We performed a comparison between Cloudflare and Skyhigh Security based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Cloudflare provides DDoS protection, tracing, and a user-friendly GUI. In contrast, Skyhigh Security offers strong URL spam filtering, endpoint protection, and efficient backup features. Skyhigh Security is known for being a market leader with good technical support, while Cloudflare provides a Global Location CDN and a single console for managing multiple tasks. Cloudflare and Skyhigh Security both have areas for improvement. Cloudflare could enhance their reporting, support response time, traffic routing, partner relationship, log collection, automation, account management, and dashboards. On the other hand, Skyhigh Security needs to improve their virtual solution strength, integration with local apps, secure gateway, stability, and technical support.
Service and Support: Cloudflare's enterprise customers praise their technical support, while those on the business plan have concerns about response times. Skyhigh Security's customer service has mixed reviews, with some users finding it helpful and others frustrating.
Ease of Deployment: Cloudflare's setup is simple and user-friendly, requiring minimal effort. In contrast, Skyhigh Security's setup can be more challenging and may require external assistance.
Pricing: Cloudflare is known for being expensive, but they do offer unlimited bandwidth. Meanwhile, Skyhigh Security is considered to have higher pricing but is still affordable. Cloudflare's solution has many features, but some require additional payment, while Skyhigh Security's affordability is praised by most reviewers.
ROI: Cloudflare focuses on preventing downtime and avoiding large financial losses, while Skyhigh Security offers improved security, reduced risk of data breaches, increased visibility, and streamlined compliance.
Comparison Results: Cloudflare is the preferred choice over Skyhigh Security based on user reviews. Cloudflare offers more features, such as DDoS protection, application tracing, and load balancing. It also has a user-friendly GUI and a Global Location CDN. Skyhigh Security is considered a market leader but lacks support for unsanctioned applications and has weak API integration.
"From what I've seen so far, there are no negatives to report as of yet"
"There are key things that are used for our enterprise customers, such as Lambda and DNS."
"The most valuable feature of Cloudflare is the GUI. You are able to control the solution very well through the interface. There is a lot of functionality that is embedded in the service."
"The most valuable feature is the web application firewall."
"Cloudflare allows us to self-host services such as Rocket.Chat and Node-RED, in high-availability mode, thanks to round robin DNS which allows us to share one hostname between our two locations."
"What I like best about Cloudflare is that my company can use it to trace and manage applications and monitor traffic. The solution tells you if there's a spike in traffic. Cloudflare also sends you a link to check your equipment and deployment and track it through peering, so it's a valuable tool."
"When using services like Heroku, Cloudflare is very useful for CNAME flattening. I also use it for their end-to-end SSL with TLS authentication on nginx for securing servers."
"The solution provides good load balancing and protection against DDoS attacks."
"What I found most valuable in Skyhigh Security is its stability. The solution also has good KB articles that make it simple for users to do the deployment of Skyhigh Security themselves, without the need for integrators."
"I found the solution to be stable."
"A stable solution with good support."
"It gives us visibility into how the data is being used within our cloud environment."
"The initial setup is fairly straightforward and easy to perform."
"The product has a very high rating from reviewers. It's a well-respected product."
"Good anti-virus filtering, URL categorization, and reporting capabilities."
"Box API features with DLP capabilities."
"The pricing could be improved."
"The product support needs to be accessible from more places, a wider area of coverage."
"It would be good if Cloudflare could have more servers for better traffic routing or an increase in the traffic routed. This is what I'd like to improve in Cloudflare."
"Technical support is lacking."
"We're facing challenges due to an upgrade in the machine learning model. The problem arises from some users abusing the APIs, resulting in an influx of suspicious traffic. Cloudflare's learning model mistakenly identifies this traffic as human. Consequently, it assigns it a higher trust score, akin to legitimate human traffic, causing complications in our architecture. Previously, such traffic would have been categorized as suspicious, enabling us to apply appropriate blocking rules. However, we encounter difficulties distinguishing between genuine and suspicious traffic with the new categorization. Despite these challenges, overall, Cloudflare remains the preferred solution compared to Azure, AWS CloudFront, and Google Cloud Armor."
"They lack a good way to manage DNS as a company, since everything is relegated to single account logins until you get to the higher levels. They have come out with a paid feature to remedy this, but I have not had a chance to fully review it yet to know if it fixes the access problem."
"The timing aspect can lead to it being considered overpriced. This is a particular concern we have with Cloudflare, as they may struggle with accurately detecting the client."
"Although I think it's quite good, it doesn't provide me with all the features I would expect to have if I were using Imperva."
"Skyhigh Security, as a product, is excellent, but in terms of the right services and support, those are lagging very much, for example, in Trellix. From one hundred, its score has gone down to ten, so ten out of one hundred, otherwise, it's the number one product."
"It is an expensive solution."
"The tool could improve flexibility with the creation of reports/querying data."
"Its initial setup could be more straightforward."
"The biggest challenge we have with McAfee is their cross-cloud support."
"SkyHigh has the ability to place users or groups on a ‘Watchlist’; which allows you to see certain views with these Watchlists users/groups in them. This is great when you are looking at live data but if I wanted to generate a report on "only" the watchlists."
"The Skyhigh for Google Drive interface and policy engine is a bit confusing and limited when compared against other Google Drive CASB capabilities."
"The cloud needs improvement with respect to DLP."
Cloudflare is ranked 13th in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) with 57 reviews while Skyhigh Security is ranked 17th in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) with 51 reviews. Cloudflare is rated 8.4, while Skyhigh Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cloudflare writes "It's easy to set up because you point the DNS to it, and it's working in under 15 minutes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Skyhigh Security writes "Good scalability, but the technical support service needs improvement". Cloudflare is most compared with Akamai, Azure Front Door, Imperva DDoS, AWS Shield and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, whereas Skyhigh Security is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Netskope , Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps and Symantec Proxy. See our Cloudflare vs. Skyhigh Security report.
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