We performed a comparison between Check Point Quantum SASE and Cisco Umbrella based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) 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."
"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 reports give a simple overview of the traffic pattern within the organization."
"It is a very stable solution."
"The solution offers both client and clientless versions for good remote access."
"The DRP is the most valuable feature."
"The Harmony Connect solution helped by unifying in a single portal all the necessary accesses for the company's internal employees, such as RDP, SSH, bank access databases, and even internal portals, bringing security and organization to the entire environment and facilitating employee access with a single, centralized login to the entire environment."
"Protection against threats like ransomware is very effective."
"The product's initial setup phase is very simple."
"The integration that this solution has with the different routers or perimeter equipment is exceptional."
"It blocks malicious DNS queries daily which is very beneficial."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to detect if a URL has malware or is vulnerable."
"Using this solution has meant that we've needed to make fewer firewall changes."
"It has certainly saved us time. If we go and look at what's rejected on the requests from the hospital itself, it has saved about 5% or 6% time."
"I also think that the dashboard view is really helpful. Whenever sites get blocked, we get the details and the users who are connecting to them."
"Improves security through DNS visibility, which can block malware, phishing, C&C, etc."
"We are very new users of the solution and are still in the exploration stages, but we are happy with the product thus far."
"Umbrella enables customers to be secure. We are happy with this and this is the most important benefit for customers."
"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."
"Regarding the support, the schedules can be improved since they are generally in another geographical area, and it is difficult to solve the problems with the time differences between them and us."
"As it is a new market solution, I still face some instabilities in access at certain times of the day when I have more than 150 users using it simultaneously."
"Sometimes downloading PDF files can be slow."
"The suspend feature needs more control."
"The complex initial setup phase of the product is an area that can be improved"
"They could improve on the available public documentation."
"More report and alert options would be useful."
"The solution requires you to buy a minimum of 50 licenses and that is not practical."
"The integration with Cisco could be better."
"It has happened in the past that Cisco Umbrella has denied us access to secure websites."
"It would be useful if they had a malware protection engine running inside their own VM."
"Its on-prem rollout is quite challenging. It needs better coordination with the Internet Service Provider. It is a cloud-based solution, and any endpoint that connects to it has to go through all the gateway ISPs, but some of the ISPs block HTTPS-based DNS. That's where the challenge occurs with Umbrella."
"I would like them to make some videos, practical videos, the kind with steps that people can use to learn and deploy"
"I feel that the application needs other characteristics that are available with other applications in the market."
"I'd like to see improvement in its overall integration with all the other platforms. There's some integration between Umbrella and Meraki, but an overall Cisco problem is that there are so many different tools, and finding easy, seamless ways of connecting everything together is always a challenge."
"One of the issues with Umbrella is as you get into endpoint detection and response, such as EDR point solutions, some of them will not integrate well with Umbrella. Sometimes when you want to use technology, such as Always On VPN, it will not work. There are some looming issues as one type of technology starts to crossover with Umbrella. That is the challenge and Umbrella should find a way to be more compatible with some of the endpoint response solutions that are coming out on the market."
Check Point Quantum SASE is ranked 7th in Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) with 30 reviews while Cisco Umbrella is ranked 2nd in Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) with 108 reviews. Check Point Quantum SASE is rated 8.4, while Cisco Umbrella is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Check Point Quantum SASE writes "Very agile with a granular level of control over users ". 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 Quantum SASE is most compared with Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Perimeter 81, Netskope and Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, 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 Quantum SASE vs. Cisco Umbrella report.
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