We performed a comparison between Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise and Fortinet FortiGate SWG based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Zscaler, Palo Alto Networks and others in Secure Web Gateways (SWG)."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 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."
"The solution is stable."
"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 best feature of Akamai SPS Threat Avert is that it's very user-friendly compared to other technologies."
"FortiGate also makes GRE tunneling possible."
"It has a valuable SD-WAN feature and provides good performance."
"The response from the technical support team has always been excellent."
"Web filters, particularly web application controls, grant us the ability to regulate user access effectively."
"The interface is user-friendly, so it's easy to add policies and block traffic."
"FortiGate is a great solution, although initially, it faced challenges in the Brazilian market due to lower brand recognition than Cisco. However, explaining and demonstrating its product format and offerings has proven easy. The cost-effectiveness and better features of FortiGate have made some clients skeptical. We set up a trial period, and they eventually opted for it. Many clients were convinced it was great after experiencing the solution's capabilities firsthand."
"Web filtering is the most useful feature."
"The most useful features are application control, web filtering, and SD-WAN."
"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"
"Lookout was moving into the SSE space. And so their work on SecureWeb Gateway and SD-WAN is still sort of evolving."
"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."
"Akamai SPS Threat Avert's pricing could be improved because it's a very expensive enterprise solution."
"We can't identify which users are causing challenges when we have issues."
"We also have FortiAnalyzer deployed here, so we want to enable the soft functionality of FortiGate and built-in compression for a firewall VPN use case. We want the ability to deploy a gateway for HTTPS enabled on this firewall. It is currently only for use in our headquarters."
"What could be improved in Fortinet FortiGate SWG is its pricing because it's a bit higher. If it's cheaper, my company could pitch it to customers and engage with customers better about it. What I'd like to see in the next release of Fortinet FortiGate SWG is an improvement in its dashboard or GUI. I'd like it to be more user-friendly."
"The software is a bit expensive to renew."
"It could always be more secure."
"Their technical support could be improved a little bit in terms of responsiveness."
"Fortinet FortiGate SWG could improve the price, it is expensive."
"They should consider making some improvements regarding the pricing."
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Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise is ranked 26th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 1 review while Fortinet FortiGate SWG is ranked 4th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 39 reviews. Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise is rated 9.0, while Fortinet FortiGate SWG is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise writes "A user-friendly security SaaS provider with an easy setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate SWG writes "Non-IT people could plug it in, connect it to the fiber, and get it running without IT help. ". Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Zscaler Internet Access, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection, Palo Alto Networks DNS Security and F5 BIG-IP DNS, whereas Fortinet FortiGate SWG is most compared with Fortinet FortiProxy, Cisco Umbrella, Sangfor Internet Access Gateway (IAG), Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway and Netskope Next Gen Secure Web Gateway.
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