We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Fortinet FortiWeb based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Cisco Secure Network Analytics has increased the visibility of what is happening in our network, and I think that's the most important reason to use it. We can see what is really happening instead of just looking at numbers from routers or switches."
"We find that Stealthwatch can detect the unseen."
"From a security standpoint, it is just seeing pockets as well. Visibility is very key for us."
"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."
"If you are using Darktrace or NAC solutions you can integrate Stealthwatch."
"Using the Cognitive Analytics feature, we have complete visibility that we didn’t have before."
"It's a dependable product that is able to pinpoint where we have vulnerabilities if they occur."
"The beginning of any security investigation starts with net flow data."
"The GUI is user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiWeb is the ease of integration and configuration."
"The most important feature of this solution is protection from attack."
"FortiWeb is easy to operate with a reasonably high level of protection. FortiWeb provides multiple deployment options with a physical or virtual (FortiWeb-VM) appliance, and acts either as a reverse/transparent proxy or out-of-band. It is also available on AWS and Azure."
"All the features that FortiGate contains are very suitable for our business. We work with other products in Fortinet, FortiWeb, FortiSandbox, FortiMail, and FortiCache. We use all UTM features like self-encryption, encryption, all UTM features."
"The valuable feature of Fortinet FortiWeb vulnerability scanner"
"Fortinet FortiWeb is priced well."
"It's easy to use and allows us to integrate solutions together."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Initially, I felt Cisco Secure Network Analytics lacked integration with Splunk."
"The GUI could use some improvement. Being able to find features more easily would be a great improvement if it was simplified."
"One update I would like to see is an agent-based client. Currently StealthWatch is network based."
"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."
"Stealthwatch is still maturing in AI. It uses artificial intelligence for predictions, but AI still needs to mature. It is in a phase where you get 95% correct detection. As its AI engine learns more, it will become more accurate. This is applicable to all the devices that are using AI because they support both supervised and unsupervised machine learning. The accuracy in the case of supervised machine learning is dependent on the data you feed into the box. The accuracy in the case of unsupervised machine learning is dependent on the algorithm. The algorithm matures depending on retrospective learning, and this is how it is able to detect zero-day attacks."
"There's a lot of traffic on our network that we don't see sometimes."
"The configuration of the solution was quite complex."
"The ability to be natively integrated into Port Aggregator would be beneficial because it would reduce just one more component that's needed in order to have that type of view."
"Sometimes, even if you follow the documentation, it doesn't work as expected."
"The upgrade process could be a bit smoother."
"The solution could offer more integration opportunities."
"The solution could improve by being able to handle different use cases."
"Lacks a VM demo to enable testing prior to purchase."
"Fortinet FortiWeb is not scalable. You'll need more budget to change the hardware."
"Fortinet WAF came out recently, and there is not much feedback about customer experience. For each project, customers ask about the scenarios and references of the customers who have implemented this solution, which we don't have. They need to simplify the customer experience and provide more information so that we can propose Fortinet Fortiweb as a WAF solution to customers and convince them. They need to improve their service and training. We need good training to implement and use it properly and know more about it. We still don't know much about Fortinet WAF. We didn't get any proper training sessions. Other vendors like Cisco, Palo Alto, Check Point, and Barracuda provide such sessions. Whenever we receive a request from a customer for this solution, we just give the price. We don't propose this solution because we don't know much about it. We propose whatever we are familiar with and what is supported."
"For advanced users, it would be really useful to have access and the ability to manipulate packets. If we can access and manipulate the contents of packets, even encrypted packets... that would be powerful. Since we're looking at packets arriving at our network, we would have the private key to access those packets and their information."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0. 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 FortiWeb writes "Cost-effective, easy to configure, and works very well as a single solution for multiple environments". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Imperva Web Application Firewall.
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