We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and NetWitness Platform 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."
"Being able to identify specific date closed across the network is invaluable."
"I believe this solution has reduced our incident response time."
"Provides easily identifiable anomalies that you can't see with signature detections."
"The most valuable feature is anomaly detection, where it finds things that are not allowed internally."
"The most valuable feature about this solution is that it gives me insight of my network."
"From a security standpoint, it is just seeing pockets as well. Visibility is very key for us."
"The most valuable feature is its alerts and dashboard."
"The solution reduces the amount of time it takes to detect and remediate threats."
"It gives the ability to investigate into network traffic in the Net and the organization what we couldn't do before."
"Performance and reporting are very good."
"The product's initial setup phase was not at all difficult."
"The newer 11.5 version that my team is using has found it to have good mapping."
"The product has a user-friendly interface and a valuable feature for threat intelligence integration."
"The most valuable features are its ingestion of logs and raising of alerts based on those logs."
"The most valuable features are the packet decoder, log decoder, and concentrator."
"Setting up NetWitness is straightforward. There are multiple connectors, including standard and specialized connectors. One purpose of the connectors is the enhanced capability integrate the custom applications. NetWitness comes with E6 appliances and application images that we use for the initial configurations and for the OS stack information. From there, you can consider the correlation rules, integrate the different log sources, and easily create correlation rules and backlog reports."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"If they can make this product more web-based, that would be amazing."
"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."
"Cisco Stealthwatch needs more integration with device discovery. We have to do a lot of hard work to figure out what things are. Better service integration is required."
"The usability of this solution needs to be improved."
"I would like to see some improvement when it comes to reporting."
"One update I would like to see is an agent-based client. Currently StealthWatch is network based."
"Its granularity for RBAC roles-based access control needs improvement."
"The configuration of the solution was quite complex."
"The initial setup was complex because it takes a lot of time to complete the implementation."
"The implementation needs assistance."
"The documentation is not as structured as I would like, personally, and I think that it can be improved and made much more user-friendly."
"The user interface is a little bit difficult for new users and it needs to be improved."
"There are instances where you try to run the reports and then it does not give you the desired outcome."
"It is not so easy to customize this product."
"There is no support for this product in this country, so problems have to be resolved through global technical teams."
"If we have the ability to run a dynamic analysis through malware in the same suite, it would be great to have a sandbox solution to analyze malware through dynamic analysis."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while NetWitness Platform is ranked 20th in Log Management with 36 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while NetWitness Platform is rated 7.4. 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 NetWitness Platform writes "Can find out if there is lateral movement, but integration and workflow need improvement". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas NetWitness Platform is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, RSA enVision, IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel and Trellix Network Detection and Response.
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