We performed a comparison between Check Point Web Gateway and Symantec Proxy 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 most valuable features are the antivirus as a whole, the anti-malware, and all of the protection features that scan our enterprise devices."
"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 stability of the tool is very good."
"Application control gives IT teams an opportunity to set suitable policies that can be used by all teams when coding."
"It's easy to deploy this tool."
"The most valuable feature that I see in the application is the filtering of the URLs."
"I think this solution is very helpful to our customers because its cloud-based security can be deployed quickly and maintained easily."
"It has an excellent threat prevention mechanism."
"The interface is simply amazing."
"The product covers all the security needs of roaming users."
"It is easy to use, and it is stable and scalable. You don't need a large team for deployment and maintenance."
"The content that we are getting is very good. Content caching is also supported."
"It's a stable solution."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the URL database, malicious URLs, policies, and policy creation."
"Symantec Proxy’s technical support is very good."
"The most valuable feature is the caching."
"We can address and rectify issues promptly, resulting in consistently positive outcomes."
"The Symantec antivirus suite and the proxy component are the most valuable feature."
"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"
"Lookout was moving into the SSE space. And so their work on SecureWeb Gateway and SD-WAN is still sort of evolving."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to be able to see an integration with centralized management services."
"We understand that if we want to see greater connections, greater services, and a greater capacity established for primary equipment, this solution needs to evolve to make an application installed directly on equipment."
"There is room for improvement in support because the solution needs multiple regions to reach certain features and validations."
"Check Point Web Gateway could improve the user interface. It could be made more modern."
"The solution should improve integration."
"Perhaps the latency in the administrative part of the portal would be a point of improvement."
"I would like to see improvement in the tool's availability."
"It is not user-friendly."
"One area for improvement in Symantec is the lack of a reporting server or dashboard integration with SIM."
"The user interface could be improved, and the price could be lower as well."
"The initial setup can be somewhat complex, and deploying the system can take some time."
"Prior to the Broadcom purchase, every appliance was application based, but now they have one ISG device and on top of it multiple applications are running. It has a single point of failure. If your device goes down, all of the applications would be down."
"There are performance issues with all of the proxies."
"Technical support is an area that requires some improvement."
"The tool’s reporting features must be improved."
"The solution is quite complex."
Check Point Web Gateway is ranked 12th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 20 reviews while Symantec Proxy is ranked 15th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 18 reviews. Check Point Web Gateway is rated 8.2, while Symantec Proxy is rated 7.2. 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 Symantec Proxy writes "A user-friendly solution with good technical support". Check Point Web Gateway is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Zscaler Internet Access, Cisco Web Security Appliance and Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway, whereas Symantec Proxy is most compared with Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway, Skyhigh Security, Netskope Next Gen Secure Web Gateway, McAfee Web Gateway Cloud Service and Exinda. See our Check Point Web Gateway vs. Symantec Proxy report.
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