We performed a comparison between Cisco NGIPS and Cisco Secure Network Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is that it is able to detect any form of infiltration."
"The main advantages to Cisco are the scale, the integration, the training, and the possibility of finding somebody to work with."
"The traffic filter of this solution is very valuable to us, and to our clients."
"I like how NGIPS has everything in one console."
"The solution is stable. This is one of the good things in Firepower. Especially if we use ESE with it."
"The most valuable feature is its IPS ability. You are able to balance security and connectivity."
"The integration with the Cisco portfolio is very helpful."
"I like Firepower's automation, and the security intelligence is a powerful feature."
"It works efficiently for encrypted traffic analysis."
"Cisco Stealthwatch has reduced the amount of time to detect an immediate threat."
"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."
"Overall, the implementation is very good."
"The most valuable feature we got out of Stealthwatch is to be able to, while troubleshooting, go deep into one of our interfaces and verify what the bandwidth is and if there's any activity there that's causing problems."
"The artifacts available in the tool provide better information for analyzing network traffic. It enables a holistic view of network traffic and general packet analysis. It's easy to identify anomalies without the use of signatures. The way in which we implemented Stealthwatch Cloud has enabled my team to analyze traffic behind proxies."
"The most valuable feature is NetFlow. The beginning of any security investigation starts with NetFlow data."
"The most valuable features are encrypted threat analysis and the ability to run jobs on entire flows."
"There is room for improvement in the policy documentation."
"I would like to see Cisco NGIPS to include home office support in one single product."
"What I don't like about Cisco recently is they keep changing the names, which makes it hard for customers and sometimes even us as engineers to know what is the solution they are speaking about. For example, with AMP, now they call it Secure Endpoint and I don't know if in the next couple of years they're going to change it to something else. They should keep the names the same."
"Cisco NGIPS should work on its shortcomings related to the issues that stem from bugs and performance."
"While the Management GUI and FMC could be improved, the devices themselves function well."
"If there was a software-based solution for scaling up then it would be much better."
"The product's high price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The pricing is very expensive. They should make their equipment more affordable."
"The overall visibility into the actual device itself would be helpful. I don't just want support-specific data, but also to be able to see information such as CPU and other internal components or usage of the devices."
"We determined that Stealthwatch wouldn't provide the machine learning model that we required."
"Stealthwatch needs improvement when it comes to speed."
"Many of these tools require extensive on-premises hardware to run."
"The GUI could use some improvement. Being able to find features more easily would be a great improvement if it was simplified."
"It is time-consuming to set it up and understand how the tool works."
"The visualization could be improved, the GUI is not the best."
"At my company, we might not be using it enough with other applications that we have that can integrate with it."
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Cisco NGIPS is ranked 5th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 62 reviews while Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews. Cisco NGIPS is rated 8.2, while Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco NGIPS writes "Very effective for malware and signature-based anomalies but stability needs improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Secure Network Analytics writes "Increased the visibility of what is happening in our network". Cisco NGIPS is most compared with Check Point IPS, Fortinet FortiGate IPS, Trend Micro TippingPoint Threat Protection System, Cisco Sourcefire SNORT and KerioControl, whereas Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR. See our Cisco NGIPS vs. Cisco Secure Network Analytics report.
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