We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Skybox Security Suite 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."
"The most valuable feature is NetFlow. The beginning of any security investigation starts with NetFlow data."
"From what I understand, you can encrypt and unencrypt traffic moving in transit. This is one of the features that we liked about it."
"Using this solution has helped us to detect and identify viruses or malicious activity in the network early on."
"Being able to identify specific date closed across the network is invaluable."
"I value the feature which enables me to detect devices talking to suspect IPs."
"The most valuable feature is integration."
"Using the Cognitive Analytics feature, we have complete visibility that we didn’t have before."
"The most valuable part is that Stealthwatch is part of a portfolio of security devices from Cisco. Cisco literally can touch every single end point, every single ingress and egress point in the network. Nobody else has that."
"The most impressive feature is optimization and clean-up."
"The port division management was the solution's most valuable aspect for our organization."
"Overall, the tool has helped us reduce risks. If any step is missing, it's easier for my team or engineers to identify it. The tool provides accurate recommendations based on the data. Its integration is easy, and I have integrated it with Fortinet firewalls."
"The most valuable features of Skybox Security Suite are all the modules that are provided, such as vulnerability assessments and network, and firewall assessments."
"The solution's simplicity of use is its most valuable feature."
"Security review is the most important feature, because it offers a single pane of glass to analyze multiple firewalls."
"Skybox allows organizations to reprioritize the vulnerability they attempt to patch and mitigate, based on the contextual awareness of the network."
"The most valuable features are Firewall Assurance and Vulnerability Control."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Many of these tools require extensive on-premises hardware to run."
"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."
"The reporting of day-to-day metrics still has room for improvement."
"Stealthwatch needs improvement when it comes to speed."
"We are continuing down the road of ACI and ISE with Cisco, so we would like to see the continuation of Stealthwatch integrating into ISE for exchange of information, and also, more into the ACI environment too."
"It is time-consuming to set it up and understand how the tool works."
"I would like to see a hybrid solution that can work without being connected directly to the internet for those destinations."
"I would like Cisco to make it easier for the administrators to use it."
"There are multiple dashboards but no custom dashboard. It would be good to include a custom dashboard so that we can actually choose which field and what kinds of things we want to look at."
"The solution does not support certain devices or vendors in some regions or countries due to regulations."
"The solution needs to add more automation and orchestration capabilities. Those features would make the solution much stronger."
"The primary room for improvement would be to enable a web interface, which is not something which is there in the product. This is supposed to have come a year, a year and a half ago, but still has failed to come out. It still needs a client application to be installed on a workstation to be able to access that server and then run these reports. So I cannot extend that access to anybody. It has to be one administrator all the time. So unlike a web interface, where you can give multiple users simultaneous access and generate the various reports, that isn't a possibility at the moment."
"The cloud site could be better. They should provide some use cases to help users."
"The Network Assurance, which helps to create the network model, is not so rich."
"Skybox Security Suite can improve the change management module. It is the one part of the tool that is used with the firewall devices and you have a change management module that is used to record changes of all firewalls in the company. It's not compatible with all brands, this is where they can improve the solution."
"The solution needs to move improve its interface to a full web browser version that is more accessible and doesn't require installation for use."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Skybox Security Suite is ranked 18th in Vulnerability Management with 34 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Skybox Security Suite 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 Skybox Security Suite writes "Efficient in vulnerability management, stable and easy to use ". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Skybox Security Suite is most compared with AlgoSec, Tufin Orchestration Suite, FireMon Security Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama and RedSeal.
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