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.
"The automation roles are essential because we ultimately want to do less work and automate more. The dashboards are easy to read and visually pleasing. You can understand things quickly, which makes it easy for our other teams. The network and infrastructure teams don't know as much about security as we do, so it helps to have a tool that's accessible and nice to look at."
"The product supports out-of-the-box reporting with context about the asset and allows us to perform complex custom queries on UI."
"I like Wiz's reporting, and it's easy to do queries. For example, it's pretty simple to find out how many servers we have and the applications installed on each. I like Wiz's security graph because you can use it to see the whole organization even if you have multiple accounts."
"Out of all the features, the one item that has been most valuable is the fact that Wiz puts into context all the pieces that create an issue, and applies a particular risk evaluation that helps us prioritize when we need to address a misconfiguration, vulnerability, or any issue that would put our environment into risk."
"Our most important features are those around entitlement, external exposure, vulnerabilities, and container security."
"The vulnerability management modules and the discovery and inventory are the most valuable features. Before using Wiz, it was a very manual process for both. After implementing it, we're able to get all of the analytics into a single platform that gives us visibility across all the systems in our cloud. We're able to correspond and understand what the vulnerability landscape looks like a lot faster."
"The first thing that stood out was the ease of installation and the quick value we got out of the solution."
"The security baseline and vulnerability assessments is the valuable feature."
"I would say Twistlock is a fairly sophisticated tool."
"We were pleased with Prisma's custom and built-in reports. We could go into the dashboard and see all these notifications telling us which subscriptions didn't have TLS 1.2 enabled. The security controls were the most valuable features."
"One of the main reasons we like Prisma Cloud so much is that they also provide an API. You can't expect to give someone an account on Prisma Cloud, or on any tool for that matter, and say, "Go find your things and fix them." It doesn't work like that... We pull down the information from the API that Prisma Cloud provides, which is multi-cloud, multi-account—hundreds and hundreds of different types of alerts graded by severity—and then we can clearly identify that these alerts belong to these people, and they're the people who must remediate them."
"I've been really pleasantly surprised with how Prisma Cloud is, over time, covering more and more of the topics I care about, and listening to customer feedback and growing the product in the right directions."
"It provides good visibility and control regardless of the complexity."
"Due to the maturity of most companies, security posture management is the most valuable feature."
"Visibility is a key feature. Integration with other technologies across the board, whether they are Palo Alto technologies, Windows technologies, or cloud technologies, is probably the biggest thing."
"Technical support is quite helpful."
"The management is very good."
"Offers a very strong URL spam filtering feature."
"I like the encrypted disk feature and the endpoint protection."
"Without Skyhigh, we had zero visibility, but now we are aware of so much more."
"Data loss prevention and user behavior analysis are two valuable features."
"The other products that I have evaluated do not have the scalability options that McAfee has."
"The feature I like best about Skyhigh Security is its wide range of product support. For example, my company had NetApp storage running, and Skyhigh Security has on-premises NetApp storage support, which isn't available in other solutions. Skyhigh Security also has a better filtering feature versus the filtering feature in other solutions."
"The most valuable features of MVISION Cloud are the automatic reports and modification incidents."
"We wish there were a way, beyond providing visibility and automated remediation, to wait on a given remediation, due to a critical aspect, such as the cost associated with a particular upgrade... We would like to see preventive controls that can be applied through Wiz to protect against vulnerabilities that we're not going to be able to remediate immediately."
"The solution's container security could be improved."
"The remediation workflow within the Wiz could be improved."
"Given the level of visibility into all the cloud environments Wiz provides, it would be nice if they could integrate some kind of mechanism to better manage tenants on multiple platforms. For example, let's say that some servers don't have an application they need, such as an antivirus. Wiz could include an API or something to push those applications out to the servers. It would be great if you could remedy these issues directly from the Wiz platform."
"Wiz's reporting capabilities could be refined a bit. They are making headway on that, but more executive-style dashboards would be nice. They just implemented a community aspect where you can share documents and feedback. This was something users had been requesting for a while. They are listening to customer feedback and making changes."
"The only thing that needs to be improved is the number of scans per day."
"We would like to see improvements to executive-level reporting and data reporting in general, which we understand is being rolled out to the platform."
"We're looking at some of the data compliance stuff that they've got Jon offer. I know they're looking at container security, which we gonna be looking at next."
"The feedback that we have given to the Palo Alto team is that the UI can be improved. When you press the "back" button on your browser from the Investigate tab, the query that you're working on just disappears. It won't keep the query on the "back" button."
"Based on my experience, the customization—especially the interface and some of the product identification components—is not as customizable as it could be. But it makes up for that with the fact that we can access the API and then build our own systems to read the data and then process and parse it and hand it to our teams."
"The challenge that Palo Alto and Prisma have is that, at times, the instructions in an event are a little bit dated and they're not usable. That doesn't apply to all the instructions, but there are times where, for example, the Microsoft or the Amazon side has made some changes and Palo Alto or Prisma was not aware of them. So as we try to remediate an alert in such a case, the instructions absolutely do not work. Then we open up a ticket and they'll reply, "Oh yeah, the API for so-and-so vendor changed and we'll have to work with them on that." That area could be done a little better."
"The licensing is a bit confusing."
"We face some GUI issues related to new permissions for AWS. So far, we don't have any automation to complete them through the GUI. We have to manually update the permissions. Our customers have faced some issues with that."
"While the code security feature has undergone recent enhancements, there is room for improvement in terms of its cost module."
"Palo Alto should work on ease-of-use and the user-friendliness to be more competitive with some competing products."
"The information presented in the UI sometimes doesn't look intuitive enough."
"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."
"Iron out the few bugs that I've seen."
"The pricing of the solution could be adjusted to make it more reasonable."
"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."
"The documentation could be improved."
"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 Skyhigh for Google Drive interface and policy engine is a bit confusing and limited when compared against other Google Drive CASB capabilities."
"Though the Skyhigh Dashboard is processing large amounts of data, the speed of the Dashboard could be improved."
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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 14th 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 Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Aqua Cloud Security Platform, AWS Security Hub, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security and AWS GuardDuty, whereas Skyhigh Security is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Netskope , Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Symantec Proxy and Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway. See our Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks vs. Skyhigh Security report.
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