We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Fortinet FortiSIEM 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."
"The search options on Cisco Stealthwatch are the most valuable. You can get very granular with it, down to the kilobits or the seconds if you want. The product supports any time frame that you need, so that is nice."
"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."
"I believe this solution has reduced our incident response time."
"Most of the engineers I've worked with have been really good. Very knowledgeable and easy to work with."
"Using the Cognitive Analytics feature, we have complete visibility that we didn’t have before."
"Visibility. The ability to look East and West. To see what is passing through your circuits, where it is coming from, and how big it is."
"It has definitely helped us improve our mean time to resolution on network issues."
"It has improved our internal knowledge of what's going on with the network, and that's helpful."
"FortiSIEM's best features are the dashboards and customization."
"It's very easy for anyone to work with."
"The primary valuable feature is that it has replaced a whole lot of other products with one platform."
"There are things like dashboards and reports (pre-configured and custom) that let me know that things are operating the way they should be, and when they are not."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiSIEM is the user and entity behave as analytics(UEBA). This feature mixes your data and provides useful information based on the behavior of the targeted."
"AccelOps can handle a lot of data and it's just so important to true monitoring. Also, I can create a lot of rules to detect anything I like."
"Easy alert setup which enables different alerts in different categories."
"Some of our customers who use this solution have seen improvement in their connection with load balancing on both connections."
"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."
"Initially, I felt Cisco Secure Network Analytics lacked integration with Splunk."
"We've run into some issues with the configuration."
"The initial setup was straightforward but required a lot of data entry, to begin with building out the server types and network types."
"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's a good solid solution but integration with Network Access Control products with Cisco ISE would be good."
"I would like to see a hybrid solution that can work without being connected directly to the internet for those destinations."
"The GUI could use some improvement. Being able to find features more easily would be a great improvement if it was simplified."
"The process of installing Fortinet FortiSIEM and the customization of the alerts take too long."
"The performance can be improved. Sometimes it takes a long time to fetch data."
"With FortiSIEM, the issue has to do with the ways we can generate a report. It's not as flexible compared to that with other SIEM tools, like Splunk."
"FortiSIEM could be better integrated with other vendors."
"Our customers are noticing configuration available in the GUI interface and I think that they should be equal."
"There could be more AI features included in the product."
"An improvement would be if FortiSIEM's licensing was based on the number of nodes rather than the EPS."
"Their technical support is horrible. By horrible, I mean a train wreck of a disaster that has fallen off a bridge and caught fire."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Fortinet FortiSIEM is ranked 9th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 65 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiSIEM is rated 7.6. 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 Fortinet FortiSIEM writes "It's cheaper than other solutions with the same features but lacks integration with many third-party vendors". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Fortinet FortiSIEM is most compared with IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk Enterprise Security, Wazuh and LogRhythm SIEM. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. Fortinet FortiSIEM report.
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