We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and NETSCOUT nGeniusONE based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"I believe this solution has reduced our incident response time."
"The artifacts available in the tool provide better information for analyzing network traffic. It enables a holistic view of network traffic and general packet analysis. It's easy to identify anomalies without the use of signatures. The way in which we implemented Stealthwatch Cloud has enabled my team to analyze traffic behind proxies."
"Ease of deployment, once you get your ducks in a row."
"This product alleviates the day-to-day headaches for us, in regards to metrics."
"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."
"Provides easily identifiable anomalies that you can't see with signature detections."
"The fact that it can identify down to an IP address of a system that is causing problems, or potentially causing problems, is very valuable."
"From a security standpoint, it is just seeing pockets as well. Visibility is very key for us."
"The most valuable features are visibility, real-time, on-demand."
"The solution helps to troubleshoot and put our hands on the weak points of customer networks."
"The ability of the dashboards is useful for discover, mapping and understanding of application behaviour."
"It is a scalable product."
"We've saved a lot of time in triaging. We have found root cause identities on packet captures and have been able to feed that information back to a specific vendor, because a lot of our technology is emerging. So, we're able to give that feedback to our vendors and have them solve the problems that they need to fix, and they have the evidence to do so."
"Packet decode and bandwidth analysis reports are the two most valuable features."
"For me, the most valuable features are the dashboards which we use to highlight the overall impact to the customers, and being able to drill down into the nitty-gritty of the customer experience."
"This solution provides us with increased visibility while conducting IT deployments. E.g., if we have devices which have overloaded or links which have saturated, then this tool tells us exactly what is going on with that link or device. Very few tools do it at this level for things like DDoS."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"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."
"I would like Cisco to make it easier for the administrators to use it."
"We determined that Stealthwatch wouldn't provide the machine learning model that we required."
"We've had problems with element licensing costs so scalability is a concern."
"One update that I would like to see is an agent-based client. Currently, Stealthwatch is network-based. A local agent could help manage endpoints."
"It's too complicated to install, when starting out."
"Better integration between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Cisco Secure Workload would be beneficial."
"I think the interface is a little lacking. The interface seems like it just needs to be modernized. It's been the same interface now, ever since I've seen it probably four years ago."
"The GUI has gotten better over time but there could be some improvement in how the GUI is built."
"The product is a little complicated."
"I would like more in-depth convergence between all the applications, especially when I look for information through a data mine."
"I'd like to see the nGeniusONE, the nGeniusPULSE, and the OptiView, their three separate products, work a little better together, a little more streamlined."
"nGeniusONE could be improved by reducing the number of bare metal servers required to run it. Currently, you need a separate bare metal server for each of the following: Xfinity, ISNG, nGeniusONE, and CFS. It would be more cost-effective and less complex if all of these functionalities could be combined into a single bare metal server."
"The dependency mapping is good, but I am hopeful that they will build some type of partnership and relationship with ServiceNow. I want to see NETSCOUT partner with ServiceNow so they can leverage Service Now Discovery and Service Mapping to automate the build of the service dependency mappings inside of nGeniusONE."
"The feature I am looking for is the Arbor technology, especially to run in parallel with our firewall... It's getting there."
"The stability is only fair. It goes down a lot."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is ranked 26th in Network Monitoring Software with 47 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while NETSCOUT nGeniusONE 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 NETSCOUT nGeniusONE writes "We use it every day for the triaging of events, saving us a lot of time". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is most compared with Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline, Dynatrace, ThousandEyes, AppDynamics and IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM). See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. NETSCOUT nGeniusONE report.
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