Forcepoint ONE vs Symantec CloudSOC CASB comparison

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Forcepoint ONE and Symantec CloudSOC CASB based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Forcepoint ONE vs. Symantec CloudSOC CASB Report (Updated: June 2024).

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Forcepoint ONE vs. Symantec CloudSOC CASB

June 2024

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Mindshare comparison

As of June 2024, in the Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) category, the mindshare of Lookout is 0.8%, down from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Forcepoint ONE is 3.0%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Symantec CloudSOC CASB is 1.4%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB)

Unique Categories:

Secure Web Gateways (SWG)

0.4%

Mobile Data Protection

7.1%

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)

2.4%

No other categories found

Featured Reviews

reviewer2173356

Manager of Product Development Team at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees

May 23, 2023

User-focused design makes it easy to understand, and operations running in background provide peace of mind

In any of the discussions that we've had with their technical teams, they have been very knowledgeable and helpful in certain aspects. They have a lot of partnerships, from what we can tell, and that does start to make the waters a little bit murky. They have third parties that provide functionality and there is a concern that we're going to be bounced around between five different groups to get help for a problem. If you describe it incorrectly, all of a sudden you're with a group that can't help you and they have to forward you to another group. They have been very responsive and super helpful when it comes to any of the issues we've identified. Still, that concern about being bounced around between multiple partners detracts from the overall experience.

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Edwin Eze-Osiago

Regional Solutions Manager Sub Saharan Africa at Infodata Professional Services Limited

Feb 24, 2023

Easy to deploy, stable, and scalable

We use Bitglass for real-time scanning and its unique VM that enables reverse proxy capabilities. Bitglass can also act as an IDP for us when we don't have an identity provider The solution enforces our devices no matter where it is located even across our cloud devices reducing the manual work…

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cto543714

CTO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Sep 14, 2021

Works very well in a hybrid environment in terms of DLP policies, but trying to do your own troubleshooting can be a little bit difficult

It does scale. They have different data centers spread out for you to do things. It scales just fine, but it is the setup and configuration that you have to do in order for it to scale the way you want it to. I know that some of the newer technologies, such as Zscaler, are doing SD-LAN type connections and things of that sort to improve performance and scalability. So, things are still evolving in terms of scalability. Depending on how you deployed it, you can run into some performance gotchas. If you take a VPN connection and try to overtax it, you can run into problems. You can't say that it didn't scale. You have to use a different method to get the traffic, or you may have to set up two VPN tunnels or things of that sort. So, if you want it to scale, you have to think it through and make sure you are deploying it in a manner to scale. It can scale, but you have to plan it and make sure you think everything through.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"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."

"The most valuable features are the antivirus as a whole, the anti-malware, and all of the protection features that scan our enterprise devices."

"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 initial setup was straightforward, which was a huge win. That mostly goes to the fact that they are agentless. We didn't have to sit there deploying thousands of agents and all the things that go along with that type of deployment. We were up and running very quickly."

"We are able to verify what is getting saved out onto the cloud. It allows us to have some DLP rules, since we have to be HIPAA compliant. If some personal health information has been uploaded to Office 365, then we are able to detect that sort of thing and account for it. We have set up rules to prevent people from doing that."

"The most valuable features of Forcepoint include Zero Trust Network Access and remote user protection for private applications."

"The core CASB solution is the most valuable part. It allows us to put policies in place around which devices can log into our cloud applications. We have a policy that states that only company devices can access these cloud applications."

"By default without a policy, Bitglass has the capability to notify the admin of multiple or simultaneous logins across a wide range of geographical regions."

"The biggest thing that I like about this product is that it's easy to use and teach. When we have somebody new starting to work with the product, it's easy to teach them. It's also easy to use the product as it does so much."

"The platform's feature that has been most beneficial for our web security is its capability to replicate rules."

"Forcepoint ONE is okay for me, and I find it a very good solution. Its most valuable feature is monitoring. Its monitoring is very good, and it can communicate with a SIEM system. I also find the DLP feature of Forcepoint ONE good."

More Forcepoint ONE pros

"The monitoring and threat protection were the solution's most valuable features."

"The ability to monitor for threats is the solution's most valuable aspect."

"The value in some of these solutions is just the integration of technologies with their on-prem DLP solution. So, you can tie on-prem and cloud DLP policies together. You can apply on-prem policies to the cloud to have consistent policies in a hybrid environment. So, it works very well in that hybrid environment of on-prem and cloud."

"This solution has improved my organization because it allows us to have visibility and monitoring over our global workforce connectivity to Office 365 and for Service Now."

"The active directory integration is very valuable as we can connect to the list of users that we have and the cloud control, the blocking, the access control of the cloud, can be handled by this product."

Cons

"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"

"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."

"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."

"One area for improvement in Forcepoint ONE is that you'll need more training to install the solution yourself. I practiced in a laboratory and I needed more technical information to do the installation."

"In our environment, when an Active Directory password changes, we tend to have some latency issues with access. It takes about 15 minutes before that password is accessible through Bitglass after the change. That would be the major thing I see as a negative."

