We performed a comparison between Check Point Harmony Browse and Cisco Umbrella 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."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 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."
"It provides end-to-end encryption for the communication between the user's device and the remote browser, which helps to protect against eavesdropping and other forms of man-in-the-middle attacks."
"It analyzes and verifies in detail how secure or insecure a file, document, or object is that is being downloaded."
"The software is easy to install and deploy across any business environment and it is becoming a game changer for us."
"This solution has multiple protections that are generally very simple to configure and work quickly with little intrusiveness for the user."
"The installation process is simple. Once initiated, the process is quite straightforward and seamless, making it easy to complete."
"The product enforces the privacy of the users, which is good."
"It completely restricts and blocks phishing attacks and any threat entry into the system and keeps the work pace fast and secure without showing any signs of lag or latency."
"It is easy to implement and has great security potential to avoid vulnerabilities through internet browsing."
"The weekly reportings are great. The investigation is super and the application management is equally great."
"Cisco Umbrella is easy to monitor, manage, and deploy."
"The agent that gets installed on the endpoints or on people's laptops and devices is a Cisco AnyConnect Umbrella module. It's one of the most impressive things because you are able to protect your users anywhere they are."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to block users from reaching places that they should not even try to reach has been a boon."
"The feature that we find most valuable is to be able to filter out those web requests that you don't want."
"Web proxy adds an effective layer for security."
"It has certainly saved us time. If we go and look at what's rejected on the requests from the hospital itself, it has saved about 5% or 6% time."
"It analyzes the domain security helps us implement the securest policy."
"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 documentation of the most current applications is sometimes not so clear, and it is difficult to understand."
"They should focus on new areas of product. In the last year, they have not released any updates with improvements or extra options."
"Support must be faster in solving problems."
"The ease of handling should be improved, as it is currently intrusive and some users don't like it."
"A slight reduction in the cost subscription model can prove to be a game changer."
"It seems to us that the performance in some opportunities of Check Point Infinity and the administration web portal is slow."
"URL filtering could be better."
"I would like the solution to be implemented more easily for teams and directly on Android or iOS devices."
"The pricing changes too fast. We get the license and we need to relicense it because they already made changes to it. We always need to be on top of the licenses because they're always changing."
"In my experience with Umbrella support, sometimes the response times take a bit more time than we would like... sometimes, if you go through email, it can take quite a while to get a response."
"Network connectivity was a bit of a challenge at the beginning, but we were able to get the right help from Cisco."
"User interface could be a little smoother and more intuitive."
"It would be good to have more extensions to third-party products and a client for other device types."
"Cisco Umbrella is difficult to manage and needs to include a dashboard. It needs to improve pricing as well."
"Data reporting could be improved."
"Missing a real data leakage prevention solution."
Check Point Harmony Browse is ranked 10th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 17 reviews while Cisco Umbrella is ranked 1st in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 108 reviews. Check Point Harmony Browse is rated 9.0, while Cisco Umbrella is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Check Point Harmony Browse writes "Easy to install with excellent features and boosts productivity". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Umbrella writes "Protects endpoints wherever they are, always pushing people to the right locations to avoid malicious intent". Check Point Harmony Browse is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, whereas Cisco Umbrella is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Palo Alto Networks DNS Security and Fortinet FortiGate SWG. See our Check Point Harmony Browse vs. Cisco Umbrella report.
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