We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Fortinet FortiOS 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."
"Most valuable features are the network maps and server and network response time."
"The most valuable feature is having visibility into the data segments throughout our network."
"It works efficiently for encrypted traffic analysis."
"Great network monitoring, looking at anomaly detection and evaluation."
"The most valuable feature we got out of Stealthwatch is to be able to, while troubleshooting, go deep into one of our interfaces and verify what the bandwidth is and if there's any activity there that's causing problems."
"From what I understand, you can encrypt and unencrypt traffic moving in transit. This is one of the features that we liked about it."
"The ability to send data flow from other places and have them all in one place is very valuable for us."
"The most valuable feature is NetFlow. The beginning of any security investigation starts with NetFlow data."
"The information security features are the most valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiOS network segregation, UTM, and antivirus, freight management protection, such as DDoS. Additionally, the CLI and the GUI are easy to use. The architecture makes sense, and the command in the CLI are organized well. They have quite a lot of features are easy to use, and are user-friendly. Any novice can use Fortinet FortiOS without an issue."
"For ten to 12 years it has been quite secure."
"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 interface is good."
"The solution is extremely scalable."
"The main features I find useful are intrusion prevention and web filtering. Additionally, the solution is easy to manage."
"It's very easy to use."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The initial setup was straightforward but required a lot of data entry, to begin with building out the server types and network types."
"It's too complicated to install, when starting out."
"We are continuing down the road of ACI and ISE with Cisco, so we would like to see the continuation of Stealthwatch integrating into ISE for exchange of information, and also, more into the ACI environment too."
"We would like the solution to make more advances in the way that Extreme Networks has been doing."
"Many of these tools require extensive on-premises hardware to run."
"I would like to see it better organized when I'm looking at it."
"If there was one improvement I’d suggest it would be that it detect traffic through an intranet. The product requires that traffic flow through a managed network device. The product is designed mostly for enterprise environments and not smaller environments or businesses."
"Stealthwatch needs improvement when it comes to speed."
"They need to integrate more with the SD-WAN."
"We had assistance from one person from our local vendor for the implementation."
"The pricing model makes this product far more expensive than similar solutions."
"The solution's graphic interface could be a bit more responsive and include notations when changes are made."
"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."
"I would like to see more statistics in the monitoring part."
"Fortinet needs to make this solution even more robust. Sometimes when we get a DDoS attack, the cannot withstand it. We can run out of sessions very easily. That said, I suppose if you want more a robust system, then you could purchase higher-end solutions, which are more expensive. Still, I would like to see more protection from even in the low-end version."
"There are some issues with the performance. We also had some issues while updating the firmware."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiOS 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 Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, 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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