We performed a comparison between Cisco Web Security Appliance and Fortinet FortiGate SWG 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 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 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 initial setup is straightforward."
"The setup was very easy and straightforward."
"The product is stable."
"It also allows you to decrypt SSL traffic, and that's a really important feature as well, which is something I also configured."
"The deployment process is very simple."
"The most valuable feature is security."
"Since working with the tool, we have not found any threats in our organization."
"The solution provides good web reputation and anti-malware protection."
"Fortinet FortiGate SWG's content is its most valuable feature."
"The interface is user-friendly, so it's easy to add policies and block traffic."
"The interface and other reports are all user-friendly."
"One of the features I appreciate the most is application control which offers great flexibility."
"I would rate the scalability of this product a nine out of ten because it is highly scalable. We have not had problems with customers in terms of scalability."
"Web filters, particularly web application controls, grant us the ability to regulate user access effectively."
"FortiGate is easy to configure. We configured one of the units and sent it to Indiana to be installed. We asked them to give us a call when they got it, so we could help them through the process, but they called us back to tell us it works great."
"The product is highly stable."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Setting up Cisco Web Security Appliance is highly complex and it takes about a week. We have to connect it to the Active Directory and configure all the policies for end users. It takes a long time to configure rules for our company data like port forwarding and separating the public and local components."
"The tool needs to provide logs. They need to improve firewall threat defense."
"The tool needs to improve cloud-based decryption."
"The transparent proxy is quite difficult to enforce on smartphones and tablets."
"The solution is not very compatible with other products."
"The tool needs to provide logs. They need to improve firewall threat defense."
"The solution is priced high."
"The licensing model needs to be more flexible."
"There's room for improvement in the interface, especially following their upgrade to version nineteen."
"Fortinet needs to continue to improve network traceability. Other than that, we haven't run into anything that would give me any concern."
"FortiGate needs to be elastic to the market's trends. It should be easy for SMBs to get the solution."
"It is complicated to manage different kinds of on-premise boxes."
"Fortinet FortiGate SWG can be expensive for some customers."
"Integrating OpenVPN with FortiGate would provide a powerful combination of secure remote access and comprehensive network security."
"One area of improvement I've noticed is the lack of built-in monitoring capabilities in the firewall. Currently, we rely on third-party solutions for monitoring purposes. However, I believe the firewall itself has the potential to do a better job in this aspect. Another aspect of Fortinet that concerns me is related to redundancy. We have a setup with two firewalls working in parallel, which requires a highly adaptable configuration. However, it feels unfair that clients need to purchase two licenses, especially when one of the firewalls serves as a backup. We have noticed that other manufacturers have different policies on this matter."
"The solution has many heightened points which we cannot get to without working on CLI."
Cisco Web Security Appliance is ranked 9th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 29 reviews while Fortinet FortiGate SWG is ranked 4th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 39 reviews. Cisco Web Security Appliance is rated 7.8, while Fortinet FortiGate SWG is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco Web Security Appliance writes "Ensures security for remote workers". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate SWG writes "Non-IT people could plug it in, connect it to the fiber, and get it running without IT help. ". Cisco Web Security Appliance is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Zscaler Internet Access, Fortinet FortiProxy and Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway, whereas Fortinet FortiGate SWG is most compared with Fortinet FortiProxy, Cisco Umbrella, Sangfor Internet Access Gateway (IAG), Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway and Netskope Next Gen Secure Web Gateway. See our Cisco Web Security Appliance vs. Fortinet FortiGate SWG report.
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