We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Rapid7 InsightIDR 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."
"I value the feature which enables me to detect devices talking to suspect IPs."
"Cisco Stealthwatch provides the solutions analytics and threat detection capabilities that I am looking for. It has also improved the network visibility of our organization."
"The most valuable feature is having visibility into the data segments throughout our network."
"The most valuable feature is integration."
"The most valuable feature is anomaly detection, where it finds things that are not allowed internally."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the logging, keeping threats under control, and keeping our data and environment secure."
"The solution allowed us to not only get gain insight but also start collaborating with other tools."
"It has improved our internal knowledge of what's going on with the network, and that's helpful."
"Enables the use of honey pots, honey users, and honey files to monitor for suspicious patterns."
"Log search allows us to dive deep into aggregated logs and query all event types at once."
"The solution is very scalable in terms of the licensing model."
"Features for user behavior analytics and the rules for attack review are good."
"The web interface is great — very useful and user-friendly."
"Intelligent alerting to avoid the common problem of alert fatigue associated with traditional SIEMs."
"We were able to identify criminals attempting to login from China and put a stop on their IP locations."
"I like the tool's user analysis feature."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Reliance on Java. Get away from that."
"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."
"The initial setup was straightforward but required a lot of data entry, to begin with building out the server types and network types."
"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."
"The reporting of day-to-day metrics still has room for improvement."
"We've had problems with element licensing costs so scalability is a concern."
"Complexity on integration is not so straightforward and you really need an expert to help build it out."
"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."
"The dashboard is an area that could be simplified."
"Currently, it lacks the functionalities provided by Rapid7's User Behavior Analytics (UBA)."
"Inability to get access to compliance reports within the solution."
"InsightIDR's integration with other solutions could be improved. Also, I'd like more control from the portal over what's happening on the endpoint side. For example, when I see an attack on an endpoint, I want to be able to stop it from the portal."
"It would be useful to import threat intelligence in YARA format along with known incorrect email addresses."
"The integration capabilities of the solution have certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Tenable Nessus is easier to deal with. It's more efficient and accurate. InsightIDR is heavier than Tenable in terms of performance and scanning. Rapid7 would be much easier to use if it had a network connector like Tenable. Tenable's connector allows continuous monitoring over the B caps."
"Rapid7 doesn't integrate well with all our security tools from various vendors, so we plan to switch. Many of our solutions work with Rapid7, but some do not. We are already searching for a replacement already."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Rapid7 InsightIDR is ranked 10th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 29 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Rapid7 InsightIDR is rated 8.4. 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 Rapid7 InsightIDR writes "An affordable product that is easy to use and has many advanced features and default templates". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Rapid7 InsightIDR is most compared with Darktrace, Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk Enterprise Security, Rapid7 InsightVM and IBM Security QRadar.
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