We performed a comparison between Harmony SASE (formerly Perimeter 81) and Netskope Private Access based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two ZTNA as a Service solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."SD-WAN is one of the primary solutions offered by Perimeter 81."
"It's improved the security of every single OS in the organization as well as the visibility and security capabilities."
"Using the preboot VPN option, we can reset a user who is working remotely that has forgotten their Windows login credentials."
"The tool is easy to use and set up."
"The benefits are really built into the underlying protocol, however, Perimeter81 makes these available in a user-friendly way."
"What I like about Harmony Connect is that every packet through the network is screened and filtered so that only clean packets can enter the PC. This is useful for a variety of security reasons because you no longer need to worry about things like DDoS attacks."
"It helps to quickly get access to the pages I need."
"Now that we use Harmony Connect, the files are inspected and we are sure that no malicious content is inside the company."
"With private access or next-gen VPN, they are able to keep you secure, but they are invisible in terms of how they do it. Anybody working from home and trying to bring up VPN quickly can pretty much get VPN up and running in a matter of minutes because this doesn't require any VPN technology on-prem. All the VPN technologies that you're using to access applications on-premise can be eliminated by using their software. If you're accessing Microsoft 365 or salesforce.com, you can go straight out from your home office or home internet to that application rather than having to come through a VPN. It still has all the policies enforced, and it mitigates any business risks in terms of how that user is accessing that application and what they're doing inside of it. VPN piece is really critical, especially at this time of Covid, and your latency also goes down. Your latency gets better by using the platform because they're intercepting your traffic, routing it through their local data center, and then sending it to whichever SaaS service or whatever you're going to. It does it better, faster, and quicker with all your governance policies enforced, rather than you having to go through your data center. So, all the traffic gets hauls there, and then that traffic has got to route somewhere else, and then it has got to go up to the cloud. Your latency actually goes down. They can guarantee 15 milliseconds or less pretty much across anywhere on the planet for about 95% or 90% of it."
"In the firewall, we don't have a user-based policies list, and we can't create them. Netskope helps us to create user-based policies. For example, if there are specific teams like HR or more than nine teams, and we want logs from access over particular URLs, and we don't want to allow that specific URL for certain users, we can create these policies in Netskope. It's handy, easy to use for new users, and has a cool GUI interface. We can create multiple policies, and as for the proxy, it's a leading solution."
"The most valuable feature is being able to see who is accessing the application, whether it is a managed device or a bring-your-own-device published by Netskope."
"We can block and alert the ports and allow the public traffic software in our environment."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"Even without extensive training, if you're a proficient IT professional, you can easily configure it."
"In the VPN scenario, what was happening, the user would get back to the complete source. But in NPA, the application will go to the user. There is an outbound connection. There is no inbound. Storage providers are also not there. It's the best feature because it is the replacement of the VPN."
"Netskope enables users to securely access private applications remotely without a VPN."
"The tool could be more user-friendly."
"The platform still lacks relevant dashboards and the ability to customize them based on our needs."
"Currently, I am not able to define a different country or location, which can result in negative experiences as the tool is being recognized by websites and this can make it difficult to access them or force me to disable the program temporarily."
"The support is not very good."
"In mobile devices, there is also sometimes a bit of tear when it is via LTE, however, that must be due to connectivity."
"More report and alert options would be useful."
"They could improve on the available public documentation."
"Offering in-app explanations detailing what each feature does, its benefits and potential use cases can help users better understand and utilize the tool to its full potential."
"I would rate the stability around seven out of ten. Sometimes, we face some difficulty, but it depends upon the complexity of the environment."
"The ability to provide more security around agentless access has room for improvement."
"We faced certain issues with China users as it can be rather challenging for them due to the presence of Great Firewall."
"The main challenge we are facing across various Trust Network Access (TNA) technologies, including Netskope, is their inability to support broadcast applications or those relying on broadcasting protocols."
"There could be an ability to access one server from another when we have console access to the first server."
"Netskope Private Access only supports TCP and UDP ports and does not support ICMP or ping."
"Netskope needs to provide some kind of data protection strategy as well because, currently, if you connect through private access, we don't have any data protection policies or implementation."
"I would like to see them go down the path of including SD-WAN. Currently, they don't do SD-WAN. If they could somehow natively do that inside of the platform, that would be amazing. I don't know if they're going to do it, but it would be amazing if they do."
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Harmony SASE (formerly Perimeter 81) is ranked 3rd in ZTNA as a Service with 53 reviews while Netskope Private Access is ranked 7th in ZTNA as a Service with 14 reviews. Harmony SASE (formerly Perimeter 81) is rated 8.8, while Netskope Private Access is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Harmony SASE (formerly Perimeter 81) writes "Great SAML and SCIM support with the ability to deploy site-2-site tunnels with specific IP restrictions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Netskope Private Access writes "Provides network visibility, infrastructure protection and advanced security protections, especially the DLP (Data Loss Protection)". Harmony SASE (formerly Perimeter 81) is most compared with Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Cato SASE Cloud Platform, Cisco Umbrella and Cloudflare Access, whereas Netskope Private Access is most compared with Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Appgate SDP and Cisco Secure Client. See our Harmony SASE (formerly Perimeter 81) vs. Netskope Private Access report.
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