We performed a comparison between Cisco NGIPS and Cisco Secure Network Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The security intelligence in the product is the best feature and give us all the information that we need in our network."
"The solution is very powerful coupled with Firepower."
"I like the way the tool pushes the packets from the node level."
"We primarily use this solution as an application filter and for IPS."
"Its ease of use and its ability to block and allow ports in and out of our organization are the most valuable features. It works very well. It gives us all the information that we need."
"The tracking intelligence feature is very good. This solution provides us with the opportunity to detect threats in real-time."
"The thing about this solution that I like the most is that it's intuitive."
"Good IPS and VirtualBox features."
"This product alleviates the day-to-day headaches for us, in regards to metrics."
"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."
"Able to drill down into a center's utilization, then create reports based on it."
"Stealthwatch has greatly improved our network visibility, in terms of bandwidth, malware, and PCI violations."
"It has been pretty stable since we deployed it, and everything seems to be working fine."
"I believe this solution has reduced our incident response time."
"Using this solution has helped us to detect and identify viruses or malicious activity in the network early on."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is data hoarding because it catches threats on a frequent basis that we had no idea of."
"Cisco NGIPS' performance could be better."
"What I don't like about Cisco recently is they keep changing the names, which makes it hard for customers and sometimes even us as engineers to know what is the solution they are speaking about. For example, with AMP, now they call it Secure Endpoint and I don't know if in the next couple of years they're going to change it to something else. They should keep the names the same."
"Our customers are still facing many bugs on the system. It has matured noticeably, but we are still facing multiple stability issues on Firepower. There are more than 80 or 90 bugs for each release node. It's a considerable number of bugs."
"They could provide one solution to fit all the use cases."
"While the Management GUI and FMC could be improved, the devices themselves function well."
"The GUI could be improved. The pain point is really only focused toward the security engineer who configures it and the operation engineer who manages it."
"The GUI user interface could be improved and the login is not very user friendly."
"I would like to see better integration with SIEMs."
"They should include Citrix VDIs in the next release."
"We had some trouble with the installation as we migrated from our previous solution."
"The usability of this solution needs to be improved."
"The reporting of day-to-day metrics still has room for improvement."
"Some of our customers find this solution to be a little bit tough because they don't understand how to configure and use it."
"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 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."
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Cisco NGIPS is ranked 5th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 63 reviews while Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 25th in Network Monitoring Software with 58 reviews. Cisco NGIPS is rated 8.2, while Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco NGIPS writes "Very effective for malware and signature-based anomalies but stability needs improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Secure Network Analytics writes "Increased the visibility of what is happening in our network". Cisco NGIPS is most compared with Check Point IPS, Fortinet FortiGate IPS, Trend Micro TippingPoint Threat Protection System and Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, whereas Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR. See our Cisco NGIPS vs. Cisco Secure Network Analytics report.
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