We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Cisco Umbrella based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cisco Security Portfolio solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution reduces the amount of time it takes to detect and remediate threats."
"If you are using Darktrace or NAC solutions you can integrate Stealthwatch."
"The ability to send data flow from other places and have them all in one place is very valuable for us."
"It has improved our internal knowledge of what's going on with the network, and that's helpful."
"This product alleviates the day-to-day headaches for us, in regards to metrics."
"Most of the engineers I've worked with have been really good. Very knowledgeable and easy to work with."
"There are already many functionalities, so I don't think there is anything to improve."
"It does change the way we troubleshoot and it is relatively easy to use once you learn it. I would recommend it to someone considering it."
"It has improved our organization from a security posture perspective. We feel more confident now knowing that we can block phishing attempts or any type of malware that is DNS-related. This is a very nice feature that provides peace of mind."
"The most valuable features are the protection against ransomware and phishing."
"There is much differentiation within the licensing so if anyone wants DNS security from the DNS security log, we are there already, and if anyone wants to go to a secure internet gateway, that is also available. We can get the integrated cloud DLP license keys. That is a good benefit with Cisco Umbrella. You can get a complete solution in a single licensing."
"It is user-friendly. It is easy to manage the solution."
"They have a wealth of articles in their knowledge base. This has given me the freedom to troubleshoot on my own time. "
"It has excellent resilience in cybersecurity. Cybersecurity for my organization is very important because we are a banking organization. We need this security to protect the personal information of our clients. This is very important for our security."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to detect if a URL has malware or is vulnerable."
"We like Cisco Umbrella because of DNS security. It's one step ahead of whatever we are using for regular web filtering. In that way, it's more secure than other web filtering products."
"Cisco could improve the administration for the customers."
"It's not great as a standalone solution."
"We would like the solution to make more advances in the way that Extreme Networks has been doing."
"I would like to see a hybrid solution that can work without being connected directly to the internet for those destinations."
"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."
"Some of our customers find this solution to be a little bit tough because they don't understand how to configure and use it."
"Reliance on Java. Get away from that."
"We had some trouble with the installation as we migrated from our previous solution."
"I would like to see more integration between Cisco Umbrella and Cisco DNA Center."
"I am unsure if Cisco Umbrella offers a Windows option for running the server."
"It would be good if the more complex versions of Umbrella are simplified so that we can offer them in a more standardized way. We, as a telco, do not operate the same as a traditional integration partner would, who can sell all its services. We try to have a standardized approach as much as we can so that we can sell the solution with as many services added to it as possible. If you look at the structure of businesses in Switzerland, 95% of them have 10 persons or less, and they do not have a security specialist. Therefore, the higher the automated and standardized features, the better it is for them."
"The main issue that we have is with the final steps or the full integration and getting rid of Zscaler. The company still has to fall back to Zscaler when something in Umbrella is not working as expected, such as when we enable SSL inspection. When something is not working 100%, the company is falling back to Zscaler."
"Its DNS service does not support IPv6 query."
"The solution's technical support is not very good."
"One of the issues with Umbrella is as you get into endpoint detection and response, such as EDR point solutions, some of them will not integrate well with Umbrella. Sometimes when you want to use technology, such as Always On VPN, it will not work. There are some looming issues as one type of technology starts to crossover with Umbrella. That is the challenge and Umbrella should find a way to be more compatible with some of the endpoint response solutions that are coming out on the market."
"Its price could be better."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 3rd in Cisco Security Portfolio with 57 reviews while Cisco Umbrella is ranked 2nd in Cisco Security Portfolio with 108 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Cisco Umbrella is rated 8.8. 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 Cisco Umbrella writes "Protects endpoints wherever they are, always pushing people to the right locations to avoid malicious intent". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, whereas Cisco Umbrella is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Palo Alto Networks DNS Security and Fortinet FortiGate SWG. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. Cisco Umbrella report.
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