We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Stability is the most valuable feature we have seen in this solution."
"Ease of deployment, once you get your ducks in a row."
"Great network monitoring, looking at anomaly detection and evaluation."
"Provides easily identifiable anomalies that you can't see with signature detections."
"Using the Cognitive Analytics feature, we have complete visibility that we didn’t have before."
"The most valuable feature is NetFlow. The beginning of any security investigation starts with NetFlow data."
"Cisco Stealthwatch has reduced the amount of time to detect an immediate threat."
"The most valuable feature is having visibility into the data segments throughout our network."
"The Palo Alto VM-Series is nice because I can move the firewalls easily."
"We can monitor the traffic manually and detect threats. Additionally, we can block different IP addresses and URLs."
"It is reliable and the support is very good."
"The interface with Panorama makes it very easy to use."
"It provides complete security posture from end-to-end. This has given us better visibility into what our security aspects are."
"In the newer version, there are 3850s, all of them are scalable. They fit better into the medium or small businesses."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"In terms of security breaches, the product aids in categorizing and monitoring traffic, allowing for the identification of potentially malicisous or incorrectly formatted applications."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It would be better to let people know, up front, that is doesn't give you nice, clear information, as seen in the demos, without Cisco ISE installed."
"The version with the Dell server had iDRAC problems. Often, it reported iDRAC failure."
"There's a lot of traffic on our network that we don't see sometimes."
"The initial setup is complex, as there is a lot to configure."
"One thing I would like to see improved is if it could automatically be tied through ISE, instead of you having to manually get notifications and disable it yourself."
"Cisco could improve the administration for the customers."
"Complexity on integration is not so straightforward and you really need an expert to help build it out."
"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."
"We feel that the setup was complex. So, we asked the tech team about the setup process. They explained how to deploy it in the right way, which made it very simple."
"The solution's licensing could be improved, and training should be included before installation."
"The solution must improve Zero Trust integration and use cases."
"It can definitely improve on the performance."
"With Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, it is hard for me to manage its network configuration part."
"There should be an option for direct integration with the Azure platform."
"The product could be better in terms of performance than one of its competitors."
"The one issue that I didn't like is that the SNMP integration with interfaces didn't record the interface counters."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 52 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series 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 Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Fortinet FortiGate, Cisco Secure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls.
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