We performed a comparison between Skyhigh Security and Cisco Umbrella based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on user reviews, Cisco Umbrella is the preferred choice over Skyhigh Security due to its user-friendly interface, easy setup process, and various licensing options. Cisco Umbrella also offers granular customization of DNS blocking and cloud-based DNS security, making it a flexible and customizable solution. While Skyhigh Security is known for good protection, it lacks SD-WAN and has mixed reviews for customer service and support. Despite being perceived as expensive, Cisco Umbrella provides a good return on investment and is comparable to similar products on the market. Overall, Cisco Umbrella is a valuable tool for organizations to avoid security threats.
"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 solution is stable."
"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 single-pane-of-glass management is really important. In today's era, administration costs and operational expenses will cost you a lot, and it reduces that as well. You don't need extra resources to manage all your parameter firewalls, looking at every single device to allow resources internal access. By just introducing the single-pane-of-glass management, it has lifted the burden off of management, especially the network management."
"When we have laptops that leave the building, they could connect to public WiFi before they establish a VPN connection back into the company. For that duration or that period of time when they're not docked in the network or on a VPN, they effectively don't have that full layer of security that I provide inside the building. This tool stands in during that period of time, and we extend the security settings through their basic firewall or their cloud-based firewall at that time. So, we do content filtering and control access, but they also are looking at new domains, IP addresses, and bad requests. They're blocking them on my behalf when a laptop is not sitting behind our security appliances."
"It provides centralized, device-agnostic management of the Internet experience."
"Cisco Umbrella is a totally different solution. They are the first to come up with this idea of security. It's a totally new concept of security for everybody, for every time, real time, perfectionism."
"Reports provide insight into internet usage and information helpful in creating QoS rules."
"We immediately block impersonating users from accessing services over Cisco Umbrella-controlled devices."
"I think recently with many people working from home, Cisco Umbrella has been very useful. For example, we can manage the device and the network when the employee is not working on the local host. Cisco Umbrella is very valuable for this kind of infrastructure."
"It offers good visibility for the Administrator. The administrator has full visibility of what is blocked or has the knowledge of where users go when they are surfing the internet."
"The most valuable features of MVISION Cloud are the automatic reports and modification incidents."
"Good anti-virus filtering, URL categorization, and reporting capabilities."
"The most valuable features of McAfee Web Gateway are anti-malware, reports, and powerful categorization of web pages."
"I found the solution to be stable."
"The stability is the most valuable feature. We haven't had any issues with the product."
"Data loss prevention and user behavior analysis are two valuable features."
"Shadow IT reporting capabilities."
"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."
"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."
"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"
"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."
"Lookout was moving into the SSE space. And so their work on SecureWeb Gateway and SD-WAN is still sort of evolving."
"This solution does not give us full, 360-degree protection."
"I would like to see more integration between Cisco Umbrella and Cisco DNA Center."
"Cisco Umbrella hasn't integrated customized reporting yet. With Cisco Secure Endpoint Hub, I can see a report on user downloads and set it up to constantly get an email alert. Based on my understanding, Cisco Umbrella can't do that. You can set it up with third parties, but it would be better if that were built into the platform."
"User interface could be a little smoother and more intuitive."
"I'm hoping for the conversion of Cisco ZTNA's features from Duo to Umbrella."
"I am unsure if Cisco Umbrella offers a Windows option for running the server."
"I would like them to make some videos, practical videos, the kind with steps that people can use to learn and deploy"
"It would be good if the more complex versions of Umbrella are simplified so that we can offer them in a more standardized way. We, as a telco, do not operate the same as a traditional integration partner would, who can sell all its services. We try to have a standardized approach as much as we can so that we can sell the solution with as many services added to it as possible. If you look at the structure of businesses in Switzerland, 95% of them have 10 persons or less, and they do not have a security specialist. Therefore, the higher the automated and standardized features, the better it is for them."
"The solution is hard to configure, our team does not have specific training requirements for McAfee making it difficult."
"The services take some time to load. It would be helpful if the loading time was reduced."
"Needs integration with other technology ecosystems."
"There isn't really any aspect that is lacking."
"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."
"McAfee Web Gateway could improve the reporting. We have the reporting on a separate server and sometimes the database becomes full. These aspects could improve."
"The secure gateway could be improved."
"The performance of the tool can be improved to provide faster report generation."
Cisco Umbrella is ranked 1st in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 108 reviews while Skyhigh Security is ranked 6th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 51 reviews. Cisco Umbrella is rated 8.8, while Skyhigh Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco Umbrella writes "Protects endpoints wherever they are, always pushing people to the right locations to avoid malicious intent". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Skyhigh Security writes "Good scalability, but the technical support service needs improvement". Cisco Umbrella is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Palo Alto Networks DNS Security and Fortinet FortiGate SWG, whereas Skyhigh Security is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Netskope , Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Symantec Proxy and Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange. See our Cisco Umbrella vs. Skyhigh Security report.
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