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NordLayer vs Symantec CloudSOC CASB comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

NordLayer
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.2
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Secure Web Gateways (SWG) (37th), Network Access Control (NAC) (21st), Internet Security (16th), Enterprise Infrastructure VPN (26th), ZTNA as a Service (26th), ZTNA (23rd), Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) (32nd), Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) (25th)
Symantec CloudSOC CASB
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) (18th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Security Software solutions, they serve different purposes. NordLayer is designed for Enterprise Infrastructure VPN and holds a mindshare of 1.8%, up 1.2% compared to last year.
Symantec CloudSOC CASB, on the other hand, focuses on Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB), holds 1.0% mindshare, up 0.7% since last year.
Enterprise Infrastructure VPN Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
NordLayer1.8%
OpenVPN Access Server12.2%
Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks6.3%
Other79.7%
Enterprise Infrastructure VPN
Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Symantec CloudSOC CASB1.0%
Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks13.2%
Netskope13.2%
Other72.6%
Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB)
 

Featured Reviews

Christophe Derdeyn - PeerSpot reviewer
Partner delaware Singapore at delaware Singapore
A convenient and easy tool with an incredibly high number of dialing points
The solution is convenient and easy. It has an incredibly high number of dialing points for pretty much every single country in the world. It has a few additional security features. It has a function that prevents unsecured access if my connection were to drop for any reason. It’s something I like. It has threat protection features. It can protect my web connection and files against malicious downloads and trackers.
cto543714 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Works very well in a hybrid environment in terms of DLP policies, but trying to do your own troubleshooting can be a little bit difficult
It does scale. They have different data centers spread out for you to do things. It scales just fine, but it is the setup and configuration that you have to do in order for it to scale the way you want it to. I know that some of the newer technologies, such as Zscaler, are doing SD-LAN type connections and things of that sort to improve performance and scalability. So, things are still evolving in terms of scalability. Depending on how you deployed it, you can run into some performance gotchas. If you take a VPN connection and try to overtax it, you can run into problems. You can't say that it didn't scale. You have to use a different method to get the traffic, or you may have to set up two VPN tunnels or things of that sort. So, if you want it to scale, you have to think it through and make sure you are deploying it in a manner to scale. It can scale, but you have to plan it and make sure you think everything through.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The solution is convenient and easy."
"The stability of the solution is very good; it's one of the most stable products on the market."
"One of the most valuable features of Symantec CloudSOC CASB is its detection functionality. It uses the same base as Data Loss Prevention, allowing for close integration between on-premises DLP and the Symantec CloudSOC CASB. This integration lets you manage policies and incidents across both platforms."
"The stability of the solution is great, and it's one of the most stable products on the market."
"The monitoring and threat protection were the solution's most valuable features."
"The scalability is excellent, and if a company needs to expand the product, it can do so easily."
"The active directory integration is very valuable as we can connect to the list of users that we have and the cloud control, the blocking, the access control of the cloud, can be handled by this product."
"This solution has improved my organization because it enables us to have visibility and monitoring over our global workforce connectivity to Office 365 and for Service Now."
"The value in some of these solutions is just the integration of technologies with their on-prem DLP solution, so you can tie on-prem and cloud DLP policies together and apply on-prem policies to the cloud to have consistent policies in a hybrid environment, which works very well in that hybrid environment of on-prem and cloud."
 

Cons

"The tool is not perfectly stable."
"It's a niche product; not many people use it, and therefore there isn't as much of a knowledge base surrounding it."
"They have some room for improvement in terms of being able to do troubleshooting. If you're trying to troubleshoot it, you have to work a lot with their backend people in order to get to a solution."
"They have some room for improvement in terms of being able to do troubleshooting. If you're trying to troubleshoot it, you have to work a lot with their backend people in order to get to a solution. So, trying to do your own troubleshooting can be a little bit difficult."
"It's a niche product. Not many people use it, and therefore there isn't as much of a knowledge base surrounding it."
"I would like to see them develop the ability to integrate it with a central management system."
"The solution should work to incorporate some machine learning policies like IDM and VML."
"The data security needs improvement. We should be able to leverage it a bit better for situations where someone may be trying to upload documents onto the cloud application."
"I would like to see them develop the ability to integrate it with a central management system."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"It compares well with the competition because they're all priced on a per-user basis. I've seen the rest of them. There is definitely a huge price difference between them."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
12%
Construction Company
11%
Computer Software Company
10%
Healthcare Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Healthcare Company
6%
 

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What needs improvement with Symantec CloudSOC CASB?
After integrating the Gatelet with a live environment, users experienced connectivity issues because they were not imported into the Symantec CloudSOC CASB. Currently, user import into the solution...
What is your primary use case for Symantec CloudSOC CASB?
The solution helps detect and control data in the cloud, focusing on Shadow IT and Shadow Data. The audit module helps with Shadow IT, while the Securelet and Gatelet modules monitor and prevent da...
 

Also Known As

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