We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and SCOM 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."
"I value the feature which enables me to detect devices talking to suspect IPs."
"Provides easily identifiable anomalies that you can't see with signature detections."
"The most valuable feature is NetFlow. The beginning of any security investigation starts with NetFlow data."
"StealthWatch lets me see the ports running in and out and the country. It has excellent reporting, telemetry, and artificial intelligence features. With the telemetry, I can set thresholds to detect sudden changes and the alarms go through the PLC parts. I can see all the ports running on that trunk."
"Overall, the implementation is very good."
"The most valuable feature is having visibility into the data segments throughout our network."
"There are already many functionalities, so I don't think there is anything to improve."
"The feature most valuable for us is to gain visibility of what is actually floating through, so we can stop it based on whether it's good or bad traffic."
"Because it's Windows-based, it actually reports quite well. It reports everything you can think of on the Windows server and allows you to monitor anything. It's excellent for those in the Windows world as it's very good at it."
"The solution has improved our overrides and the ability to start services if they're stopped."
"It takes a lot of the headache out of managing your data centers and software in other places."
"It is a user-friendly product that requires almost no maintenance."
"I enjoy its integration with the Microsoft Active Directory functions, which means users, computers, or other group policies can connect with Windows Active Directory."
"We have found the scalability capabilities to be okay."
"This solution saves us a lot of work because it reduces the effort that is required in order to start monitoring."
"The most valuable feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I would like to see better filters."
"Cisco Stealthwatch needs more integration with device discovery. We have to do a lot of hard work to figure out what things are. Better service integration is required."
"The initial setup is complex, as there is a lot to configure."
"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."
"I would like the search page available with Cisco Stealthwatch to be more intuitive. The previous release was better than the current one for the UI."
"Reliance on Java. Get away from that."
"The initial setup was straightforward but required a lot of data entry, to begin with building out the server types and network types."
"I would like to see it better organized when I'm looking at it."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
"The configurations could be better. There are multiple tests where you can do something, but they can be a trigger as well. The overriding methodologies are not that easy. The configurations are difficult. The configuration and thorough day-to-day operations to get them to the level you want takes some time. It's very difficult."
"It lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
"The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
"It would be a much better product if Microsoft provided management packs with the product."
"I would like to see more standard libraries for the market solutions, out of the box, that you don't need to do a lot of work on."
"Stability and some performance issues exist and they need improvement."
"It'll help if they can provide real-time or closer to real-time monitoring."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while SCOM is ranked 11th in Network Monitoring Software with 77 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while SCOM is rated 7.8. 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 SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics and Nagios XI. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. SCOM report.
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