Cisco Secure Network Analytics is a network detection and response platform that uses existing network telemetry to identify suspicious activity across enterprise networks. It combines behavioural modelling, machine learning and threat intelligence to spot abnormal movement and speed investigation, helping security teams improve visibility across hybrid traffic and unmanaged devices.
Behavioural visibility across distributed network traffic is essential when teams must detect suspicious activity, internal movement and encrypted threats that other controls may miss.
Cisco Secure Network Analytics is a network detection and response platform for campus, data centre and cloud-connected environments. It uses telemetry from the existing network to help security and operations teams see activity across traffic paths that are often hard to instrument directly.
It analyses NetFlow, IPFIX and telemetry from routers, switches, firewalls and cloud infrastructure to build behavioural baselines and flag deviations. This helps teams identify lateral movement, insider-risk patterns and encrypted-threat indicators without deploying endpoint agents everywhere. Integration with Cisco ISE, Secure Firewall and SecureX/XDR links identity, segmentation and traffic analytics for investigation and response.
The result is stronger day-to-day visibility across unmanaged devices, east-west traffic and hybrid networks. Analysts can spot compromised users or hosts earlier, focus on the traffic that matters and move from alert volume to clearer investigative context. That supports faster response and more consistent control across the network.
If you are evaluating Cisco Secure Network Analytics, our team can help you assess how it fits your network detection, visibility and response requirements.
Cisco Secure Network Analytics is a network detection and response platform for enterprise environments that uses existing network telemetry to expose suspicious activity, baselining, and hybrid network threats without deploying endpoint agents everywhere.
Behavioral Network Detection
The platform applies behavioural modelling, machine learning and threat intelligence to identify suspicious activity in network traffic that endpoint or firewall tools may miss.
Telemetry-Based Traffic Analysis
It analyses NetFlow, IPFIX and telemetry from routers, switches, firewalls and cloud infrastructure to provide detection coverage across distributed enterprise networks.
Encrypted Flow Indicators
The platform supports encrypted traffic analytics so security teams can extract threat indicators from protected flows without relying only on full decryption.
Lateral Movement Visibility
It highlights east-west traffic patterns that can indicate compromised accounts or hosts moving internally, helping SOC teams investigate potential spread quickly.
Network Behaviour Baselining
The platform builds historical behavioural baselines so teams can distinguish normal business activity from unusual access, data movement or risky patterns.
Insider Threat Monitoring
It provides visibility into internal access and traffic behaviour that helps identify deviations associated with policy violations or insider risk.
Cisco Security Integration
It integrates with Cisco ISE, Secure Firewall, SecureX/XDR and network infrastructure telemetry so identity, segmentation and traffic analytics can support investigation and response.
If you need clearer threat visibility across campus, data centre and cloud-connected networks, our Cisco experts can help map Cisco Secure Network Analytics to your detection and response requirements.
Use Cisco Secure Network Analytics across enterprise and hybrid networks to analyse NetFlow, IPFIX and other network telemetry from routers, switches, firewalls and cloud infrastructure, so security teams can detect suspicious behaviour without deploying agents on every endpoint. Its behavioural modelling, machine learning and threat intelligence are designed for network detection and response at scale, helping analysts triage incidents faster and move from visibility to action.
Apply Cisco Secure Network Analytics where traffic is encrypted but still needs to be monitored for risk, using metadata and behavioural indicators from network telemetry to spot anomalies without decrypting payloads. This makes it well suited to encrypted traffic analytics because it identifies suspicious patterns from the traffic flow itself, preserving privacy and reducing the need for intrusive inspection.
Use Cisco Secure Network Analytics in east-west monitoring workflows to baseline internal communications and flag unusual host-to-host connections that perimeter tools may not see. By analysing internal network behaviour across switches, routers and firewalls, it helps security teams uncover lateral movement early and investigate how a threat is spreading inside the environment.
Use Cisco Secure Network Analytics to monitor user and device behaviour across the network and highlight anomalous activity linked to internal identities or hosts. Its behavioural analytics and telemetry-driven approach give security teams visibility into unusual access patterns, data movement and internal misuse without relying on endpoint agents alone.
