We performed a comparison between Skyhigh Security and Symantec Proxy 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 solution is stable."
"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 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."
"Tokenization."
"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."
"Without Skyhigh, we had zero visibility, but now we are aware of so much more."
"Overall, the performance is good."
"It is easy to configure rules."
"It help us monitor high risk services, blocking them, and also feeding them to our egress points."
"Data loss prevention and user behavior analysis are two valuable features."
"The developer's assistance is valuable, enabling seamless integration which allows for a comprehensive view of categories, even if not certified by the link."
"It's a stable solution."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the URL database, malicious URLs, policies, and policy creation."
"Global Intelligence Network is the best feature of the product."
"The solution is scalable."
"The Symantec antivirus suite and the proxy component are the most valuable feature."
"The tool's most valuable features are content-to-content filtration and SCCM protection."
"We can address and rectify issues promptly, resulting in consistently positive outcomes."
"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"
"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."
"Lookout was moving into the SSE space. And so their work on SecureWeb Gateway and SD-WAN is still sort of evolving."
"An area for improvement in Skyhigh Security is its UI. It needs to be enhanced and made more user-friendly. Right now, the UI of Skyhigh Security is sometimes confusing. For example, my company is deploying Skyhigh Security for a client and integrating it on the cloud, from an on-premises deployment to a hybrid deployment. Though the experience isn't bad, there needs to be more enhancements. Another room for improvement in Skyhigh Security is the limited training resources, especially when you compare it with Cisco, which has many study materials in the market, even free training resources. You'll get limited resources if you search for Skyhigh Security tutorials on Google and YouTube. Because of high-security requirements and the training material for Skyhigh Security not being available, most engineers and architects avoid the product because there'd be a lack of knowledge in configuring and achieving the goals you'd want to reach via the use of Skyhigh Security. The NOC team deploying the product is having difficulty getting training resources for Skyhigh Security. You'll be charged an enormous amount if you search the market for training because of the limited resources available. Skyhigh Security needs to work on marketing and awareness as an improvement to the product."
"The virtual solution requires improvement."
"Though the Skyhigh Dashboard is processing large amounts of data, the speed of the Dashboard could be improved."
"I think that the User Interface could be improved."
"They only have English support, so I would like for them to add some Spanish support."
"Skyhigh Security, as a product, is excellent, but in terms of the right services and support, those are lagging very much, for example, in Trellix. From one hundred, its score has gone down to ten, so ten out of one hundred, otherwise, it's the number one product."
"MVISION Cloud is not well known and there should be more information about the solution. There could be integration to local applications."
"The documentation could be improved."
"Prior to the Broadcom purchase, every appliance was application based, but now they have one ISG device and on top of it multiple applications are running. It has a single point of failure. If your device goes down, all of the applications would be down."
"Activating the SSL inspection is one of the challenges. We are currently moving to the O365 cloud, and one of the challenges is the performance when all of our users are connected to O365 by a proxy."
"The tool’s reporting features must be improved."
"Symantec Proxy needs to include content management capabilities."
"There are performance issues with all of the proxies."
"The solution is quite complex."
"Technical support is an area that requires some improvement."
"The platform's pricing needs improvement."
Skyhigh Security is ranked 7th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 51 reviews while Symantec Proxy is ranked 15th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 18 reviews. Skyhigh Security is rated 8.4, while Symantec Proxy is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Skyhigh Security writes "Good scalability, but the technical support service needs improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Proxy writes "A user-friendly solution with good technical support". Skyhigh Security is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Netskope , Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks and Zscaler CASB, whereas Symantec Proxy is most compared with Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway, Netskope Next Gen Secure Web Gateway, McAfee Web Gateway Cloud Service, Zscaler Internet Access and Trend Micro Web Security. See our Skyhigh Security vs. Symantec Proxy report.
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