We performed a comparison between Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway and Netskope 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 solution is stable."
"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."
"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."
"This is a highly detailed product with very good key features."
"The most valuable feature of Forcepoint Web Security is creating the easy to install further policies that are deployed through the Forcepoint security manual at some stage. Just drag and drop and the policies are there."
"The antiviral sandboxing."
"Ease of updating the latest hotfixes and patches on the appliance."
"The initial setup is easy. It's not difficult."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to allow or block sites by category."
"It has got a really good URL categorization database. It is simple to set up. It is also easy to use and quite intuitive. It has got a nice utility for troubleshooting."
"It allowed our company to not worry about the security of a page, but talk more about the content and the productivity of specific types of web categories."
"Their technical support is very good."
"The most valuable feature of Netskope is protection."
"The initial setup of Netskope CASB is easy, it is not complex."
"It has hundreds of features and many of them are useful."
"The feature that I like best is the GUI."
"The most useful feature of this solution is Cloud Control, which allows me to schedule cloud uploads."
"It's a comprehensive security portfolio solution."
"Netskope is an efficient, reliable, and easy-to-manage solution."
"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."
"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."
"The automation lifecycle, integration, and export functionality could all be improved."
"I would suggest focusing on improving the GUI's stability, especially when implementing new filters or patches."
"The initial setup was complex."
"But the deployment could be easier. It might take from one day to three days. Usually, that involves an engineer from the vendor and a working team at the enterprise."
"The documentation is almost too much, it could be laid out in an easier to understand."
"The availability of clusters is limited, and the product is very unstable. The development team is slow as well."
"The deployment is a bit complex and it requires expertise to deploy, which is something that should be improved and made easier to do."
"It's the support that's the problem because that's a different question from the product itself — it's the Achilles heel."
"The initial setup is complex and should be simplified."
"I deduced two points: one for their feature modification and one for the feature maturity of the solution."
"The solution's implementations can be made much easier because, currently, it is complex in nature."
"It should have user behavior analysis and diverse analysis."
"The solution's documentation still needs to be improved."
"The configuration and user behaviour analytics can be improved."
"The solution is still pretty new to the CASB environment."
"They could improve their mobile agents as they have some limitations."
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Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is ranked 6th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 47 reviews while Netskope is ranked 4th in Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) with 35 reviews. Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is rated 7.8, while Netskope is rated 8.4. 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 Netskope writes "Network proxy that provides visibility during deployment and allows you to control PII". Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Cisco Umbrella, Symantec Proxy, Fortinet FortiProxy and Skyhigh Security, whereas Netskope is most compared with Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler Internet Access, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Cisco Umbrella and Akamai Enterprise Application Access.
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