We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Fortinet FortiManager 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 beginning of any security investigation starts with net flow data."
"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."
"Cisco Secure Network Analytics has increased the visibility of what is happening in our network, and I think that's the most important reason to use it. We can see what is really happening instead of just looking at numbers from routers or switches."
"Great network monitoring, looking at anomaly detection and evaluation."
"I believe this solution has reduced our incident response time."
"The most valuable feature is having visibility into the data segments throughout our network."
"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."
"Technical support is great. When we have sent urgent tickets and they do reply back within fifteen minutes."
"The most valuable features are the centralized management of the firewalls."
"A fully integrated solution."
"FortiManager enables us to set unified firewall policies from one centralized dashboard, reducing human error. If you do not have a central dashboard, there's a chance you might set a policy on one firewall and forget to do it for another."
"The SD-WAN deployment environment, and the SD-WAN templates are particularly useful. Managing the solution is very intuitive. The initial setup of the solution was very straightforward."
"The best feature of Fortinet FortiManager is its ease of use. It is easy to manage the firewall from Fortinet FortiManager. Additionally, the interface is very good."
"It is easy to deploy to licenses."
"The solution has the best stability for application control and inspections."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"We determined that Stealthwatch wouldn't provide the machine learning model that we required."
"They should include Citrix VDIs in the next release."
"The ability to be natively integrated into Port Aggregator would be beneficial because it would reduce just one more component that's needed in order to have that type of view."
"The GUI could use some improvement. Being able to find features more easily would be a great improvement if it was simplified."
"Cisco Stealthwatch can improve by having bundled packages for popular add-ons. It would be a lot easier for people implementing it, have let's say a better way to use the product."
"I would like to see it better organized when I'm looking at it."
"We are continuing down the road of ACI and ISE with Cisco, so we would like to see the continuation of Stealthwatch integrating into ISE for exchange of information, and also, more into the ACI environment too."
"The usability of this solution needs to be improved."
"When I started, it was a bit difficult, however, now it's okay. It can be a bit complex for basic users."
"The solution could improve by having better integration with other solutions other than Fortinet."
"The documentation could be better."
"Having FortiManager work with all of the Fortinet products would be a good improvement."
"The product is not very stable."
"Pricing-wise, it could always be less, even though it is less expensive than Palo Alto."
"It's a difficult process to transfer one interface from one virtual domain to another."
"It requires a lot of resources. This is the main challenge."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Fortinet FortiManager is ranked 3rd in Network Management Applications with 61 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiManager is rated 8.0. 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 Fortinet FortiManager writes "Easy to set up with good integration capabilities but we've had troubles when moving devices". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Fortinet FortiManager is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Fortinet FortiOS, Cisco DNA Center, Zabbix and Junos Space Network Director.
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