We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics and Fortinet FortiOS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Darktrace, Vectra AI, Check Point Software Technologies and others in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS)."The product helps me to see malware."
"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."
"When it comes to scalability, there's no size limit. It varies based on licenses and requirements."
"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 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."
"I am satisfied with Fortinet FortiOS. It's a cool product and has a lot of UTM features. It has application control, web filtering, antivirus, IPS/IDS, DNS filtering, and many things in that firewall. It also has a web application firewall WAF feature. On the feature side, it's a good firewall."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are the granular control and their interoperability is good."
"The technical support is very good and the assistance they gave was very good."
"Compared to other firewalls, the segmentation is much easier in FortiGate."
"I find filtering traffic, filtering web traffic, session traffic, and managing the network as valuable features."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are its simplicity, highly user-centric, and performs well. The line speed and for heavy traffic, is helpful for us."
"The technical support on offer has always been quite good."
"The pricing is excellent."
"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's price is high."
"The initial setup is a bit complex in terms of deployment and configuration"
"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 needs to improve its user-friendliness. It is very tricky and you need to study it before using the standard functionalities."
"I would like to see the features of FortiAnalyzer included in Fortinet FortiOS. Right now, you're required to have an additional license and a different device for features such as processing the log, reporting, and analyzing traffic."
"Right now, all the features meet my requirements."
"The support could be improved, Fortinet's response time is very slow. Setting up the VPN could be made much easier, especially when deployed with Azure."
"Could be improved by supporting an allocation of quota base management regarding user data."
"Right now, it's very trendy to integrate everything into the cloud. This solution would be more effective if they did more integration in that regard."
"A switch should be introduced."
"I want to see a better integration or a better integration with the endpoint protection or with EDR with the security life cycle."
"The complexity of the VPNs should be improved."
Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics is ranked 15th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 7 reviews while Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews. Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics is rated 8.6, while Fortinet FortiOS 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 FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". 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 FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiWeb, Fortinet FortiGate-VM and Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection.
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