We performed a comparison between McAfee Web Gateway Cloud Service and Skyhigh Security 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 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 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 user interface is easy to configure."
"Box API features with DLP capabilities."
"Shadow IT reporting capabilities."
"It's a great product with solid features."
"The stability is the most valuable feature. We haven't had any issues with the product."
"The risk rating of each cloud application has been very useful. Whenever we discover a new application is use, we are able to quickly determine if this application is safe to use and whether or not we should allow our end users to be able to access it."
"I like the encrypted disk feature and the endpoint protection."
"The product has a very high rating from reviewers. It's a well-respected product."
"The other products that I have evaluated do not have the scalability options that McAfee has."
"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."
"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 product should provide more integrations."
"Its initial setup could be more straightforward."
"SkyHigh has the ability to place users or groups on a ‘Watchlist’; which allows you to see certain views with these Watchlists users/groups in them. This is great when you are looking at live data but if I wanted to generate a report on "only" the watchlists."
"You can integrate Skyhigh's rules with Active Directory groups. For example, you can allow access to a specific website for a defined set of users. I can do that, but the rules are not straightforward. It can look up the group in Active Directory. However, it doesn't always find the proper group name. The rule configuration should be simpler and more granular. The admin should be able to map 80 groups in the rules quickly."
"It needs to be more user-friendly, as it is a little bit complicated to use."
"MVISION Cloud is not well known and there should be more information about the solution. There could be integration to local applications."
"The only thing we have faced is that sometimes, randomly, the portal becomes too slow."
"The solution is hard to configure, our team does not have specific training requirements for McAfee making it difficult."
"The biggest challenge we have with McAfee is their cross-cloud support."
McAfee Web Gateway Cloud Service is ranked 24th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 1 review while Skyhigh Security is ranked 7th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 51 reviews. McAfee Web Gateway Cloud Service is rated 10.0, while Skyhigh Security is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of McAfee Web Gateway Cloud Service writes "A scalable and user-friendly tool that provides an easy-to-configure user interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Skyhigh Security writes "Good scalability, but the technical support service needs improvement". McAfee Web Gateway Cloud Service is most compared with Symantec Proxy, Netskope Next Gen Secure Web Gateway, Fortinet FortiGate SWG and Fortinet FortiProxy, whereas Skyhigh Security is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Netskope , Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Symantec Proxy and Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks.
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