We performed a comparison between Check Point Web Gateway and Skyhigh Security 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's easy to deploy this tool."
"The product covers all the security needs of roaming users."
"The most valuable feature that I see in the application is the filtering of the URLs."
"The most valuable features of Check Point Web Gateway are all the IPS. However, what matters for users is content and web filtering."
"It filters the URLs by reputation, denying access to those proven to be harmful and inspecting those which haven't been flagged yet to detect threats before the user can enter it."
"I think this solution is very helpful to our customers because its cloud-based security can be deployed quickly and maintained easily."
"SmartConsole is intuitive."
"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."
"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."
"We have gained a deep insight into our Shadow IT usage as well as the different activities involved in Office 365."
"Good anti-virus filtering, URL categorization, and reporting capabilities."
"The most valuable features of McAfee Web Gateway are anti-malware, reports, and powerful categorization of web pages."
"I found the solution to be stable."
"What's most valuable in Skyhigh Security is its level of security. Another valuable feature of the solution is threat analysis."
"The solution performs well."
"The other products that I have evaluated do not have the scalability options that McAfee has."
"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."
"Check Point Web Gateway could add an end point access function."
"Check Point Web Gateway could improve the user interface. It could be made more modern."
"The tool's response time can be improved since sometimes it lags, but not always...The tool's UI should be made more dynamic."
"Perhaps the latency in the administrative part of the portal would be a point of improvement."
"I would like to see improvement in the tool's availability."
"The support team’s response is not fast."
"The documentation must be improved."
"There is room for improvement in support because the solution needs multiple regions to reach certain features and validations."
"MVISION Cloud is not well known and there should be more information about the solution. There could be integration to local applications."
"An area for improvement in Skyhigh Security is its UI. It needs to be enhanced and made more user-friendly. Right now, the UI of Skyhigh Security is sometimes confusing. For example, my company is deploying Skyhigh Security for a client and integrating it on the cloud, from an on-premises deployment to a hybrid deployment. Though the experience isn't bad, there needs to be more enhancements. Another room for improvement in Skyhigh Security is the limited training resources, especially when you compare it with Cisco, which has many study materials in the market, even free training resources. You'll get limited resources if you search for Skyhigh Security tutorials on Google and YouTube. Because of high-security requirements and the training material for Skyhigh Security not being available, most engineers and architects avoid the product because there'd be a lack of knowledge in configuring and achieving the goals you'd want to reach via the use of Skyhigh Security. The NOC team deploying the product is having difficulty getting training resources for Skyhigh Security. You'll be charged an enormous amount if you search the market for training because of the limited resources available. Skyhigh Security needs to work on marketing and awareness as an improvement to the product."
"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."
"The encrypted disk implementation could be improved. I currently use it from a dongle or USB key with two-factor authentication to access my computer."
"You have to have some kind of background with cloud-based security, like working with different providers and how to make instances in the clouds and that kind of stuff - including cloud, networking cloud, cloud application development, anything like that is a requirement to be in the CASB space."
"The secure gateway could be improved."
"The performance of the tool can be improved to provide faster report generation."
"Though the Skyhigh Dashboard is processing large amounts of data, the speed of the Dashboard could be improved."
Check Point Web Gateway is ranked 12th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 21 reviews while Skyhigh Security is ranked 6th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 51 reviews. Check Point Web Gateway is rated 8.4, while Skyhigh Security is rated 8.4. 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 Skyhigh Security writes "Good scalability, but the technical support service needs improvement". Check Point Web Gateway is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Zscaler Internet Access, Symantec Proxy, Cisco Web Security Appliance and Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway, whereas Skyhigh Security is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Netskope , Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Symantec Proxy and Zscaler CASB. See our Check Point Web Gateway vs. Skyhigh Security report.
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