We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Fortinet FortiManager 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 of Cisco Secure Network Analytics is the Threat Intelligence integration."
"The most valuable features are encrypted threat analysis and the ability to run jobs on entire flows."
"The ability to send data flow from other places and have them all in one place is very valuable for us."
"Stability is the most valuable feature we have seen in this solution."
"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."
"It provides good visibility to the customers. People are still evaluating it, but it provides visibility and helps them to take action to remediate and mitigate the issues that are highlighted on the dashboard. It has good integration with the Cisco switching platform."
"We find that Stealthwatch can detect the unseen."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is data hoarding because it catches threats on a frequent basis that we had no idea of."
"The capability of centralized management is valuable. We can configure all firewall boxes with the same configuration."
"The integration is quite good."
"Fortinet FortiManager allows you to manage multiple FortiGate devices from a single console, and this is a valuable product feature."
"There is something called zero-touch provisioning, where you can add a new device without any configuration. You just add it to FortiManager and then forget about it."
"FortiManager's most valuable feature is central management."
"Technical support is great. When we have sent urgent tickets and they do reply back within fifteen minutes."
"The solution is very stable."
"The product is easy to use and manage."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The initial setup is complex, as there is a lot to configure."
"The initial setup was complex."
"I would like to see more and cleaner reporting. For example, if I pull up Steven and I want to look and maybe compare him to what you've done in the past week, and compare that to the past six months, the point would be to see what the difference in activity looks like over this time. I don't see that capability in reporting to date. You see that trend but you don't really see a straightforward comparison. That right there is key to what we want to see about the normal activity."
"I would like Cisco to make it easier for the administrators to use it."
"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."
"Initially, I felt Cisco Secure Network Analytics lacked integration with Splunk."
"One thing I would like to see improved is if it could automatically be tied through ISE, instead of you having to manually get notifications and disable it yourself."
"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."
"FortiManager would be improved by putting everything into a single console, including Microsoft O365 integration."
"This solution needs more experienced technical support staff. There's nothing special about it compared to other vendors."
"I prefer configuring rules and the VPN on the standalone device, not on the manager."
"If you have more than one FortiMail device, you can't manage it then with FortiManager on FortiGate."
"The dashboard could use some improvement."
"We have some visibility issues with the reporting."
"The response times from technical support need to be a bit quicker."
"The solution should be more open to other products."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Fortinet FortiManager is ranked 3rd in Network Management Applications with 61 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiManager 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 Fortinet FortiManager writes "Easy to set up with good integration capabilities but we've had troubles when moving devices". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Fortinet FortiManager is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Fortinet FortiOS, Cisco DNA Center, Zabbix and Junos Space Network Director.
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