We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and WatchGuard Intrusion Prevention Service 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."
"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 solution reduces the amount of time it takes to detect and remediate threats."
"From a security standpoint, it is just seeing pockets as well. Visibility is very key for us."
"Most valuable features are the network maps and server and network response time."
"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."
"Cisco Stealthwatch has reduced the amount of time to detect an immediate threat."
"It has improved our internal knowledge of what's going on with the network, and that's helpful."
"The fact that it can identify down to an IP address of a system that is causing problems, or potentially causing problems, is very valuable."
"The initial setup was straightforward and, because we only need intrusion detection and prevention, we needed only about four hours to deploy it."
"The VPN and the filtering features are the most valuable. Its VPN is very strong, and its services are very nice. The main problem in India is the service. There are not enough Check Point and Fortinet Firewall services, but for this product, the service is very good."
"The most important feature of this solution is the SLAs."
"It works right out of the box. You just have to enable it and you can start working."
"The alarm system is valuable."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Reliance on Java. Get away from that."
"The visualization could be improved, the GUI is not the best."
"Complexity on integration is not so straightforward and you really need an expert to help build it out."
"The GUI could use some improvement. Being able to find features more easily would be a great improvement if it was simplified."
"Cisco could improve the administration for the customers."
"The configuration of the solution was quite complex."
"I would like to see more and cleaner reporting. For example, if I pull up Steven and I want to look and maybe compare him to what you've done in the past week, and compare that to the past six months, the point would be to see what the difference in activity looks like over this time. I don't see that capability in reporting to date. You see that trend but you don't really see a straightforward comparison. That right there is key to what we want to see about the normal activity."
"It's not great as a standalone solution."
"Its graphical user interface could be improved because not everybody is technical. There is a lack of knowledge, and they can give some training for this solution."
"I would like to see faster automatation."
"Multi properties could be added to the solution in the future to make it better."
"Regarding technical support, they could use more engineers."
"The user interface and configuration can be improved."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while WatchGuard Intrusion Prevention Service is ranked 31st in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 5 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while WatchGuard Intrusion Prevention Service is rated 6.6. 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 WatchGuard Intrusion Prevention Service writes "Good VPN and filtering features, 100% stable, but needs a better graphical user interface and more training". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas WatchGuard Intrusion Prevention Service is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate IPS.
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