. Fortinet FortiSIEM report.
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