Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics vs. F5 BIG-IP SSL Orchestrator

Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics is well suited for network monitoring and starts off as learning how your day to day traffic flows amongst systems and assets. From there it can then pinpoint specific alerts that you have enabled to be monitored on your network. This gives us insight on any issues that may come up and how we can fix them. It also allows us to see what systems are consuming the most bandwidth and such from a big picture point of view.

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F5 SSL Orchestrator is an ideal software to address the blind spots of the encryption of incoming and outgoing traffic, this is because it provides a high visibility of the traffic. By having a management based on policies allows to carry out a simpler management and obtain a more integration easy with existing infrastructures. It is ideal for reducing costs as it allows the creation of dynamic devices, thereby evaluating whether the traffic should be decrypted or not.

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• Improve security and productivity
• Detect advanced threats and indicators of compromise

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• its very secure
• it had 2 step authentication
• it was cost effective to the company

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• More integrations with other Cisco tools or 3rd party vendors
• Add description of NetFlow probe, so you know which device it's configured on without logging into the actual switch
• Updated UI

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• It is a software with a somewhat complex documentation so when you are in doubt it is difficult to solve it through its documentation.
• A good knowledge is required in the management of the software, because although its implementation is flexible, carrying it out in the appropriate way guarantees good operation.
• Its price can be somewhat high if it is a small company, however considering its high versatility the investment is worth it.
• Learning curve somewhat steep, but you can count on the support of your support team.

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Very simple and easy to learn UI

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its very easy to use and user friendly

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Site loads smoothly without issues. Reports pull quickly as well. Overall no issues with this products performance for us

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Quick and easy support. Response time to support tickets have always been very quick and level of knowledge has always been excellent.

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If anything Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics only compliments other Cisco tools. We run a Cisco security stack and each one of those products only enhance and better the other product. Ultimately enhancing and protecting your network at its fullest capabilities. Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics doesn't only stack up, but adds another layer of visibility to help your company out.

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OpenSSL is a simple software to use, with a complete documentation and an easy installation and ideal for encrypting and decrypting and making certificates, however F5 SSL Orchestrator can be implemented in different ways, it provides a high visibility of the traffic which does not miss any threat It wants to hide in encrypted traffic, but its biggest advantage is that it helps to better manage and does not provide static but dynamic devices so it is possible to decrypt once or encrypt once, it is for all these powerful features that F5 SSL Orchestrator was chosen.

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Only have this deployed to one site, so scalability is good.

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• Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics has helped us mitigate network security issues
• Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics has provided us with detailed reporting on what are needs are in regards to network stability
• UI is stale and could use an update

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• By providing a high vision of inbound and outbound traffic, we manage to avoid the entry of threats and the exposure or loss of data from our business infrastructure.
• Its policy based management is very helpful, since it is much simpler to manage SSL traffic and to be aware of any attack coming from it and to apply security controls to all business traffic.

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