We performed a comparison between Avanan and Skyhigh Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Cisco, TitanHQ and others in Email Security."Defender enables us to secure all 365-related activity from a single place. It gives us visibility into everything happening in Outlook, protecting us against phishing and other email-based threats. Defender helps us detect any suspicious behaviors."
"Defender for 365 is a comprehensive cloud-based solution. The value of the cloud is that you aren't alone. Threat intelligence and analytics are shared in the cloud. We don't have to find the solution alone. If you face an unknown threat with traditional solutions like Trend Micro and Symantec, you need to open a case and send your information to them to analyze forensically and identify the source of the attack."
"The most valuable feature is protection against malicious links, fishing, and impersonation. You can train people to be aware of these threats, but they're not always careful. When they're using their phones between meetings, they click on a link, and it's game over."
"The solution is very easy to use. All you have to do is to assign the license to the end-user and it's done. The customer will only have the feature activated, and the solution will monitor the emails to determine if they are a threat or not."
"Does a thorough job of examining email and URLs for malicious content."
"The benefit that stands out to me is the ability for multiple individuals to collaborate simultaneously within the same document. Additionally, there is the option to save the document directly in the integrated OneDrive or SharePoint."
"The deployment capability is a great feature."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 has improved my organization's security. It makes it easier to manage the infrastructure without the help of third-party applications."
"It can retract unsafe emails and remove them from the entire communication channel."
"The program has reduced the dangers related to phishing, malware, ransomware, and other vulnerabilities."
"The integration with all our existing and new applications is great."
"It is simple to deploy this platform and interact with the set features."
"Spam protection is the most valuable feature."
"Email Attachment Protection detects any insecure files and quickly blocks them to prevent the spread of viruses to other secure documents."
"I highly recommend this solution to any prospective buyer."
"I like Avanan's SmartDLP module. It's seamless, and the administrative overhead is low. We aren't a very sophisticated operation. We just want to reduce our exposure, so we find ThreatCloud helpful. Avanan's acquisition by Check Point was beneficial for them."
"It also prevents you from writing data to your Gmail and does not allow you to move your data outside of the corporate system. That is the most important feature for me."
"It gives us visibility into how the data is being used within our cloud environment."
"It help us monitor high risk services, blocking them, and also feeding them to our egress points."
"What I found most valuable in Skyhigh Security is its stability. The solution also has good KB articles that make it simple for users to do the deployment of Skyhigh Security themselves, without the need for integrators."
"DLP policies and anomalies."
"I found the solution to be stable."
"Shadow IT reporting capabilities."
"The management is very good."
"This product's effectiveness could be improved, in terms of detecting unwanted spam or even malware between the emails, compared to other products."
"There needs to be an improvement in integrating the product to work across multiple operating systems, and to have better support for non-Microsoft file types."
"The visibility for the weaknesses in the system and unauthorized access can be improved."
"The company should focus on adding threats that the solution is currently unable to detect."
"The GUI is sometimes slow to fetch the device report and could be improved."
"We need to be able to whitelist data at the backend."
"The XDR dashboard has room for improvement."
"We are always looking for others tools to increase automation on tasks. There can be better integration with other solutions, such as PowerPoint and email."
"The unified dashboard that it displays needs some improvements in terms of the KPIs that they have."
"In Avanan, the email channel is one of the channels where data leakage happens, and they need to consider it from a DLP perspective."
"The overall user interface is not attractive. It needs some improvement."
"It should reduce the amount of time needed for thorough scanning."
"It is complicated for new users unfamiliar with the modern cloud networking infrastructure."
"It is very difficult to find the required documentation."
"Avanan doesn't cover certain tool segments."
"The cost can be reviewed to enable SMEs to acquire it and enjoy great security features."
"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 performance of the tool can be improved to provide faster report generation."
"You can integrate Skyhigh's rules with Active Directory groups. For example, you can allow access to a specific website for a defined set of users. I can do that, but the rules are not straightforward. It can look up the group in Active Directory. However, it doesn't always find the proper group name. The rule configuration should be simpler and more granular. The admin should be able to map 80 groups in the rules quickly."
"The only thing we have faced is that sometimes, randomly, the portal becomes too slow."
"Its initial setup could be more straightforward."
"It is an expensive solution."
"It would be nice to be able to get more advanced search functions to filter out data and quickly obtain the data that we need."
"You have to have some kind of background with cloud-based security, like working with different providers and how to make instances in the clouds and that kind of stuff - including cloud, networking cloud, cloud application development, anything like that is a requirement to be in the CASB space."
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Avanan is ranked 6th in Email Security with 21 reviews while Skyhigh Security is ranked 6th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 51 reviews. Avanan is rated 9.2, while Skyhigh Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Avanan writes "We've noticed a significant decline from people accidentally or intentionally clicking on things". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Skyhigh Security writes "Good scalability, but the technical support service needs improvement". Avanan is most compared with Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration, IRONSCALES, Perception Point Advanced Email Security, Abnormal Security and Mimecast Email Security, whereas Skyhigh Security is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Netskope , Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Symantec Proxy and Zscaler CASB.
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