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."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."
"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 interface is simply amazing."
"You don't have to wander around the tool since it is very simple. You can grab and get a hold of the tool very quickly."
"SmartConsole is intuitive."
"It has an excellent threat prevention mechanism."
"The most valuable features of Check Point Web Gateway are all the IPS. However, what matters for users is content and web filtering."
"It can also be used as a reverse proxy through the checkpoint."
"I think this solution is very helpful to our customers because its cloud-based security can be deployed quickly and maintained easily."
"One of its rather outstanding capabilities is its ability to add an extra layer of protection to our company's internal network."
"The most valuable feature is security."
"It also allows you to decrypt SSL traffic, and that's a really important feature as well, which is something I also configured."
"It integrates well with Cisco Email Security Appliance."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the functions of proxy for the users who use the internet and the security it offers against the not-so-secure web pages."
"The tool has good Umbrella DNS security."
"It also has high availability."
"The technical support is good. It is reactive and the documentation is very specific and very useful."
"The solution provides good web reputation and anti-malware protection."
"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."
"The support team’s response is not fast."
"I would like to see improvement in the tool's availability."
"There should be an improvement in interface integration."
"Check Point Web Gateway could improve the user interface. It could be made more modern."
"Some documents needed to implement with the best practices are difficult to understand, take longer than expected to apply, and sometimes even require support."
"Perhaps the latency in the administrative part of the portal would be a point of improvement."
"Check Point Web Gateway could add an end point access function."
"Most of the time, we are struggling when it comes to getting support."
"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."
"This solution could be more secure."
"The transparent proxy is quite difficult to enforce on smartphones and tablets."
"The solution could improve the graphical user interface. It is not up to the regular standard of what we would expect from Cisco. Additionally, they need to improve the categorization when blocking in the settings. The CLI could have a better view than the graphical user interface but I did not investigate further."
"Sometimes reporting is a little bit short."
"Technical support needs to be improved because they take a very long time and there is no communication or notification."
Check Point Web Gateway is ranked 11th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 21 reviews while Cisco Web Security Appliance is ranked 9th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 29 reviews. Check Point Web Gateway is rated 8.4, 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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