Cisco Sourcefire SNORT vs Claroty Platform comparison

"Cisco technical support is unbeatable. It offers a premium service every time."

"I like most of Cisco's features, like malware detection and URL filtering."

"Cisco Sourcefire SNORT is easy to configure and the reporting is great. It's also very user-friendly."

"The solution is stable."

"In general, the features are all great. However, if I need to take hardware for ASA, because they need to upgrade to Firepower, we want to create rules. For that, most of the time we go to the command line. Right now Firepower is working really hard on the grid. You can apply all those rules to the grid. Even if you want to monitor the logs, for example, the activity will tell you which particular user has been blocked because of that rule. Firepower's monitoring interface is very good, because you can see each and every piece. ASA also had it, but there you needed to type the command and be under the server to see all that stuff. In Firepower you have the possibility to go directly to the firewall. The way the monitoring is displayed is also very nice. The feature I appreciate most in Firepower is actually the grid. The grid has worked very well."

"It has a huge rate of protection. It's has a low level of positives and a huge rate of threat protection. It's easy to deploy and easy to implement. It has an incredible price rate compared to similar solutions."

"It simplifies the configuration process by offering pre-defined base configurations, including security and connectivity settings."

"It is quite an intelligent product."

"The solution offers comprehensive tools that greatly enhance your IT operations if implemented correctly."

"The solution's asset management is really great compared to Dragos or Nozomi."

"I appreciate the active coding, deep inspection of packages, and data retrieval. The tool covers information about assets and attack vectors, which I find superior to other tools. Based on alerts, I create reports detailing how an attacker can penetrate the plant, both externally and internally."

"Their SRA solution, the Secure Remote Access solution, is very useful for industrial environments."

"Claroty is very beneficial for learning and adds value to your resume."

"The tool's best feature was the UI and the simplicity it offers."

"I like how the tool does passive and active discovery and threat detection and shows risks, recommendations, and vulnerabilities. It gives risk scores and gathers everything in one place - IP, device name, etc. We can integrate it with other tools for overall network mapping. It's useful for audits, compliance, and monitoring of all devices in the industry. It provides both monitoring and control. We also have SRA for incident response, which lets us search all alerts if we deploy the Claroty Platform."

"The platform ensures security without imposing significant delays."

"While the alerts they offer are good, it could improve it in the sense that they should be more detailed to make the alerts more useful to us in general. Sometimes the solution will offer up false positives. Due to the fact that the alerts aren't detailed, we have to go dig around to see why is it being blocked. The solution would be infinitely better if there was just a bit more detail in the alert information and logging we receive."

"Cisco Sourcefire SNORT can scale, but if you have too much, you could fill up your log files, which I consider when discussing scalability."

"We are unhappy with technical support for this solution, and it is not as professional as what we typically expect from Cisco."

"Integration with other components — even Cisco's own products — can be enhanced to improve administrative experience."

"I did not experience any pain points that required improvement. Maybe a couple of false-positives, but that's about it."

"If the price is brought down then everybody will be happy."

"The pricing needs to be improved. We have lots of low-budget clients around us. Budget constraints are always a deterrent in our market."

"The customization of the rules can be simplified."

"Claroty Platform only gives the vulnerabilities based on the make and model of the devices, so it doesn't provide any resolution or any detailed explanation of how one can resolve such issues."

"For improvement, I think the training could be more practical. We have external training, but they're mostly theoretical. I want the solution to provide hands-on lab experience to help users learn better."

"There is room for improvement in the user interface to make it more vibrant and interactive, similar to IT tools."

"The graphical user interface is quite poor."

"There are a few protocols that Claroty doesn't currently support."

"The product could be improved in terms of user interface design."

"I've reported four bugs and three feature requests so far. The main area of focus should be on how attacks are detected. The attack vector information needs to be more detailed. For example, it's not enough to state that an SMB v1 version open can lead to a WannaCry attack. A more detailed explanation should help clients understand the various ways an attack could occur."

"Introducing an AI chatbot to assist you when you have doubts could be beneficial."

"We have a three-year license for this solution."

"The cost is per port and can be expensive but it does include training and support for three years."

"Licensing for this solution is paid on a yearly basis."

"If one is an extremely expensive product, and ten is cheap, I rate the tool's price as a five."

"I don't know the exact amount, but most of the time when I go to a company with a proposition, they will say, "This thing that you are selling is good, but it's expensive. Why don't you propose something like FortiGate, Check Point, or Palo Alto?" Cisco device are expensive compared to other devices."

"The licensing for physical devices is cheap, but the software version is expensive. The software version costs around 26-28 dollars. I was surprised and even double-checked. It was shocking."

"The tool is quite expensive."

"It's a bit expensive compared to other solutions."