Cisco Secure Network Analytics – Network Detection & Response (NDR)

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.

The Cisco Secure Network Analytics dashboard on a desktop.

Cisco SNA Key Platform Specifications

  • Platform Type: Network Detection & Response
  • Primary Function: Network Behaviour Analytics
  • Deployment Model: Software Platform
  • Management Scope: Network Traffic Analytics
  • Target Environment: Enterprise Networks
  • Licensing Model: Subscription-Based
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Cisco SNA Overview

Behavioural visibility across distributed network traffic is essential when teams must detect suspicious activity, internal movement and encrypted threats that other controls may miss.

Network Detection and Response for Hybrid Environments

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.

How It Works in Production

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.

Operational Value for Security Teams

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 SNA Key Features​

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.

Detect Threats Across Traffic

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.

Strengthen Hybrid Network Oversight

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.

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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.

Cisco SNA Use Cases

Network Detection and Response

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.

Encrypted Traffic Analytics

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.

Lateral Movement Detection

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.

Insider Threat Visibility

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.

Network Behaviour Baselining

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.

Security Analytics for Hybrid Networks

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.

Supported Cisco SNA Environments & Integrations

Network Detection & Response Environments

Cisco Secure Network Analytics analyses NetFlow, IPFIX and network telemetry from routers, switches, firewalls and cloud infrastructure for agentless threat detection.

Cisco Identity, Firewall & XDR Ecosystem

Integrates with Cisco ISE, Secure Firewall and SecureX/XDR so identity, segmentation and analytics can support investigation and response.

Hybrid Campus, Data Centre & Cloud Networks

Supports distributed enterprise environments by combining Cisco telemetry sources into one behavioural analytics model across campus, data centre and cloud links.

Encrypted Traffic Analytics Environments

Provides suspicious-activity detection from encrypted flows using metadata and behavioural indicators without decrypting payloads.

East-West Traffic Monitoring Environments

Analyses internal network connections to identify lateral movement patterns that perimeter tools may miss.

Insider Threat & Behaviour Baselining Environments

Builds historical baselines for user and device behaviour, flagging anomalous network activity tied to internal identities or hosts.

Cisco SNA Licensing Options

Flow Rate Subscription Licensing

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.

SNA Manager and Collector Sizing

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.

Flow Sensors and UDP Director

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.

Threat Intelligence Licence

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.

Cloud NDR 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.

Licence Review & Optimisation

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.

Cisco SNA Implementation and Support

Solution Design & Planning

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.

Deployment & Configuration

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.

Integration with Existing Environments

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.

User Adoption & Operational Readiness

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.

Ongoing Support & Lifecycle Management

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.

Commercial Optimisation & Support for Cisco SNA

Subscription & Licence Reviews

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.

Enterprise Agreement Alignment

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.

Commercial Optimisation

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.

Renewal Planning & Lifecycle Management

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.

Adoption & Value Realisation

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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