We performed a comparison between Skyhigh Security and VMware Aria Automation based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: VMware Aria Automation offers extensive automation capabilities, DevOps features, preset policies and templates, and customization options. On the other hand, Skyhigh Security offers strong URL spam filtering, automatic reports, encrypted disk and endpoint protection, and efficient backup features. VMware Aria Automation needs to improve multitenancy management, migration processes, vRealize Orchestrator Automation, automation for non-experts, and licensing models. On the other hand, Skyhigh Security needs to improve virtual solution strength, API integration, training resources, UI, branding, performance, reporting, secure gateway, stability, and technical support.
Service and Support: VMware Aria Automation has received mostly positive feedback regarding its technical support, with some customers giving it an eight out of ten. On the other hand, Skyhigh Security's customer service and support have mixed reviews, with some users having positive experiences and others feeling frustrated.
Ease of Deployment: VMware Aria Automation involves technical prerequisites and complexities, while Skyhigh Security requires expertise with McAfee and cloud-based security. The setup time for VMware Aria Automation ranges from an hour to several months, while Skyhigh Security can take between five minutes to two weeks. Both products require knowledge of technology and networking.
Pricing: VMware Aria Automation is costly and has complicated licensing, whereas Skyhigh Security has reasonable and uncomplicated pricing. Though, some suggest there is room for improvement in hardware pricing. Skyhigh Security is considered affordable overall.
ROI: VMware Aria Automation increases productivity and reduces infrastructure provisioning time, while Skyhigh Security offers improved security posture, reduced risk of data breaches, and streamlined compliance.
Comparison Results: VMware Aria Automation is favored over Skyhigh Security for its automation capabilities, deployment flexibility, and workload management. Skyhigh Security is a market leader in URL spam filtering and has reasonable pricing, but requires significant improvements to keep up with competitors. VMware Aria Automation offers many automation features, preset policies, and customization options for the user interface.
"The automation roles are essential because we ultimately want to do less work and automate more. The dashboards are easy to read and visually pleasing. You can understand things quickly, which makes it easy for our other teams. The network and infrastructure teams don't know as much about security as we do, so it helps to have a tool that's accessible and nice to look at."
"I like Wiz's reporting, and it's easy to do queries. For example, it's pretty simple to find out how many servers we have and the applications installed on each. I like Wiz's security graph because you can use it to see the whole organization even if you have multiple accounts."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The vulnerability management modules and the discovery and inventory are the most valuable features. Before using Wiz, it was a very manual process for both. After implementing it, we're able to get all of the analytics into a single platform that gives us visibility across all the systems in our cloud. We're able to correspond and understand what the vulnerability landscape looks like a lot faster."
"The first thing that stood out was the ease of installation and the quick value we got out of the solution."
"The product supports out-of-the-box reporting with context about the asset and allows us to perform complex custom queries on UI."
"Our most important features are those around entitlement, external exposure, vulnerabilities, and container security."
"Out of all the features, the one item that has been most valuable is the fact that Wiz puts into context all the pieces that create an issue, and applies a particular risk evaluation that helps us prioritize when we need to address a misconfiguration, vulnerability, or any issue that would put our environment into risk."
"The most valuable features of McAfee Web Gateway are anti-malware, reports, and powerful categorization of web pages."
"The support is excellent."
"The feature I like best about Skyhigh Security is its wide range of product support. For example, my company had NetApp storage running, and Skyhigh Security has on-premises NetApp storage support, which isn't available in other solutions. Skyhigh Security also has a better filtering feature versus the filtering feature in other solutions."
"Offers a very strong URL spam filtering feature."
"It's an easy-to-use product."
"I like the encrypted disk feature and the endpoint protection."
"There is [a feature] called cloud registry where we can see a risk assessment for the cloud services being used. If we want to add a new cloud service or a new cloud application, we can check into it and do an assessment through the cloud registry."
"Improves creation of security alerts on web proxy logs by having a separate system interpret said logs."
"It allows some of the tenants to self-provision their machines, so they don't have to wait for us to create the machine for them."
"The most valuable features are that it's multi-tenant and the ability for scale."
"VMware Aria Automation has made a lot of things easier. It has really helped the operations team to spin up the virtual machines."
"The operations manager does a fantastic job on the front end because it includes on-premises and cloud use cases."
"The DevOps for infrastructure capabilities has saved time for our developers by automating processes and reducing provisioning time. Task time has been reduced by 40 percent."
"Before it would take months to deploy a VM, now, with this solution, we can deploy many VMs in one hour. We can do a stack of them with Mediaware."
"The solution is user-friendly and intuitive."
"It's much more stable than the highest available variant."
"The only thing that needs to be improved is the number of scans per day."
"The solution's container security could be improved."
"The only small pain point has been around some of the logging integrations. Some of the complexities of the script integrations aren't supported with some of the more automated infrastructure components. So, it's not as universal. For example, they have great support for cloud formation and other services, but if you're using another type of management utility or governance language for your infrastructure-as-code automation components, it becomes a little bit trickier to navigate that."
