We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics and Fortinet FortiGate IPS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."When it comes to scalability, there's no size limit. It varies based on licenses and requirements."
"The logs in Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud are very good when doing the API integration in the team. It is able to give you important information for the correlations."
"Monitoring the traffic, making sure you have the visibility."
"It tells you if there is any communication going to command and control servers, or if there is any traffic that violates your internal policy, or if any data hoarding is happening where data is being dumped from your machine to outside of the environment. It provides all such meaningful reports to help you understand what's happening."
"The tool's best feature is its ability to monitor network traffic. It will also inform users whether the traffic generated by a network is legitimate. The tool helps to capture and analyze the network traffic."
"Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud is scalable because it is on the cloud."
"The product helps me to see malware."
"The feature that I find most valuable is its protection of the websites."
"The solution is stable."
"The most useful features of Fortinet FortiGate IPS are you can create a virtual firewall within it, most other firewalls do not have this feature. You are able to manage your network and have network segmentation within your firewall. Additionally, you can create virtual switches within the firewall and have policy management, such as firewall and access policy."
"I like FortiGate's zero-trust capabilities and protection against zero-day threats. Zero-day threat protection is critical because we're seeing constant changes in the threat landscape. The sandboxing and web access controls are also robust."
"Provides good VPN capabilities."
"The solution is easy to use."
"I like its ability to prevent external intrusion into our database. It's so fun."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate IPS are firewall and filtering."
"The initial setup is a bit complex in terms of deployment and configuration"
"When I used to work on it, I just didn't see anything new happening for about a year and a half. Providing newer data and newer reports constantly would help. There should be more classifications and more interesting data."
"If we migrate these things to an event or send us an email if there is any critical event, I would like to configure these things on the initial launch. Because if a system is compromised, there will be a lot of data movement from one post to another post to the outside. Then, we should also get an alert on email as well. We have since we have integrated these things. But a direct email for critical alerts should be there. So, I would like to enhance the critical event configuration."
"The product needs to improve its user-friendliness. It is very tricky and you need to study it before using the standard functionalities."
"Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud could improve the graphical user interface. It could be a more user-friendly graphical user interface. so that. Not everybody's a cyber security professional, most of the customers that I deal with are not very skilled. The terms that they use in the solution are quite understandable for a normal CIO."
"The initial setup of Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud is complex."
"The product's price is high."
"The interface and product support could use improvement."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve performance. There was a huge challenge in terms of CPU and memory where the IPS engine would keep triggering. There were random spikes of overutilization in the CPU and memory resources. They have to work on CPU and memory stability considering these IPS engines. A few versions were very unstable."
"Fortinet FortiGate IPS could improve the VPN. There are times it is slow."
"While the security is good, we'd always prefer if it was even better to ensure protection."
"The solution could improve the configuration, there are times the configuration is missing."
"There could be more modifications."
"There is room for improvement in being proactive about identifying and integrating new signatures."
"They should provide us with a CSV number for patch updates. It will help us block specific signatures as well."
Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics is ranked 15th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 7 reviews while Fortinet FortiGate IPS is ranked 4th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 54 reviews. Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics is rated 8.6, while Fortinet FortiGate IPS is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics writes " Efficiently generates alerts for suspicious activities and scales easily ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate IPS writes "Very stable with good network protection". Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics is most compared with Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, Darktrace and CrowdStrike Falcon, whereas Fortinet FortiGate IPS is most compared with Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Trend Micro TippingPoint Threat Protection System, Cisco NGIPS, Check Point IPS and Cisco Sourcefire SNORT. See our Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics vs. Fortinet FortiGate IPS report.
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