We performed a comparison between Blue Coat Advanced Web & Cloud Security [EOL] 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 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 most valuable features are the antivirus as a whole, the anti-malware, and all of the protection features that scan our enterprise devices."
"The solution is very stable. In four years we have not seen any issues with the product."
"The content filters and SSL encryption are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The categorize formula is very helpful. Previously, we used the Cisco solution, where we could not choose how sites are categorized. Blue Coat updated a lot of sites I categorized. There are other valuable features as well, such as block by location, block by IP, allow by IP, and block by user name, domain, or group domain."
"Since working with the tool, we have not found any threats in our organization."
"Cisco Web Security Appliance has very good security benefits for any company and is easy to integrate."
"The technical support is good. It is reactive and the documentation is very specific and very useful."
"Cisco regularly upgrades features for the customer's security requirements."
"The solution provides good web reputation and anti-malware protection."
"It also has high availability."
"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."
"Cisco Web Security Appliance is user-friendly and easy to manage. It protects your environment while accessing the internet."
"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."
"The console visibility and the performance impact on the internet needs improvement."
"Every customer has to perform a manual backup, and automatic backing up is needed."
"Java does not completely work. We are dependent on Java and when the current console does not run with Java, it is a problem for us."
"Setting up Cisco Web Security Appliance is highly complex and it takes about a week. We have to connect it to the Active Directory and configure all the policies for end users. It takes a long time to configure rules for our company data like port forwarding and separating the public and local components."
"The tool needs to provide logs. They need to improve firewall threat defense."
"This solution could be more secure."
"The GUI is not user-friendly, so it needs to improve or be simplified."
"The FTD 21 model's Firepower Threat Defense does not have the multi-instance feature for the virtualization with the physical equipment."
"They need a better graphical interface, and they need a better ISE mechanism."
"There are certain shortcomings related to the product's management capabilities, where improvements are required. The solution needs to provide better management of the category of web pages."
"Sometimes reporting is a little bit short."
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Blue Coat Advanced Web & Cloud Security [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) while Cisco Web Security Appliance is ranked 10th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 28 reviews. Blue Coat Advanced Web & Cloud Security [EOL] is rated 6.4, while Cisco Web Security Appliance is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Blue Coat Advanced Web & Cloud Security [EOL] writes "Easy to change categories and has many ways to filter". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Web Security Appliance writes "Flexible, robust, easy to install, and the technical support is helpful". Blue Coat Advanced Web & Cloud Security [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Cisco Web Security Appliance is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Zscaler Internet Access, Fortinet FortiProxy, Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway and Skyhigh Security.
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