We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Fortinet FortiSIEM 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 single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"Visibility. The ability to look East and West. To see what is passing through your circuits, where it is coming from, and how big it is."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is data hoarding because it catches threats on a frequent basis that we had no idea of."
"Provides easily identifiable anomalies that you can't see with signature detections."
"This product alleviates the day-to-day headaches for us, in regards to metrics."
"Cisco Stealthwatch has reduced the amount of time to detect an immediate threat."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco Secure Network Analytics is the Threat Intelligence integration."
"It has definitely helped us improve our mean time to resolution on network issues."
"Stability is the most valuable feature we have seen in this solution."
"We like the integration of all of these Fortinet platforms together. Everything is integrated well, and we are able to sell that as a service to our customers."
"Fortinet FortiSIEM's most valuable feature is the simplicity in handling multi-tenancy and the ability to switch between different clients at the same time. That was handled flawlessly."
"The interface is very easy to use. The connector in the core has FortiSIEM support from the vendor."
"The Threat Hunting feature provides complete traffic analysis."
"FortiSIEM helped us discover all the threats at the time that were attacking the IT services of the company. We now have multiple-level authentication."
"It works well with medium to large-scale enterprises."
"Fortinet FortiSIEM provides good detection against advanced threats."
"It is used as an alerting platform."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It's not great as a standalone solution."
"The initial setup is complex, as there is a lot to configure."
"Better integration between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Cisco Secure Workload would be beneficial."
"Cisco Stealthwatch needs more integration with device discovery. We have to do a lot of hard work to figure out what things are. Better service integration is required."
"The reporting of day-to-day metrics still has room for improvement."
"The configuration of the solution was quite complex."
"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."
"One update I would like to see is an agent-based client. Currently StealthWatch is network based."
"Fortinet FortiSIEM needs to provide better API integrations to users."
"Fortinet FortiSIEM is a little out of sight and needs more marketing efforts to be popular in the market."
"I would like to see more integration with other platforms."
"I would like to see easier implementation in the future."
"Sometimes, if there are changes made by a user on a database server, it can be difficult to get that information on the fly. I would like to see a situation where once I specify a user with the database server I need, and with the changes they have performed on that, I don't need to continue my search pattern to drill down just to get the information."
"The performance can be improved. Sometimes it takes a long time to fetch data."
"When compared with some competitors, in terms of performance, the CPU and RAM requirements and the capability of coordination with development all need some improvement."
"The process of installing Fortinet FortiSIEM and the customization of the alerts take too long."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while Fortinet FortiSIEM is ranked 9th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 65 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiSIEM is rated 7.6. 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 FortiSIEM writes "It's cheaper than other solutions with the same features but lacks integration with many third-party vendors". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas Fortinet FortiSIEM is most compared with IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk Enterprise Security, Wazuh and LogRhythm SIEM. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. Fortinet FortiSIEM report.
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