We performed a comparison between Check Point Web Gateway and Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway 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."
"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 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."
"It offers good security and we use it when we want to implement the best security in an organization due to the fact that it gives us broader visibility."
"It is very stable."
"The most valuable feature that I see in the application is the filtering of the URLs."
"Application control gives IT teams an opportunity to set suitable policies that can be used by all teams when coding."
"Application control allows the administrator to create granular policies based on users to allow, block, or limit access."
"The interface is simply amazing."
"It has an excellent threat prevention mechanism."
"The product's best feature is observing how the traffic flows from one gateway to another. It's convenient for checking specific details, and you can manage everything centrally."
"The solution’s administration is easy."
"The antiviral sandboxing."
"I have found the simplicity of the solution valuable. The dashboard and reports are good as well."
"The Forcepoint client software can be downloaded on a user's machine so that it can filter the sites from home or the office. That's one of the biggest features. We can use it for filtering our laptops for our users at any place."
"Provides good visibility and good filtering features."
"One of the main features I have found the solution to be efficient."
"Giving visibility to people's actions in the network, while keeping attackers out: across data centers, offices, branches, and the cloud."
"The most valuable feature of Forcepoint Web Security is creating the easy to install further policies that are deployed through the Forcepoint security manual at some stage. Just drag and drop and the policies are there."
"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."
"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."
"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"
"It is expensive. Its price should be better."
"We understand that if we want to see greater connections, greater services, and a greater capacity established for primary equipment, this solution needs to evolve to make an application installed directly on equipment."
"For the most modern versions, there currently is no documentation, or it is more difficult to find it."
"The support must be faster."
"The solution should improve integration."
"The tool's response time can be improved since sometimes it lags, but not always...The tool's UI should be made more dynamic."
"I would like to see improvement in the tool's availability."
"The documentation must be improved."
"We have had latency issues."
"The product could be improved by including a consolidated product that can carry on Forcepoint product email, web, and DLP."
"We have a lot of false positives, which is one area that can be improved."
"I'd like to see the solution improve the banded optimization to offer more bandwidth control, similar to what is on offer with Blue Coat."
"Reports in the sand-boxing, ease of deployment of sensors to ready to go server with one click of a button."
"The initial setup can be complex."
"It's the support that's the problem because that's a different question from the product itself — it's the Achilles heel."
"In the on-premises version, I don't like the deployment and structuring of the device."
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Check Point Web Gateway is ranked 11th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 21 reviews while Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is ranked 5th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 47 reviews. Check Point Web Gateway is rated 8.4, while Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway 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 Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway writes "Simple to set up, reliable, and offers great reporting". Check Point Web Gateway is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Zscaler Internet Access, Symantec Proxy and Cisco Web Security Appliance, whereas Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Cisco Umbrella, Symantec Proxy, Fortinet FortiProxy and Fortinet FortiGate SWG. See our Check Point Web Gateway vs. Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway report.
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