We performed a comparison between Cisco Umbrella and Forescout Platform 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)."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 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."
"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."
"For us and for customers, it's the ease of integration with Meraki. It's just a couple of clicks. That allows us to deploy very fast, and it doesn't change the way a customer uses his service. It's just more secure."
"The most valuable feature is the website protection capabilities because it prevents end-users from entering bad sites that potentially have malware or could be used for phishing."
"We've found it to be stable and good for our customers."
"Overall, it is a very good solution. It is a simple solution and very easy to set up."
"The insight into what our users are doing via Cisco Umbrella is valuable. Knowing that we're protecting our users as they leave our network is also valuable now because we've got more hybrid working."
"We are very new users of the solution and are still in the exploration stages, but we are happy with the product thus far."
"Using this solution has meant that we've needed to make fewer firewall changes."
"The core business of Cisco Umbrella is non-malware. That's all it does: block the malware on the gateway."
"The most valuable feature of the Forescout Platform it's highly customizable and flexible."
"The most valuable feature of Forescout Platform is that it has everything that Aruba has at significantly less cost."
"We think it's simple. We think it's very useful and we really like reports and everything."
"The initial setup is quite simple. It's not too complex or difficult to set up."
"Emergency response, risk assessment information to get a view of the of the vulnerability."
"I have noticed that in the last year the license model has changed from licensing the whole appliance to licensing the number of devices. It's more simple for a large installation, or a user to have CounterACT as their peripheral site in the company. It's a good choice to have changed the license policy."
"Vulnerability remediation is valuable. We can narrow down a system and its properties. We can go granular on the properties of each endpoint, such as which operating system you're using."
"We use the Forescout Platform for device visibility and control in our network. It's very helpful for tracking malicious or unusual activity. We use it to track which ports are open, which machines are running specific services, and to identify vulnerabilities. For example, there was a vulnerability related to SMB, and we could use the product to determine which machines inside our organization were allowing SMB traffic."
"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 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."
"I would like to see DLP integration in the next release of this solution."
"iOS devices and mobiles are huge in my environment right now, and I cannot run them on Cisco Umbrella 24/7."
"It's a very new product, so it's quite immature at the moment. It can be more user friendly."
"I would like them to make some videos, practical videos, the kind with steps that people can use to learn and deploy"
"In the next release, I would like to see the integration of VDI NSX with Cisco Umbrella."
"Security, overall, can always be improved."
"Lower costs including licensing, support, and renewals would be beneficial."
"I would like to see more integration between Cisco Umbrella and Cisco DNA Center."
"Custom integrations need to be better."
"Forescout Platform needs to improve how the device works in preventing rogue servers."
"It does not support the TACACS+ protocol."
"Regarding pricing, there is room for improvement to enhance competitiveness with other vendors and solutions."
"We experienced some detection issues when checking compliance for the Sophos agent."
"I should be able to integrate my Forescout with any other third party security technology, to build that connected security strategy."
"They need to handle their Tier 1 cases differently. The biggest negative regarding Forescout is their support. Not having the ability to get instantly transferred to a support engineer for Tier 1 cases is pretty ridiculous."
"The ability to block external devices in Mac is lacking and needs to be added."
Cisco Umbrella is ranked 1st in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 108 reviews while Forescout Platform is ranked 3rd in Network Access Control (NAC) with 69 reviews. Cisco Umbrella is rated 8.8, while Forescout Platform is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco Umbrella writes "Protects endpoints wherever they are, always pushing people to the right locations to avoid malicious intent". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Forescout Platform writes "We can go granular on each endpoint, quarantine non-compliant machines, and target vulnerabilities through scripting". 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 Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection, whereas Forescout Platform is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Aruba ClearPass, Fortinet FortiNAC, Nozomi Networks and Armis.
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