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 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."
"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 most valuable features are the antivirus as a whole, the anti-malware, and all of the protection features that scan our enterprise devices."
"The product is very user-friendly."
"The stability of the tool is very good."
"The implementation of this tool was straightforward."
"You don't have to wander around the tool since it is very simple. You can grab and get a hold of the tool very quickly."
"The product covers all the security needs of roaming users."
"I think this solution is very helpful to our customers because its cloud-based security can be deployed quickly and maintained easily."
"The most valuable features of Check Point Web Gateway are all the IPS. However, what matters for users is content and web filtering."
"Application control gives IT teams an opportunity to set suitable policies that can be used by all teams when coding."
"What we liked best about it was the ability to apply policy to either a user ID or an IP-based network."
"The tool has good Umbrella DNS security."
"Cisco Web Security Appliance is user-friendly and easy to manage. It protects your environment while accessing the internet."
"The product is stable."
"Cisco regularly upgrades features for the customer's security requirements."
"Cisco Web Security Appliance can integrate with Active Directory, enabling us to manage all the end-users within AD. It's helpful for setting rules based on individual users and groups. For example, you can configure policies for inbound and outbound traffic."
"The most valuable feature is security."
"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."
"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"
"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."
"Perhaps the latency in the administrative part of the portal would be a point of improvement."
"The learning curve is complex for new users."
"There is room for improvement in support because the solution needs multiple regions to reach certain features and validations."
"The documentation must be improved."
"The support team’s response is not fast."
"I would like to be able to see an integration with centralized management services."
"Check Point Web Gateway could improve the user interface. It could be made more modern."
"It is not user-friendly."
"Customer support is good but could be improved."
"It should have a user-based quota, per-user quota, that can be defined on the appliance."
"The solution is not very compatible with other products."
"This solution could be more secure."
"The reporting needs improvement."
"Cisco lacks a GUI-based troubleshooting feature compared to products by other vendors."
"WSA is lacking firewall features."
"Technical support needs to be improved because they take a very long time and there is no communication or notification."
Check Point Web Gateway is ranked 12th 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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