We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate SWG and Skyhigh Security 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 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."
"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 product is highly stable."
"It's a flexible solution."
"Customers keep on improving their licenses. The solution remains scalable and flexible. On-premises deployments may have some limitations. However, cloud deployments offer a high degree of flexibility."
"The most useful features are application control, web filtering, and SD-WAN."
"Fortinet FortiGate SWG's content is its most valuable feature."
"Web filters, particularly web application controls, grant us the ability to regulate user access effectively."
"It has a valuable SD-WAN feature and provides good performance."
"The interface is user-friendly, so it's easy to add policies and block traffic."
"Without Skyhigh, we had zero visibility, but now we are aware of so much more."
"I like the encrypted disk feature and the endpoint protection."
"The feature I like best about Skyhigh Security is its wide range of product support. For example, my company had NetApp storage running, and Skyhigh Security has on-premises NetApp storage support, which isn't available in other solutions. Skyhigh Security also has a better filtering feature versus the filtering feature in other solutions."
"I found the solution to be stable."
"Offers a very strong URL spam filtering feature."
"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 most valuable features of McAfee Web Gateway are anti-malware, reports, and powerful categorization of web pages."
"It's a great product with solid features."
"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"
"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."
"The initial setup is medium complex and takes between five days and a week."
"They have not yet extended to the cloud."
"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."
"They should make the product user-friendly and enhance the security features."
"It is essential to leverage its capabilities more professionally to achieve an even higher level of security."
"FortiGate's reporting features could provide a better picture of what is happening in the box."
"Fortinet FortiGate SWG could improve the price, it is expensive."
"Its initial setup could be more straightforward."
"McAfee needs to add more products that could be managed from the cloud."
"They could be integrated with CASB. I think normally McAfee has this solution in the cloud, but for us the best is on-premise."
"The encrypted disk implementation could be improved. I currently use it from a dongle or USB key with two-factor authentication to access my computer."
"The documentation could be improved."
"The services take some time to load. It would be helpful if the loading time was reduced."
"The virtual solution requires improvement."
"The only thing we have faced is that sometimes, randomly, the portal becomes too slow."
Fortinet FortiGate SWG is ranked 4th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 39 reviews while Skyhigh Security is ranked 6th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 51 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate SWG is rated 8.6, while Skyhigh Security is rated 8.4. 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. ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Skyhigh Security writes "Good scalability, but the technical support service needs improvement". Fortinet FortiGate SWG is most compared with Fortinet FortiProxy, Cisco Umbrella, Sangfor Internet Access Gateway (IAG), Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway and Trend Micro Web Security, whereas Skyhigh Security is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Netskope , Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Symantec Proxy and Zscaler CASB. See our Fortinet FortiGate SWG vs. Skyhigh Security report.
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