Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs Pico Corvil Analytics comparison

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Cisco and PICO are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Cisco is ranked #32 with an average rating of 8.5, while PICO is ranked #68. Cisco holds a 0.9% mindshare in NMS, compared to PICO’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Cisco users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of PICO users who would recommend it.

Cisco Secure Network Analytics

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Cisco Secure Network Analytics

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

Pico Corvil Analytics and Cisco Secure Network Analytics are competing in the network data analysis and security category. Cisco offers more comprehensive enterprise features, making it the preferred choice for organizations seeking a robust system.

Features: Pico Corvil Analytics provides real-time data analytics, customizable dashboards, and effective support for performance analytics. Cisco Secure Network Analytics offers comprehensive threat detection, integration with Cisco products, and access to a wide threat intelligence network.

Room for Improvement: Pico Corvil Analytics could benefit from enhanced threat detection capabilities, broader integration options beyond performance analytics, and more advanced security features. Cisco Secure Network Analytics could focus on simplifying integration within non-Cisco environments, reducing deployment complexities, and lowering additional support costs.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Cisco Secure Network Analytics integrates seamlessly with existing Cisco systems but can be complex for organizations without Cisco infrastructure, and its comprehensive customer support may come with additional costs. Pico Corvil Analytics requires less complex integration and offers strong customer service with quick issue resolution.

Pricing and ROI: Pico Corvil Analytics is cost-effective with low setup costs, delivering quick ROI, appealing to smaller enterprises. Cisco Secure Network Analytics involves higher upfront costs but delivers long-term ROI through its robust security and analytics capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

Cisco Secure Network Analytics

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

32nd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) (5th), Network Detection and Response (NDR) (7th), Cisco Security Portfolio (7th)

Pico Corvil Analytics

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

68th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of Cisco Secure Network Analytics is 0.9%, down from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Pico Corvil Analytics is 0.6%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Monitoring Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Cisco Secure Network Analytics	0.9%
Pico Corvil Analytics	0.6%
Other	98.5%

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Muhammad Harun-Owr-Roshid

CEO at BRIGHT-i SYSTEMS LIMITED

Have streamlined network visibility and troubleshooting while seeing benefits from AI integration

In terms of improvements for Cisco Secure Network Analytics, from the implementation point of view, now that AI is in use, some other features need to be upgraded considering AI solutions. Proper management of the database is also important; it should be centralized for easier data collection from a single database. When precise manual analysis is needed, it's sometimes difficult, so having a centralized database will allow network admins to find actual scenarios more effectively, especially since some information may not be visible on the GUI. Cisco should upgrade their hardware part to run the database, because sometimes it cannot handle the load while all features are running in the network. The database management should indeed be centralized because while AI runs behind the systems, central management is essential. For example, in a network with 100 Cisco switches, a few routers, firewalls, and access points, all data generated should be preserved in a central database. This approach simplifies management and analysis for troubleshooting, as GUI interfaces may not always provide visible information. Centralizing the database will allow for better understanding of which information is preserved for each specific device.

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Ted Hruzd

Founder at AI Fit LLC

Helpful support agents, beneficial issue detection, and high availability

The creation of charts and real-time windows was somewhat cumbersome. The vendor's website had an application called App Agent that required improvement. This API was designed to track message rates between microservers ingested into a microservice memory map. It allowed users to monitor the number of transactions that occurred at specific points within the application, and it was quite impressive. However, it had some limitations, and it mainly served as a tool for basic tracking. The protocols it employed could reveal the type of server-to-server communication and the specific order types, but it was not able to provide a more in-depth analysis of the application. The vendor has the potential to integrate application metrics more extensively into their product suite. The product suite could benefit from more out-of-the-box predictive analytics capabilities, such as projecting market or symbol movements. However, it is unclear whether the vendor currently provides this functionality. Users may need to adjust their software to perform such analysis independently.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"The most valuable part is that Stealthwatch is part of a portfolio of security devices from Cisco. Cisco literally can touch every single end point, every single ingress and egress point in the network. Nobody else has that."

"Stealthwatch improved our organization by providing more information so we can be proactive with security analysis."

"The fact that it can identify down to an IP address of a system that is causing problems, or potentially causing problems, is very valuable."

"This solution has increased our threat detection rate by forty to sixty percent."

"Cisco Stealthwatch has improved our organization because it has brought visibility that we didn't have previously before implementing it."

"Stealthwatch has greatly improved our network visibility, in terms of bandwidth, malware, and PCI violations."

"Ease of deployment, once you get your ducks in a row."

