Cisco Web Security Appliance Pros review quotes

Rainier S. - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Integration Engineering / Enterprise Technology & Innovation at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Jul 3, 2022
What we liked best about it was the ability to apply policy to either a user ID or an IP-based network.
Atdhe Zyhranaj - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Consultant at NSCON Network Services & Consulting GmbH
Jun 1, 2022
It also allows you to decrypt SSL traffic, and that's a really important feature as well, which is something I also configured.
Vusa Ndlovu - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Solution Architect at Nexio South Africa
May 19, 2022
It's a scalable product.
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BhanuSingh - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy Manager Infra & Security at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 9, 2023
Cisco regularly upgrades features for the customer's security requirements.
Md Manirul Islam - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy General Manager Pre-Sales at Beximcocomputers
Jan 3, 2023
The most valuable feature of Cisco Web Security Appliance is the provided anti-malware functionality and URL categorization. I can block access to malicious websites. 99 percent of the cases are related to a malicious website. If I cannot browse those malicious websites, then we are 99 percent protected.
DA
Business Architect at Letris
Aug 18, 2022
The solution provides good web reputation and anti-malware protection.
Muhammad Hussain - PeerSpot reviewer
Unit Head System Administration & Automation at MCB Islamic Bank Ltd
Jun 6, 2022
The product is stable.
Surendar Ganesan - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at Tata Consultancy
Aug 9, 2022
The best feature of Cisco Web Security Appliance is its policy framing. It also has a good UI and it can handle traffic well. Cisco Web Security Appliance is a good product.
AnilKumar29 - PeerSpot reviewer
DGM - Pre-Sales at Niveshan Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.
Jul 13, 2022
Great for assisting with connections to networks or apps.
KM
Production of pharmaceutical products at khaled.miles@labosalem.com
Mar 20, 2023
Cisco Web Security Appliance can integrate with Active Directory, enabling us to manage all the end-users within AD. It's helpful for setting rules based on individual users and groups. For example, you can configure policies for inbound and outbound traffic.

Cisco Web Security Appliance Cons review quotes

Rainier S. - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Integration Engineering / Enterprise Technology & Innovation at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Jul 3, 2022
The reporting needs improvement.
Atdhe Zyhranaj - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Consultant at NSCON Network Services & Consulting GmbH
Jun 1, 2022
WSA is lacking firewall features.
Vusa Ndlovu - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Solution Architect at Nexio South Africa
May 19, 2022
I would like more automation.
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BhanuSingh - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy Manager Infra & Security at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 9, 2023
We would like to see a security service head, where we can combine all the security into one solution.
Md Manirul Islam - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy General Manager Pre-Sales at Beximcocomputers
Jan 3, 2023
The solution could improve the graphical user interface. It is not up to the regular standard of what we would expect from Cisco. Additionally, they need to improve the categorization when blocking in the settings. The CLI could have a better view than the graphical user interface but I did not investigate further.
DA
Business Architect at Letris
Aug 18, 2022
The transparent proxy is quite difficult to enforce on smartphones and tablets.
Muhammad Hussain - PeerSpot reviewer
Unit Head System Administration & Automation at MCB Islamic Bank Ltd
Jun 6, 2022
It should have a user-based quota, per-user quota, that can be defined on the appliance.
Surendar Ganesan - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at Tata Consultancy
Aug 9, 2022
As Cisco Web Security Appliance is eight years old, though it's simple to access its UI, the UI needs a little bit of updating. If it could be more interactive similar to the latest gen solutions, that would improve the product. Adding a few more integrations would also make Cisco Web Security Appliance better.
AnilKumar29 - PeerSpot reviewer
DGM - Pre-Sales at Niveshan Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.
Jul 13, 2022
Customer support is good but could be improved.
KM
Production of pharmaceutical products at khaled.miles@labosalem.com
Mar 20, 2023
Setting up Cisco Web Security Appliance is highly complex and it takes about a week. We have to connect it to the Active Directory and configure all the policies for end users. It takes a long time to configure rules for our company data like port forwarding and separating the public and local components.