We performed a comparison between Cisco Web Security Appliance and Skyhigh Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Cisco Web Security Appliance is the preferred choice over Skyhigh Security according to user reviews. Users praise its strong web reputation and anti-malware protection, customizable policy framing, and user-friendly interface. It offers different access levels for various groups and integrates with Active Directory. SSL decryption provides full visibility of network traffic, and Umbrella DNS security is a standout feature. On the other hand, Skyhigh Security is considered a market leader but lacks support for unsanctioned applications, has weak API integration, and limited training resources.
"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 solution is stable."
"The product is stable."
"Since working with the tool, we have not found any threats in our organization."
"Cisco is the best in giving technical support. There is no doubt about that."
"Cisco Web Security Appliance is user-friendly and easy to manage. It protects your environment while accessing the internet."
"This appliance gives me good visibility in the userbase and their activities."
"The tool has good Umbrella DNS security."
"Cisco Web Security Appliance can integrate with Active Directory, enabling us to manage all the end-users within AD. It's helpful for setting rules based on individual users and groups. For example, you can configure policies for inbound and outbound traffic."
"Cisco Web Security Appliance has very good security benefits for any company and is easy to integrate."
"A stable solution with good support."
"Skyhigh performs well, and we can choose from virtual and hardware plans. We can deploy the ISO on as many virtual machines as possible and easily set up high availability on the web proxy. The location doesn't matter. The user at a site will always access the web proxy for that location. It's suitable for an organization distributed across multiple regions."
"It's a great product with solid features."
"The most valuable features of McAfee Web Gateway are anti-malware, reports, and powerful categorization of web pages."
"Data loss prevention and user behavior analysis are two valuable features."
"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."
"User analytics."
"The initial setup is fairly straightforward and easy to perform."
"Lookout was moving into the SSE space. And so their work on SecureWeb Gateway and SD-WAN is still sort of evolving."
"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"
"The FTD 21 model's Firepower Threat Defense does not have the multi-instance feature for the virtualization with the physical equipment."
"Customer support is good but could be improved."
"The solution needs to be more user-friendly and easier to navigate."
"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."
"They need a better graphical interface, and they need a better ISE mechanism."
"The tool needs to provide logs. They need to improve firewall threat defense."
"The support for this solution could be improved. We have experienced issues with their SMARTnet support system."
"Technical support needs to be improved because they take a very long time and there is no communication or notification."
"Though the Skyhigh Dashboard is processing large amounts of data, the speed of the Dashboard could be improved."
"They only have English support, so I would like for them to add some Spanish support."
"It needs to be more user-friendly, as it is a little bit complicated to use."
"The pricing of the solution could be adjusted to make it more reasonable."
"They could be integrated with CASB. I think normally McAfee has this solution in the cloud, but for us the best is on-premise."
"Needs integration with other technology ecosystems."
"McAfee needs to add more products that could be managed from the cloud."
"The virtual solution requires improvement."
Cisco Web Security Appliance is ranked 10th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 29 reviews while Skyhigh Security is ranked 7th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 51 reviews. Cisco Web Security Appliance is rated 7.8, while Skyhigh Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco Web Security Appliance writes "Ensures security for remote workers". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Skyhigh Security writes "Good scalability, but the technical support service needs improvement". Cisco Web Security Appliance is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Zscaler Internet Access, Fortinet FortiProxy, Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway and Symantec Proxy, whereas Skyhigh Security is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Netskope , Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps and Symantec Proxy. See our Cisco Web Security Appliance vs. Skyhigh Security report.
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