"The best feature of Cisco Secure Network Analytics is its reliability, which I find to be the one that gets used the most."

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"The performance metrics are pretty good. We've got everything from the network layer to the actual application layer. We can see what's going on with things like sending time and batching."

"We can use CLI with the UI for configuring the new monitoring system, which is good."

"The analytics features of Corvil are really good... As long as you know what the field is in the message, you can build your metrics based on that field... It means you can do the analytics that you actually care for. You can customize it..."

"We like the dashboards because they essentially organize all the sessions into one viewpoint."

"Corvil is a great tool; it is the only one of the vendors that has 100% visibility into the market data stream."

"Broadly speaking, this solution has reduced incident diagnosis times because it is a tool that we don't have elsewhere."

"In terms of what it does, I'd give Corvil a ten out of ten; I've never seen a tool like it."

"It allows us to trace the flow. The logic is built sufficiently for us to be able to break down clients' orders, underlying child orders, and execution. Thus, it's a good way for us to trace client flow through a myriad of different internal systems."

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Cons

"Initially, I felt Cisco Secure Network Analytics lacked integration with Splunk."

"Stealthwatch needs improvement when it comes to speed."

"The version with the Dell server had iDRAC problems. Often, it reported iDRAC failure."

"Cisco Stealthwatch can improve by having bundled packages for popular add-ons. It would be a lot easier for people implementing it, have let's say a better way to use the product."

"I would like to see more and cleaner reporting. For example, if I pull up Steven and I want to look and maybe compare him to what you've done in the past week, and compare that to the past six months, the point would be to see what the difference in activity looks like over this time. I don't see that capability in reporting to date. You see that trend but you don't really see a straightforward comparison. That right there is key to what we want to see about the normal activity."

"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."

"I would like to see more expansion in artificial intelligence and machine learning features."

"One update I would like to see is an agent-based client. Currently StealthWatch is network based."

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"Overall, the Corvil device needs a little bit of training for people to handle it. If that could be reduced and made more user-friendly, more intuitive, it would be better."

"Alerting isn't great... you can only put in one email address in. And that's for all kinds of alerting on the box."

"In terms of performance analysis, if you really want to dig down into the minutiae and get statistics on the important things... that would be the only piece lacking because, in our environment, we have thousands and thousands of symbols. With the architecture that Corvil is built on, it's cumbersome."

"I have seen errors where the CNE and the CMC haven't synced because of something missing in the CMC, which was there in the CNE. We would get some type of error, but it doesn't actually say what exactly was missing in the CNE."

"For FIX protocol, maybe we could have built-in configurations for signatures and decoders. Also, for certain protocols, which are newer, we would like to just add the signatures within the decoders itself."

"It's quite difficult to see, sometimes, how hard your Corvil is working. When we had a very busy feed that chucked out a lot of data it wasn't working very well on Corvil. We had to raise a case for it. It turned out to be that, in fact, we were overloading Corvil."

"While the product is scalable, it's not easy to scale. It needs investment hardware and network bandwidth consideration. It's not something you can just do overnight."

"Corvil is pretty stable. We just have too much data going into the boxes. Because of that, it requires more maintenance than average."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It has a subscription model. There is yearly support, and there is also three-year support. It depends on what the customers want."

"Licensing is done by flows per second, not including outside (in traffic)."

"NetFlow is very expensive."

"This is an expensive product. We have quit paying for support because we don't want to have to upgrade it and keep paying for it."

"The pricing for this solution is good."

"Licensing is done by flows per second, not including outside>in traffic."

"The yearly licensing cost is about $50,000."

"The solution is expensive. It costs several hundred thousand dollars per year (depending on how many flows you are collecting)."

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"It is pricey versus its competitors."

"The pricing is very expensive. Corvil could work on the pricing."

"Corvil has reduced the time it takes us to isolate root causes."

"As I am working more with Corvil, it looks like it is improving diagnostic times."

"Pico Corvil Analytics is expensive. There are several competitors in the market. Selling this solution to a trading firm might be challenging as there are several other solutions available that can perform basic similar operations, such as using Wireshark and Python scripts to obtain the required values. However, that does not nearly approach the comprehensive end-2-end automated depth of metrics and their correlations that Pico Corvil Analytics provides."

"We bought a box from Corvil and it was $200,000 for one big CNE. Then there are obviously the recurring maintenance fees. The licensing is perpetual but the maintenance fees are not."

