We performed a comparison between Cisco Umbrella and VMware SD-WAN 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."
"It analyzes the domain security helps us implement the securest policy."
"What we like most is security and how easy it is to integrate with other appliances."
"I like the original functionality, which allows for providing secure DNS services."
"By using Cisco Umbrella, you are sure of inspecting all the traffic. Whenever the user machine is connected to your network, it is inspected. That's the best thing. It means you are sure that nothing is being exported or imported without your choice. That is the best feature."
"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."
"The implementation is pretty easy."
"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 feature is its ability to detect if a URL has malware or is vulnerable."
"It can be used for load balancing and load sharing. It's easy to use and customizable."
"They have a lot of built-ins. There are so many applications defined inside the solution. It makes it so that we don't have to create some policies. Each and every application is already defined in it."
"The most valuable feature for one of our customers is the ability to stage cloud workloads from the local network."
"VMware SD-WAN is scalable."
"I would absolutely recommend VeloCloud because it's user-friendly and because the integration is easier than with other solutions."
"This solution is as stable as most firewalls. VMware is a reputable vendor."
"It is very simple to configure. When you use the cloud to configure the equipment, it has zero-touch provisioning."
"The cloud gateway is a very good feature for scaling purposes, etc."
"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"
"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."
"If the security issues are taken care of it would be better."
"Missing a real data leakage prevention solution."
"Having ready-to-go templates with best practices is definitely something that would be an improvement. Deployment, from day one, is something that definitely needs to be improved for Cisco customers."
"The design of the screens could be improved. Sometimes you're trying to look for information, for what you think is critical that should be on that first screen of the dashboard so that you can quickly take screenshots to have people help out, but you have to hop between screens to find little pieces of evidence."
"I think it's a very basic solution, and because of that, Cisco Umbrella would not be a suitable solution for large companies."
"In the next release, I would like to see the integration of VDI NSX with Cisco Umbrella."
"The product can be pretty expensive."
"It needs better integration with external threat feeds to improve scoring."
"There is still room for improvement in support and security, especially in enhancing the SASE aspect of the platform."
"There is room for improvement with respect to security."
"Reporting is an area that can be improved, as there are some features that are lacking with the reporting aspect."
"They need to start focusing on the security functionality. They should find a way to embed the next-generation firewall functionality within the architecture. They should move more into applying SASE tenants to what they're doing."
"The only thing that I'm having issues with is on one of the sites, I can't see the location on the map."
"It needs better security."
"Reports could be simplified."
"The dashboards could be improved."
Cisco Umbrella is ranked 2nd in Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) with 108 reviews while VMware SD-WAN is ranked 8th in Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) with 50 reviews. Cisco Umbrella is rated 8.8, while VMware SD-WAN is rated 8.2. 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 VMware SD-WAN writes "To fully utilize cloud vendors' hardware networking, Microsoft and VMware support everything". 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 VMware SD-WAN is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, Fortinet FortiGate, Meraki SD-WAN, Cato SASE Cloud Platform and Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks. See our Cisco Umbrella vs. VMware SD-WAN report.
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