We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Flowmon 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 most valuable feature is integration."
"Most valuable features are the network maps and server and network response time."
"The most valuable feature is NetFlow. The beginning of any security investigation starts with NetFlow data."
"The beginning of any security investigation starts with net flow data."
"The fact that it can identify down to an IP address of a system that is causing problems, or potentially causing problems, is very valuable."
"Using the Cognitive Analytics feature, we have complete visibility that we didn’t have before."
"Stealthwatch has greatly improved our network visibility, in terms of bandwidth, malware, and PCI violations."
"It has been pretty stable since we deployed it, and everything seems to be working fine."
"The solution is stable."
"The artificial intelligence and automatic detection system in Flowmon Solution are perfect for every, type of customer, such as government and commerce."
"It is an open platform, so in terms of integration, we are quite happy. We can integrate it with other SNMP solutions. We can also integrate it with security solutions, such as a SIEM solution."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I would like to see more and cleaner reporting. For example, if I pull up Steven and I want to look and maybe compare him to what you've done in the past week, and compare that to the past six months, the point would be to see what the difference in activity looks like over this time. I don't see that capability in reporting to date. You see that trend but you don't really see a straightforward comparison. That right there is key to what we want to see about the normal activity."
"Better integration between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Cisco Secure Workload would be beneficial."
"I would like Cisco to make it easier for the administrators to use it."
"We would like the solution to make more advances in the way that Extreme Networks has been doing."
"Many of these tools require extensive on-premises hardware to run."
"One update I would like to see is an agent-based client. Currently StealthWatch is network based."
"If they can make this product more web-based, that would be amazing."
"The configuration of the solution was quite complex."
"If there was better visualization in Flowmon Solution it would be good."
"The licensing price could be better."
"It would be helpful to have more details about the monitoring of the infrastructure. It should have support for SNMP. This is something that is currently not there in the product."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Flowmon is ranked 70th in Network Monitoring Software. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Flowmon is rated 8.0. 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 Flowmon writes "A stable and scalable solution allowing for the visibility of and the blocking of threats". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Flowmon is most compared with Darktrace, SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, WhatsUp Gold, Plixer Scrutinizer and NETSCOUT nGeniusPULSE. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. Flowmon report.
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