We performed a comparison between Blue Coat ProxySG [EOL], Cisco Umbrella, and McAfee Web Protection [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about HPE Aruba Networking, Cato Networks, Citrix and others in WAN Optimization."Proxy Solution and ADN and their integration capability with Blue Coat director are positive features."
"Since the implementation of this solution, the bandwidth has decreased and the performance in terms of Internet access has increased."
"It features intuitive proxy policy deployment using a VPN."
"It has helped reduce my unit's security events."
"Cisco Umbrella is easy to monitor, manage, and deploy."
"Cisco's technical support is pretty good. When a solution is available, they will find it. On a scale from one to ten with ten being the best, I'd rate Cisco's technical support at nine."
"Umbrella enables customers to be secure. We are happy with this and this is the most important benefit for customers."
"It will protect, give you more robustness, and faster responses, compared to any firewalls or any of the proxy web servers."
"We can have a full overview and a quick overview of all the DNS requests. For us, it's quite important."
"The feature that we find most valuable is to be able to filter out those web requests that you don't want."
"It's very stable, reliable and does its job."
"It doesn't seem to take too much system bandwidth, and I also like its reporting. Once a month, it gives me a reminder of the activity. It reminds me that the protection is on, and if there are any issues, it summarizes those minor issues. During the month, it only notifies when there is something special."
"Provides good accessibility and handles any overload very well."
"The product is quite an effective firewall."
"The most valuable features of McAfee Web Protection are the reporter, and you have the option to have an agent installed in the notebooks or on the mobiles. You are able to have the same policies inside and outside of your organization which is a benefit."
"McAfee Web Protection was a good tool because in the olden days when you had to use a proxy tool when browsing the internet. Today the logic has changed slightly, in the sense your protection's taken onto the cloud. You'll exit a predefined gateway on the cloud before your internet browsing happens and therefore you're secured."
"It's a solution that permits making a granular configuration and it is easier to deploy the same configuration on a lot of devices using the central console. It is the master of the product."
"It has dependable anti-malware and intrusion prevention features all-in-one package."
"It is functional. It has reduced risk and downtime while also ensuring regulatory compliance, which is critical."
"It would be great if the product had inbuilt queuing for Quality of Service."
"It lacks deployment over multiple platforms and integration with SDN architecture."
"We cannot automate the product since the IP address can only be assigned after acquisition of the serial number."
"I would like to see a graphical representation of the entire network."
"Although Cisco Umbrella has an excellent global network footprint, there is still room for improvement and growth in this area. Additionally, there are bandwidth limitations associated with the connectors that need to be addressed. To be a viable solution for larger offices, Cisco Umbrella must continue to expand and improve its capabilities in these areas."
"In the next release, I would like to see the integration of VDI NSX with Cisco Umbrella."
"The firewall capabilities could be better. Cisco is starting to introduce some layer 7 capabilities now, but there's still some room to grow. They should continue with the development of Umbrella so that it is a full-blown cloud-managed firewall solution."
"There are cheaper solutions in the market"
"It would be good to have more extensions to third-party products and a client for other device types."
"Overall, I'm quite happy with Cisco products, but there could be one place where you can check what's going on. There could be one place where you get all the information about these products so that you don't need to look around. You get the status, information about what lately happened, and if there was anything on the machine in one single place."
"I am unsure if Cisco Umbrella offers a Windows option for running the server."
"The True Key version for mobile phones should be improved. The password manager is not as seamless as on the desktop. Once implemented, on the desktop, when you go to the site, it automatically fills and connects you, whereas, on the mobile phone, it doesn't do that quite seamlessly. You need to open the True Key application and then select the password you want to use. It then opens in the browser. There are fewer steps in the desktop version as compared to the mobile version."
"Endpoints are lightweight agents, eating too much of the host resources."
"We need a better customer experience and more flexibility in the product."
"In McAfee Web Protection there are gaps in the security design, in the overall architecture, the gaps need to be fixed."
"McAfee Web Protection can improve the information provided for hybrid installations in the console. Additionally, having cloud protection would be good."
"The manufacturerers should have more transparancy about exactly what is getting filtered when you use the product and why."
"We used a consultant to help us set it up. Unfortunately, he was not that good. They were out of McAfee people. He was a consultant and knew the product, but he was not a McAfee person. How they managed it and how they worked was not straightforward."
"The initial setup could be simplified, there is a learning curve during the implementation."
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