We performed a comparison between Cisco Web Security Appliance and Fortinet FortiGate SWG 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 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 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."
"Since working with the tool, we have not found any threats in our organization."
"The best feature of Cisco Web Security Appliance is its policy framing. It also has a good UI and it can handle traffic well. Cisco Web Security Appliance is a good product."
"Great for assisting with connections to networks or apps."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"I would recommend this solution to others."
"What we liked best about it was the ability to apply policy to either a user ID or an IP-based network."
"It integrates well with Cisco Email Security Appliance."
"The tool has good Umbrella DNS security."
"The solution is superior to Cisco in terms of security."
"Web filters, particularly web application controls, grant us the ability to regulate user access effectively."
"It's a flexible solution."
"Customers keep on improving their licenses. The solution remains scalable and flexible. On-premises deployments may have some limitations. However, cloud deployments offer a high degree of flexibility."
"The solution is easy to implement and easy to configure. The most valuable feature is FortiGate’s content filtering."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate SWG are IPS and scanning."
"The interface is user-friendly, so it's easy to add policies and block traffic."
"The product is easy to install since we only need to follow the user manual, documents, and articles provided by Fortinet to install the product."
"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 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"
"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."
"We would like to see a security service head, where we can combine all the security into one solution."
"The one thing I don't like about Cisco is that they are very much fragmented in terms of providing the complete solution. They keep on breaking their different feature sets into different boxes."
"The solution is priced high."
"They need a better graphical interface, and they need a better ISE mechanism."
"It should have a user-based quota, per-user quota, that can be defined on the appliance."
"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."
"The solution needs to be more user-friendly and easier to navigate."
"This solution could be more secure."
"I would like the deployment and integration of this product to be easier. We should be able to deploy the features more easily and have different types of access. It should be easier to integrate. Currently, we need to develop APIs to use this interface."
"They have not yet extended to the cloud."
"We can't identify which users are causing challenges when we have issues."
"It is essential to leverage its capabilities more professionally to achieve an even higher level of security."
"We have experienced a number of failures when trying to upgrade firmware and the process takes a long time. We only experienced this when doing major upgrades between versions."
"Fortinet FortiGate SWG could improve the price, it is expensive."
"The price could be improved."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet FortiGate SWG is an area of concern where improvements are required."
Cisco Web Security Appliance is ranked 10th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 29 reviews while Fortinet FortiGate SWG is ranked 4th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 39 reviews. Cisco Web Security Appliance is rated 7.8, while Fortinet FortiGate SWG is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco Web Security Appliance writes "Ensures security for remote workers". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate SWG writes "Non-IT people could plug it in, connect it to the fiber, and get it running without IT help. ". Cisco Web Security Appliance is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Zscaler Internet Access, Fortinet FortiProxy and Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway, whereas Fortinet FortiGate SWG is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Fortinet FortiProxy, Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway, Sangfor Internet Access Gateway (IAG) and Netskope Next Gen Secure Web Gateway. See our Cisco Web Security Appliance vs. Fortinet FortiGate SWG report.
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