"We encounter challenges in determining whether certain features for blocking certain file types or preventing automatic downloads are functioning correctly."

"Areas for improvement for the platform include addressing scalability and architecture concerns, especially for large deployments involving more than 500 or 1,000 users."

"I wish they would advance more into the endpoint DLP solution. Currently they do not do anything around endpoint, they're still strictly cloud-based. The forward proxy is really the only thing they do. What I would like to see them do is to scan machines, workstations and servers, for information we might not want on those machines. That would be huge."

"Their new SASE (secure access service edge) product would have been the one thing I would have requested. Now that they have that platform, I'd like to see it as integrated and seamless as possible with the core product. That's what they're working towards and that's where we're seeing the advancements."

"Initially, we had some challenges that Bitglass resolved quickly. The challenges were around communication. There didn't seem like there was the right level of communication within the Bitglass organization. Once we brought the issues up at a higher level, then they were resolved."

"Integration into different multi-factor authentication tools. On their page, they tout Duo, but I don't use Duo. I use another vendor. Not that they don't interact, but it takes a little bit more doing. Any amount of efficiencies here would help."

More Forcepoint ONE cons

"I would like to see them develop the ability to integrate it with a central management system."

"The data security needs improvement. We should be able to leverage it a bit better for situations where someone may be trying to upload documents onto the cloud application."

"The solution should work to incorporate some machine learning policies like IDM and VML."

"It's a niche product. Not many people use it, and therefore there isn't as much of a knowledge base surrounding it."

"They have some room for improvement in terms of being able to do troubleshooting. If you're trying to troubleshoot it, you have to work a lot with their backend people in order to get to a solution. So, trying to do your own troubleshooting can be a little bit difficult."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licensing costs are good. Prisma has much more options and support for security, but it has a higher cost. For example, Lookout costs 2/3rd of Prisma's licensing price."

"The pricing is fair; it's comparable to our previous solution, and we carried out multiple POCs and POVs (proof of value). The product is worth the money we pay for it."

"Lookout is definitely on the lower end when it comes to price point and that seems to be the only differentiator. The technology is in place in this space and it's really about who is coming in at the better price point now."

"In terms of feature performance versus cost, they're a good value."

"When considering only the cost, the solution may appear to be costly; however, when evaluated in terms of commercial value, Bitglass is not expensive."

"The licensing cost for Forcepoint ONE would depend on the features, but the pricing is very competitive here in Brazil. The solution offers a good price, and I would rate it a three or a four in terms of pricing. I don't have information on whether there are additional costs apart from the standard licensing fees for Forcepoint ONE."

"Typically, the longer you price forward, the better off you're going to be. They have been very willing to work with us on pricing."

"We have our pricing by user. We do our pricing agreements annually. There are also additional costs for maintenance."

"There is training involved. If you're going to add more people to it, such as cross train more of your group, there's a cost. Other than that, that's it. We have paid exactly what the invoices have said. We signed a three-year contract and not gone above it."

"It compares well with the competition because they're all priced on a per-user basis. I've seen the rest of them. There is definitely a huge price difference between them."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

19%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Government

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Government

11%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

28%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

Mining And Metals Company

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Lookout?

The solution is stable.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Lookout?

The licensing costs are good. Prisma has much more options and support for security, but it has a higher cost. For ex...

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What needs improvement with Lookout?

The solution could improve identity integration as well. Zero trust, it's a good start as a zero-trust solution. More...

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What do you like most about Forcepoint ONE?

The platform's feature that has been most beneficial for our web security is its capability to replicate rules.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Forcepoint ONE?

When considering only the cost, the solution may appear to be costly; however, when evaluated in terms of commercial ...

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What needs improvement with Forcepoint ONE?

Areas for improvement for the platform include addressing scalability and architecture concerns, especially for large...

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Symantec CloudSOC CASB

May 2024

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Also Known As

CipherCloud

Bitglass

CloudSOC, Symantec CloudSOC

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Lookout

Forcepoint

Broadcom

Overview

Lookout is a well-established and powerful secure web gateway (SWG) solution that protects more than 200 million users from threats that can result from the penetration of unsecured web traffic into their networks. Lookout is designed to enable organizations to work remotely while maintaining a tight blanket of security over their confidential business data. It provides administrators with security that extends from their endpoints to the cloud service that they are using to run their organization’s network.

Users of Lookout are able to proactively detect threats and keep themselves secure from a field of threats that constantly evolves. IT teams can protect their organizations without having to rely on any other security solutions. This singular solution can run on multiple kinds of mobile devices. The privacy of individuals is preserved while keeping compliance rules intact. Additionally, users gain access to a number of tools that enable them to prevent security breaches from taking place.

Lookout Benefits

Some of the ways that organizations can benefit by deploying Lookout include:

Ease of deployment. Lookout is a solution whose design makes it easy for users to deploy it. It provides users with simple, step-by-step instructions that remove the need for organizations to devote extensive amounts of time to make sure that it is properly set up. Anyone can quickly set up the solution without undergoing technical training.

