We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and DX Spectrum based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The most valuable feature is NetFlow. The beginning of any security investigation starts with NetFlow data."
"Stability is the most valuable feature we have seen in this solution."
"Overall, the implementation is very good."
"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."
"The solution reduces the amount of time it takes to detect and remediate threats."
"There are already many functionalities, so I don't think there is anything to improve."
"From a security standpoint, it is just seeing pockets as well. Visibility is very key for us."
"The ability to send data flow from other places and have them all in one place is very valuable for us."
"The integration point."
"Offers a lot of functionality."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to put health checks in place not only for the infrastructure but for some of the services that are on top of the infrastructure."
"What I like best is the configuration management functionality."
"The solution's most valuable features are its integration with Broadcom tools and scalability."
"It covers a lot of different types of hardware. It can do a lot and saves us time."
"It is easy to understand and determine when and/or where the network is failing."
"The monitoring just comes to us: "Oh, there's something wrong with that machine." It tells us. There are some 50,000 machines or so, all doing different things. And if they go down we hear about it."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It's a good solid solution but integration with Network Access Control products with Cisco ISE would be good."
"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."
"One update I would like to see is an agent-based client. Currently StealthWatch is network based."
"At my company, we might not be using it enough with other applications that we have that can integrate with it."
"The usability of this solution needs to be improved."
"I would like to see some improvement when it comes to reporting."
"I would like Cisco to make it easier for the administrators to use it."
"I would like to see interoperability with other Cisco products because we have ThousandEyes, Cisco Prime, and others. The interaction among these is important to us."
"If they could interact with the MIBs of vendors better, and have a lot more pre-loaded ones, that would be amazing for us right now."
"There's a little bit of complexity to the initial install because you're dealing with operating systems. You have to make sure all the prerequisites are done, anti-virus exceptions, etc. Then there's the bringing it up and then there's discovery of the network and setting that up. It takes time."
"There should be a facility to integrate with other monitoring applications that are currently running in the environment."
"I would suggest improving the web GUI to improve the device monitor configuration and to improve or to integrate the new tool for reporting."
"The CA Technologies sales team destroyed their relationship with our business units."
"Needs better integration with all the other products in the Agile suite of tools; anything they could do to make that less complex, would be great."
"Technical support for this product is not so good. It needs improvement."
"Make it easier to certify devices."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 25th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while DX Spectrum is ranked 14th in Network Monitoring Software with 115 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while DX Spectrum 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 DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and HPE Intelligent Management Center. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. DX Spectrum report.
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