We performed a comparison between Skyhigh Security and Symantec Proxy 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."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."
"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."
"Shadow IT reporting capabilities."
"The most valuable features of MVISION Cloud are the automatic reports and modification incidents."
"I like the encrypted disk feature and the endpoint protection."
"We have gained a deep insight into our Shadow IT usage as well as the different activities involved in Office 365."
"The most valuable features of McAfee Web Gateway are anti-malware, reports, and powerful categorization of web pages."
"A stable solution with good support."
"Tokenization."
"In terms of their compatibility with major cloud providers, in terms of their abilities, capabilities, and features, they exceed everyone's capabilities in the CASB market."
"Global Intelligence Network is the best feature of the product."
"The content that we are getting is very good. Content caching is also supported."
"The most valuable feature of Symantec Proxy is the support and autoscaling."
"The Symantec antivirus suite and the proxy component are the most valuable feature."
"The product is very good, and the URL filtering database is great."
"It enables us to manage bandwidth for users based on their privilege levels. For example, if a user wants to use a certain application or resource, we can provide access based on their privileges."
"It is easy to use, and it is stable and scalable. You don't need a large team for deployment and maintenance."
"The CPL code is the best feature of the solution."
"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."
"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"
"Lookout was moving into the SSE space. And so their work on SecureWeb Gateway and SD-WAN is still sort of evolving."
"Iron out the few bugs that I've seen."
"One thing that can be improved is their ability to integrate with other web proxies to discover unsanctioned IP apps."
"I would like to see more power being given to the admin. In the sense that in case an employee is facing an issue and they want to configure a service, like attaching an email in Gmail, for example, they should be given the option to make the service request and get that configured on the go."
"They could be integrated with CASB. I think normally McAfee has this solution in the cloud, but for us the best is on-premise."
"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."
"Though the Skyhigh Dashboard is processing large amounts of data, the speed of the Dashboard could be improved."
"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."
"The solution is hard to configure, our team does not have specific training requirements for McAfee making it difficult."
"Activating the SSL inspection is one of the challenges. We are currently moving to the O365 cloud, and one of the challenges is the performance when all of our users are connected to O365 by a proxy."
"The initial setup is actually quite complex to install because our users don't have admin rights on the boxes and there's no remote install option by an administrator."
"Marketing needs improvement in Symantec Proxy, as it needs to catch up in sales here in the Asia Pacific region. Symantec Proxy licensing renewal also needs improvement."
"There are performance issues with all of the proxies."
"One area for improvement in Symantec is the lack of a reporting server or dashboard integration with SIM."
"Support response time and case resolution could be improved."
"The platform's pricing needs improvement."
"The traffic filtering could improve. Our firewall traffic is limited. Additionally, it would be helpful if there was a dashboard and reporting feature."
Skyhigh Security is ranked 6th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 51 reviews while Symantec Proxy is ranked 14th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 18 reviews. Skyhigh Security is rated 8.4, while Symantec Proxy is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Skyhigh Security writes "Good scalability, but the technical support service needs improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Proxy writes "A user-friendly solution with good technical support". Skyhigh Security is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Netskope , Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Zscaler CASB and Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, whereas Symantec Proxy is most compared with Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway, Netskope Next Gen Secure Web Gateway, Zscaler Internet Access, McAfee Web Gateway Cloud Service and Symantec Secure Web Gateway. See our Skyhigh Security vs. Symantec Proxy report.
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