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."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The solution allowed us to not only get gain insight but also start collaborating with other tools."
"Overall, the implementation is very good."
"The most valuable part is that Stealthwatch is part of a portfolio of security devices from Cisco. Cisco literally can touch every single end point, every single ingress and egress point in the network. Nobody else has that."
"Stability is the most valuable feature we have seen in this solution."
"The most valuable feature is integration."
"Cisco Stealthwatch has predefined alerts for different types of security issues that might happen in the network. Whether it's PCs or servers that are used for botnets or Bitcoin mining we receive the alerts automatically. This functionality is what we receive from the solution out of the box."
"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."
"Using the Cognitive Analytics feature, we have complete visibility that we didn’t have before."
"The setup is very simple."
"This solution enables you to centralize the rules and the configuration of all the equipment."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiManager is the ease of manageability and policy-pushing functionality."
"Central management system for Fortinet devices that's simple, scalable, and stable, with a straightforward setup."
"You can configure it at your ease."
"The solution is very stable."
"The capability of centralized management is valuable. We can configure all firewall boxes with the same configuration."
"The firewall configuration has more capabilities than the other firewall management systems that I have worked with."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"I would like the search page available with Cisco Stealthwatch to be more intuitive. The previous release was better than the current one for the UI."
"We need to be able to filter out internal IPs as non-threats."
"It's not great as a standalone solution."
"It is time-consuming to set it up and understand how the tool works."
"The usability of this solution needs to be improved."
"I would like to see some improvement when it comes to reporting."
"The reporting of day-to-day metrics still has room for improvement."
"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."
"The GUI is not ideal."
"It's a difficult process to transfer one interface from one virtual domain to another."
"The interface could be improved. It is split up into different areas, which makes it more difficult to navigate and get the right section of the correct file. The solution is quite expensive, so it would not be suitable for small to medium sized organizations."
"The price always has room for improvement."
"When I started, it was a bit difficult, however, now it's okay. It can be a bit complex for basic users."
"Configuring Fortinet without internet access is challenging."
"The dashboard could use some improvement."
"FortiManager could be more user-friendly."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 25th in Network Monitoring Software with 58 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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