We compared Netskope and Cato Networks based on our user's reviews across four parameters. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Netskope is praised for its comprehensive data protection capabilities, advanced threat protection, advanced analytics, and granular policy enforcement. Netskope offers competitive pricing options, positive return on investment, and excellent customer service. Cato Networks is valued for its pricing structure, connectivity options, network performance, and comprehensive security features. Users appreciate the customer service and support provided by Cato Networks.
Features: Netskope offers valuable features such as comprehensive data protection, advanced threat protection, advanced analytics, and granular policy enforcement. Cato Networks is praised for its efficient connectivity, network performance, ease of implementation, management, and comprehensive security features.
Pricing and ROI: Netskope offers competitive pricing and a straightforward setup process, ensuring a smooth experience. Cato Networks also provides reasonable pricing and appreciated flexibility. Netskope offers ROI in the form of enhanced security, data protection, visibility, control, threat detection, integration, and cost savings. Cato Networks provides increased efficiency, cost savings, network performance, implementation ease, and secure connectivity for businesses.
Room for Improvement: Netskope could benefit from a more intuitive interface, better customer support, improved performance during high-traffic periods, and more comprehensive reporting capabilities. Users of Cato Networks suggest enhancing network speed and stability, improving the GUI, addressing occasional connectivity issues, optimizing support response times, and offering advanced customization options.
Deployment and customer support: Netskope users found the initial setup phase to be simple and quick, usually requiring just an agent to be rolled out. The deployment of the solution is also described as quick, with some variation depending on the customer's needs. The implementation phase can take more time, often taking around six months to complete. The initial setup and deployment of Cato Networks is straightforward. The timeframe for deployment varies depending on the type of customer and the number of branches or sites being implemented, ranging from as little as 30 minutes to up to six months. Netskope users appreciate the prompt resolution of their queries and knowledgeable assistance. Cato Networks customers mention consistent and effective communication, responsiveness, and helpfulness from the support team.
The summary above is based on 29 interviews we conducted with Netskope and Cato Networks users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"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 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 most valuable features are the antivirus as a whole, the anti-malware, and all of the protection features that scan our enterprise devices."
"Cato offers all the functionality found in other solution. The life cycle management is always very stable."
"When I first encountered Cato, I didn't know how to use it, but after a week of training, I could onboard our systems to it, so the solution was easy to learn and navigate."
"What I found most helpful in Cato Networks is that it works out of the box. One of its main advantages is that it's a simple product to deploy. You subscribe, and you're ready to run."
"The product is very simple, and everything can be done very quickly."
"It is quite simple and easy to use."
"It is a stable solution...it is a scalable solution."
"The feature that I find to be the most valuable is the bandwidth aggregation."
"The visibility control and security aspects are amazing."
"The solution offers a better understanding of the real scenario and identifies the cloud apps that are being utilized."
"Netskope is a one-platform security product that provides security functions. It is the most advantageous product in the Japanese market."
"The initial setup of Netskope CASB is easy, it is not complex."
"The most valuable feature of Netskope is protection."
"It's one of the top-ranking solutions in the market, and it's very responsive. We are using Netskope, and Netskope provides a load of features for SQL, STP, and traffic control."
"Technical support is pretty good."
"Netskope has a diverse portfolio range, which includes cloud access security brokers, content filtering, behavior analytics, and security management."
"A very straightforward interface."
"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."
"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."
"Cato Networks security could be better."
"I would like to see better integration with identity providers."
"The solution is not cheap."
"They should add more sophisticated security features. It should also be integrated into the cloud."
"The product may be complex for users with few years of experience."
"They can't do one-to-one NAT (Network Address Translation) in AP (their access point), and that is something that Palo Alto can do."
"Web application firewalling (WAF) is a feature we would like to have in this solution and does not exist yet."
"The price could be better."
"They can focus more on ease of admin, ease of use, and ease of migration. Migration should be simple for companies that are using a different platform and would like to move to Netskope. Everyone looks for a simple migration. They can also focus more on cloud services and cloud trends. They have to see the cloud market, and they should try to compete with Zscaler and other players. They should also work on licensing costs."
"The CSPM model needs to improve."
"It needed some fine-tuning on core business sites that we used, which were sensitive to what we term a man-in-the-middle certificate by design. Some sites were not tolerant because they presented as potentially malicious. So, we just had to make some tweaks so that it would bypass or interpret it."
"Setting up policies is something that we having been doing, and if the vendor were to provide example use cases that included different implementation options then it would be very useful for us."
"The solution is still pretty new to the CASB environment."
"They could add endpoint security features."
"They could improve their mobile agents as they have some limitations."
"There could be better integration with other solutions."
Cato SASE Cloud Platform is ranked 6th in Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) with 21 reviews while Netskope is ranked 4th in Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) with 35 reviews. Cato SASE Cloud Platform is rated 8.8, while Netskope is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cato SASE Cloud Platform writes "Useful remote worker VPN, centralized management, and simple on-boarding process". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Netskope writes "Network proxy that provides visibility during deployment and allows you to control PII". Cato SASE Cloud Platform is most compared with Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, Cisco SD-WAN, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet FortiGate and Perimeter 81, whereas Netskope is most compared with Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler Internet Access, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Cisco Umbrella and Axis Security. See our Cato SASE Cloud Platform vs. Netskope report.
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