We performed a comparison between Cloudflare and Skyhigh Security based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Cloudflare provides DDoS protection, tracing, and a user-friendly GUI. In contrast, Skyhigh Security offers strong URL spam filtering, endpoint protection, and efficient backup features. Skyhigh Security is known for being a market leader with good technical support, while Cloudflare provides a Global Location CDN and a single console for managing multiple tasks. Cloudflare and Skyhigh Security both have areas for improvement. Cloudflare could enhance their reporting, support response time, traffic routing, partner relationship, log collection, automation, account management, and dashboards. On the other hand, Skyhigh Security needs to improve their virtual solution strength, integration with local apps, secure gateway, stability, and technical support.
Service and Support: Cloudflare's enterprise customers praise their technical support, while those on the business plan have concerns about response times. Skyhigh Security's customer service has mixed reviews, with some users finding it helpful and others frustrating.
Ease of Deployment: Cloudflare's setup is simple and user-friendly, requiring minimal effort. In contrast, Skyhigh Security's setup can be more challenging and may require external assistance.
Pricing: Cloudflare is known for being expensive, but they do offer unlimited bandwidth. Meanwhile, Skyhigh Security is considered to have higher pricing but is still affordable. Cloudflare's solution has many features, but some require additional payment, while Skyhigh Security's affordability is praised by most reviewers.
ROI: Cloudflare focuses on preventing downtime and avoiding large financial losses, while Skyhigh Security offers improved security, reduced risk of data breaches, increased visibility, and streamlined compliance.
Comparison Results: Cloudflare is the preferred choice over Skyhigh Security based on user reviews. Cloudflare offers more features, such as DDoS protection, application tracing, and load balancing. It also has a user-friendly GUI and a Global Location CDN. Skyhigh Security is considered a market leader but lacks support for unsanctioned applications and has weak API integration.
"The security baseline and vulnerability assessments is the valuable feature."
"Our most important features are those around entitlement, external exposure, vulnerabilities, and container security."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"With Wiz, we get timely alerts for leaked data or any vulnerabilities already existing in our environment."
"The automation roles are essential because we ultimately want to do less work and automate more. The dashboards are easy to read and visually pleasing. You can understand things quickly, which makes it easy for our other teams. The network and infrastructure teams don't know as much about security as we do, so it helps to have a tool that's accessible and nice to look at."
"The product supports out-of-the-box reporting with context about the asset and allows us to perform complex custom queries on UI."
"Out of all the features, the one item that has been most valuable is the fact that Wiz puts into context all the pieces that create an issue, and applies a particular risk evaluation that helps us prioritize when we need to address a misconfiguration, vulnerability, or any issue that would put our environment into risk."
"The first thing that stood out was the ease of installation and the quick value we got out of the solution."
"The solution provides good load balancing and protection against DDoS attacks."
"When using services like Heroku, Cloudflare is very useful for CNAME flattening. I also use it for their end-to-end SSL with TLS authentication on nginx for securing servers."
"DDoS attacks target unprotected machines. Cloudflare detects and stops these attacks using internal systems. It identifies incoming DDoS attacks, issuing challenges or blocking them immediately."
"The solution is very good at mitigating threats."
"The UI is good."
"Generally, I am satisfied with this product."
"The most valuable feature is the web application firewall."
"The simplicity of the overall dashboard makes it a great product for a user like me who has less understanding of the internet than a developer or other more technical people. It gives me peace of mind. I also love the easy customization of the Page Rules."
"The management is very good."
"Without Skyhigh, we had zero visibility, but now we are aware of so much more."
"The risk rating of each cloud application has been very useful. Whenever we discover a new application is use, we are able to quickly determine if this application is safe to use and whether or not we should allow our end users to be able to access it."
"It is easy to configure rules."
"I like the encrypted disk feature and the endpoint protection."
"What's most valuable in Skyhigh Security is its level of security. Another valuable feature of the solution is threat analysis."
"The most valuable features of McAfee Web Gateway are anti-malware, reports, and powerful categorization of web pages."
"Shadow IT reporting capabilities."
"Wiz's reporting capabilities could be refined a bit. They are making headway on that, but more executive-style dashboards would be nice. They just implemented a community aspect where you can share documents and feedback. This was something users had been requesting for a while. They are listening to customer feedback and making changes."
