{3} Menlo Secure offers strong security capabilities, including effective isolation technology and streamlined management, making it an excellent choice for safeguarding against potential threats. However, some users find the cost higher compared to other solutions and report occasional issues with system performance. Below you will find valuable quotes for Pros and Cons from real reviewers:
Buyer's Guide
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Group Information Systems Security Director - CISO at Faurecia
Sep 4, 2022
The fact that it is a cloud proxy solution is another feature we like. For example, if you acquire a new company, you can use it to protect that new company without the need to install anything physically on their networks.
VP of IT and Security at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Sep 4, 2022
For us, the primary goal is protection on the web, and that's extremely important. We're not using any of the other services at this time. The web part is key to the success of the organization. It gives us the ability to protect. It can isolate. It opens the session in an isolated format so that the code isn't running locally. It is running over in the Menlo environment, not in ours. It is not running on the local computer, whereas if you were to go to a normal website, it would run Java or something else on the local machine and potentially execute the malicious code locally. So, it does give us that level of protection.
Accessing the internet with a proxy from anywhere is the most valuable feature. It ensures that users are only able to browse legitimate websites. If they happen to go to a legitimate website with a malicious payload, the isolation feature will take care of that.
Chief Technology Officer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Apr 27, 2022
It has reduced security events to follow up on. While it is not 100%, there has been probably a 90% or more reduction. We were getting hit left, right, and center constantly from people browsing the Internet and hitting bad websites. It was not just bad websites that were stood up to be malicious, but good sites that were compromised.
Group Information Systems Security Director - CISO at Faurecia
Sep 4, 2022
We are now transitioning to another solution. The main reason for that is that managing all of the exceptions and troubleshooting all of the issues our users have had connecting to the internet has become too significant in terms of workload, compared to what we hope we will have with another solution.
VP of IT and Security at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Sep 4, 2022
Currently, I don't have a good way to see which of my rules are being used in the access control lists. I have numerous entries, but are they all still needed? A report that would show me my list of who is allowed and whether we're actually using it would be useful because I can then go clean up my list. It would be easier to manage. We would eliminate the vulnerability of unused services.
Chief Technology Officer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Apr 27, 2022
In the best of all worlds, we wouldn't have to make any exceptions. However, that is a big ask because a lot of that depends on how websites are constructed. For example, there are some very complex, application-oriented sites that we end up making exceptions for. It is really not that big an issue for us to make the exceptions. We feel like we are doing that without a huge impact on our security posture, but we do have to make some exceptions for complex sites, e.g., mostly SaaS-type sites and applications.
