Regarding cost, for the Bangladesh context, Cisco Secure Network Analytics is a little bit high-priced because we are a developing country, making it tough to manage affordable solutions. However, considering its stability, features, protection, visibility, and easy maintenance, the solution is effective and, from that point of view, cost-effective. Cisco should consider pricing strategies for the Bangladesh market.
The organization experienced challenges with licensing as Cisco has multiple licensing factors, and there are concerns about the price. Cisco solutions are considered to be very expensive.
The tool is not cheaply priced. In cybersecurity, you want an extra layer of security in your organization. Some sectors want NDR solutions, so you cannot deploy such tools everywhere, as they are expensive.
Senior Cyber Scientist at a government with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Feb 13, 2023
From what I've seen when using the Cisco ecosystem, you can get some good value from the licensing. But there are products out there like Cisco Firepower, for which the license is expensive. We are very much trying to move away from Firepower specifically because of the pricing. It's just not good value for us.
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Chief Technology Officer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
MSP
Jun 25, 2021
This is an expensive solution and the license is expensive. The cost is an area where a lot of clients are a little uncomfortable. The license cost is based on the size of the environment you're managing.
Network Administrator at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Jun 17, 2019
This solution is a little expensive. Open-source is obviously a key to victory in some people's eyes but with open-source, you can't pay anybody. So it could be a little cheaper, but it has great functionality.
For our organization, it is cheap, but for other customers, it may be fairly expensive. As we are resellers of Cisco Stealthwatch, we hope to save time, money, and administrative costs once we start selling more of these solutions.
Cisco Secure Network Analytics is a highly effective network traffic analysis (NTA) solution that enables users to find threats in their network traffic even if those threats are encrypted. It turns an organization’s network telemetry into a tool that creates a complete field of vision for the organization’s administrators. Users can find threats that may have infiltrated their systems and stop them before they can do irreparable harm.
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Regarding cost, for the Bangladesh context, Cisco Secure Network Analytics is a little bit high-priced because we are a developing country, making it tough to manage affordable solutions. However, considering its stability, features, protection, visibility, and easy maintenance, the solution is effective and, from that point of view, cost-effective. Cisco should consider pricing strategies for the Bangladesh market.
The organization experienced challenges with licensing as Cisco has multiple licensing factors, and there are concerns about the price. Cisco solutions are considered to be very expensive.
The tool is not cheaply priced. In cybersecurity, you want an extra layer of security in your organization. Some sectors want NDR solutions, so you cannot deploy such tools everywhere, as they are expensive.
I would rate Cisco SNA as a nine out of ten in terms of costliness.
The solution is expensive. It costs several hundred thousand dollars per year (depending on how many flows you are collecting).
From what I've seen when using the Cisco ecosystem, you can get some good value from the licensing. But there are products out there like Cisco Firepower, for which the license is expensive. We are very much trying to move away from Firepower specifically because of the pricing. It's just not good value for us.
We have a three-year contract with Cisco, including 24/7 online support. There are no additional costs.
It has a subscription model. There is yearly support, and there is also three-year support. It depends on what the customers want.
This is an expensive solution and the license is expensive. The cost is an area where a lot of clients are a little uncomfortable. The license cost is based on the size of the environment you're managing.
This is an expensive product. We have quit paying for support because we don't want to have to upgrade it and keep paying for it.
This solution is expensive. Our fees are approximately $3,000 USD.
The pricing for this solution is good.
We pay for support costs on a yearly basis.
This solution is a little expensive. Open-source is obviously a key to victory in some people's eyes but with open-source, you can't pay anybody. So it could be a little cheaper, but it has great functionality.
On a yearly basis, licensing is somewhere around $30,000.
The yearly licensing cost is about $50,000.
We pay a yearly license.
The licensing costs are outrageous, but Stealthwatch has a good time to value.
Because we are still testing, we do not yet know what our licensing fees will be.
For our organization, it is cheap, but for other customers, it may be fairly expensive. As we are resellers of Cisco Stealthwatch, we hope to save time, money, and administrative costs once we start selling more of these solutions.
Licensing is on a yearly basis, but I have no idea what the costs are.