We performed a comparison between Skyhigh Security 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 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."
"The solution is stable."
"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 other products that I have evaluated do not have the scalability options that McAfee has."
"Overall, the performance is good."
"They were very, very aggressive in the market to get a new market share or to take over market share while other companies were being broken up."
"It is easy to configure rules."
"The management is very good."
"Tokenization."
"I personally don't have any issues with the performance or the stability of the solution."
"It also prevents you from writing data to your Gmail and does not allow you to move your data outside of the corporate system. That is the most important feature for me."
"The product is very good, and the URL filtering database is great."
"It's a stable solution."
"We can address and rectify issues promptly, resulting in consistently positive outcomes."
"The solution is scalable."
"It enables us to manage bandwidth for users based on their privilege levels. For example, if a user wants to use a certain application or resource, we can provide access based on their privileges."
"The Symantec antivirus suite and the proxy component are the most valuable feature."
"The content that we are getting is very good. Content caching is also supported."
"The initial setup of Symantec Proxy is easy."
"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"
"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."
"Lookout was moving into the SSE space. And so their work on SecureWeb Gateway and SD-WAN is still sort of evolving."
"Its initial setup could be more straightforward."
"One thing that can be improved is their ability to integrate with other web proxies to discover unsanctioned IP apps."
"User interface could be more intuitive."
"The pricing of the solution could be adjusted to make it more reasonable."
"There isn't really any aspect that is lacking."
"SkyHigh has the ability to place users or groups on a ‘Watchlist’; which allows you to see certain views with these Watchlists users/groups in them. This is great when you are looking at live data but if I wanted to generate a report on "only" the watchlists."
"It needs to be more user-friendly, as it is a little bit complicated to use."
"The biggest challenge we have with McAfee is their cross-cloud support."
"The solution could improve by having better documentation."
"The deployment is quite difficult."
"Technical support is an area that requires some improvement."
"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."
"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."
"The traffic filtering could improve. Our firewall traffic is limited. Additionally, it would be helpful if there was a dashboard and reporting feature."
"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."
Skyhigh Security is ranked 6th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 51 reviews while Symantec Proxy is ranked 14th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 18 reviews. Skyhigh Security is rated 8.4, while Symantec Proxy is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Skyhigh Security writes "Good scalability, but the technical support service needs improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Proxy writes "A user-friendly solution with good technical support". Skyhigh Security is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Netskope , Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Zscaler CASB and Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, whereas Symantec Proxy is most compared with Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway, Netskope Next Gen Secure Web Gateway, Zscaler Internet Access, McAfee Web Gateway Cloud Service and Symantec Secure Web Gateway. See our Skyhigh Security vs. Symantec Proxy report.
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