We compared Netskope and Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform based on our users' reviews across four parameters. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Netskope offers comprehensive data protection capabilities, advanced threat protection, advanced analytics, and granular policy enforcement. Netskope has competitive pricing options, positive ROI, and excellent customer service. Versa SASE Platform features robust security measures, efficient network connectivity, advanced analytics, simplicity of use, and reliable customer support. Users praise its customer service and support, reasonable pricing, positive ROI, and ability to integrate multiple functionalities.
Features: Netskope is praised for its comprehensive data protection and advanced threat protection. Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform is commended for its robust security measures, seamless integration, and reliable customer support.
Pricing and ROI: Netskope offers competitive pricing options and a straightforward setup process, ensuring a smooth experience. Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform has reasonable pricing, good value for money, and flexible licensing terms. Netskope has shown positive ROI by providing enhanced security, data protection, cloud service control, and cost savings. Versa SASE Platform offers improved network security, simplified management, better performance, cost savings, and flexibility, resulting in significant value and ROI.
Room for Improvement: Netskope could improve its interface, customer support, performance during high traffic, and reporting capabilities. On the other hand, users of the Versa SASE Platform suggest enhancements in performance, reliability, user interface, navigation, documentation, and integration options.
Deployment and customer support: Netskope’s setup is considered to be quick, easy, and straightforward. Deployment can be done rapidly, especially on the cloud, although there may be some complexities involved in the implementation phase. The deployment process for Versa varied depending on factors such as the configuration, predefined setups, and designated policies. It generally took between one to two hours. However, for some users, deployment took 35 working days, with the number of engineers and architects depending on the number of sites. Customers have expressed satisfaction with the customer service and support provided by Netskope, citing prompt resolution and knowledgeable assistance. Versa's SASE Platform is highly praised for its top-notch support, responsive service, and efficient resolutions.
The summary above is based on 25 interviews we conducted with Netskope and Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"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."
"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."
"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 feature that I like best is the GUI."
"The solution offers a better understanding of the real scenario and identifies the cloud apps that are being utilized."
"Netskope is a really good product. I cannot segregate which features are the most valuable. We find most of the features to be valuable. It gives us what we are looking for."
"It is a very scalable tool."
"Technical support is good. They are very helpful and quick to resolve any issues we have."
"Their technical support is very good."
"They are very good at CASB as compared to other players."
"Amazing reporting and tracking mechanisms."
"I like all the features. We utilize different LAN, bandwidth transferring, bandwidth balancing, and mappings. We use it as a centralized solution, and use the same product at all our locations."
"The necessary enhancement pertains to the controller segment, specifically addressing the issue of frequent flapping when a link is left. In the case of Versa Unified, if a link experiences frequent flapping within an entire branch, it triggers instability. Hence, it is imperative that the overall routing system is not contingent solely upon the active dial branches."
"Overall, it's nice and very user friendly. That's what makes it so successful. They give you complicated features but with a very simple user interface, and that's been a big success for them."
"The granularity when it comes to configuration and security features are valuable."
"Versa is a good centralized solution, where you're setting up your infrastructure in a data center type thing."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The most valuable features are the main steering and the firewall. The security features and SD-WAN features are also quite good."
"The most valuable aspects of the solution are the next-generation firewall features and geo-blocking capabilities."
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"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."
"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"
"There could be better integration with other solutions."
"There should be some granular custom roles that are not available. However, this is on the road map. There are many devices that do not have the Zero Trust feature and other enhancements available which they should have."
"Technical support and the user interface could be improved."
"The dashboard performance could be much better and faster, but because it is a complicated product, it takes time for the dashboard to process."
"Third party integration with other cloud applications could be improved. Sometimes the API won't be working, but Netskope is taking it seriously. They accept all the feature requests, and they are trying to provide whatever we ask from them."
"Lacking in local customer support."
"It needed some fine-tuning on core business sites that we used, which were sensitive to what we term a man-in-the-middle certificate by design. Some sites were not tolerant because they presented as potentially malicious. So, we just had to make some tweaks so that it would bypass or interpret it."
"The solution is still pretty new to the CASB environment."
"The smaller units lack a lot of functionality."
"We are thinking about how to make customers consolidate the loads to an SD-WAN network so that the customers can have bigger chunk from the SD-WAN side so that customers can have critical data be transferred with NPS VPN and non-critical data or some labeled traffic can be transferred by the SD-WAN network. I think it's a very important direction for digital transformation."
"The support needs to be improved."
"The solution's current customer support is not that good. So, they need to improve that. Also, the solution's UI is quite complex, so they need to simplify it."
"We've had the odd occasional stability issue with software upgrades."
"I heard about them for the first time just before I started working on Versa. They do have blogs for information, but they could publicize more about the documentation and architecture. It doesn't seem to have that much exposure, and they should work on their customer base more."
"With the pandemic and changing work models, it would be ideal if the product more accessibility options or more diversity within the solution itself."
"The web interface can be improved."
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Netskope is ranked 4th in Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) with 35 reviews while Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform is ranked 13th in Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) with 20 reviews. Netskope is rated 8.4, while Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Netskope writes "Network proxy that provides visibility during deployment and allows you to control PII". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform writes "A flexible, stable and scalable solution ". Netskope is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Cisco Umbrella and Skyhigh Security, whereas Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, Fortinet FortiGate, VMware SD-WAN, Cato SASE Cloud Platform and Meraki SD-WAN. See our Netskope vs. Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform report.
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