We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway and Netskope based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Zscaler, Palo Alto Networks and others in Secure Web Gateways (SWG)."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 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."
"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."
"Real-time category protection."
"The most valuable feature is the categorization, where you can allow general access to an application but limit specific features."
"It allowed our company to not worry about the security of a page, but talk more about the content and the productivity of specific types of web categories."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to allow or block sites by category."
"The critical role is web URL filtering."
"It’s pretty stable after you get up and running."
"Most valuable features are content filtering and monitoring."
"Transparent Mode: Since we have multiple sites and roaming users, it has helped us in deploying the proxy to users without having to push any configurations to end users."
"The product's analytics part is pretty fine."
"Netskope's control is user-friendly and comprehensible. It also helps in conveying information effectively as a company, making it crucial for customer satisfaction."
"The most valuable feature of Netskope is protection."
"It's a comprehensive security portfolio solution."
"It is a very scalable tool."
"Netskope is a one-platform security product that provides security functions. It is the most advantageous product in the Japanese market."
"Technical support is good. They are very helpful and quick to resolve any issues we have."
"Its deployment is very easy and quick. Their technical support is also very good."
"Lookout was moving into the SSE space. And so their work on SecureWeb Gateway and SD-WAN is still sort of evolving."
"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."
"The solution should be better able to support itself and operate faster. Sometimes the technical support team takes too long to respond."
"We have a lot of false positives, which is one area that can be improved."
"The initial setup was complex."
"An area for improvement would be the classification of websites - it can take a long time for new websites to be classified."
"Security of browsing."
"The product could be improved by including a consolidated product that can carry on Forcepoint product email, web, and DLP."
"The firewall doesn't have any features because some customers are requesting they will install the firewall without licensing. At this time we cannot go further without licensing. Licensing is a must with Forcepoint Web Security firewalls."
"I am looking forward to the full integration of the endpoints that they offer for web security and DLP."
"The configuration in the cloud model could be improved upon."
"They can focus more on ease of admin, ease of use, and ease of migration. Migration should be simple for companies that are using a different platform and would like to move to Netskope. Everyone looks for a simple migration. They can also focus more on cloud services and cloud trends. They have to see the cloud market, and they should try to compete with Zscaler and other players. They should also work on licensing costs."
"The dashboard performance could be much better and faster, but because it is a complicated product, it takes time for the dashboard to process."
"It should have user behavior analysis and diverse analysis."
"The solution's implementations can be made much easier because, currently, it is complex in nature."
"Lacking in local customer support."
"The configuration and user behaviour analytics can be improved."
"The CSPM model needs to improve."
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Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is ranked 5th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 47 reviews while Netskope is ranked 4th in Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) with 35 reviews. Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is rated 7.8, while Netskope is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway writes "Simple to set up, reliable, and offers great reporting". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Netskope writes "Network proxy that provides visibility during deployment and allows you to control PII". Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Cisco Umbrella, Symantec Proxy, Fortinet FortiProxy and Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection, whereas Netskope is most compared with Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler Internet Access, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Cisco Umbrella and Forcepoint ONE.
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