Cisco Secure Network Analytics Stability
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Douglas Bentley
Assistant Director of IT at University of Rochester Medical Center
It's a rock-solid solution and we do a lot with it.
The solution's stability is hard to fault. It sits there and runs without fault. We have had a fair amount of power outages and we get some very dirty power to our site. So there are brownouts and things like that and they cut off at a moment's notice and then come back and there are no configuration issues typically. We are generally quite happy with the stability that we get from the solution.
It has been pretty stable. The deployment is the SNC which is located in our headquarters. Then, you have collectors and sensors which are sitting out there in our various eye pop points: East and West points out the door. The sensor sits on the standpoint, therefore it sees everything. The collector, you point to it, and it has been pretty stable in that regard.
Previously, the one thing which drove us crazy about the product was it seemed to be pretty locked on certain versions of Java. Now, it appears to have been improved. Thus, we are very happy with that.
In terms of improvement overall, we would like to see less reliance on Java and possibly a self-contained REST API package, either client or web-based would be nice rather than locally in Java. This would be a nice feature set.
Integration would be nice too. We are a pretty big Cisco shop. From ICE to our WCs. We are growing while we are looking at other products and solutions out there. Those solutions being FireEye or Palo Alto. Is there an integration where maybe East-West Lancope can see this type of traffic, then send updates and work lists with other products to say, "Block this as this is bad," other than the blocking point being Stealthwatch?
I understand Cisco has AMP Threat Grid. This is their ecosystem, and it is supposed to coordinate and work together in making the setup easy.
Self-pushes to the cloud, as long as your Cisco-based products report to the same cloud point, then you are all sharing data that way. That is still very Cisco-centric. It would be nice to see a little bit more integration with Palo Alto, FireEye, and VScanner, therefore not all being Cisco-based.
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Rob Hartstone
Network Operations Manager at Philips Electronics
The solution's stability is very good.
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Jerome TOUTEE
Former Employee of Orange Business Services as Head of Security Engineering at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees
The solution is very stable.
View full review »StealthWatch is a stable product. I haven't seen a technology that could match it aside from the Chinese brand Huawei. Cisco is a US brand, so I haven't seen some of these products outside of this market.
Who knows? Tomorrow, some company may build a newer, more stable solution, more stable one, but Cisco Stealthwatch has the most stable services today.
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Travis Bugh
Senior Director of Architecture and Engineering at Trace3
Stealthwatch seems to be rock solid.
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JosephSullivan
Manager at Indiana University Health
The stability of the solution is fair.
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ShehreyarKhan
Senior Operations Consultant at NNIT
Cisco Secure Network Analytics is extremely stable. I would give it a ten out of ten for stability.
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Directorb5e9
Director Network Services at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
There are no stability issues with the product.
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reviewer1123185
Director of Network and Telecom Services at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
We used to have an older version of the firmware and we were always having problems with it. Now, they have really good firmware. They came up with some new revision to the code, and so it's a lot more stable.
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reviewer1467678
Enterprise Information Security Architect at a agriculture with 5,001-10,000 employees
I have not been made aware of any stability issues with the tool.
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AK11
Sales director at Future Point Technologies
I would rate the stability as a seven out of ten.
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NetworkM6238
Network Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution's very stable. Even through the upgrades after Cisco's acquisition, it has proved to be very stable.
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Mark Lavine
Airway Transportation Service Specialist at Federal Aviation Administration
We didn't notice any bugs or glitches.
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Shannon Greim
Engineer at Charter Communications, Inc.
Stealthwatch is a very stable solution.
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Technicab71a
Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
This solution is pretty stable for the most part. I don't like Java, so that's the thing that needs to go, but for the most part, it is a great solution.
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SeniorCoeaa2
Senior Consultant at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
This solution seems to be stable.
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Robert Ufer
Network Architect at Henry Ford health system
Stability is what we're looking for in production. Stability is everything.
The stability of the solution seems fine. It hasn't crashed yet.
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Steffen Jensen
IT Network Engineer at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees
We haven't had any stability issues so far, but we have only been running it for half a year.
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Forensic60e5
Forensic Analyst at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
No issues with stability.
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reviewer1603941
Chief Technology Officer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The solution is very stable.
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Director7b47
Director of Operations at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
In our environment, the way we've implemented in phases, the stability is good.
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Finn Kristensen
Architect at Atea A/S
I would say that the stability of this solution could be better.
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Mark Green
Network Operations Manager at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
This solution is very stable.
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Ken Poteate
Security Analysist at Amwins Group
The product is very stable. No problems at all.
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LeadNetwd213
Lead Network Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's stable now. I wouldn't say it was stable when we first had the solution, but now it's stable. In the beginning, we had the standard first-time turn-up stuff, like issues with the code, etc. We tried to give them a better solution to work with our company well. The way we have things set up is complicated.
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NetworkE7689
Network Engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
As far as stability, we've never had a problem with Cisco Stealthwatch. We've had it for probably three years. It's time for an upgrade.
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reviewer1265118
Network and Security with 10,001+ employees
The solution has been stable. We haven't had issues with bugs and glitches and it doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.
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reviewer1122849
Manager, Network Engineering & Telecommunications at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
So far we haven't had any issues with the stability of the solution. We haven't gone through a major upgrade cycle yet.
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James Stout
Network Engineer at Oracle Corporation
It has been pretty stable since we deployed it, and everything seems to be working fine.
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Brian Grainer
Manager of Digital Communications at Memorial Hermann Healthcare System
I've never known it to go down or have availability issues.
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SrNetworbb7a
Sr Network Engineer at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees
It's stable.
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NetworkMed21
Network Manager at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's very stable.
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Joaquin Quinata
Network Manager Administrator at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Stability is really good. I don't think we ever had an issue with it.
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reviewer1287867
PMO Department at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is stable.
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Dale Keehan
Network Engineer at UC San Diego Health System
The solution is very stable and we haven't had any crashes yet.
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SeniorNe4b79
Senior Network Engineer at a comms service provider
We are still running it but so far it has been really stable.
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NetworkAcb23
Network Administrator at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is extremely stable. I haven't had a crash since installing it.
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Associat85b7
Associate Director Network Services at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
It was pretty stable. The only thing is the whole infrastructure is pretty complex with a lot of sensors and the like. With that level of complexity in mind, I would say it is very stable.
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ServiceE8f27
Service Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
I haven't experienced any problems or downtime with Cisco Stealthwatch, so the stability is really good.
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NetworkSddc6
Network Section Chief at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
The product is stable. We have not had any downtime with it.
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Rafael-Garcia
Infosec Manager at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution's stability is good.
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NetworkEd59a
Network Engineer at a tech services company
This solution is very stable.
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reviewer1330293
Senior Security Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The performance of the Cisco Stealthwatch is good. We haven't encountered any issue regarding performance, or that it cannot handle all the traffic that it receives.
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NetworkAe7fe
Network Administrator at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
So far we've had a good experience with stability. We've run into some issues with the configuration.
View full review »We did not encounter any issues with stability.
View full review »Yes. The version with the Dell server had iDRAC problems. Often, it reported iDRAC failure.
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SrNetworab58
Sr. Network Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Cisco Stealthwatch is quite stable.
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reviewer1151310
Chief Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The stability of this solution is good.
View full review »I haven't heard from my customers that they had any problems with stability.
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics
April 2024
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