We performed a comparison between Cyren WebSecurity and Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway 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 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 stable."
"The email service doesn't require any effort to configure, with no agents or internal virtual appliances."
"The logs and the reports allow me to have an overview of what is going on in my environment."
"In terms of functionality, Forcepoint is the best web proxy available."
"The most valuable feature for me in Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is URL filtering, though all other features of the product are okay as well."
"Ability to send decrypted traffic to other security solutions for inspection."
"I have found the simplicity of the solution valuable. The dashboard and reports are good as well."
"Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway does most of its job well, but I especially like its data security feature."
"Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway has improved our organization through its ease of use."
"The Forcepoint client software can be downloaded on a user's machine so that it can filter the sites from home or the office. That's one of the biggest features. We can use it for filtering our laptops for our users at any place."
"Once deployed, the management console is simple and easy to use."
"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"
"Lookout was moving into the SSE space. And so their work on SecureWeb Gateway and SD-WAN is still sort of evolving."
"The UI and the logs are a bit old school."
"The availability of clusters is limited, and the product is very unstable. The development team is slow as well."
"Managing the endpoint for both DLP and web security should be simplified."
"It's the support that's the problem because that's a different question from the product itself — it's the Achilles heel."
"A room for improvement in Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is the support it offers. It's very bad. What I'd like to see in the next release of the product is for it to be less complicated because at the moment Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is more complicated than other products. Sometimes issues come up that you can't solve without the support team. For example, you should write the root password to fix the issue. In the next release of the product, it would be good if it had an easy-to-use interface. Troubleshooting issues in Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway should be less complicated as well."
"It has a problem with tablets and the iPhone. It's not filtering on these platforms. It filters on Windows but not iOS or Android."
"A feature we wish to see addressed in the next release of Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway involves its administration."
"An area for improvement would be the classification of websites - it can take a long time for new websites to be classified."
"I am looking forward to the full integration of the endpoints that they offer for web security and DLP."
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Cyren WebSecurity is ranked 37th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) while Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is ranked 6th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 47 reviews. Cyren WebSecurity is rated 9.0, while Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Cyren WebSecurity writes "The logs and the reports allow me to have an overview of what is going on in my environment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway writes "Simple to set up, reliable, and offers great reporting". Cyren WebSecurity is most compared with , whereas Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Cisco Umbrella, Symantec Proxy, Fortinet FortiProxy and Fortinet FortiGate SWG.
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