Arbor Sightline vs. Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Arbor Sightline
Score 9.4 out of 10
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Arbor Sightline (formerly Arbor SP) is a network behavior analytics platform developed by Arbor Networks, now owned and supported by NETSCOUT.N/A
Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics
Score 9.1 out of 10
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Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics (Stealthwatch Cloud) aims to improve security and incident response across the distributed network, from the private network and branch office to the public cloud. This solution addresses the need for digital businesses to quickly identify threats posed by their network devices and cloud resources, and to do so with minimal management, oversight, and security manpower.N/A
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Small Businesses

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Medium-sized Companies
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Score 8.5 out of 10
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Score 8.5 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 8.5 out of 10
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Score 8.5 out of 10
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
NETSCOUT
Arbor has the propensity to deal with even the larger firms. I have been using it for a year span and I don’t have any such complaint which is affecting us in a bad way. I can recommend this to all the companies who want to have a good network behavior analysis and to monitor the problems if there is any chance of it to occur and which has the potential to affect the whole working environment of the company.
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Cisco
We wanted a better way to monitor the security of our network safety. Cisco gives us the best visibility across the device and it detects threats in our public cloud.
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Pros
NETSCOUT
  • Arbor's layer 7 countermeasures are very good out of the box, but it is very easy to reconfigure values and see the impact in real-time.
  • Peakflow SP provides fairly detailed traffic analysis and breakdown for top-N data such as top talkers, top ASNs, top ports and so on. They offer "SP Insight" as a product to build in more powerful reporting on the already-collected metrics with an interface very similar to Kibana or one of its many forks. We are not licensed for that so I can't speak to its capabilities.
  • Arbor allows for a good amount of automation. Fast flood detection ensures that if pre-determined thresholds are quickly exceeded, preconfigured mitigations can be started or in the event of an extremely large volumetric attack you can trigger an Arbor Cloud (sold separately) mitigation or a remotely-triggered blackhole announcement to drop traffic to the attacked destination IP address(es) upstream.
  • ATAC (Arbor support) is very helpful. The level of support our organization maintains covers ATAC performing all update functions to all Arbor appliances - SP and TMS.
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Cisco
  • Improve security and productivity
  • Detect advanced threats and indicators of compromise
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Cons
NETSCOUT
  • Arbor is a highly expensive company. this was the major reason behind not going for the Arbor sightline in the first place. Although its features are good but the cost is unjustifiable.
  • The implementation and the understanding of this tool are full of complexity and perplexity.
  • I am looking forward to having a new update on it. They used to update their versions quite frequently but it's been a long time they haven’t updated or maybe it is not in their priority lists right now.
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Cisco
  • No free version [and] cost is bit high.
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Alternatives Considered
NETSCOUT
We evaluated Corero and a number of external scrubbing services. In the POC, we found Corero's mitigation capabilities to extremely limited beyond blocking common traffic types at preconfigured rates. It's not impossible to configure custom mitigation methods and countermeasures, but it requires a deep understanding of BPF and bytecode, where Arbor is checkboxes, radio buttons, and dialog buttons that all sit next to a graph showing traffic dropped and permitted by the current settings. I'm not going to enumerate each of the cloud services evaluated because the decision came down to the same reasoning. The amount of traffic we receive is enough that it would be prohibitively expensive for our use case.
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Cisco
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Return on Investment
NETSCOUT
  • Arbor is good in empower us to monitor the issues in the network.
  • We can get better traffic analytics and reports are quite detailed.
  • The price is quite high which makes it a little hard choice for us.
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Cisco
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