We performed a comparison between Check Point Web Gateway and Symantec Proxy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Secure Web Gateways (SWG) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features are the antivirus as a whole, the anti-malware, and all of the protection features that scan our enterprise devices."
"The solution is stable."
"The protection offered by the product is the most valuable feature. It detects vulnerabilities or traps on our users' phones and then prompts them to clean up their devices. Tools we used previously would only discover, which required us to gather information on the backend, so Lookout is a welcome upgrade."
"On the outside, the main differentiation is because Lookout ingest. They have ingested basically all of the apps for the last ten years and all the versions of all the apps, and we have that in a corporate database that allows us to do very large-scale machine learning and analysis on that data set. That's not something that any of the competitors really have the capability to do because they don't have access to the data set. A lot of the apps you can no longer get them because that version of the app is five or six years old, and it just doesn't exist anywhere anymore, except within our infrastructure. So, the ability to have that very rich dataset and learn from that dataset is a real differentiator."
"It's easy to deploy this tool."
"The product's best feature is observing how the traffic flows from one gateway to another. It's convenient for checking specific details, and you can manage everything centrally."
"Application control gives IT teams an opportunity to set suitable policies that can be used by all teams when coding."
"SmartConsole is intuitive."
"The most valuable features of Check Point Web Gateway are all the IPS. However, what matters for users is content and web filtering."
"The most valuable feature that I see in the application is the filtering of the URLs."
"The product covers all the security needs of roaming users."
"It filters the URLs by reputation, denying access to those proven to be harmful and inspecting those which haven't been flagged yet to detect threats before the user can enter it."
"Symantec Proxy’s technical support is very good."
"The CPL code is the best feature of the solution."
"It is easy to use, and it is stable and scalable. You don't need a large team for deployment and maintenance."
"The most valuable feature is the caching."
"The product is very good, and the URL filtering database is great."
"The Symantec antivirus suite and the proxy component are the most valuable feature."
"What I found most valuable in Symantec Proxy is that it doesn't have any limitations. It also has a simple configuration, with only one window pane, unlike Zscaler, which has multiple window panes. Deploying the agent is also more straightforward in Symantec Proxy."
"The tool's most valuable features are content-to-content filtration and SCCM protection."
"The stability depends on the service from where you access it. Because sometimes, the place you are in, you have Gateway. You don't have Gateway. The gateway is overutilized. At the end, you need to go through their gateways. And this is the key point here. You have a tracking point. If it's not well orchestrated, and it scales up as you add more to the existing team, you will suffer"
"Lookout was moving into the SSE space. And so their work on SecureWeb Gateway and SD-WAN is still sort of evolving."
"From the analysis that we've done, they do seem to be maybe a step behind in trying to enter the market with a new solution. But when they do pick up, they do come out with some good products."
"We just submitted an enhancement request reflecting the main area we want to see improvement in; the APIs. Currently, we're able to build dashboards, but it's somewhat backward because we use our MDM API to create them. Lookout should provide API to customers so we can query our data and use it in our cloud, and this is the only outstanding area for improvement with the product right now."
"The tool's response time can be improved since sometimes it lags, but not always...The tool's UI should be made more dynamic."
"The support must be faster."
"Some documents needed to implement with the best practices are difficult to understand, take longer than expected to apply, and sometimes even require support."
"There is room for improvement in support because the solution needs multiple regions to reach certain features and validations."
"We would really benefit from some more visual features that can help view the impact of the security gateway in the organization."
"Check Point Web Gateway could add an end point access function."
"For the most modern versions, there currently is no documentation, or it is more difficult to find it."
"Most of the time, we are struggling when it comes to getting support."
"The initial setup is actually quite complex to install because our users don't have admin rights on the boxes and there's no remote install option by an administrator."
"The initial setup can be somewhat complex, and deploying the system can take some time."
"One area for improvement in Symantec is the lack of a reporting server or dashboard integration with SIM."
"The user interface could be improved, and the price could be lower as well."
"Symantec Proxy needs to include content management capabilities."
"The solution could improve by having better documentation."
"There are performance issues with all of the proxies."
"Marketing needs improvement in Symantec Proxy, as it needs to catch up in sales here in the Asia Pacific region. Symantec Proxy licensing renewal also needs improvement."
Check Point Web Gateway is ranked 11th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 21 reviews while Symantec Proxy is ranked 14th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 18 reviews. Check Point Web Gateway is rated 8.4, while Symantec Proxy is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Check Point Web Gateway writes "Provides secure perimeter defense and scalability for the banking industry". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Proxy writes "A scalable enterprise-level tool with advanced features that provide accurate database categorization". Check Point Web Gateway is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Zscaler Internet Access, Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway and Cisco Web Security Appliance, whereas Symantec Proxy is most compared with Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway, Skyhigh Security, Netskope Next Gen Secure Web Gateway and McAfee Web Gateway Cloud Service. See our Check Point Web Gateway vs. Symantec Proxy report.
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