We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Fortinet FortiSIEM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The solution reduces the amount of time it takes to detect and remediate threats."
"The solution allowed us to not only get gain insight but also start collaborating with other tools."
"It is a good application, providing for real-time monitoring of the organization of data. It can basically identify points of peak traffic where possible issues are being caused."
"Using this solution has helped us to detect and identify viruses or malicious activity in the network early on."
"Cisco Stealthwatch provides the solutions analytics and threat detection capabilities that I am looking for. It has also improved the network visibility of our organization."
"It's a dependable product that is able to pinpoint where we have vulnerabilities if they occur."
"The most valuable features provided by this solution are visibility and information."
"Ease of deployment, once you get your ducks in a row."
"Analytics. It can provide log information from the device. With log information, I can see if there is a threat"
"FortiSIEM helped us discover all the threats at the time that were attacking the IT services of the company. We now have multiple-level authentication."
"It's very easy for anyone to work with."
"The CMDB and the device discovery features are most valuable."
"The ability to write my own parsers for the devices that are not supported by Fortinet is the most valuable feature."
"AccelOps can handle a lot of data and it's just so important to true monitoring. Also, I can create a lot of rules to detect anything I like."
"FortiSIEM sends an email or SMS notifications to admins when there are significant incidents. It's a highly efficient way of responding to incidents."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Some of our customers find this solution to be a little bit tough because they don't understand how to configure and use it."
"The initial setup is complex, as there is a lot to configure."
"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."
"Initially, I felt Cisco Secure Network Analytics lacked integration with Splunk."
"I would like to see interoperability with other Cisco products because we have ThousandEyes, Cisco Prime, and others. The interaction among these is important to us."
"The reporting of day-to-day metrics still has room for improvement."
"The usability of this solution needs to be improved."
"It's a good solid solution but integration with Network Access Control products with Cisco ISE would be good."
"Not very good on non-API features, lacks that functionality."
"Its training can be improved. Its price also needs to be improved."
"When our team tried configuring logs for Microsoft SQL, it did not work."
"I would like to see more integration with other platforms."
"The reporting feature is not very attractive for the upper management and I am not able to perform complex/nested queries."
"Patching is not great - we're not getting the support we'd expect."
"The interface needs some improvements because it's a bit cumbersome when you're trying to view items. It takes some time to get used to. Additionally, sometimes the scrolling does not work."
"The support of the product changed recently, and I don't think it's for the better. They should work to improve the support they offer to clients."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Fortinet FortiSIEM is ranked 8th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 63 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiSIEM is rated 7.6. 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 Fortinet FortiSIEM writes "It's cheaper than other solutions with the same features but lacks integration with many third-party vendors". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Fortinet FortiSIEM is most compared with IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk Enterprise Security, LogRhythm SIEM and Wazuh. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. Fortinet FortiSIEM report.
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