Cisco Sourcefire SNORT vs Claroty Platform comparison

"With Cisco Sourcefire SNORT, we've been able to prevent and detect intrusion in our network and actually decrease our SLA (Service Level Agreement)."

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

"Scalability is something that Cisco has always cared about."

"The most valuable feature is the visibility that we have across the virtual environment."

"The most valuable features of Cisco Sourcefire SNORT are the dashboard for monitoring events."

"This solution makes life a lot easier as there are fewer man-hours required and we no longer need too many resources to manage it."

"There are a lot of features that I really appreciate with Firepower, which is why I advise most of my customers to go with Firepower."

"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."

"The solution's most valuable feature is the map, which shows everything that is connected and communicates with each other."

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

"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."

"Claroty provides continuous threat protection and identifies pre-empty stuff and false positives."

"I have had a very good experience with the Claroty Platform."

"Customer service is number one and the best."

"Claroty assigns a score based on how well you are doing in the course. If you skip a video, your score decreases, making it essential to watch the content attentively."

"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."

"Performance needs improvement."

"This solution needs to be more customizable."

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

"The initial setup is a little difficult compared to other products in the market. It depends on the environment. If we are doing any migration, it might take months in a brown-field environment."

"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."

"To be frank, the product is not really stable, although they're working on that."

"Performance needs improvement."

"This is a good solution, but some others may have some advantages."

"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."

"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 should be AI security solutions implemented."

"If more AI features could be included with the Clarity solution, it would be feasible for everybody."

"We face issues in the alert investigation area because it does not properly give the alert communication patterns."

"Occasionally, I face a login problem despite entering the correct password."

"I think the only issue is that the hardware Claroty uses is expensive."

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

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

"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."

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

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

"The tool is quite expensive."

"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."