We performed a comparison between Arbor DDoS and Cisco Secure Network Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cloudflare, NETSCOUT, Akamai and others in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection."The stability is okay and we have not encountered problems with the solution."
"The stateless device format means that the box is very strong for preventing DDoS attacks."
"We are able to respond quickly and prevent DDoS attacks."
"The most valuable feature is mitigation, which can blackhole the IP."
"It provides packet capture and we can block or whitelist whichever IPs we need to. Whatever traffic we want to block - and we get IPs from internal teams and from national teams - we block at the Arbor level only, because if it gets to the firewall then firewall bandwidth will be taken."
"The artificial intelligence feature is most appreciated. This solution can lower the throughput and clear the traffic, which is something really important for us. It also provides good protection. It is user-friendly, and its integration has also been really fast. We have many critical applications, and it was easy to integrate Arbor DDoS with our website, mobile application, and web banking."
"Using standard BGP, NetFlow and SNMP ensure wide compatibility. There are also peering traffic reports that can help identify upstream peering opportunities. The ATLAS aggregation service allows us to contribute to the global DDoS data and benefit from overall trends."
"In the GUI, the packet capture is a very good option, as is the option to block an IP address."
"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."
"From a security standpoint, it is just seeing pockets as well. Visibility is very key for us."
"This product alleviates the day-to-day headaches for us, in regards to metrics."
"I believe this solution has reduced our incident response time."
"It's a dependable product that is able to pinpoint where we have vulnerabilities if they occur."
"It has definitely helped us improve our mean time to resolution on network issues."
"Provides easily identifiable anomalies that you can't see with signature detections."
"The search options on Cisco Stealthwatch are the most valuable. You can get very granular with it, down to the kilobits or the seconds if you want. The product supports any time frame that you need, so that is nice."
"If we want to see live traffic, we can see do so. But once an attack that lasts for five minutes is done, the data is no longer there. It would be an improvement if we could see recent traffic in the dashboard. We can check and download live traffic, but a past attack, with all the details, such as why it happened and how to mitigate and prevent such future attacks, would be helpful to see."
"I would also like more visibility into their bad actor feeds, their fingerprint feeds. We try to be good stewards of the internet, so if there are attacks, or bad actors within our networks, if there were an easier way for us to find them, we could stop them from doing their malicious activity, and at the same time save money."
"The implementation should be made easier."
"They should improve the reporting section and make it a little bit more detailed. I would like to have much better and more detailed reports."
"There is always room for improvement for any product or service. If we can bring in more agility when deploying services, that is definitely a scope which we can work towards. Nowadays, everything is being offered as a service model. It is not that we have to deploy the physical hardware, many things move up to the cloud, or even can be delivered in the VNS form in the customer's environment as well. So, in that space, if we can add more features to make it more seamless for customers to use and make it available through some marketplace, not only at the hyperscalers, but also for any on-prem deployment, that definitely would be a big plus."
"We need a SaaS model for the solution."
"An improvement to Arbor DDoS would be to make evaluation licenses and virtual machines available."
"The solution's IT support needs improvement."
"There's a lot of traffic on our network that we don't see sometimes."
"The usability of this solution needs to be improved."
"One update I would like to see is an agent-based client. Currently StealthWatch is network based."
"The customizability of the UI should improve."
"I would like to see a hybrid solution that can work without being connected directly to the internet for those destinations."
"Reliance on Java. Get away from that."
"It's too complicated to install, when starting out."
"It is time-consuming to set it up and understand how the tool works."
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Arbor DDoS is ranked 2nd in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 46 reviews while Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews. Arbor DDoS is rated 8.6, while Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Arbor DDoS writes "A critical solution for security, as it includes features that can automatically detect and prevent DDoS attacks". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Secure Network Analytics writes "Increased the visibility of what is happening in our network". Arbor DDoS is most compared with Radware DefensePro, Cloudflare, Imperva DDoS and Corero, whereas Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR.
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