Cisco Secure Network Analytics Other Solutions Considered

DB
Assistant Director of IT at University of Rochester Medical Center

We evaluated Plixer, but half of our medical center was already very familiar with Stealthwatch so it was an easy transition for us.

The vendors on our shortlist were ePlus and First Light. We split the load between them.

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Richard Payne - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Cyber Scientist at a government with 10,001+ employees

When choosing Cisco, we didn't not consider other solutions, but the expertise that we had in-house was central to our decision. We're very much brought into the CCNA and CCMP learning path and therefore we have expertise in Cisco equipment. To buy into the ecosystem of a Cisco competitor like Juniper would be more trouble and costly for us in the long run. Plus, Cisco does a good job.

I've had not necessarily bad experiences with other products, but when it comes to configuring them, I find them a bit more time-consuming than Cisco. Junos, for example, I typically find the commands I have to type in a bit more convoluted and have to look at documentation over and over again because they're very non-logical. Cisco does have a little bit of backwardness in a CLI, but it's much more intuitive. It's easier for me to go to Cisco and do the CLI and configure everything that I need rather than going to Junos.

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Rainier S. - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Integration Engineering / Enterprise Technology & Innovation at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

The only other option was the one we were using at the time, which may not even be comparable because of visibility, and that was Riverbed. Riverbed was extremely expensive. 

Stealthwatch came out, and we jumped on board. It was not only cost alone that made us go with it. It was security which pushed us over the edge. The possibility of seeing in the packet these potentially proactive measures; things you can do to see patterns. The features were what won out.

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RH
Network Operations Manager at Philips Electronics

We have some preferred providers, and we chose one of those providers based on support and working with Cisco directly.

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AA
Director Network Services at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

We evaluated Darktrace after the fact. The Cisco Stealthwatch solution tied in well with our other Cisco products, so we decided that this was the way to go, for now.

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BS
Director of Network and Telecom Services at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

We did evaluate another product called WhiteHat Security. The decision eventually came down to sticking with the system of the products. We wanted to kind of keep our products all in one family.

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JD
Enterprise Information Security Architect at a agriculture with 5,001-10,000 employees

I looked at the capabilities of SolarWinds NetFlow and realized that it can't replace our Cisco StealthWatch.

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EF
Network Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We evaluated SolarWinds, WhatsUp Gold, and a couple of others that I can't think of right now.

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SG
Engineer at Charter Communications, Inc.

We work very closely with Cisco directly and therefore we really just looked at Stealthwatch, because it was Cisco's product and they said this is what we do.

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AR
Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We did not evaluate other options before choosing this one.

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AM
Senior Consultant at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We did not evaluate other options.

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RU
Network Architect at Henry Ford health system

We were looking at NetScout and ThousandEyes, plus a couple of other similar solutions. We have a lot of NetScout products. We're trying to get into that space but we're not there yet. We're still too early. 

There are not a lot of products currently available for that specific function. There are a lot of half-solutions on the market.

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SJ
IT Network Engineer at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees

We looked into Darktrace, but we chose Stealthwatch because we have an ELA agreement, and that makes the product available to us already. But also in relation to actually the threat intelligence that Cisco has, they are fitting nicely in with the rest of our products.

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UN
Director of Operations at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Cisco was the only vendor that we considered for this solution.

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FK
Architect at Atea A/S

We did not evaluate other options before choosing this solution.

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MG
Network Operations Manager at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

We evaluated Darktrace, but I didn’t have a good, happy experience with their Account Manager.

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WR
Network Engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Stealthwatch has almost everything we need. There's no reason to evaluate anyone else. 

We also have a WildPackets and a LiveAction engine. We use that for remote packet captures and not NetFlow data analytics.

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CK
Manager, Network Engineering & Telecommunications at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We evaluated Plixer, but the fact that Stealthwatch was Cisco integrated, sold it for us.

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JS
Network Engineer at Oracle Corporation

Cisco is our biggest primary vendor, so it was an easy go-to for this solution.

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JM
Sr Network Engineer at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We also looked at FortiGate.

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SD
Network Manager at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Stealthwatch was the only choice. 

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RF
Senior Network Engineer at a comms service provider

The issue of network security is growing daily and we are dealing with all the Cisco products. We have the Duo, the Firepower Soft and we plan to extend. 

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it_user735195 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Information Security Engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

I have tried the Sourcefire solution, but Stealthwatch won out through its ease of use. 

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SA
Network Section Chief at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our enterprise is primarily dedicated to Cisco solutions. Stealthwatch is a Cisco product. We went with that originally.

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LW
Network Engineer at a tech services company

I am responsible for the security of our organization's devices, so I did look at other options. Since this solution ties into other products, I wanted to use Duo Security and tie that together with StealthWatch.

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it_user631224 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Analyst at a non-profit with 1,001-5,000 employees

We evaluated Arbor.

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it_user734160 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Consultant

Yes, SolarWinds.

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RH
Sr. Network Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We also look at Red Hat.

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it_user735216 - PeerSpot reviewer
Highly motivated Security Engineer incident Response, Vuln Mgmt, Malware Analysis, IDS/IPS, DLP, Network Security +more at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

I have tried the Sourcefire solution but StealthWatch wins because of ease of use.

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