Deploy Cisco Secure Network Analytics in complex hybrid environments to learn normal traffic patterns first, then surface deviations that may indicate risk. Its machine learning-based behavioural modelling is a strong fit for baselining because it turns existing network telemetry into a living reference model for investigation, hunting and alerting rather than depending only on static signatures.
Use Cisco Secure Network Analytics across campus, data centre and cloud-connected environments where Cisco telemetry sources can be consolidated into one network analytics model. It is suited to hybrid security analytics because it ingests telemetry from routing, switching, firewalls and cloud infrastructure, and integrates with Cisco ISE, Secure Firewall and SecureX/XDR to add identity, segmentation and response context to investigations.
Cisco Secure Network Analytics analyses NetFlow, IPFIX and network telemetry from routers, switches, firewalls and cloud infrastructure for agentless threat detection.
Integrates with Cisco ISE, Secure Firewall and SecureX/XDR so identity, segmentation and analytics can support investigation and response.
Supports distributed enterprise environments by combining Cisco telemetry sources into one behavioural analytics model across campus, data centre and cloud links.
Provides suspicious-activity detection from encrypted flows using metadata and behavioural indicators without decrypting payloads.
Analyses internal network connections to identify lateral movement patterns that perimeter tools may miss.
Builds historical baselines for user and device behaviour, flagging anomalous network activity tied to internal identities or hosts.
Cisco Secure Network Analytics is licensed as a subscription measured by aggregate flows per second across all Flow Collectors, with banded tiers sized for common deployments and Smart Licensing reporting through Cisco Smart Software Manager.
Cisco Secure Network Analytics Manager and Flow Collectors are licensed and sized around the flow volume they manage, so the central console and each collector must align to the monitored telemetry load.
Cisco Secure Network Analytics may require additional sensor or UDP Director entitlements where flow data must be generated on segments without native export or aggregated before forwarding.
Cisco Secure Network Analytics may require a separate Threat Intelligence Licence for cloud-based threat intelligence and Encrypted Traffic Analytics enrichment, and it can be co-termed with the core subscription.
Cisco Secure Network Analytics Cloud, formerly Secure Cloud Analytics, is licensed separately and sized by the number of hosts monitored in public cloud or on-premises environments.
Our team can help assess aggregate FPS across Flow Collectors, forecast growth, on-premises or cloud deployment mix, Data Store retention needs, integration scope, EA versus transactional purchase, appliance or VM topology, and renewal or coterm dates.
We help assess your network detection and response requirements for Cisco Secure Network Analytics, including traffic sources, coverage across campus, data centre and cloud environments, and the security outcomes your team needs to support.
Our team can assist with deploying Cisco Secure Network Analytics, configuring the analytics environment and setting up the service so it fits your monitored network, operational priorities and internal support model.
We support integration with Cisco ISE, Secure Firewall, SecureX/XDR, routers, switches and cloud infrastructure so Cisco Secure Network Analytics can work alongside the telemetry and security controls already in place.
We can help prepare SOC and network teams to use Cisco Secure Network Analytics effectively by aligning roles, handover processes and operational procedures with the way your team reviews and responds to network behaviour findings.
We provide ongoing support for Cisco Secure Network Analytics, including health checks, operational review, licence alignment, renewal planning and lifecycle guidance to help keep the platform appropriate for your changing network monitoring needs.
We help assess Cisco Secure Network Analytics subscriptions against current flow volumes, sensor usage and required add-ons such as Threat Intelligence or Secure Cloud Analytics so the commercial model stays aligned to how the service is actually used.
Where Cisco Secure Network Analytics sits alongside a wider Cisco estate, we can review Smart Licensing, Security EA terms and co-term dates to improve visibility across subscriptions and keep renewal planning coordinated.
Our team can assess FPS bands, appliance and VM topology, retention needs and optional cloud or intelligence subscriptions to help align Cisco Secure Network Analytics investment with growth, hybrid coverage and security priorities.
We support proactive renewal reviews by tracking changing telemetry volumes, architecture shifts and integration requirements so Cisco Secure Network Analytics subscriptions remain appropriate as network behaviour and monitoring needs evolve.
Long-term value depends on active use and ongoing optimisation, and we help organisations maximise the value of Cisco Secure Network Analytics through adoption planning, usage review and lifecycle guidance.
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