Cisco Secure Network Analytics (Stealthwatch) vs Sumo Logic

• Using predefined signatures and scripts to capture and alert us to problems.
• Built-in tools that automatically watch for suspicious behaviors
• Integration with our already implemented IPAM services
• Interfaces with Splunk for our IT security to easy review

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• Sumo Logic allowed for our InfoSec team to ingest logs from our CDN directly, in real-time, instead of massive compressed archives that were sent every two-hours (the only alternative at the time). Sumo Logic had an app for these logs, that allowed us to easily get an immediate payoff from the data, with canned dashboard and saved searches.
• Sumo Logic has a fairly extensive REST API when it comes to log sources, source configurations, dashboard data, searches, etc. Their wiki for the API is usually kept up to date.
• Sumo Logic, during the period of time I had used their product, had added the ability to configure agents via configuration files. This allowed customers to configure their endpoints, and modify the endpoints, with configuration management tools like Chef / Puppet / Salt. Beforehand, the only option was to always make changes either via the web portal or REST API.
• The solutions engineers were extremely helpful, and easily reachable when issues would occur.
• Users at our company found it easy to get started, working on new dashboards, scheduled searches, and alerting. The alerting worked well with our third-party paging tool.

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• As with new technologies, learning curves are a given. On this one, there is a slight curve before you fully grasp it.
• User interface can be improved to better user experience.

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• I like the help center, but I think if it had more GUI tools, it could help new users.
• Pulling out data is sometimes hard to read, (Maybe if I knew how to export data better, this would not be an issue for me).
• I would like better know-how on how to create reports that will help our business.

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• StealthWatch helps other departments make decisions quickly based on NetFlow data.
• StealthWatch can bring a lot of reporting to the table that can be used to advance project necessities and prove data necessities to management.

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• I can't think of any negative side effects other than it being SO slow sometimes, but compared to Splunk everything is slow
• It's SO much cheaper than Splunk that the time it takes to query information is well worth it
• In the times that we've had Sumo go down or stop logging information, we've found that we'd be absolutely lost without Sumo

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