We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway 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 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."
"Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway does most of its job well, but I especially like its data security feature."
"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."
"The antiviral sandboxing."
"I like the product's scalability and stability."
"In terms of functionality, Forcepoint is the best web proxy available."
"For the most part, the solution, when set up correctly, works fine."
"Giving visibility to people's actions in the network, while keeping attackers out: across data centers, offices, branches, and the cloud."
"Once deployed, the management console is simple and easy to use."
"The tool's most valuable features are content-to-content filtration and SCCM protection."
"The content that we are getting is very good. Content caching is also supported."
"The most valuable feature of Symantec Proxy is the support and autoscaling."
"It's a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature is the caching."
"The initial setup of Symantec Proxy is easy."
"The solution is scalable."
"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."
"Lookout was moving into the SSE space. And so their work on SecureWeb Gateway and SD-WAN is still sort of evolving."
"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."
"Managing the endpoint for both DLP and web security should be simplified."
"I am looking forward to the full integration of the endpoints that they offer for web security and DLP."
"We are using a V10000 G3 appliance. It is just a proxy. It is just HTTP, FTP, and HTTPS. Now, as our website has developed and we are using rich time-connectivity protocols, the proxy doesn't have the ability to work with these protocols. It would be nice if the UDP feature was there for it to filter UDP traffic. It needs firewall capabilities for UDP filtering. Its upgrades can be quite complex, and they don't always go as per the plan. Its reporting could be a bit more granular."
"I'd like to see the solution improve the banded optimization to offer more bandwidth control, similar to what is on offer with Blue Coat."
"There should be more hardware models available and the application control could improve."
"The documentation is almost too much, it could be laid out in an easier to understand."
"A feature we wish to see addressed in the next release of Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway involves its administration."
"It takes 20 to 30 minutes for policy replication."
"The traffic filtering could improve. Our firewall traffic is limited. Additionally, it would be helpful if there was a dashboard and reporting feature."
"Symantec Proxy needs to include content management capabilities."
"The deployment is quite difficult."
"Improvements in log availability would greatly enhance its overall effectiveness."
"The solution could improve by having better documentation."
"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 platform's pricing needs improvement."
"The initial setup can be somewhat complex, and deploying the system can take some time."
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Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is ranked 5th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 47 reviews while Symantec Proxy is ranked 14th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 18 reviews. Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is rated 7.8, while Symantec Proxy is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway writes "Simple to set up, reliable, and offers great reporting". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Proxy writes "A user-friendly solution with good technical support". Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Cisco Umbrella, Fortinet FortiProxy, Fortinet FortiGate SWG and Cisco Web Security Appliance, whereas Symantec Proxy is most compared with Skyhigh Security, Netskope Next Gen Secure Web Gateway, Zscaler Internet Access, McAfee Web Gateway Cloud Service and Symantec Secure Web Gateway. See our Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway vs. Symantec Proxy report.
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