We performed a comparison between Cisco NGIPS and Flowmon based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Darktrace, Vectra AI, Check Point Software Technologies and others in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS)."The most valuable features of Cisco NGIPS are the VPN, IPS, access policy management, EIM, and the ASA model as part of Firepower."
"The technical support is impressive."
"The IPS functionality is useful if you have offices all over the place. It's nice to have centralized management instead of going to a separate ASA or FirePOWER device."
"This solution has helped improve productivity and detect attacks before they happen."
"I like Firepower's automation, and the security intelligence is a powerful feature."
"You can do zero-day prevention and detection. It's quite useful."
"The Malware Detection, threat defense, sandboxing, VPN and mail security have all been valuable features of Cisco NGIPS."
"Good IPS and VirtualBox features."
"The solution is stable."
"It is an open platform, so in terms of integration, we are quite happy. We can integrate it with other SNMP solutions. We can also integrate it with security solutions, such as a SIEM solution."
"The artificial intelligence and automatic detection system in Flowmon Solution are perfect for every, type of customer, such as government and commerce."
"The solution should contain the sandbox features which we find in Check Point."
"The integration can be more secure."
"The inclusion of bandwidth management features would improve this product."
"The pricing is very expensive. They should make their equipment more affordable."
"The stability needs improvement so is rated a four out of ten."
"Cisco NGIPS should work on its shortcomings related to the issues that stem from bugs and performance."
"The onboarding process could be made a little bit better."
"More flexibility with the dashboards is needed because some of them are not fully developed."
"If there was better visualization in Flowmon Solution it would be good."
"It would be helpful to have more details about the monitoring of the infrastructure. It should have support for SNMP. This is something that is currently not there in the product."
"The licensing price could be better."
Cisco NGIPS is ranked 5th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 62 reviews while Flowmon is ranked 70th in Network Monitoring Software. Cisco NGIPS is rated 8.2, while Flowmon is rated 8.0. 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 Flowmon writes "A stable and scalable solution allowing for the visibility of and the blocking of threats". Cisco NGIPS is most compared with Check Point IPS, Fortinet FortiGate IPS, Trend Micro TippingPoint Threat Protection System, Cisco Sourcefire SNORT and Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, whereas Flowmon is most compared with Darktrace, SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, Cisco Secure Network Analytics, WhatsUp Gold and Vectra AI.
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