We performed a comparison between Cato SASE Cloud Platform and Symantec Proxy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"The most valuable features are the antivirus as a whole, the anti-malware, and all of the protection features that scan our enterprise devices."
"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 feature is that it also works as a next-gen firewall because it has security features."
"The most valuable features of Cato Networks are the always-on VPN for remote workers and centralized management. Additionally, web filtering and antivirus are good."
"It is quite simple and easy to use."
"The product is efficient and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Cato Networks is the CASB and the documentation is useful."
"The visibility control and security aspects are amazing."
"The feature that I find to be the most valuable is the bandwidth aggregation."
"The query and the SD-WAN are useful features of the solution."
"Symantec Proxy’s technical support is very good."
"The initial setup of Symantec Proxy is easy."
"The most valuable feature is the caching."
"It is easy to use, and it is stable and scalable. You don't need a large team for deployment and maintenance."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the URL database, malicious URLs, policies, and policy creation."
"The Symantec antivirus suite and the proxy component are the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of Symantec Proxy is the support and autoscaling."
"It's a stable solution."
"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."
"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"
"The solution could be made more user friendly for the administrator to use the portal. It is difficult to use it for people who are not experienced with Cato Networks."
"The product may be complex for users with few years of experience."
"I would like to see better integration with identity providers."
"Web application firewalling (WAF) is a feature we would like to have in this solution and does not exist yet."
"The different languages in the user interface should be enhanced."
"I am located in South Korea, and I can say that most people here have no idea about Cato Networks. I think Cato Networks should promote its network services in various countries."
"The tool needs to be more granular. Its reports are not very in-depth."
"The product must evolve into the endpoint domain."
"The traffic filtering could improve. Our firewall traffic is limited. Additionally, it would be helpful if there was a dashboard and reporting feature."
"Technical support is an area that requires some improvement."
"One area for improvement in Symantec is the lack of a reporting server or dashboard integration with SIM."
"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."
"Prior to the Broadcom purchase, every appliance was application based, but now they have one ISG device and on top of it multiple applications are running. It has a single point of failure. If your device goes down, all of the applications would be down."
"The initial setup can be somewhat complex, and deploying the system can take some time."
"Support response time and case resolution could be improved."
"The user interface could be improved, and the price could be lower as well."
Cato SASE Cloud Platform is ranked 4th in Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) with 21 reviews while Symantec Proxy is ranked 15th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 17 reviews. Cato SASE Cloud Platform is rated 8.8, while Symantec Proxy is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Cato SASE Cloud Platform writes "Useful remote worker VPN, centralized management, and simple on-boarding process". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Proxy writes "A user-friendly solution with good technical support". Cato SASE Cloud Platform is most compared with Zscaler SASE, Cisco SD-WAN, Fortinet FortiGate, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks and VMware SD-WAN, whereas Symantec Proxy is most compared with Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway, Skyhigh Security, Netskope Next Gen Secure Web Gateway, McAfee Web Gateway Cloud Service and Fortinet FortiGate SWG. See our Cato SASE Cloud Platform vs. Symantec Proxy report.
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