We performed a comparison between Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks and Skyhigh Security based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Ease of Deployment: Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks has a straightforward setup process, while Skyhigh Security's setup can be complex and time-consuming, requiring expertise in McAfee products and cloud-based security. Prisma Cloud does not have any such prerequisites.
Features: Prisma Cloud provides a comprehensive cloud security solution that includes continuous compliance monitoring, auto-remediation, and identity-based micro-segmentation. Meanwhile, Skyhigh Security is known for its strong URL spam filtering and efficient backup features. However, it lacks SD-WAN capabilities that are available with Palo Alto's Prisma Cloud. Prisma Cloud needs to enhance its dashboard customization, automation and integration capabilities, alerting process and support, and more. On the other hand, Skyhigh Security needs to improve its virtual solution, integration, encrypted disk implementation, technical support, and more.
Pricing: Prisma Cloud's pricing is complex and based on credits, while Skyhigh Security has mixed reviews on pricing and licensing. While Prisma Cloud is generally considered expensive, it offers excellent value, and there are no hidden costs. However, additional costs for workload security protections and other features may apply. Skyhigh Security's pricing is okay but needs improvement in terms of value and ROI, and it has an annual licensing cost and expensive hardware.
Service and Support: Prisma Cloud's technical support and account managers have received some positive reviews, but slow response times have been a point of frustration for some customers. Similarly, Skyhigh Security's technical support has been helpful for some users, but others have experienced slow response times and unhelpful engineers.
ROI: Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks and Skyhigh Security both offer benefits such as risk reduction, compliance improvement, and enhanced productivity. Prisma Cloud offers faster issue detection and increased risk clarity, while Skyhigh Security provides increased visibility and control over security posture.
Comparison Results: Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is the better choice compared to Skyhigh Security. It has comprehensive and effective features, including a management console for easy visibility, continuous cloud compliance monitoring, and identity-based micro-segmentation. Skyhigh Security offers good protection overall, but lacks SD-WAN and has weak API integration and limited training resources.
"With Wiz, we get timely alerts for leaked data or any vulnerabilities already existing in our environment."
"Out of all the features, the one item that has been most valuable is the fact that Wiz puts into context all the pieces that create an issue, and applies a particular risk evaluation that helps us prioritize when we need to address a misconfiguration, vulnerability, or any issue that would put our environment into risk."
"The CSPM module has been the most effective. It was easy to deploy and covered all our accounts through APIs, requiring no agents. Wiz provides instant visibility into high-level risks that we need to address."
"The first thing that stood out was the ease of installation and the quick value we got out of the solution."
"The product supports out-of-the-box reporting with context about the asset and allows us to perform complex custom queries on UI."
"The vulnerability management modules and the discovery and inventory are the most valuable features. Before using Wiz, it was a very manual process for both. After implementing it, we're able to get all of the analytics into a single platform that gives us visibility across all the systems in our cloud. We're able to correspond and understand what the vulnerability landscape looks like a lot faster."
"The security baseline and vulnerability assessments is the valuable feature."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"Technical support is quite helpful."
"The client wasn't using all of the features, but the one that stood out was infrastructure-as-code (IaC). I built IaC use cases and was trying to get them to use it. I also liked cloud workload protection. I worked with the vulnerability management team to develop a process. It's a manual process, so it can be challenging to remediate many image or container issues. It was nice that we could build out a reporting process and download the reports. The reports are solid."
"The dynamic workload identity creation, attestation, and assignment is the best feature. In addition, the application dependency map across heterogeneous environments for compliance is a striking feature."
"Prisma scans things and shows all the vulnerabilities and packages that are vulnerable, and which layers, by default, have vulnerabilities. So developers can easily go into the package or a particular layer and make changes to their code. It's very transparent."
"Prisma Cloud provides the needed visibility and control regardless of how complex and distributed the cloud environments become."
"It has helped us understand the dynamic topology of our containers, and manage security through the application of policies that our pipelines apply straight from Git."
"I was looking for a vulnerability scanner and I was looking for one place in which I could find everything. This tool not only does vulnerability scanning, but it also gives me an asset management tool."
"What I like most about Prisma Cloud is its zero-day signatures, maximum security, minimal downtime, cloud visibility, control, and ease of deployment."
"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."
"Box API features with DLP capabilities."
"Overall, the performance is good."
"The most valuable features of McAfee Web Gateway are anti-malware, reports, and powerful categorization of web pages."
"Good anti-virus filtering, URL categorization, and reporting capabilities."
"I personally don't have any issues with the performance or the stability of the solution."
"Shadow IT reporting capabilities."
