We performed a comparison between Check Point Web Gateway and Cisco Web Security Appliance 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."
"Application control gives IT teams an opportunity to set suitable policies that can be used by all teams when coding."
"It's easy to deploy this tool."
"I think this solution is very helpful to our customers because its cloud-based security can be deployed quickly and maintained easily."
"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."
"The most valuable feature that I see in the application is the filtering of the URLs."
"It has an excellent threat prevention mechanism."
"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."
"It offers good security and we use it when we want to implement the best security in an organization due to the fact that it gives us broader visibility."
"The solution provides good web reputation and anti-malware protection."
"The deployment process is very simple."
"The setup was very easy and straightforward."
"Cisco Web Security Appliance has very good security benefits for any company and is easy to integrate."
"It integrates well with Cisco Email Security Appliance."
"Cisco Web Security Appliance can integrate with Active Directory, enabling us to manage all the end-users within AD. It's helpful for setting rules based on individual users and groups. For example, you can configure policies for inbound and outbound traffic."
"The most valuable feature is security."
"This solution offers categorization for YouTube and other specific applications from Facebook to WhatsApp, which can be controlled whether it's on mobile or PC."
"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."
"Lookout was moving into the SSE space. And so their work on SecureWeb Gateway and SD-WAN is still sort of evolving."
"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 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"
"The support team’s response is not fast."
"Some documents needed to implement with the best practices are difficult to understand, take longer than expected to apply, and sometimes even require support."
"I would like to see improvement in the tool's availability."
"There is room for improvement in support because the solution needs multiple regions to reach certain features and validations."
"There should be an improvement in interface integration."
"Check Point Web Gateway could add an end point access function."
"We understand that if we want to see greater connections, greater services, and a greater capacity established for primary equipment, this solution needs to evolve to make an application installed directly on equipment."
"The support must be faster."
"The one thing I don't like about Cisco is that they are very much fragmented in terms of providing the complete solution. They keep on breaking their different feature sets into different boxes."
"WSA is lacking firewall features."
"It should have a user-based quota, per-user quota, that can be defined on the appliance."
"I would like more automation."
"Technical support needs to be improved because they take a very long time and there is no communication or notification."
"We would like to see a security service head, where we can combine all the security into one solution."
"If a user wants to use it for other devices like mobile or smartphones, this product isn't so reliable."
"The solution is not very compatible with other products."
Check Point Web Gateway is ranked 12th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 20 reviews while Cisco Web Security Appliance is ranked 9th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 29 reviews. Check Point Web Gateway is rated 8.2, while Cisco Web Security Appliance is rated 7.8. 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 Cisco Web Security Appliance writes "Ensures security for remote workers". Check Point Web Gateway is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Zscaler Internet Access, Symantec Proxy and Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway, whereas Cisco Web Security Appliance is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Zscaler Internet Access, Fortinet FortiProxy, Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway and Fortinet FortiGate SWG. See our Check Point Web Gateway vs. Cisco Web Security Appliance report.
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