We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Fortinet FortiWeb 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."
"I believe this solution has reduced our incident response time."
"The most valuable feature is its alerts and dashboard."
"From a security standpoint, it is just seeing pockets as well. Visibility is very key for us."
"The ability to send data flow from other places and have them all in one place is very valuable for us."
"It has definitely helped us improve our mean time to resolution on network issues."
"The most valuable feature about this solution is that it gives me insight of my network."
"It is a good application, providing for real-time monitoring of the organization of data. It can basically identify points of peak traffic where possible issues are being caused."
"It has improved our internal knowledge of what's going on with the network, and that's helpful."
"All the features that FortiGate contains are very suitable for our business. We work with other products in Fortinet, FortiWeb, FortiSandbox, FortiMail, and FortiCache. We use all UTM features like self-encryption, encryption, all UTM features."
"We were able to protect our web servers from outside attacks."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is Fail-Open."
"The solution is stable."
"The WAF profiles has been effective at mitigating web-based threats."
"I like FortiWeb's usability and ease of configuration. It's simple to configure rules and exceptions inside the attack log. We block everything by default. If something isn't working, we ask the system admin to adjust the template and add exceptions."
"FortiWeb's ease of deployment is what we liked the most about it. Implementing FortiWeb was extremely fast and easy, which was a significant advantage. It comes with several preconfigured rule sets and templates."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"We haven't seen ROI."
"Complexity on integration is not so straightforward and you really need an expert to help build it out."
"I would like Cisco to make it easier for the administrators to use it."
"One update that I would like to see is an agent-based client. Currently, Stealthwatch is network-based. A local agent could help manage endpoints."
"The reporting of day-to-day metrics still has room for improvement."
"I would like to see some improvement when it comes to reporting."
"The configuration of the solution was quite complex."
"It's not great as a standalone solution."
"The initial setup in our data center was somewhat complex."
"No solution is 100% secure and the security could always be worked on."
"It would also be helpful if they could introduce easier reporting. It's good to have those reports that go to C-level management, and Fortinet does provide some graphs, but if they went into some more detail, that would be great."
"FortiWeb does not exist in a cloud-based form. Its only available for deployment as a virtual appliance on AWS and Azure IaaS platforms. Because of the trend to WAF environments, it would be good to have it as a SaaS. Also, FortiWeb would be more competitive if it combined WAF and DDoS protection."
"It may be better if it were easier to create roles."
"The reporting could be optimized."
"Lacks functionalities that are available in other solutions."
"Integration and learning about attacks. I would improve these areas by making FortiWeb integrate with other network technologies and feedback from multiple platforms."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiWeb 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 Fortinet FortiWeb writes "Cost-effective, easy to configure, and works very well as a single solution for multiple environments". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Imperva Web Application Firewall.
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