"We wish there were a way, beyond providing visibility and automated remediation, to wait on a given remediation, due to a critical aspect, such as the cost associated with a particular upgrade... We would like to see preventive controls that can be applied through Wiz to protect against vulnerabilities that we're not going to be able to remediate immediately."
"The reporting isn't that great. They have executive summaries, but it's only a compliance report that maps all current issues to specific controls. Whether you look at one subscription or project, regardless of the size, you will get a multipage report on how the issues in that account map to that control. Our CSO isn't going to read through that. He won't filter that out or show that to his leadership and say, "Here's what we're doing." It isn't a helpful report. They're working on it, but it's a poor executive summary."
"Wiz's reporting capabilities could be refined a bit. They are making headway on that, but more executive-style dashboards would be nice. They just implemented a community aspect where you can share documents and feedback. This was something users had been requesting for a while. They are listening to customer feedback and making changes."
"One significant issue is that the searches are case-sensitive, so finding a misconfigured resource can become very challenging."
"We're looking at some of the data compliance stuff that they've got Jon offer. I know they're looking at container security, which we gonna be looking at next."
"It would be nice to be able to get more advanced search functions to filter out data and quickly obtain the data that we need."
"An area for improvement in Skyhigh Security is its UI. It needs to be enhanced and made more user-friendly. Right now, the UI of Skyhigh Security is sometimes confusing. For example, my company is deploying Skyhigh Security for a client and integrating it on the cloud, from an on-premises deployment to a hybrid deployment. Though the experience isn't bad, there needs to be more enhancements. Another room for improvement in Skyhigh Security is the limited training resources, especially when you compare it with Cisco, which has many study materials in the market, even free training resources. You'll get limited resources if you search for Skyhigh Security tutorials on Google and YouTube. Because of high-security requirements and the training material for Skyhigh Security not being available, most engineers and architects avoid the product because there'd be a lack of knowledge in configuring and achieving the goals you'd want to reach via the use of Skyhigh Security. The NOC team deploying the product is having difficulty getting training resources for Skyhigh Security. You'll be charged an enormous amount if you search the market for training because of the limited resources available. Skyhigh Security needs to work on marketing and awareness as an improvement to the product."
"It is an expensive solution."
"Though the Skyhigh Dashboard is processing large amounts of data, the speed of the Dashboard could be improved."
"McAfee Web Gateway could improve the reporting. We have the reporting on a separate server and sometimes the database becomes full. These aspects could improve."
"It needs to be more user-friendly, as it is a little bit complicated to use."
"Needs integration with other technology ecosystems."
"The cloud needs improvement with respect to DLP."
"They should concentrate on navigation and service improvements."
"It is too broad scale and complicated. It takes too many clicks to do things."
"I don't find it to be user-friendly or intuitive because, in my case, when I have to deploy SAP systems, I need to jump between the vRA, the vRO, and the actual vCenter itself. I need to go back and forth to do different things... I wish they could make it just one application, just vRA, that does all that. There might be a way to do it but I haven't figured out how to do it yet."
"Technical support could be improved. I definitely feel that the product is accelerating faster than the support engineers are able to keep up with the knowledge needed to know what's going on. The developers maintaining vRealize Automation are doing a great job improving it, but VMware is not doing a great job of training the people who we call to get support for it."
"I would like to see a simpler way of provisioning it. As is, we can automate the provisioning of a VM, however, when it comes to the external IPs, that is outside of VMware. But that has to be automated as well. If there was a way for us to have the virtual machines connect to switches that are external to VMware, that would be great. That way, it would handle the entire workflow from creation and provisioning of a VM to the connectivity to the external IP addresses which allow our customers to have access to the VM. Currently, that IP configuration has to be done manually."
"It has some limitations for scalability, especially for remote data center management. For some components, everything need to be centralized."
"I would like to see support for Google Cloud and Azure. Because they don't support Google and Azure today, we need something that's cohesive with our entire landscape. There is a gap right now with VMware. If you want support for these environments, you have to go elsewhere right now."
"Our current use cases aren't very complex, but as our environment grows, we're seeing a greater need for automation. We're considering expanding our automation efforts, especially since other competitive products are starting to offer similar features."
Skyhigh Security is ranked 14th in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) with 51 reviews while VMware Aria Automation is ranked 15th in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) with 133 reviews. Skyhigh Security is rated 8.4, while VMware Aria Automation is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Skyhigh Security writes "Good scalability, but the technical support service needs improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Aria Automation writes "Allows for a lot of orchestration or customization within our environment to suit our customers". Skyhigh Security is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Netskope , Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Symantec Proxy and Zscaler CASB, whereas VMware Aria Automation is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, VMware Aria Operations, vCloud Director, Morpheus and vCenter Orchestrator. See our Skyhigh Security vs. VMware Aria Automation report.
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