"It also prevents you from writing data to your Gmail and does not allow you to move your data outside of the corporate system. That is the most important feature for me."
"We would like to see improvements to executive-level reporting and data reporting in general, which we understand is being rolled out to the platform."
"The only thing that needs to be improved is the number of scans per day."
"We're looking at some of the data compliance stuff that they've got Jon offer. I know they're looking at container security, which we gonna be looking at next."
"Wiz's reporting capabilities could be refined a bit. They are making headway on that, but more executive-style dashboards would be nice. They just implemented a community aspect where you can share documents and feedback. This was something users had been requesting for a while. They are listening to customer feedback and making changes."
"We wish there were a way, beyond providing visibility and automated remediation, to wait on a given remediation, due to a critical aspect, such as the cost associated with a particular upgrade... We would like to see preventive controls that can be applied through Wiz to protect against vulnerabilities that we're not going to be able to remediate immediately."
"The solution's container security could be improved."
"Given the level of visibility into all the cloud environments Wiz provides, it would be nice if they could integrate some kind of mechanism to better manage tenants on multiple platforms. For example, let's say that some servers don't have an application they need, such as an antivirus. Wiz could include an API or something to push those applications out to the servers. It would be great if you could remedy these issues directly from the Wiz platform."
"The reporting isn't that great. They have executive summaries, but it's only a compliance report that maps all current issues to specific controls. Whether you look at one subscription or project, regardless of the size, you will get a multipage report on how the issues in that account map to that control. Our CSO isn't going to read through that. He won't filter that out or show that to his leadership and say, "Here's what we're doing." It isn't a helpful report. They're working on it, but it's a poor executive summary."
"While the code security feature has undergone recent enhancements, there is room for improvement in terms of its cost module."
"There is room for improvement on the logging and monitoring front because it's still not as holistic as I would want it to be."
"A couple of exporting functionalities should be more user-friendly because if I want to export something, I can get a lot of data visible to that particular CSV."
"Prisma is good about compliance, and their support is excellent, but they struggle with automation and integration. They need to stay on top of the newest types of connectors. How can you connect other applications and other tools in order for this to work cohesively? That's a challenge."
"The automation capabilities are growing each day, but the problem is that the updates are not that frequent. There are some services on Amazon that have come out with updates, and Azure is also getting up to date. But Prisma takes some time to follow. There's a time gap that Prisma inherits from these clouds. I understand why it takes some time, but that time should be reduced."
"They should improve the user experience."
"They need to make the settings more flexible to fit our internal policies about data. We didn't want developers to see some data, but we wanted them to have access to the console because it was going to help them... It was a pain to have to set up the access to some languages and some data."
"This solution is more AWS and Azure-centric. It needs to be more specific on the GCP side, which they are working on."
"The biggest challenge we have with McAfee is their cross-cloud support."
"One area for improvement I've seen in Skyhigh Security is that it lacks support for unsanctioned applications, where customers have their applications. Those applications do not come from Microsoft or other popular vendors. For example, Microsoft has support for Teams and it has support for OneDrive, but it doesn't have support for custom applications built by customers. Customers have internal teams building and publishing applications to the external world, but Skyhigh Security doesn't have support for those applications, and this is the main problem I've seen. The solution only supports a pool of applications that are from Microsoft and other major SaaS vendors. McAfee doesn't provide support for custom applications, compared to other vendors who provide it. For example, Bitglass and Netskope both have support for custom applications. Another area for improvement in Skyhigh Security is that its API support is a little weak. I also have not seen a strong integration between the solution and other McAfee products."
"The services take some time to load. It would be helpful if the loading time was reduced."
"I would like to see more power being given to the admin. In the sense that in case an employee is facing an issue and they want to configure a service, like attaching an email in Gmail, for example, they should be given the option to make the service request and get that configured on the go."
"The tool could improve flexibility with the creation of reports/querying data."
"The documentation could be improved."
"They only have English support, so I would like for them to add some Spanish support."
"You have to have some kind of background with cloud-based security, like working with different providers and how to make instances in the clouds and that kind of stuff - including cloud, networking cloud, cloud application development, anything like that is a requirement to be in the CASB space."
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Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is ranked 1st in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) with 82 reviews while Skyhigh Security is ranked 14th in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) with 51 reviews. Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is rated 8.4, while Skyhigh Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks writes "The dashboard is very user-friendly and can be used to generate custom RQL based on user requirements". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Skyhigh Security writes "Good scalability, but the technical support service needs improvement". Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Aqua Cloud Security Platform, AWS Security Hub, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security and AWS GuardDuty, whereas Skyhigh Security is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Netskope , Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Symantec Proxy and Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway. See our Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks vs. Skyhigh Security report.
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