We performed a comparison between Skyhigh Security and Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks is the preferred option over Skyhigh Security due to its superior security features, ease of use, and integration capabilities. Prisma Access offers a fabric-type SASE-based architecture, threat prevention, URL filtering, and segmentation, along with millions of security updates per day. It covers all ports and protocols, including non-web apps. The product is highly valued for its ability to identify, analyze, and remediate vulnerabilities, and its ability to quarantine and clean malware files. Although it is considered pricey, many reviewers believe that the cost is justified by the product's extensive security controls and throughput.
"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 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 product's initial setup phase is simple."
"The stacked policies, event policies, and routing policies are easy to understand for someone with general knowledge."
"It's very stable. Sometimes after installing the boxes, we leave them for one or two years. We would just touch the box in the case of the customer needing new requirements or changes to the setup."
"The protection for web-based applications was helpful for my colleagues who didn't want a particular application on their devices. And the non-web access protection was more for our developers because they were writing and building code on their computers. Prisma Access was able to protect them."
"Overall, the cost savings, ease of deployment, and better VPN user experience and performance are valuable."
"A feature I've found very helpful is run time security because most of the products on the market will look at security during the build time, and they don't really look at what happens once you're going into production."
"Palo Alto Firewall is one of the best firewalls in the world."
"The most valuable features of the solution are in the areas of the secure remote access it provides while also being user-friendly."
"The risk rating of each cloud application has been very useful. Whenever we discover a new application is use, we are able to quickly determine if this application is safe to use and whether or not we should allow our end users to be able to access it."
"What's most valuable in Skyhigh Security is its level of security. Another valuable feature of the solution is threat analysis."
"It help us monitor high risk services, blocking them, and also feeding them to our egress points."
"It's an easy-to-use product."
"It gives us visibility into how the data is being used within our cloud environment."
"The solution performs well."
"DLP policies and anomalies."
"We have gained a deep insight into our Shadow IT usage as well as the different activities involved in Office 365."
"Lookout was moving into the SSE space. And so their work on SecureWeb Gateway and SD-WAN is still sort of evolving."
"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 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"
"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 cloud setup is straightforward, and the onboarding process is much better, but the on-premises initial setup is slightly complex."
"I would like the solution to support a different type of authentication. We can't configure a secondary method for our portal."
"We've run into some challenges, having hit a lot of bugs over the past year in the deployment of GlobalProtect. We've had our fair share of issues that I haven't been happy with. We're working with the support organization to remediate them and waiting for updated releases. The response on getting the bugs fixed has not been what I would consider adequate for a product like this."
"They automatically update and they should give us time to fully understand what they're updating so that we can make sure it doesn't impact production."
"When it comes to integration mechanisms, Prisma SaaS does not support reverse proxy type of integrations."
"It wasn't so satisfying to work with it. There is room for improvement in the policy management. It is difficult to cover the entire scenery through Palo Alto products."
"Better integration with the MDM solution would be useful."
"The product's current price is an area of shortcoming where improvements are required."
"McAfee Web Gateway could improve the reporting. We have the reporting on a separate server and sometimes the database becomes full. These aspects could improve."
"I think that the User Interface could be improved."
"You can integrate Skyhigh's rules with Active Directory groups. For example, you can allow access to a specific website for a defined set of users. I can do that, but the rules are not straightforward. It can look up the group in Active Directory. However, it doesn't always find the proper group name. The rule configuration should be simpler and more granular. The admin should be able to map 80 groups in the rules quickly."
"Its initial setup could be more straightforward."
"It is an expensive solution."
"The documentation could be improved."
"They could be integrated with CASB. I think normally McAfee has this solution in the cloud, but for us the best is on-premise."
"The only thing we have faced is that sometimes, randomly, the portal becomes too slow."
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Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks is ranked 3rd in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 59 reviews while Skyhigh Security is ranked 12th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 51 reviews. Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks is rated 8.2, while Skyhigh Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks writes "Integration with Palo Alto platforms such as Cortex Data Lake and Autofocus gives us visibility into our attack surface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Skyhigh Security writes "Good scalability, but the technical support service needs improvement". Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks is most compared with Netskope , Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, Cisco Umbrella, Zscaler Internet Access and Prisma SD-WAN, whereas Skyhigh Security is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Netskope , Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Symantec Proxy and Zscaler CASB. See our Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks vs. Skyhigh Security report.
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