We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"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."
"It is a good application, providing for real-time monitoring of the organization of data. It can basically identify points of peak traffic where possible issues are being caused."
"The solution's analytics and thrust detection capabilities are good. We're still adjusting it. It's a little hypersensitive, but it is working right now."
"The most valuable feature is its alerts and dashboard."
"The solution allowed us to not only get gain insight but also start collaborating with other tools."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is data hoarding because it catches threats on a frequent basis that we had no idea of."
"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."
"Overall, the implementation is very good."
"It is a stable solution, and there are no issues so far."
"Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is very simple, easy to use, and flexible."
"It is a scalable product. I know a customer who has deployed more than 4,000 firewalls in a single deployment."
"The VPN is great."
"The central security management center and the content management center are very good."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"It provides decent protection for the LAN, especially in run mode."
"The people we deal with is a local partner in Cambodia and we can get good support from them."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"We've had problems with element licensing costs so scalability is a concern."
"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."
"I think the interface is a little lacking. The interface seems like it just needs to be modernized. It's been the same interface now, ever since I've seen it probably four years ago."
"I would like to see some improvement when it comes to reporting."
"Complexity on integration is not so straightforward and you really need an expert to help build it out."
"Some of our customers find this solution to be a little bit tough because they don't understand how to configure and use it."
"Its granularity for RBAC roles-based access control needs improvement."
"It would be better to let people know, up front, that is doesn't give you nice, clear information, as seen in the demos, without Cisco ISE installed."
"If I want to allow access to Facebook, yet not allow the user to access videos, then I am not able to do it with this product."
"The interface is complicated. It's difficult to locate all the necessary menus and functions."
"Next Generation Firewall's configuration could be improved."
"We feel the product's technical support could be better, as this relates to the solution itself, to the installation of the product, and to having a proper understanding of the case."
"They need to increase the local support here. There are also some bugs or fixes on which they need to work. They very well know about these bugs. In terms of licensing, I would like them to either increase the number of features in a single license or make licensing more flexible."
"They need to work on stability, it has not been the best in our experience."
"While they offer a comprehensive bundled solution, some users may prefer on-premise deployments for certain features, such as URL filtering."
"The optimization is not really ready. If you want very good optimization, you have to add it to the network."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 31st in Firewalls with 40 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6. 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 Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall writes "Good URL filtering with helpful technical support and good scalability". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Check Point NGFW, Cisco Secure Firewall and Sophos XG.
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