We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall 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 single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is its alerts and dashboard."
"It has improved our internal knowledge of what's going on with the network, and that's helpful."
"Being able to identify specific date closed across the network is invaluable."
"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."
"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."
"Most valuable features are the network maps and server and network response time."
"Visibility. The ability to look East and West. To see what is passing through your circuits, where it is coming from, and how big it is."
"It provides decent protection for the LAN, especially in run mode."
"The product's initial setup phase is easy."
"When our customer needs some optimization, along with performance and security. If they want everything in one package, I recommend Forcepoint because they have everything."
"Next Generation Firewall's best feature is that it can be managed on one platform."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"The feature that we like the most about Forcepoint is that we know the technology and have confidence in it. We can have several functionalities to simplify operations and management. We can combine functionalities like log ownership to review the number of devices in the infrastructure."
"It is a scalable product. I know a customer who has deployed more than 4,000 firewalls in a single deployment."
"I like the Firewall and the IPS."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"Many of these tools require extensive on-premises hardware to run."
"It's too complicated to install, when starting out."
"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."
"They should include Citrix VDIs in the next release."
"There's a lot of traffic on our network that we don't see sometimes."
"The ability to be natively integrated into Port Aggregator would be beneficial because it would reduce just one more component that's needed in order to have that type of view."
"Stealthwatch needs improvement when it comes to speed."
"One area that could be improved in SNA is the integration with Cisco ISE for user and session details, which currently requires additional setup."
"The ability to dynamically change policies could be improved."
"Forcepoint would be improved if there were more training available."
"Configuration is not easy because it has an old-fashioned interface. The configuration interface is highly complex, and it's been the same for years. They have to change the interface."
"Management could be better. They can improve the management. I think all our customers can't accept firewalls that have standalone management. So, they prefer Fortinet or Palo Alto. But overall, inspection and other features are working fine."
"The security features need to be improved."
"The solution needs to add an antivirus profile and anti-spyware profile, not just policies and VPN."
"The optimization is not really ready. If you want very good optimization, you have to add it to the network."
"If I want to allow access to Facebook, yet not allow the user to access videos, then I am not able to do it with this product."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 25th in Network Monitoring Software with 58 reviews while Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 41 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall 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 Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall writes "Provides decent protection for the LAN but complicated interface". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Check Point NGFW, Sophos XG and Netgate pfSense.
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