We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Provides easily identifiable anomalies that you can't see with signature detections."
"The most valuable feature is having visibility into the data segments throughout our network."
"The feature most valuable for us is to gain visibility of what is actually floating through, so we can stop it based on whether it's good or bad traffic."
"Most of the engineers I've worked with have been really good. Very knowledgeable and easy to work with."
"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."
"I believe this solution has reduced our incident response time."
"The ability to send data flow from other places and have them all in one place is very valuable for us."
"It has definitely helped us improve our mean time to resolution on network issues."
"As it offers enterprise solutions, it has all the essential features for business."
"It helps us know when a branch is down because it has a graphic presentation of all the locations a node represents."
"It doesn't cost too much."
"The software management tools are very useful for our customers."
"The program is scalable enough for our usage."
"What the network team found most valuable in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is that it helps them to troubleshoot or analyze the issue. For example, traffic that comes from our location: India, goes to the US, so for the network team to analyze where the traffic comes from and where it is directed, and whether the packets are being dropped, they use SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer. The network team also likes that through the solution, they can analyze the complete traffic utilization and how they're going to use it. SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is user-friendly. The team finds it comfortable to use."
"NTA's most valuable feature is traffic analysis and visibility."
"What I like about SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is that it's useful for analyzing traffic. It also has an application visibility feature that lets you control applications."
"Some of our customers find this solution to be a little bit tough because they don't understand how to configure and use it."
"Cisco could improve the administration for the customers."
"It would be better to let people know, up front, that is doesn't give you nice, clear information, as seen in the demos, without Cisco ISE installed."
"Stealthwatch is still maturing in AI. It uses artificial intelligence for predictions, but AI still needs to mature. It is in a phase where you get 95% correct detection. As its AI engine learns more, it will become more accurate. This is applicable to all the devices that are using AI because they support both supervised and unsupervised machine learning. The accuracy in the case of supervised machine learning is dependent on the data you feed into the box. The accuracy in the case of unsupervised machine learning is dependent on the algorithm. The algorithm matures depending on retrospective learning, and this is how it is able to detect zero-day attacks."
"We would like the solution to make more advances in the way that Extreme Networks has been doing."
"The initial setup is complex, as there is a lot to configure."
"The reporting of day-to-day metrics still has room for improvement."
"We need to be able to filter out internal IPs as non-threats."
"One area that we struggle with is the price. Because the price of this solution is so high, we are largely unable to introduce it into the local market, and only the banking sector has the means to afford it."
"It is a scalable solution, but it is costly to scale. Therefore, I would rate scalability at eight out of ten."
"There is room for improvement when it comes to the traffic generated by the analyzer and the analysis of that traffic."
"Technical support could be improved with quicker response times."
"The licensing should be more realistic so that we can adjust the number of nodes according to my needs, rather than in fixed increments."
"If your network is on SolarWinds, and you notice that the traffic is bad because it says "user downloading a heavy file," it doesn't indicate which endpoint is downloading those heavy files. SolarWinds doesn't have the tools to be able to handle this kind of situation. You can just notice through your network device that the traffic is becoming overwhelming or heavy, but you cannot go inside and get more details related to the endpoint where it is happening. We would like SolarWinds to be able to handle this kind of situation and even manage the traffic inside a network from the endpoint to the network device. These would be good enhancements. It is mostly stable. The problem comes only when we want to add another SolarWinds model. SolarWinds has so many models, and sometimes when we want to add other models on the platforms that are reserved for our firm, it freezes. When this happens, we have to create a new VM for that model."
"What needs improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is performance because sometimes, my team struggles too much for the solution to perform correctly for a specific deployment in my organization. Having a more detailed view in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is another area for improvement, but that's more part of the protocol than the actual solution."
"It can be complex to set up and configure."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 4th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 57 reviews while SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is ranked 6th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 34 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is rated 7.6. 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 SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer writes "Displays traffic visibility and efficient traffic flows". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Cisco Cognitive Threat Analytics, whereas SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is most compared with Zabbix, ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer, SolarWinds NPM, Darktrace and ScienceLogic. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer report.
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