We performed a comparison between Illumio and Netskope based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about VMware, Cisco, Akamai and others in Cloud and Data Center Security."The features that I have found most useful is the ability to centralize all the rules and then distribute them across various locations. However, I've encountered challenges related to tagging policies, which can be complex to devise. It's a matter that requires careful consideration and stakeholder involvement before implementing such policies."
"It has helped us to understand internal network visibility and firewall policy implementation. We use the product to simplify firewall policy implementation."
"The product provides visibility into how the applications communicate and how the network protocols are being used."
"The Explorer allows you to know the traffic between source and destination."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Illumio Adaptive Security Platform is monitoring. When I have no requirement from the other application, I can use the web block traffic to build."
"The flexibility of the solution is its most valuable feature."
"The solution helps to maintain logs and monitor activities. It also helps us with access management. The tool helps us to secure organizational data that include files."
"The most valuable features of the solution are that the support is very good and the dashboards are easy and intuitive to use."
"A feature that was valuable was the built-in website classification or safety ratings. Different websites would be rated according to analyses that the Netskope team had done, and we built policies on some of those scores. If the website scored less than a certain percentage, then we would have a different user experience around how the site would interact with the clients."
"The detection capability is very nice and lightweight."
"Its deployment is very easy and quick. Their technical support is also very good."
"The interface is good."
"The automation offered by the product is pretty solid."
"Netskope's control is user-friendly and comprehensible. It also helps in conveying information effectively as a company, making it crucial for customer satisfaction."
"They are very good at CASB as compared to other players."
"The product’s agents don't work very well in OT environments."
"It requires a low-level re-architecting of the product."
"The solution is very basic and doesn't do anything other than the orchestration of layer four endpoint firewall rules."
"I would like to see better data security in the product."
"Some of the features that can be improved is offer additional guidance on creating an effective and risk-free tagging policy would be highly beneficial."
"Illumio Adaptive Security Platform could improve by supporting more operating systems. For example, Cisco and Apache appliances."
"The interaction we've had with the support team hasn't been ideal. Technical support should be improved."
"The customer service is lagging a bit. It could be better."
"Compatibility with other proxy polars would be helpful."
"The solution is still pretty new to the CASB environment."
"In some cases, when you have a lot of policies, it can get confusing for users and you can get lost in the GUI."
"Deployment and policy tweaking were two areas where improvement needs to be made."
"I deduced two points: one for their feature modification and one for the feature maturity of the solution."
"The configuration in the cloud model could be improved upon."
"The solution's documentation still needs to be improved."
"Lacking in local customer support."
Illumio is ranked 4th in Cloud and Data Center Security with 8 reviews while Netskope is ranked 4th in Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) with 35 reviews. Illumio is rated 8.0, while Netskope is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Illumio writes "Pprevents attackers or threats from spreading or moving laterally". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Netskope writes "Network proxy that provides visibility during deployment and allows you to control PII". Illumio is most compared with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, VMware NSX, Cisco Secure Workload, Zscaler Internet Access and Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, whereas Netskope is most compared with Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler Internet Access, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Cisco Umbrella and Skyhigh Security.
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