We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and ExtraHop Reveal(x) for IT Operations 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."
"There are already many functionalities, so I don't think there is anything to improve."
"Ease of deployment, once you get your ducks in a row."
"From what I understand, you can encrypt and unencrypt traffic moving in transit. This is one of the features that we liked about it."
"The ability to send data flow from other places and have them all in one place is very valuable for us."
"Cisco Stealthwatch has reduced the amount of time to detect an immediate threat."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco Secure Network Analytics is the Threat Intelligence integration."
"It provides good visibility to the customers. People are still evaluating it, but it provides visibility and helps them to take action to remediate and mitigate the issues that are highlighted on the dashboard. It has good integration with the Cisco switching platform."
"The most valuable part is that Stealthwatch is part of a portfolio of security devices from Cisco. Cisco literally can touch every single end point, every single ingress and egress point in the network. Nobody else has that."
"The most valuable features are security detections, perimeter detection, dashboards, and alerts."
"There are many valuable features in this product, but probably the biggest is the customization capability it has."
"Wire data analytics."
"This solution is more applications reference architecture focused. Its benefit is that it specializes in that space."
"Not only can you look at the protocol import level. It also has a live PCAP analysis."
"The most valuable feature is the way it handles data, from Layer 2 up to Layer 7. We can see everything that happens in the network."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The customizability of the UI should improve."
"It hasn't really improved our direct detection rate but it has definitely reduced our incident response time as we wouldn't have been able to detect threats or immediate risks without this solution."
"I would like to see it better organized when I'm looking at it."
"The initial setup was straightforward but required a lot of data entry, to begin with building out the server types and network types."
"The version with the Dell server had iDRAC problems. Often, it reported iDRAC failure."
"We determined that Stealthwatch wouldn't provide the machine learning model that we required."
"I would like to see some improvement when it comes to reporting."
"The GUI could use some improvement. Being able to find features more easily would be a great improvement if it was simplified."
"This solution would be improved if it had the ability to retain data longer."
"They have a new solution, ExtraHop Reveal(x), and I think it needs improvement."
"They either have to go broad or decide what their bread and butter is and get really good at that."
"We'd like to see a local presence within the region in order to have seamless service whether it's the support, the implementation, or professional services."
"Network visibility is something that needs to be improved."
"I would improve the Rule-Based Access Control (RBAC) by providing granular access control to the data."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while ExtraHop Reveal(x) for IT Operations is ranked 56th in Network Monitoring Software with 8 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while ExtraHop Reveal(x) for IT Operations is rated 8.6. 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 ExtraHop Reveal(x) for IT Operations writes "Great for identifying application interdependencies with helpful support but needs better visualizations". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas ExtraHop Reveal(x) for IT Operations is most compared with vRealize Network Insight, NETSCOUT nGeniusONE, ThousandEyes, SolarWinds NPM and Dynatrace. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. ExtraHop Reveal(x) for IT Operations report.
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