"I like the way they've decoupled the hardware now... Everything's based on the licensing side now. The way they do the packs is fair. It's very flexible in that we're not charged per decoder, we're charged for a certain pack. Whether we use one decoder or 20 decoders, as long as they're in the same pack, there's no extra charge. Expensive but fair is how I'd summarize it."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Construction Company

Outsourcing Company

Financial Services Firm

27%

Outsourcing Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	12
Midsize Enterprise	7
Large Enterprise	52

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	6

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cisco Stealthwatch?

Regarding cost, for the Bangladesh context, Cisco Secure Network Analytics is a little bit high-priced because we are a developing country, making it tough to manage affordable solutions. However, ...

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What needs improvement with Cisco Stealthwatch?

Several features often look very promising during evaluation or implementation but end up being used only lightly in day-to-day operations. Advanced reporting and scheduled compliance reports look ...

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What is your primary use case for Cisco Stealthwatch?

My main use case for Cisco Secure Network Analytics has been network visibility and anomaly-based threat detection within the enterprise environment. In security operations and VAPT-related activit...

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Also Known As

Cisco Stealthwatch, Cisco Stealthwatch Enterprise, Lancope StealthWatch

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Overview

Cisco Secure Network Analytics enhances network security through integrated threat detection and detailed traffic visibility, optimizing performance with AI analytics and strong platform integrations.

Cisco Secure Network Analytics offers deep visibility into network traffic, with tools like network maps and server response times. Its AI-driven analytics help detect threats, focusing on east-west traffic. Integration with platforms such as pxGrid and ISE complements its capabilities. Reporting and telemetry help in identifying bandwidth issues, yet improvements are desired in AI for better data organization. Installation complexity and false positives present challenges, and managing network loads effectively is a recognized need.

What are the key features of Cisco Secure Network Analytics?

Deep Visibility: Provides comprehensive insights into network traffic and server behavior.
Network Maps: Enhances understanding of traffic flow and infrastructure layout.
AI Analytics: Uses AI for superior threat detection and anomaly recognition.
Integration: Compatible with platforms like pxGrid and ISE for enhanced security management.
Telemetry: Delivers detailed bandwidth usage and traffic analysis reports.

How does Cisco Secure Network Analytics provide value?

Enhanced Security: Elevates threat detection and response capabilities.
Traffic Insights: Identifies encrypted and anomalous network behaviors.
Compliance Support: Assists in meeting industry standards for data protection.
Endpoint Protection: Guards network endpoints against potential threats.

Industries such as banking, defense, and police rely on Cisco Secure Network Analytics for securing networks against threats. Its capability to provide insights into encrypted traffic and facilitate device auditing makes it a sought-after choice for those requiring extensive network visibility. Users appreciate its application for threat prevention and response in demanding sectors.

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Pico Corvil Analytics offers advanced capabilities in latency measurement, data analysis, and real-time packet decoding. Its intuitive dashboards and comprehensive analytics support latency management and customizable metrics, enhancing performance monitoring and infrastructure optimization.

Designed to assist in latency monitoring and benchmarking, Pico Corvil Analytics is essential for tracking server and exchange latency, client connectivity, electronic trading environments, and order flows. It provides features like real-time analytics, custom dashboards, and anomaly detection, aiding in transaction scrutiny and market activity predictions. Users note the depth of analytics features, although there is a desire for iHub functionality within the app, simpler configurations, and more intuitive performance analytics and reporting.

What are the core features of Pico Corvil Analytics?

Latency Measurement: Precision tracking for server and exchange latency.
Data Analysis: Granular insights for enhanced trading efficiency.
Real-Time Packet Decoding: Immediate packet analysis for troubleshooting.
Visualization: Advanced dashboards enhancing data communication.
Intelligent Alerts: Proactive performance monitoring and collaborations.

What benefits can users expect from Pico Corvil Analytics?

Enhanced Trading Efficiency: Drives strategic upgrades and operational improvements.
Nuanced Network Analysis: Empowers detailed troubleshooting and network management.
Performance Monitoring: Aids infrastructure optimization through informed decisions.

Pico Corvil Analytics is widely implemented in industries requiring high-performance trading infrastructures, such as financial services and electronic trading environments. It supports users in predicting market activities and ensuring reliable, efficient trade execution. Custom dashboards and real-time analysis provide a competitive edge in these high-stakes arenas.

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Sample Customers

Edge Web Hosting, Telenor Norway, Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana, Webster Financial Corporation, Westinghouse Electric, VMware, TIAA-CREF

NASDAQ, Commerzbank, Pico Quantitative Trading, CME Group, Interactive Data, Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc.

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