We performed a comparison between Check Point Quantum SASE and Cisco Umbrella based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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 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."
"One of the most valuable features found using Harmony is being able to monitor in a simple and orderly way."
"Protection against threats like ransomware is very effective."
"The DRP is the most valuable feature."
"Check Point provides high-quality technical support. The support was pretty quick."
"Our investment in quality hardware has proven to provide a better customer experience. They heavily rely on Check Point Firewall and Check Point SaaS Connect to safeguard their networks from external threats and attacks."
"The product’s ability to block phishing sites is valuable."
"The solution has many valuable aspects, including anti-Phishing, which blocks phishing attacks in all applications (email, messaging, and social networks)."
"Using the preboot VPN option, we can reset a user who is working remotely that has forgotten their Windows login credentials."
"The feature that we find most valuable is to be able to filter out those web requests that you don't want."
"I haven't found any issues related to latency or any other issue."
"Using this solution has meant that we've needed to make fewer firewall changes."
"The agent that gets installed on the endpoints or on people's laptops and devices is a Cisco AnyConnect Umbrella module. It's one of the most impressive things because you are able to protect your users anywhere they are."
"It is user-friendly. It is easy to manage the solution."
"The weekly reportings are great. The investigation is super and the application management is equally great."
"It has excellent resilience in cybersecurity. Cybersecurity for my organization is very important because we are a banking organization. We need this security to protect the personal information of our clients. This is very important for our security."
"A single pane of glass saves time... This does have a lot of options available for us to see who's doing what, what trends, what errors. We can set up our alerting through it as well. It is definitely a great dashboard."
"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."
"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."
"Lookout was moving into the SSE space. And so their work on SecureWeb Gateway and SD-WAN is still sort of evolving."
"In order to be able to invite users, send the agent and implement it, the user input must be generated manually."
"Sometimes downloading PDF files can be slow."
"The support is not very good."
"The complex initial setup phase of the product is an area that can be improved"
"When it comes to Check Point Quantum SASE, though the OEM provides security, it is not 100 percent full-fledged to meet the requirements from the customers' end."
"The main problem with Harmony Connect is that, because it's in a new category of offerings by Check Point, there's very little marketing of the product so far, and this means that many potential users don't even know this kind of solution is available. There are also few testimonials or case studies talking about people who have used the product and fell in love with it, for example."
"Harmony lacks this ability when anything more than a vanilla access policy is used (we use layers and source user objects in our policy which make this impossible according to Check Point)."
"They could improve on the available public documentation."
"I would like to see more integrations with more products. Some of the integrations need to be simpler as well. For example, the integration with Cisco Secure Firewall could be simpler. It would be good to make reporting simpler. For those who don't use SecureX, it would be good to make Umbrella really simple to use upfront. It's not a difficult product, but it can be daunting for someone who isn't exposed to it because there are so many options."
"The reporting could be improved by way of the information that's displayed. For example, when you pull a report, it shows an internal employee going to many websites, but you can spin that right down by saying a lot of it is being cached."
"I would like for them to continue building on IPS and IDS functionalities."
"In my experience with Umbrella support, sometimes the response times take a bit more time than we would like... sometimes, if you go through email, it can take quite a while to get a response."
"The pricing could be improved."
"I'd like to see this solution more closely integrate with other products Cisco has in its portfolio."
"With any Cisco product, it's the licensing side of things that needs improvement."
"Network connectivity was a bit of a challenge at the beginning, but we were able to get the right help from Cisco."
Check Point Quantum SASE is ranked 8th in Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) with 30 reviews while Cisco Umbrella is ranked 2nd in Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) with 108 reviews. Check Point Quantum SASE is rated 8.4, while Cisco Umbrella is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Check Point Quantum SASE writes "Very agile with a granular level of control over users ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Umbrella writes "Protects endpoints wherever they are, always pushing people to the right locations to avoid malicious intent". Check Point Quantum SASE is most compared with Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Perimeter 81, Netskope and Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, whereas 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. See our Check Point Quantum SASE vs. Cisco Umbrella report.
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