We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention 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."
"The solution allowed us to not only get gain insight but also start collaborating with other tools."
"I value the feature which enables me to detect devices talking to suspect IPs."
"It has definitely helped us improve our mean time to resolution on network issues."
"Cisco Stealthwatch has predefined alerts for different types of security issues that might happen in the network. Whether it's PCs or servers that are used for botnets or Bitcoin mining we receive the alerts automatically. This functionality is what we receive from the solution out of the box."
"We find that Stealthwatch can detect the unseen."
"The most valuable feature is its alerts and dashboard."
"Using this solution has helped us to detect and identify viruses or malicious activity in the network early on."
"The solution has increased our threat detection rate. Cisco Stealthwatch has not reduced our incident response times. It has not reduced the amount of time it takes us to detect immediate threats. It has reduced false positives."
"The most valuable features are the simplicity, transparency, and overall ease of management."
"Everything has been okay with the solution. We are using all of the features."
"The sandboxing tools offer great prevention for cloud feeds."
"It is a stable product."
"With the IP address flag, I was able to see that I was being hacked. The moment there was an interaction between somebody on my network and that IP, the solution was able to flag it, and we were able to protect ourselves."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It's quite easy. Deployment took one to two weeks."
"We are currently using the URL filtering feature, which is the most popular."
"It's a monster, it's got so many beautiful features. We do deal with other firewalls and we've got a better idea of what other firewalls' capabilities are, any comparison with the Palo Alto I liked the quality of service on the applications that you can control the amount of bandwidth an application is allowed to consume. The best feature is the quality of the application quality of service."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"We had some trouble with the installation as we migrated from our previous solution."
"They should include Citrix VDIs in the next release."
"The configuration of the solution was quite complex."
"The GUI could use some improvement. Being able to find features more easily would be a great improvement if it was simplified."
"The customizability of the UI should improve."
"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."
"We would like the solution to make more advances in the way that Extreme Networks has been doing."
"At my company, we might not be using it enough with other applications that we have that can integrate with it."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The solution needs to improve its local technical support services. There is no premium support offered in our market."
"The installation was complicated."
"In Africa, the technical support is probably not as good as in Europe and the USA because it's a specific premium support, partner-enabled premium support and all of that. But it's really good, I don't really have any complaints, it's fairly good. I'll give them 80%."
"The application’s pricing and dashboard need improvement. It could be user-friendly."
"Right now we are focusing on email. If Palo Alto can increase the features related to email filtering and the new malware, it would help us protect our systems."
"The pricing has improved with the newer generation of their Firewalls, but the price could always be lower. In comparison with other solutions, I believe they're quite competitive."
"Mission learning techniques should continue to expand and detect unknown threats on the fly."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is ranked 6th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 24 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention 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 Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention writes "A good amount of granularity and advanced URL filtering capabilities". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Splunk User Behavior Analytics, whereas Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is most compared with Check Point IPS, Fortinet FortiGate IPS, Arista NDR, Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall and Cisco Sourcefire SNORT. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention report.
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