We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Qualys VMDR 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."
"Being able to identify specific date closed across the network is invaluable."
"The beginning of any security investigation starts with net flow data."
"The most valuable feature is anomaly detection, where it finds things that are not allowed internally."
"Cisco Stealthwatch provides the solutions analytics and threat detection capabilities that I am looking for. It has also improved the network visibility of our organization."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco Secure Network Analytics is the Threat Intelligence integration."
"Cisco Secure Network Analytics has increased the visibility of what is happening in our network, and I think that's the most important reason to use it. We can see what is really happening instead of just looking at numbers from routers or switches."
"Provides easily identifiable anomalies that you can't see with signature detections."
"Using the Cognitive Analytics feature, we have complete visibility that we didn’t have before."
"Detects new hosts along with vulnerabilities."
"The process of defining and discovering scans is organized efficiently."
"Great web application security for scanning."
"It gives a very good overview of the inventory assessment process, and it can be accessed across our company because it's a global tool."
"Vulnerability management is the most valuable one and it’s a must in every organization."
"The most valuable feature is automation."
"The most valuable features are vulnerability detection and the scanning capability to enable identification of vulnerabilities across our network."
"The most valuable feature is the certificate management."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"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 version with the Dell server had iDRAC problems. Often, it reported iDRAC failure."
"I would like to see some improvement when it comes to reporting."
"Better integration between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Cisco Secure Workload would be beneficial."
"Initially, I felt Cisco Secure Network Analytics lacked integration with Splunk."
"The GUI could use some improvement. Being able to find features more easily would be a great improvement if it was simplified."
"They should include Citrix VDIs in the next release."
"Reliance on Java. Get away from that."
"Qualys VMDR is basically susceptible to false positives, and false negatives."
"Sometimes we face a problem with accessing the tool and not getting an expected result. From a technology point of view, they need to look into this."
"There seems to be a lack of easy onboarding into Qualys."
"Its integration with ServiceNow and other similar products is complicated and can be improved. It should also have virtual batching. They should support more standards and compliance requirements and more customizations. For policy compliance, they can add the standards required by the countries in the Middle East. Each country generates its own standards and frameworks, and those frameworks should be there in all products, not only in Qualys. The market here is huge, especially in the cybersecurity field. Qatar has a framework for Qatar 2022, and each and every company in the public or private sector has to follow the Qatar 2022 framework."
"Qualys Container Security can improve the interface. It could be easier to navigate and be enriched."
"The IoT scan is not great."
"The only improvement I can think of is on the implementation side. At times it is a bit slow."
"This solution could be improved by extending the agent capabilities to different operating systems including Mac and Linux. We would also like the capability to easily check for vulnerability in assets in the IOTs."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 58 reviews while Qualys VMDR is ranked 3rd in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 77 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2. 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 Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Tenable Vulnerability Management.
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