We performed a comparison between Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise and Cisco Web Security Appliance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Zscaler, Palo Alto Networks and others in Secure Web Gateways (SWG)."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."
"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 best feature of Akamai SPS Threat Avert is that it's very user-friendly compared to other technologies."
"This solution offers categorization for YouTube and other specific applications from Facebook to WhatsApp, which can be controlled whether it's on mobile or PC."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"This appliance gives me good visibility in the userbase and their activities."
"What we liked best about it was the ability to apply policy to either a user ID or an IP-based network."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco Web Security Appliance is the provided anti-malware functionality and URL categorization. I can block access to malicious websites. 99 percent of the cases are related to a malicious website. If I cannot browse those malicious websites, then we are 99 percent protected."
"The technical support is good. It is reactive and the documentation is very specific and very useful."
"It also has high availability."
"The tool has good Umbrella DNS security."
"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"
"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."
"Akamai SPS Threat Avert's pricing could be improved because it's a very expensive enterprise solution."
"The support for this solution could be improved. We have experienced issues with their SMARTnet support system."
"The transparent proxy is quite difficult to enforce on smartphones and tablets."
"The reporting needs improvement."
"The solution needs to be more user-friendly and easier to navigate."
"The tool needs to improve cloud-based decryption."
"The solution is priced high."
"The FTD 21 model's Firepower Threat Defense does not have the multi-instance feature for the virtualization with the physical equipment."
"Sometimes reporting is a little bit short."
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Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise is ranked 26th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 1 review while Cisco Web Security Appliance is ranked 10th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 29 reviews. Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise is rated 9.0, while Cisco Web Security Appliance is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise writes "A user-friendly security SaaS provider with an easy setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Web Security Appliance writes "Ensures security for remote workers". Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Zscaler Internet Access, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection, Palo Alto Networks DNS Security and Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway, whereas Cisco Web Security Appliance is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Zscaler Internet Access, Fortinet FortiProxy, Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway and Netskope Next Gen Secure Web Gateway.
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