We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway and McAfee Web Gateway Cloud Service based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Zscaler, Palo Alto Networks and others in Secure Web Gateways (SWG)."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."
"I have found the web content filtering and malware filter the most valuable."
"Real-time analytics."
"This is a highly detailed product with very good key features."
"Ease of updating the latest hotfixes and patches on the appliance."
"The initial setup is not complex."
"In terms of functionality, Forcepoint is the best web proxy available."
"The customization and control of URL filtering and the integration with other Forcepoint solutions are great features."
"It’s pretty stable after you get up and running."
"The user interface is easy to configure."
"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."
"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."
"Reports in the sand-boxing, ease of deployment of sensors to ready to go server with one click of a button."
"The deployment is a bit complex and it requires expertise to deploy, which is something that should be improved and made easier to do."
"I would suggest focusing on improving the GUI's stability, especially when implementing new filters or patches."
"It's the support that's the problem because that's a different question from the product itself — it's the Achilles heel."
"I am looking forward to the full integration of the endpoints that they offer for web security and DLP."
"It takes 20 to 30 minutes for policy replication."
"The reporting could be improved."
"What's missing in Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is a specific level of micro-control on protocols or devices, for example, where you can control a particular user or user device."
"The product should provide more integrations."
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Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is ranked 5th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 47 reviews while McAfee Web Gateway Cloud Service is ranked 23rd in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 1 review. Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is rated 7.8, while McAfee Web Gateway Cloud Service is rated 10.0. The top reviewer of Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway writes "Simple to set up, reliable, and offers great reporting". On the other hand, the top reviewer of McAfee Web Gateway Cloud Service writes "A scalable and user-friendly tool that provides an easy-to-configure user interface". Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Cisco Umbrella, Symantec Proxy, Fortinet FortiProxy and Fortinet FortiGate SWG, whereas McAfee Web Gateway Cloud Service is most compared with Symantec Proxy, Fortinet FortiGate SWG, Netskope Next Gen Secure Web Gateway, Fortinet FortiProxy and Skyhigh Security.
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