We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Palo Alto Networks WildFire 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 solution allowed us to not only get gain insight but also start collaborating with other tools."
"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."
"Cisco Stealthwatch has reduced the amount of time to detect an immediate threat."
"The most valuable feature is its alerts and dashboard."
"Great network monitoring, looking at anomaly detection and evaluation."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco Secure Network Analytics is the Threat Intelligence integration."
"The deployment was a breeze. It is a very innovative and robust platform that allows us to bi-directionally stitch together data elements from Netflow-enabled devices to provide a context for network utilization."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the way the net flow is being merged together in a single pane. That's been extremely useful for us, because can see what's going on with traffic in one single place."
"I like the analysis they apply to the unknown files, and I think they have good technology to use as a sandboxing tool. I didn't find something similar to WildFire in the marketplace."
"Detailed reporting on analysis of content. The inspections are easily applied to security policy profiles and profile groups, and may be assigned on a per-rule basis."
"My primary use case for this solution is for a secure gateway."
"We get support in the free version."
"They have many different options with Palo Alto WildFire and the set-up is quick. If you have all the details in hand, it does not take more than 15 minutes to deploy a firewall."
"The scalability is acceptable."
"The most valuable features of this solution are sandbox capabilities."
"It helps us when segmenting and securing the network and all sort of technologies, all sort of next generation needs. It's next generation phases of firewall like anti-virus, sandboxing, wifi, and VPN."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"We've had problems with element licensing costs so scalability is a concern."
"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."
"I would like to see some improvement when it comes to reporting."
"The initial setup was straightforward but required a lot of data entry, to begin with building out the server types and network types."
"I would like to see better filters."
"The initial setup was complex."
"They should include Citrix VDIs in the next release."
"The initial setup is complex, as there is a lot to configure."
"The price could be better."
"I don't think it needs to improve anything, except maybe the speed to deploy the changes."
"The solution can improve its traffic management."
"The initial setup was a little bit complex, mainly due to the GUI console and management challenges."
"Other vendors have some sort of bandwidth management built into the firewall itself and Palo Alto is missing that."
"They can keep on doing more updates. As new malware and viruses are coming out, they can make sure that WildFire is up to date."
"When you contact support, there is no guarantee that they will be available to help you tackle the issue that you are facing."
"Palo Alto Networks WildFire should be more real-time in nature. The signature updates should happen in a minute or less than a minute to be a very good feature for the customer."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 25th in Network Monitoring Software with 58 reviews while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is rated 8.4. 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 Palo Alto Networks WildFire writes "Good technical support and provides automatic analysis that saves us time in filtering email". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Proofpoint Email Protection and Fortinet FortiSandbox.
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