We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Meraki Dashboard 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."
"Cisco Stealthwatch has reduced the amount of time to detect an immediate threat."
"The artifacts available in the tool provide better information for analyzing network traffic. It enables a holistic view of network traffic and general packet analysis. It's easy to identify anomalies without the use of signatures. The way in which we implemented Stealthwatch Cloud has enabled my team to analyze traffic behind proxies."
"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."
"The solution reduces the amount of time it takes to detect and remediate threats."
"Provides easily identifiable anomalies that you can't see with signature detections."
"The most valuable features provided by this solution are visibility and information."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is data hoarding because it catches threats on a frequent basis that we had no idea of."
"Able to drill down into a center's utilization, then create reports based on it."
"Scalability is one of Meraki Dashboard's strongest features. We have thousands of users if we're counting the end-users on our clients' network, but we have hundreds of clients."
"There are some whitelist blacklist capabilities in the MX dashboard, which is very helpful."
"Everything is in a single pane and you can look at your network in one centralized place."
"What I found most valuable in Meraki Dashboard is that it's well-organized, easy to use, and practical."
"It is a reliable product. It provides a lot of information that is easy to read."
"There is no need to swap the hardware at all the locations, and importing the APs into the Dashboard was a simple and quick process."
"The solution scales well."
"Meraki dashboard deserves an Oscar."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The reporting of day-to-day metrics still has room for improvement."
"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."
"We need to be able to filter out internal IPs as non-threats."
"There's a lot of traffic on our network that we don't see sometimes."
"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 to see a hybrid solution that can work without being connected directly to the internet for those destinations."
"Cisco could improve the administration for the customers."
"The initial setup is complex and can be made more straightforward."
"You can't really clone or replicate a device, that sort of feature would be useful. You can clone the site but you cannot clone the device."
"What needs improvement in Meraki Dashboard is its configuration. It'll also be better if the tool has more functionality, and that is what I'd like to see in its next release."
"When users are trying to roam from one location to another location, geographical tracking would be helpful."
"I am concerned about the fact that once your licensing expires the devices stop working and become a brick."
"One area that could use improvement in the Meraki Dashboard is user-friendliness when navigating to port configurations."
"For my purposes, I don't need to see any other features added to the Meraki Dashboard. I have no criticisms and I do like the tool. If I had a criticism for it, it would be about the pricing because it could be a little less, but again, for the service that you get, I won't complain about that too much."
"The solution can be expensive."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 51 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Meraki Dashboard is rated 8.6. 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 Meraki Dashboard writes "Incredibly easy to use, great troubleshooting and prevention of malicious events". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Meraki Dashboard is most compared with SolarWinds NPM, ThousandEyes, Mist AI and Cloud, Cisco DNA Center and Fortinet FortiSIEM. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. Meraki Dashboard report.
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