We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Iris Session Analyzer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Darktrace, Vectra AI, Auvik and others in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA)."I value the feature which enables me to detect devices talking to suspect IPs."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is integration."
"This product alleviates the day-to-day headaches for us, in regards to metrics."
"Visibility. The ability to look East and West. To see what is passing through your circuits, where it is coming from, and how big it is."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco Secure Network Analytics is the Threat Intelligence integration."
"The beginning of any security investigation starts with net flow data."
"The most valuable feature about this solution is that it gives me insight of my network."
"The feature that I have found the most useful is the decode of packets. It gives us a variety of information that helps us in figuring out what to look at. The networks are getting really complex, and without the information that we get from Iris Session Analyzer, we couldn't do our job. Its graphical user interface is also very easy to use and intuitive."
"A great feature is the memory utilization graph."
"I would like to see more expansion in artificial intelligence and machine learning features."
"There could be better integration on the programming side, which uses Python. StealthWatch could provide a template for Python to manage the switches. For example, it would be nice if StealthWatch bounced a port automatically it detected something anomalous."
"Stealthwatch needs improvement when it comes to speed."
"It hasn't really improved our direct detection rate but it has definitely reduced our incident response time as we wouldn't have been able to detect threats or immediate risks without this solution."
"I would like Cisco to make it easier for the administrators to use it."
"The reporting of day-to-day metrics still has room for improvement."
"We've had problems with element licensing costs so scalability is a concern."
"Initially, I felt Cisco Secure Network Analytics lacked integration with Splunk."
"Sometimes the network analyzer will show that a server is down when it's actually working."
"They can increase flexibility in the search engine. Basically, I go with the information I have at the time. If I could just type in the parameter that I want to search for and its value, it might be easier than having to do the groundwork upfront before I can get my traces."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 4th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 57 reviews while Iris Session Analyzer is ranked 13th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 2 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Iris Session Analyzer 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 Iris Session Analyzer writes "Provides a memory utilization graph and shows disk space and uplink utilization but could include smart navigation in next release". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Iris Session Analyzer is most compared with .
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