We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate SWG and Trend Micro Web Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Secure Web Gateways (SWG) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is stable."
"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."
"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 interface and other reports are all user-friendly."
"Web filtering is the most useful feature."
"The product has the most valuable configuration, offloading, and security features."
"The product is stable and strong."
"The pricing on offer is excellent."
"It has a valuable SD-WAN feature and provides good performance."
"FortiGate SWG's most valuable feature is integration with vulnerability management."
"It is simpler to configure. It is not like Cisco Firepower, where you go crazy trying to follow the Cisco documentation to figure out how to configure one little thing. Unlike Cisco Firepower, where you can't do everything through the web interface and you have got to do some command line stuff, Fortinet FortiGate SWG is simpler. There are four different things in Cisco to get in, which is not the case with Fortinet FortiGate SWG. It is one of my favorite solutions to work with. I would much rather work with it than Cisco Firepower, for example. Even though I've got 20 years of Cisco experience with different firewalls, I would much prefer this solution."
"The security of Trend Micro Web Security is good."
"It's a very stable solution."
"The most valuable feature is machine learning, which automatically monitors the activity on the machine."
"It's secure and useful from an administrative point of view, with controllable login monitoring and so on."
"The solution's technical support team is responsive."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution's scalability is good and we have more than 90 users for it."
"The product's installation phase was easy."
"Lookout was moving into the SSE space. And so their work on SecureWeb Gateway and SD-WAN is still sort of evolving."
"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"
"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."
"Integrating OpenVPN with FortiGate would provide a powerful combination of secure remote access and comprehensive network security."
"Fortinet FortiGate SWG should be localised to specific regions to comply with local data privacy regulations because of the data privacy rules in the countries. In the Middle East, data organisation and KFA requirements are stringent."
"What could be improved in Fortinet FortiGate SWG is its pricing because it's a bit higher. If it's cheaper, my company could pitch it to customers and engage with customers better about it. What I'd like to see in the next release of Fortinet FortiGate SWG is an improvement in its dashboard or GUI. I'd like it to be more user-friendly."
"There's room for improvement in the interface, especially following their upgrade to version nineteen."
"We also have FortiAnalyzer deployed here, so we want to enable the soft functionality of FortiGate and built-in compression for a firewall VPN use case. We want the ability to deploy a gateway for HTTPS enabled on this firewall. It is currently only for use in our headquarters."
"It could always be more secure."
"It is complicated to manage different kinds of on-premise boxes."
"Another issue is how deduplication services don't work reliably after enabling deduplication on Fortinet."
"The price of Trend Micro Web Security is the only area of concern where improvements are required. From an improvement perspective, the product should be made available to users at a cheaper rate."
"The system should generate reports when an attack has been stopped, contained, or removed."
"The installation is a little bit complex."
"What could help Trend Micro Web Security in terms of improvement is the addition of a DDoS protection feature. It also needs to be more comprehensive to meet the needs of large-sized companies."
"Setup isn't very straightforward. You must have a certified technical engineer."
"This solution has a lot of restrictions on what non-administrator users can do, including generating comparative code. We would like to see this changed as the product is developed."
"The costs are a bit high in terms of licensing."
"There are multiple ways Web Security could improve, such as usability and web access to several programming modes."
Fortinet FortiGate SWG is ranked 4th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 39 reviews while Trend Micro Web Security is ranked 17th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 13 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate SWG is rated 8.6, while Trend Micro Web Security is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate SWG writes "Non-IT people could plug it in, connect it to the fiber, and get it running without IT help. ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Trend Micro Web Security writes "Though a tool suitable for medium-sized businesses, it needs to work on its price model". Fortinet FortiGate SWG is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Fortinet FortiProxy, Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway and Sangfor Internet Access Gateway (IAG), whereas Trend Micro Web Security is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Symantec Proxy, Cisco Umbrella and Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway. See our Fortinet FortiGate SWG vs. Trend Micro Web Security report.
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