We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Skybox Security Suite 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 most valuable features are encrypted threat analysis and the ability to run jobs on entire flows."
"Provides easily identifiable anomalies that you can't see with signature detections."
"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 provides good visibility to the customers. People are still evaluating it, but it provides visibility and helps them to take action to remediate and mitigate the issues that are highlighted on the dashboard. It has good integration with the Cisco switching platform."
"The solution allowed us to not only get gain insight but also start collaborating with other tools."
"The most valuable features provided by this solution are visibility and information."
"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 solution reduces the amount of time it takes to detect and remediate threats."
"Overall, the tool has helped us reduce risks. If any step is missing, it's easier for my team or engineers to identify it. The tool provides accurate recommendations based on the data. Its integration is easy, and I have integrated it with Fortinet firewalls."
"Key features for us include the firewall change audit every week. Also, being able to track firewall ACL usage, so that we can produce semiannual reports on ACL usage and shadowed and redundant rules on the firewall."
"It's very supportive and very user-friendly."
"The solution's simplicity of use is its most valuable feature."
"Aside from Firewall Assurance, we are using Network Assurance and Change Manager for an overview of the whole network and for documenting requests and the recertification of the ruleset."
"The ability to appropriately prioritize vulnerabilities inside the environment, and then to have visibility into the traffic and rule sets of an organization, are two of the top capabilities that I recommend. Skybox is the only one that does both of those in a single platform."
"Security review is the most important feature, because it offers a single pane of glass to analyze multiple firewalls."
"I think that compliance checks and policy compliance are the product's good features."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It is time-consuming to set it up and understand how the tool works."
"Complexity on integration is not so straightforward and you really need an expert to help build it out."
"Stealthwatch needs improvement when it comes to speed."
"Initially, I felt Cisco Secure Network Analytics lacked integration with Splunk."
"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."
"We need to be able to filter out internal IPs as non-threats."
"The overall visibility into the actual device itself would be helpful. I don't just want support-specific data, but also to be able to see information such as CPU and other internal components or usage of the devices."
"Cisco could improve the administration for the customers."
"I've had issues with licensing where, when they were expiring and I asked for the updated licenses, I would the wrong ones. I think their process needs to be straightened out a little bit - I don't know if they fixed it already, it has been awhile. It wasn't as straightforward as it could have been."
"The cloud site could be better. They should provide some use cases to help users."
"Skybox should improve their UX features by making them easier to use."
"The solution needs improvement in firewall configuration checks. I would also like to see more configuration checks for Forcepoint and for other non-supported firewalls."
"There is room for improvement in pricing. It would be better, especially if a customer bought all four modules."
"During implementation, we realised approximately 30 devices were not supported by the Skybox platform."
"The Network Assurance, which helps to create the network model, is not so rich."
"The solution was quite technical. It would be easier to manage if the solution was more specific about aspects of the solution and provided more advisory around how to use it effectively. It would help users a lot if they were more clear about everything."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Skybox Security Suite is ranked 18th in Vulnerability Management with 34 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Skybox Security Suite is rated 7.8. 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 Skybox Security Suite writes "Efficient in vulnerability management, stable and easy to use ". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Skybox Security Suite is most compared with AlgoSec, Tufin Orchestration Suite, FireMon Security Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama and RedSeal.
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