We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and WatchGuard Intrusion Prevention Service 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."
"Overall, the implementation is very good."
"Using this solution has helped us to detect and identify viruses or malicious activity in the network early on."
"Being able to identify specific date closed across the network is invaluable."
"From a security standpoint, it is just seeing pockets as well. Visibility is very key for us."
"Stability is the most valuable feature we have seen in this solution."
"The most valuable feature is anomaly detection, where it finds things that are not allowed internally."
"It has been pretty stable since we deployed it, and everything seems to be working fine."
"The most valuable features are encrypted threat analysis and the ability to run jobs on entire flows."
"The alarm system is valuable."
"The most important feature of this solution is the SLAs."
"The VPN and the filtering features are the most valuable. Its VPN is very strong, and its services are very nice. The main problem in India is the service. There are not enough Check Point and Fortinet Firewall services, but for this product, the service is very good."
"It works right out of the box. You just have to enable it and you can start working."
"The initial setup was straightforward and, because we only need intrusion detection and prevention, we needed only about four hours to deploy it."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The GUI could use some improvement. Being able to find features more easily would be a great improvement if it was simplified."
"I would like to see more and cleaner reporting. For example, if I pull up Steven and I want to look and maybe compare him to what you've done in the past week, and compare that to the past six months, the point would be to see what the difference in activity looks like over this time. I don't see that capability in reporting to date. You see that trend but you don't really see a straightforward comparison. That right there is key to what we want to see about the normal activity."
"It's too complicated to install, when starting out."
"One update that I would like to see is an agent-based client. Currently, Stealthwatch is network-based. A local agent could help manage endpoints."
"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 configuration of the solution was quite complex."
"The initial setup is complex, as there is a lot to configure."
"The visualization could be improved, the GUI is not the best."
"Its graphical user interface could be improved because not everybody is technical. There is a lack of knowledge, and they can give some training for this solution."
"I would like to see faster automatation."
"The user interface and configuration can be improved."
"Multi properties could be added to the solution in the future to make it better."
"Regarding technical support, they could use more engineers."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while WatchGuard Intrusion Prevention Service is ranked 31st in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 5 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while WatchGuard Intrusion Prevention Service is rated 6.6. 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 WatchGuard Intrusion Prevention Service writes "Good VPN and filtering features, 100% stable, but needs a better graphical user interface and more training". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas WatchGuard Intrusion Prevention Service is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate IPS and Cisco Sourcefire SNORT.
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