We performed a comparison between Cato SASE Cloud Platform and Symantec Proxy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"The most valuable features are the antivirus as a whole, the anti-malware, and all of the protection features that scan our enterprise devices."
"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."
"When I first encountered Cato, I didn't know how to use it, but after a week of training, I could onboard our systems to it, so the solution was easy to learn and navigate."
"The solution is a simple WAN solution. We've onboarded the socket on the Cato platform, and it provides connectivity. There is no complex routing."
"The query and the SD-WAN are useful features of the solution."
"The WAN aggregation feature is the most valuable."
"It's a cloud-based solution that integrates well with everything."
"The solution is stable."
"What I found most helpful in Cato Networks is that it works out of the box. One of its main advantages is that it's a simple product to deploy. You subscribe, and you're ready to run."
"The most valuable feature of Cato Networks is the CASB and the documentation is useful."
"The most valuable feature is the caching."
"The Symantec antivirus suite and the proxy component are the most valuable feature."
"Symantec Proxy’s technical support is very good."
"What I found most valuable in Symantec Proxy is that it doesn't have any limitations. It also has a simple configuration, with only one window pane, unlike Zscaler, which has multiple window panes. Deploying the agent is also more straightforward in Symantec Proxy."
"Global Intelligence Network is the best feature of the product."
"The solution is scalable."
"We can address and rectify issues promptly, resulting in consistently positive outcomes."
"The product is very good, and the URL filtering database is great."
"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."
"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."
"They should include a web application firewall feature in the solution."
"The price could be better."
"A little tweaking or improvement of the UI in terms of logging when troubleshooting would be an improvement because it's very detailed."
"The tool needs to be more granular. Its reports are not very in-depth."
"I would like to see better integration with identity providers."
"They should add more sophisticated security features. It should also be integrated into the cloud."
"There's no principal in Malaysia, only a distributor."
"Cato Networks security could be better."
"Support response time and case resolution could be improved."
"The initial setup is actually quite complex to install because our users don't have admin rights on the boxes and there's no remote install option by an administrator."
"The initial setup can be somewhat complex, and deploying the system can take some time."
"There are performance issues with all of the proxies."
"The solution is quite complex."
"The solution could improve by having better documentation."
"The tool’s reporting features must be improved."
"The user interface could be improved, and the price could be lower as well."
Cato SASE Cloud Platform is ranked 5th in Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) with 21 reviews while Symantec Proxy is ranked 14th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 18 reviews. Cato SASE Cloud Platform is rated 8.8, while Symantec Proxy is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Cato SASE Cloud Platform writes "Useful remote worker VPN, centralized management, and simple on-boarding process". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Proxy writes "A scalable enterprise-level tool with advanced features that provide accurate database categorization". Cato SASE Cloud Platform is most compared with Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Cisco SD-WAN, Fortinet FortiGate and VMware SD-WAN, whereas Symantec Proxy is most compared with Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway, Skyhigh Security, Netskope Next Gen Secure Web Gateway, McAfee Web Gateway Cloud Service and Exinda. See our Cato SASE Cloud Platform vs. Symantec Proxy report.
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