We performed a comparison between Check Point Web Gateway and Cisco Web Security Appliance 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 most valuable features are the antivirus as a whole, the anti-malware, and all of the protection features that scan our enterprise devices."
"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 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."
"The implementation of this tool was straightforward."
"The product's best feature is observing how the traffic flows from one gateway to another. It's convenient for checking specific details, and you can manage everything centrally."
"It is very stable."
"It offers good security and we use it when we want to implement the best security in an organization due to the fact that it gives us broader visibility."
"One of its rather outstanding capabilities is its ability to add an extra layer of protection to our company's internal network."
"The product covers all the security needs of roaming users."
"SmartConsole is intuitive."
"The stability of the tool is very good."
"The tool has good Umbrella DNS security."
"Since working with the tool, we have not found any threats in our organization."
"Cisco is the best in giving technical support. There is no doubt about that."
"This solution offers categorization for YouTube and other specific applications from Facebook to WhatsApp, which can be controlled whether it's on mobile or PC."
"I would recommend this solution to others."
"The most valuable feature is security."
"Cisco regularly upgrades features for the customer's security requirements."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco Web Security Appliance is the provided anti-malware functionality and URL categorization. I can block access to malicious websites. 99 percent of the cases are related to a malicious website. If I cannot browse those malicious websites, then we are 99 percent protected."
"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."
"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"
"We understand that if we want to see greater connections, greater services, and a greater capacity established for primary equipment, this solution needs to evolve to make an application installed directly on equipment."
"Check Point Web Gateway could add an end point access function."
"Some documents needed to implement with the best practices are difficult to understand, take longer than expected to apply, and sometimes even require support."
"For the most modern versions, there currently is no documentation, or it is more difficult to find it."
"There is room for improvement in support because the solution needs multiple regions to reach certain features and validations."
"It is expensive. Its price should be better."
"I would like to be able to see an integration with centralized management services."
"I would like to see improvement in the tool's availability."
"The tool needs to provide logs. They need to improve firewall threat defense."
"As Cisco Web Security Appliance is eight years old, though it's simple to access its UI, the UI needs a little bit of updating. If it could be more interactive similar to the latest gen solutions, that would improve the product. Adding a few more integrations would also make Cisco Web Security Appliance better."
"The FTD 21 model's Firepower Threat Defense does not have the multi-instance feature for the virtualization with the physical equipment."
"The GUI is not user-friendly, so it needs to improve or be simplified."
"I would like more automation."
"The one thing I don't like about Cisco is that they are very much fragmented in terms of providing the complete solution. They keep on breaking their different feature sets into different boxes."
"It should have a user-based quota, per-user quota, that can be defined on the appliance."
"The support for this solution could be improved. We have experienced issues with their SMARTnet support system."
Check Point Web Gateway is ranked 11th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 21 reviews while Cisco Web Security Appliance is ranked 9th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 29 reviews. Check Point Web Gateway is rated 8.4, while Cisco Web Security Appliance is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Check Point Web Gateway writes "Provides secure perimeter defense and scalability for the banking industry". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Web Security Appliance writes "Ensures security for remote workers". Check Point Web Gateway is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Zscaler Internet Access, Symantec Proxy and Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway, whereas Cisco Web Security Appliance is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Zscaler Internet Access, Fortinet FortiProxy, Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway and Fortinet FortiGate SWG. See our Check Point Web Gateway vs. Cisco Web Security Appliance report.
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