We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Fortinet FortiSandbox 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 single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"The most valuable features provided by this solution are visibility and information."
"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."
"It's easy to set up. The deployment takes one or two days. You need to collect the data from a device and then direct it to the portal."
"The most valuable feature is its alerts and dashboard."
"Stability is the most valuable feature we have seen in this solution."
"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."
"Stealthwatch has greatly improved our network visibility, in terms of bandwidth, malware, and PCI violations."
"Cisco Stealthwatch has predefined alerts for different types of security issues that might happen in the network. Whether it's PCs or servers that are used for botnets or Bitcoin mining we receive the alerts automatically. This functionality is what we receive from the solution out of the box."
"The GUI makes administration tasks straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is the protection and the way it works, the technology is what I like the most."
"The solution has the highest stability...The solution's setup is not complex as they are already included in Fortinet."
"The solution is very good because it catches a lot of threats in emails."
"The most valuable feature was the EDR, endpoint detection and response."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The solution is easy to manage."
"It is an easily scalable solution."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Stealthwatch needs improvement when it comes to speed."
"The GUI could use some improvement. Being able to find features more easily would be a great improvement if it was simplified."
"Cisco Stealthwatch can improve by having bundled packages for popular add-ons. It would be a lot easier for people implementing it, have let's say a better way to use the product."
"If they can make this product more web-based, that would be amazing."
"One area that could be improved in SNA is the integration with Cisco ISE for user and session details, which currently requires additional setup."
"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."
"Complexity on integration is not so straightforward and you really need an expert to help build it out."
"It is time-consuming to set it up and understand how the tool works."
"I don't know if it is viable to do an improvement like this. When there are passwords in the password-protected files, it can't scan them or do things like this. I don't know if an algorithm or something else could make it better. Nowadays, many legitimate office documents have passwords."
"It should be easier to import custom virtual machines. Some of the VMs that are in FortiSandbox don't have the applications that we have in our environment. We need to import a VM with specific applications that we use in our environment. Have all the licenses because this is a real environment. You need a license for the Windows client you run on it. It's possible to import custom VMs, but it's a pain to do it. I would like a tool that simplifies the process."
"It would be better if it had support for Mac and Linux."
"If updated, Fortinet FortiSandbox could cover other risks."
"Not practical for real-time web traffic analysis because users won't wait for the FortiSandbox to complete its analysis before accessing content"
"The initial setup is not too complex but could be easier."
"The main area of concern in Fortinet FortiSandbox is its detection capabilities."
"The use cases in Fortinet FortiSandbox are not good. It is difficult to upload a custom VM for Fortinet FortiSandbox. The integration of Fortinet FortiSandbox with other Fortinet or FortiGate firewalls is not good. VMs are already installed in the hardware and are working fine, but we tried to approve the custom VM many times but did not succeed."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 58 reviews while Fortinet FortiSandbox is ranked 4th in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 36 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiSandbox is rated 8.2. 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 Fortinet FortiSandbox writes "Light and powerful solution design; useful to have". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Fortinet FortiSandbox is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Trellix Network Detection and Response, Check Point SandBlast Network, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and Trellix Advanced Threat Defense.
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