"The only thing that needs to be improved is the number of scans per day."
"The only small pain point has been around some of the logging integrations. Some of the complexities of the script integrations aren't supported with some of the more automated infrastructure components. So, it's not as universal. For example, they have great support for cloud formation and other services, but if you're using another type of management utility or governance language for your infrastructure-as-code automation components, it becomes a little bit trickier to navigate that."
"The solution's container security could be improved."
"Given the level of visibility into all the cloud environments Wiz provides, it would be nice if they could integrate some kind of mechanism to better manage tenants on multiple platforms. For example, let's say that some servers don't have an application they need, such as an antivirus. Wiz could include an API or something to push those applications out to the servers. It would be great if you could remedy these issues directly from the Wiz platform."
"One significant issue is that the searches are case-sensitive, so finding a misconfigured resource can become very challenging."
"We're looking at some of the data compliance stuff that they've got Jon offer. I know they're looking at container security, which we gonna be looking at next."
"We wish there were a way, beyond providing visibility and automated remediation, to wait on a given remediation, due to a critical aspect, such as the cost associated with a particular upgrade... We would like to see preventive controls that can be applied through Wiz to protect against vulnerabilities that we're not going to be able to remediate immediately."
"For the free and Pro plans, Cloudflare could use a simple bot to provide information to users. This would improve support, especially for less advanced users who utilize the free components."
"It would be beneficial for us if Cloudflare could offer a scrubbing solution. This would involve taking a snapshot of my website and keeping it live during a DDoS attack, ensuring uninterrupted service for our users. DDoS attacks are typically short in duration, and having Cloudflare maintain the site's availability from its secure network would enhance the overall user experience. I would appreciate it if Cloudflare could consider implementing this feature. Many organizations already utilize similar capabilities in their CDN platforms, where a static snapshot of the web page is displayed during DDoS attacks. In terms of features, Cloudflare needs to enhance its resilience and stay more focused on adopting new technologies. For instance, solutions like F5 XC Box, Access Solution, and Distributed Cloud Solution have impressive features, and Cloudflare should strive to match and exceed those capabilities. There's a need for improvement in areas like AI-based DDoS attacks and Layer 7 WAF features. Cloudflare should prioritize enhancements in areas such as behavioral DDoS and protection against SQL injection attacks, considering the prevalent trend of public exposure to the internet for business reasons. Overall, Cloudflare needs to invest more in advancing its feature set."
"Cloudflare does not have an on-premise solution. If they had different approaches they could be better suited to accommodate more customers, such as on-premise and hybrid deployments. For example, hybrid deployments would be useful where you could move the traffic from the enterprise to the cloud."
"The product support needs to be accessible from more places, a wider area of coverage."
"I would like Cloudflare to offer a dedicated account manager for large enterprise clients like us."
"The reporting can definitely be improved to offer a lot more explanation on something that may have happened or has actually happened."
"Technical support is lacking."
"The timing aspect can lead to it being considered overpriced. This is a particular concern we have with Cloudflare, as they may struggle with accurately detecting the client."
"Its initial setup could be more straightforward."
"It is an expensive solution."
"The services take some time to load. It would be helpful if the loading time was reduced."
"The only thing we have faced is that sometimes, randomly, the portal becomes too slow."
"McAfee needs to add more products that could be managed from the cloud."
"The solution is hard to configure, our team does not have specific training requirements for McAfee making it difficult."
"The Skyhigh for Google Drive interface and policy engine is a bit confusing and limited when compared against other Google Drive CASB capabilities."
"User interface could be more intuitive."
Cloudflare is ranked 11th in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) with 56 reviews while Skyhigh Security is ranked 13th in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) with 51 reviews. Cloudflare is rated 8.4, while Skyhigh Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cloudflare writes "It's easy to set up because you point the DNS to it, and it's working in under 15 minutes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Skyhigh Security writes "Good scalability, but the technical support service needs improvement". Cloudflare is most compared with Akamai, Azure Front Door, Imperva DDoS, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and AWS Shield, whereas Skyhigh Security is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Netskope , Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Symantec Proxy and Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks. See our Cloudflare vs. Skyhigh Security report.
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