We performed a comparison between Cisco Umbrella and Forcepoint Cloud Security Gateway [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks and others in Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB)."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 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 most valuable features are the antivirus as a whole, the anti-malware, and all of the protection features that scan our enterprise devices."
"Cisco Umbrella is a totally different solution. They are the first to come up with this idea of security. It's a totally new concept of security for everybody, for every time, real time, perfectionism."
"Overall, it is a very good solution. It is a simple solution and very easy to set up."
"Application performance has greatly improved and there are less operational issues. Productivity has been going up because we have less operational issues. Also, we have happy customers."
"It's very stable, reliable and does its job."
"We can have a full overview and a quick overview of all the DNS requests. For us, it's quite important."
"We are very new users of the solution and are still in the exploration stages, but we are happy with the product thus far."
"The most valuable features are the dashboard, visibility, and reporting capabilities. Our customers can see how much Umbrella is protecting their organization. If you don't know what you've got, you can't protect it. With Umbrella, you get the visibility and see the protection that it's providing. We can get PDF reports on a weekly basis of any malware activities and any denial of service or command-and-control-type activities."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Cisco's support is better nowadays."
"Since most of the traffic is through the web and email, it covers the web channel very well."
"Forcepoint Cloud Security Gateway's most valuable features are that it protects my system from external intrusion and blocks unwanted sites."
"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."
"Lookout was moving into the SSE space. And so their work on SecureWeb Gateway and SD-WAN is still sort of evolving."
"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."
"Their support should be improved. It is necessary that the support is efficient. It is not really easy to get a resolution for an issue from Cisco support. They should be faster and more efficient."
"There is room for improvement in the dashboard. It could stand to be a bit more detailed. I would also like to be able to customize the dashboard to focus more on what is important for my company."
"Security, overall, can always be improved."
"It would be good to have more extensions to third-party products and a client for other device types."
"I would like them to make some videos, practical videos, the kind with steps that people can use to learn and deploy"
"This solution does not give us full, 360-degree protection."
"I would like to have more applications being recorded."
"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."
"In the next release, I would like to see more CASB and SASE features, where you're protecting the user from going to specific could-based applications."
"The solution should improve the blocking of unwanted sites. Sometimes it blocks wanted sites."
Cisco Umbrella is ranked 1st in Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) with 108 reviews while Forcepoint Cloud Security Gateway [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB). Cisco Umbrella is rated 8.8, while Forcepoint Cloud Security Gateway [EOL] is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco Umbrella writes "Protects endpoints wherever they are, always pushing people to the right locations to avoid malicious intent". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Forcepoint Cloud Security Gateway [EOL] writes "Useful external intrusion protection, beneficial unwanted site blocking, and reliable". 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, whereas Forcepoint Cloud Security Gateway [EOL] is most compared with .
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