We compared Netskope and Cato Networks based on our user's reviews across four parameters. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Netskope is praised for its comprehensive data protection capabilities, advanced threat protection, advanced analytics, and granular policy enforcement. Netskope offers competitive pricing options, positive return on investment, and excellent customer service. Cato Networks is valued for its pricing structure, connectivity options, network performance, and comprehensive security features. Users appreciate the customer service and support provided by Cato Networks.
Features: Netskope offers valuable features such as comprehensive data protection, advanced threat protection, advanced analytics, and granular policy enforcement. Cato Networks is praised for its efficient connectivity, network performance, ease of implementation, management, and comprehensive security features.
Pricing and ROI: Netskope offers competitive pricing and a straightforward setup process, ensuring a smooth experience. Cato Networks also provides reasonable pricing and appreciated flexibility. Netskope offers ROI in the form of enhanced security, data protection, visibility, control, threat detection, integration, and cost savings. Cato Networks provides increased efficiency, cost savings, network performance, implementation ease, and secure connectivity for businesses.
Room for Improvement: Netskope could benefit from a more intuitive interface, better customer support, improved performance during high-traffic periods, and more comprehensive reporting capabilities. Users of Cato Networks suggest enhancing network speed and stability, improving the GUI, addressing occasional connectivity issues, optimizing support response times, and offering advanced customization options.
Deployment and customer support: Netskope users found the initial setup phase to be simple and quick, usually requiring just an agent to be rolled out. The deployment of the solution is also described as quick, with some variation depending on the customer's needs. The implementation phase can take more time, often taking around six months to complete. The initial setup and deployment of Cato Networks is straightforward. The timeframe for deployment varies depending on the type of customer and the number of branches or sites being implemented, ranging from as little as 30 minutes to up to six months. Netskope users appreciate the prompt resolution of their queries and knowledgeable assistance. Cato Networks customers mention consistent and effective communication, responsiveness, and helpfulness from the support team.
The summary above is based on 29 interviews we conducted with Netskope and Cato Networks users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"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 visibility control and security aspects are amazing."
"It's a pretty straightforward solution."
"The feature that I find to be the most valuable is the bandwidth aggregation."
"Cato offers all the functionality found in other solution. The life cycle management is always very stable."
"It's a cloud-based solution that integrates well with everything."
"It is a stable solution...it is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature of Cato Networks is the CASB and the documentation is useful."
"The solution is a simple WAN solution. We've onboarded the socket on the Cato platform, and it provides connectivity. There is no complex routing."
"Netskope's control is user-friendly and comprehensible. It also helps in conveying information effectively as a company, making it crucial for customer satisfaction."
"The most valuable features were related to discovery, data protection, and ensuring compliance with regulations."
"I have found the most useful features to be the Web Secure Gateway, CASB, infrastructural service scanning, and Zero Trust."
"The interface is good."
"The most useful feature of this solution is Cloud Control, which allows me to schedule cloud uploads."
"The initial setup of Netskope CASB is easy, it is not complex."
"Netskope is an efficient, reliable, and easy-to-manage solution."
"Its deployment is very easy and quick. Their technical support is also very good."
"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"
"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."
"Lookout was moving into the SSE space. And so their work on SecureWeb Gateway and SD-WAN is still sort of evolving."
"They can't do one-to-one NAT (Network Address Translation) in AP (their access point), and that is something that Palo Alto can do."
"The product must evolve into the endpoint domain."
"The product may be complex for users with few years of experience."
"They should include a web application firewall feature in the solution."
"I am located in South Korea, and I can say that most people here have no idea about Cato Networks. I think Cato Networks should promote its network services in various countries."
"Its functionality is a bit limited in some areas as compared to a Cisco solution. It is not as granular. It doesn't have the manageability, feature set, and capabilities of a larger or an enterprise-level solution. It just needs a more robust feature set and granularity."
"The solution is not cheap."
"The solution could be made more user friendly for the administrator to use the portal. It is difficult to use it for people who are not experienced with Cato Networks."
"Setting up policies is something that we having been doing, and if the vendor were to provide example use cases that included different implementation options then it would be very useful for us."
"They could improve their mobile agents as they have some limitations."
"There could be better integration with other solutions."
"Support services could definitely be improved. Support is the one area that can always use improvement. It's an evolving thing, so based on demand and based on market requirement and the way market is moving towards."
"The solution's implementations can be made much easier because, currently, it is complex in nature."
"The configuration and user behaviour analytics can be improved."
"The solution is still pretty new to the CASB environment."
"The initial setup is complex and should be simplified."
Cato SASE Cloud Platform is ranked 6th in Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) with 21 reviews while Netskope is ranked 4th in Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) with 35 reviews. Cato SASE Cloud Platform is rated 8.8, while Netskope is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cato SASE Cloud Platform writes "Useful remote worker VPN, centralized management, and simple on-boarding process". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Netskope writes "Network proxy that provides visibility during deployment and allows you to control PII". Cato SASE Cloud Platform is most compared with Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, Cisco SD-WAN, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet FortiGate and Perimeter 81, whereas Netskope is most compared with Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler Internet Access, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Cisco Umbrella and Axis Security. See our Cato SASE Cloud Platform vs. Netskope report.
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