We performed a comparison between Check Point Web Gateway and Cisco Umbrella based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Secure Web Gateways (SWG) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"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 solution is stable."
"The most valuable features are the antivirus as a whole, the anti-malware, and all of the protection features that scan our enterprise devices."
"It can also be used as a reverse proxy through the checkpoint."
"The product covers all the security needs of roaming users."
"One of its rather outstanding capabilities is its ability to add an extra layer of protection to our company's internal network."
"The implementation of this tool was straightforward."
"The most valuable feature that I see in the application is the filtering of the URLs."
"Application control gives IT teams an opportunity to set suitable policies that can be used by all teams when coding."
"The interface is simply amazing."
"The most valuable features of Check Point Web Gateway are all the IPS. However, what matters for users is content and web filtering."
"Using this solution has meant that we've needed to make fewer firewall changes."
"It enables us to go granular in the customization of blocking some categories on the DNS."
"The reports and notifications are the most useful part of the platform. As soon as you deploy the security layers, the reporting is very comprehensive. It helps you to have, at a glance, a clear view of what's going on."
"It blocks malicious DNS queries daily which is very beneficial."
"The weekly reportings are great. The investigation is super and the application management is equally great."
"The feature that we find most valuable is to be able to filter out those web requests that you don't want."
"We like Cisco Umbrella because of DNS security. It's one step ahead of whatever we are using for regular web filtering. In that way, it's more secure than other web filtering products."
"The implementation is pretty easy."
"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"
"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."
"Lookout was moving into the SSE space. And so their work on SecureWeb Gateway and SD-WAN is still sort of evolving."
"I would like to see improvement in the tool's availability."
"It is expensive. Its price should be better."
"The learning curve is complex for new users."
"The support must be faster."
"Some documents needed to implement with the best practices are difficult to understand, take longer than expected to apply, and sometimes even require support."
"It is not user-friendly."
"Check Point Web Gateway could improve the user interface. It could be made more modern."
"We would really benefit from some more visual features that can help view the impact of the security gateway in the organization."
"They should provide more integrations and bring things together so that there is a more standard feel to their platform. We also use Cisco ISE, and it has a very different feel from Cisco Umbrella."
"I would like to see more integration between Cisco Umbrella and Cisco DNA Center."
"Security, overall, can always be improved."
"It needs better integration with external threat feeds to improve scoring."
"If the virtual appliances could also gather traffic bandwidth reports, that would be great."
"I feel that the application needs other characteristics that are available with other applications in the market."
"I would like for their support to be faster."
"There are some situations where we would like to block things for specific user groups. I know that Umbrella does that, but it's not that easy.... when you want a specific task for specific rules and policies for user groups, you have to go three levels down in the menu, and it's hard to find where you do that task."
Check Point Web Gateway is ranked 12th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 20 reviews while Cisco Umbrella is ranked 1st in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 108 reviews. Check Point Web Gateway is rated 8.2, while Cisco Umbrella is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Check Point Web Gateway writes "Great for limiting, blocking, or allowing access to sites". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Umbrella writes "Protects endpoints wherever they are, always pushing people to the right locations to avoid malicious intent". Check Point Web Gateway is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Symantec Proxy and Cisco Web Security Appliance, whereas Cisco Umbrella is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Palo Alto Networks DNS Security and Fortinet FortiGate SWG. See our Check Point Web Gateway vs. Cisco Umbrella report.
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