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.
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"The agentless vulnerability scanning is great."
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"The visibility is the best part of the solution."
"The mean time to detect has been reduced."
"The management console is the most valuable feature."
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"The product provides very good network security."
"The most valuable feature is its cloud security posture management."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the continuous cloud compliance monitoring and alerting."
"This solution helped us by allowing us to schedule and fix things. This is not an easy thing if you're managing 1,000 plus resources."
"Prisma Cloud's inventory reporting is pretty good."
"The Twistlock vulnerability scanning tool is its most valuable feature. It provides us insight into security vulnerabilities, running inside both on-premise and public cloud-based container platforms. It is filling a gap that we have with traditional vulnerability scanning tools, where we don't have the ability to scan inside containers."
"It's a great product with solid features."
"Skyhigh has given us categorization and rating of websites separate from what the web proxy places on the logs."
"Shadow IT reporting capabilities."
"All the information available on each service, including its risk assessment."
"The management is very good."
"We have gained a deep insight into our Shadow IT usage as well as the different activities involved in Office 365."
"The risk rating of each cloud application has been very useful. Whenever we discover a new application is use, we are able to quickly determine if this application is safe to use and whether or not we should allow our end users to be able to access it."
"It gives us visibility into how the data is being used within our cloud environment."
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"There should be more documentation about the product."
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"Their search feature could be better."
"There's room for improvement in the graphic explorer."
"I'd like to see better onboarding documentation."
"It does not bring much threat intel from the outside world. All it does is scan. If it can also correlate things, it will be better."
"It's not really on par with, or catering to, what other products are looking at in terms of SAST and DAST capabilities. For those, you'd probably go to the market and look at something like Veracode or WhiteHat."
"I would like to see the inclusion of automated counter-attack, although this is probably illegal."
"We are encountering issues with the new permissions required for AWS integration with Prisma."
"The licensing is a bit confusing."
"The first time I looked at Prisma Cloud, it took me a while to understand how to implement the integration or how to enable features by using the interface for integration. That portion can probably be improved."
"One thing that is missing is Cloud Run runtime security—serverless. That would be great to have in the tool. It's not that easy to have Cloud Run in specific environments."
"The Palo Alto support needs to improve."
"When there are updates, whether daily, weekly, or monthly, it needs configuration or permission adjustments. There is no automation for that, which is too bad."
"SkyHigh has the ability to place users or groups on a ‘Watchlist’; which allows you to see certain views with these Watchlists users/groups in them. This is great when you are looking at live data but if I wanted to generate a report on "only" the watchlists."
"The biggest challenge we have with McAfee is their cross-cloud support."
"The encrypted disk implementation could be improved. I currently use it from a dongle or USB key with two-factor authentication to access my computer."
"It needs to be more user-friendly, as it is a little bit complicated to use."
"They only have English support, so I would like for them to add some Spanish support."
"User interface could be more intuitive."
"The documentation could be improved."
"Its initial setup could be more straightforward."
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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 17th 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 Wiz, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Aqua Cloud Security Platform, AWS Security Hub and CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, whereas Skyhigh Security is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Netskope , Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Symantec Proxy and Menlo Security Remote Browser Isolation. See our Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks vs. Skyhigh Security report.
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