We performed a comparison between Blue Coat Advanced Web & Cloud Security [EOL] and Skyhigh Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Zscaler, Palo Alto Networks and others in Secure Web Gateways (SWG)."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."
"The content filters and SSL encryption are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The solution is very stable. In four years we have not seen any issues with the product."
"The categorize formula is very helpful. Previously, we used the Cisco solution, where we could not choose how sites are categorized. Blue Coat updated a lot of sites I categorized. There are other valuable features as well, such as block by location, block by IP, allow by IP, and block by user name, domain, or group domain."
"Data loss prevention and user behavior analysis are two valuable features."
"We have gained a deep insight into our Shadow IT usage as well as the different activities involved in Office 365."
"The initial setup is fairly straightforward and easy to perform."
"The other products that I have evaluated do not have the scalability options that McAfee has."
"The solution performs well."
"What's most valuable in Skyhigh Security is its level of security. Another valuable feature of the solution is threat analysis."
"There is [a feature] called cloud registry where we can see a risk assessment for the cloud services being used. If we want to add a new cloud service or a new cloud application, we can check into it and do an assessment through the cloud registry."
"User analytics."
"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."
"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."
"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"
"Every customer has to perform a manual backup, and automatic backing up is needed."
"Java does not completely work. We are dependent on Java and when the current console does not run with Java, it is a problem for us."
"The console visibility and the performance impact on the internet needs improvement."
"The cloud needs improvement with respect to DLP."
"It needs to be more user-friendly, as it is a little bit complicated to use."
"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."
"I think that the User Interface could be improved."
"The pricing of the solution could be adjusted to make it more reasonable."
"One area for improvement I've seen in Skyhigh Security is that it lacks support for unsanctioned applications, where customers have their applications. Those applications do not come from Microsoft or other popular vendors. For example, Microsoft has support for Teams and it has support for OneDrive, but it doesn't have support for custom applications built by customers. Customers have internal teams building and publishing applications to the external world, but Skyhigh Security doesn't have support for those applications, and this is the main problem I've seen. The solution only supports a pool of applications that are from Microsoft and other major SaaS vendors. McAfee doesn't provide support for custom applications, compared to other vendors who provide it. For example, Bitglass and Netskope both have support for custom applications. Another area for improvement in Skyhigh Security is that its API support is a little weak. I also have not seen a strong integration between the solution and other McAfee products."
"Needs integration with other technology ecosystems."
"The encrypted disk implementation could be improved. I currently use it from a dongle or USB key with two-factor authentication to access my computer."
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Blue Coat Advanced Web & Cloud Security [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) while Skyhigh Security is ranked 6th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 51 reviews. Blue Coat Advanced Web & Cloud Security [EOL] is rated 6.4, while Skyhigh Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Blue Coat Advanced Web & Cloud Security [EOL] writes "Easy to change categories and has many ways to filter". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Skyhigh Security writes "Good scalability, but the technical support service needs improvement". Blue Coat Advanced Web & Cloud Security [EOL] is most compared with , 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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