Built-in support. Users of the Lookout application have access to built-in demos that can teach them how to use various solution features. Instead of spending time trying to figure out the application, users can watch the demo that is most relevant to them and see for themselves how that particular feature is used.

Easy-to-use user interface. Lookout’s user interface is laid out in an intuitive way that makes it easy for administrators to navigate. This interface is present in both the mobile and desktop versions of this solution.

Settings customization. Lookout has a built-in settings customization menu. This makes it possible for administrators to easily customize their settings so that they best conform to their needs.

Lookout Features

Activity monitoring and activity tracking. Lookout’s activity monitoring and activity tracking capabilities enable users to keep a close eye on the activities that are taking place in their networks. IT teams and administrators have the ability to watch their networks for any unusual activity. These features ensure that organizations can keep ahead of any potential threats. They provide the kinds of insights and warnings that make the jobs of those IT teams and administrators much easier and more streamlined.

Encryption. Organizations that employ Lookout can encrypt their networks and keep crucial business data from being read by unauthorized parties. This feature keeps the secrets organizations are trying to keep out of the wrong hands.

Anti-virus tools. Lookout provides users with tools to block threats from harming their networks. These tools can successfully block 99.6 percent of threats without raising false alarms.

Forcepoint ONE is a comprehensive cybersecurity platform that provides organizations with a unified approach to protecting their critical data and assets. It offers a range of solutions that cover everything from network security and cloud security to data protection and insider threat prevention. With Forcepoint ONE, organizations can gain complete visibility into their security posture, identify potential threats, and take proactive measures to mitigate risks. One of the key features of Forcepoint ONE is its ability to provide real-time visibility into user behavior across all endpoints, networks, and cloud environments. This allows organizations to quickly identify and respond to potential threats, such as insider threats or malicious activity from external actors. Additionally, Forcepoint ONE offers advanced threat intelligence capabilities that leverage machine learning and AI to detect and respond to emerging threats. Another important aspect of Forcepoint ONE is its data protection capabilities. The platform offers a range of solutions for protecting sensitive data, including data loss prevention (DLP), encryption, and secure web gateways. These solutions help organizations ensure that their critical data is protected both at rest and in transit, regardless of where it is stored or accessed. Forcepoint ONE is a powerful cybersecurity platform that offers a comprehensive set of solutions for protecting organizations against a wide range of threats. With its advanced threat intelligence capabilities, real-time visibility into user behavior, and robust data protection features, Forcepoint ONE is an ideal choice for organizations looking to take a proactive approach to cybersecurity.

Symantec CloudSOC CASB is a cloud access security broker that provides visibility and control over cloud applications and services. It offers a comprehensive set of security capabilities, including data loss prevention, threat protection, and compliance management. With CloudSOC CASB, organizations can gain insight into cloud usage patterns, identify potential risks, and enforce policies to protect sensitive data. The solution integrates with leading cloud providers, such as Microsoft Office 365, Salesforce, and Box, to provide seamless protection across multiple cloud environments.

CloudSOC CASB also offers advanced analytics and reporting capabilities, enabling organizations to monitor and track cloud usage and security events in real-time. With its user-friendly interface and flexible deployment options, CloudSOC CASB is an ideal solution for organizations looking to secure their cloud environments and protect their sensitive data.

Symantec CloudSOC CASB Key Benefits:

Enhanced Cloud Visibility

CloudSOC CASB provides organizations with comprehensive visibility into cloud applications and services being used across their network. It helps identify shadow IT, unapproved cloud usage, and potential security risks associated with unsanctioned applications.

Data Protection and DLP

CloudSOC CASB enables organizations to enforce data protection policies and prevent sensitive data from being leaked or exposed in cloud applications. It helps detect and control data sharing, implements encryption, and offers data loss prevention (DLP) capabilities to safeguard critical information.

Access Controls and User Authentication

SOC CASB enforces granular access controls for cloud applications, ensuring that users have appropriate permissions and follow secure authentication practices. It helps organizations implement strong authentication methods, single sign-on (SSO), and multi-factor authentication (MFA) to enhance access security.

Threat Detection and Incident Response:

CloudSOC CASB incorporates threat intelligence and behavioral analytics to detect and respond to cloud-specific threats. It helps protect against account compromises, malware, data exfiltration, and other advanced threats targeting cloud environments. Real-time alerts and incident response capabilities enable organizations to take prompt action.

Compliance and Governance

CloudSOC CASB assists organizations in meeting regulatory compliance requirements and industry standards. It provides policy enforcement, auditing capabilities, and reporting functionalities to support compliance with data privacy and security regulations. This helps organizations demonstrate adherence to regulatory obligations.

Shadow IT Discovery and Control

CASB helps organizations identify unauthorized or risky cloud applications used by employees, offering insights into shadow IT. It enables IT teams to assess risks, enforce policies, and take appropriate actions to manage and control cloud usage effectively.

Cloud Security Assessments

CloudSOC CASB conducts security assessments of cloud applications and services, providing insights into their security posture and potential vulnerabilities. This enables organizations to make informed decisions about the adoption of specific cloud services and assess their overall risk exposure.

Sample Customers

UNC-Charlotte

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