We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Cloudflare 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 feature is integration."
"Using this solution has helped us to detect and identify viruses or malicious activity in the network early on."
"We find that Stealthwatch can detect the unseen."
"The most valuable feature about this solution is that it gives me insight of my network."
"If you are using Darktrace or NAC solutions you can integrate Stealthwatch."
"The most valuable features are encrypted threat analysis and the ability to run jobs on entire flows."
"The most valuable features of this solution are its reporting and mitigation capabilities."
"Stability is the most valuable feature we have seen in this solution."
"New and innovative way to protect the client's data."
"What I like best about Cloudflare is that my company can use it to trace and manage applications and monitor traffic. The solution tells you if there's a spike in traffic. Cloudflare also sends you a link to check your equipment and deployment and track it through peering, so it's a valuable tool."
"When using services like Heroku, Cloudflare is very useful for CNAME flattening. I also use it for their end-to-end SSL with TLS authentication on nginx for securing servers."
"The solution offers the flexibility to control configuration rules."
"Centralized, full-featured DNS."
"DDoS attacks target unprotected machines. Cloudflare detects and stops these attacks using internal systems. It identifies incoming DDoS attacks, issuing challenges or blocking them immediately."
"The solution provides good load balancing and protection against DDoS attacks."
"The most valuable feature of Cloudflare is that it has a free version. They give us the free version with the anti-DDoS features and also the load balancing solution."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"We would like the solution to make more advances in the way that Extreme Networks has been doing."
"The GUI could use some improvement. Being able to find features more easily would be a great improvement if it was simplified."
"At my company, we might not be using it enough with other applications that we have that can integrate with it."
"It's too complicated to install, when starting out."
"We've run into some issues with the configuration."
"Initially, I felt Cisco Secure Network Analytics lacked integration with Splunk."
"The reporting of day-to-day metrics still has room for improvement."
"I would like to see it better organized when I'm looking at it."
"Sometimes their more advanced caching tools can cause higher first-byte times and problems with JavaScript."
"Support response time could be improved."
"There are some issues with the CDN services."
"One area of improvement is in the Access Rules. Hypothetically, if we wanted to block or challenge traffic outside of the United States, the only way to currently do that (as far as I know) is to enter every single country outside of the United States. That could be a labor intensive job. A solution could be to enable users to create a rule where traffic is only allowed within a certain country."
"It should have easier documentation for the configuration. It's very technical and people who aren't technical should also be able to do the configuration."
"Cloudflare's console should be made more user-friendly."
"They lack a good way to manage DNS as a company, since everything is relegated to single account logins until you get to the higher levels. They have come out with a paid feature to remedy this, but I have not had a chance to fully review it yet to know if it fixes the access problem."
"It should be easier to collect the logs with companies like Sumo. However, based on my discussions with the salespeople, I understand that's how they make their money. With the enterprise product, they want people doing those kinds of enterprise features to do the logging. They want them to pay a lot of money, and that's where I have an issue with them. That should be a default. You should be able to get the log no matter what. The logging should be universal."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Cloudflare is ranked 1st in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 57 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Cloudflare is rated 8.4. 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 Cloudflare writes "It's easy to set up because you point the DNS to it, and it's working in under 15 minutes". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Cloudflare is most compared with Akamai, Azure Front Door, Imperva DDoS, AWS Shield and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway.
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