Skyhigh Security Reviews

We use this solution for controlling web content that the users are accessing. It's very good in case situations where you have the use of a VPN connection.

You can control your employees when they are in the office and out of the office, without using a VPN in the same fashion.

The on-premise solution will control them when they are on the corporate network, and when they're off the corporate network, the cloud's gateway will control them. They have the same policies.

It's a great product with solid features.

It's a security appliance and it is quite secure.

They are quite well integrated.

The documentation could be improved. The documentation could be more detailed with more examples of usage.

We have been selling McAfee Web Gateway for four years.

Deployment can be on-premises or on the cloud.

It is a very stable solution.

I don't have any issues with the scalability. You have to do the sizing before they implement it afterward. 

You have other solutions that have to increase the volume of usage.

We have several large clients that are using it.

We are satisfied with technical support.

The initial setup is straightforward. It is easy to install.

If the client has a lot of demands and depending on their structure or the client's requests, it can be complex to configure.  In general, it is straightforward and easy to configure.

Some of our clients have a perpetual license and pay additional support yearly. 

We don't have any customers that are using subscriptions yet.

I wouldn't say that it is an expensive solution but it's not cheap. We pay for what it's worth.

I would recommend this solution to others who are interested in using it.

I would rate McAfee Web Gateway a nine out of ten.

If you don't need an on-premises console for central management, this solution works very well. That's its main benefit. It's useful for companies that have a workforce that is dispersed as opposed to in a central location.

The solution is very easy to use. It's easy to navigate.

The product has proven itself to be very stable.

The solution is scalable.

We find it to be quite flexible.

Overall, the performance is good.

Due to the fact that it's in the cloud, you don't have to maintain it. It's maintained by McAfee. You don't need to worry about updates and upgrades.

McAfee needs to add more products that could be managed from the cloud. At the moment, not all of their endpoint products can be managed from this console. I'd like McAfee endpoint products to be managed from the cloud console. It's my understanding that they do plan to do this. It's just a matter of time. 

There are still a lot of customers who are demanding on-premise solutions. That's the situation on the ground here. People do not easily switch to cloud products. They're sticking to on-premise solutions so that they can fully control their IT. 

We've been using the solution for a few years at this point. We've used it pretty much since it's been in the market.

The solution is quite stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable and the performance is good.

The product scales quite well. If you need to expand the solution you can.

We have several customers on the product currently.

We would like to increase usage, however, in Serbia, many clients still prefer on-premises solutions.

We don't have a need to use technical support a lot, as we are doing the support for our customers, mainly. However, when we have a ticket, they solve it in a normal amount of time. I'm satisfied. I haven't had any issues at all.

There is no installation due to the fact that everything is in the cloud. You can do the installation on the end points, however, that's normal.

We're resellers. We can assist our clients in the implementation.

Customers do need to pay a licensing fee in order to use the solution. I cannot speak to the exact price.

We are resellers. We have clients using the product.

I'd recommend the solution to others. I would rate it at a nine out of ten overall.

We primarily use the solution for security purposes. McAfee in general is very good for that.

The solution is stable. The performance has been great.

It's an easy-to-use product. We find it to be quite user-friendly.

The scalability of the product is excellent. 

Overall, we have been very happy with the product. It's been working well.

The installation was straightforward and pretty simple. 

The pricing of the solution could be adjusted to make it more reasonable. 

I"ve been using the solution only for a couple of months at this point. It hasn't been a long period of time just yet. It's still new to me.

The product is quite stable and we have found the performance to be good. It doesn't crash or freeze. there are no bugs or glitches. We are happy with its capabilities.

The solution can scale if you need it to. A company shouldn't have any issues expanding it.

We have one or two customers that use it at this time.

We've been satisfied with technical support overall. They have been helpful and responsive. We have no complaints in terms of their overall capabilities.

The initial setup was not overly complex or difficult. It was straightforward. We found it simple. A company shouldn't face any issues with the implementation.

The solution could improve the cost a bit.

You do need to have a license in order to use the solution. I cannot speak to the exact costs.

I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten overall. We are pretty happy with its capabilities and have no complaints. 

I'd recommend the solution to other users and companies. 

We use the solution for endpoint security. 

The solution is hard to configure, our team does not have specific training requirements for McAfee making it difficult. Another issue is with decreasing performance with desktop and laptop due to the solution.  

In a future release, I would like them to add email protection as part of their offerings. 

We have been using the solution for one year.

I found the solution to be stable.

We have not tried to expand the solution. There are 40 users using it in our organization.

The initial setup of the solution is not easy, it is complex. 

The solution requires a technical team for deployment because it is challenging. 

The price of the solution is good and we pay an annual license.

I will recommend the solution to other users. However, I would suggest having a deployment team assisting with the installation. 

I rate McAfee MVISION Cloud a seven out of ten. 

This is a web security product, it controls the usage of web for employees. There is an integral anti-virus and web URL filtering solution. I've used the solution in multiple companies that I worked in, and for the last six months I have a new company and I sell the solution along with other security products. I'm a security engineer. 

I like the anti-virus filtering, URL categorization, and reporting capabilities. I also like the ability to control what kinds of files or content can be downloaded. So you can restrict executables and potential harmful files. It's a very sophisticated and mature solution. 

I think it's a very good product although the user interface is not very intuitive and could be improved. Because of its sophistication, it's not so easy to manage and you have to learn to use it well. The solution can't really be simplified because then it would not be so customizable. You have to know what you're doing. If you don't know about filtering, you won't be able to use it well. I also think that the URL filter model and the web application filter model should be more tightly coupled but it's a lot of effort to get them to work together, not an easy problem. It's two different models - URL filtering and web application filtering. 

I've been using this solution for nine years. 

Scalability is no problem. It is cluster able so I can use many devices. We have small companies in Hungary, usually some 1000 users, but we have one simple appliance. It can deal with many users. I assume even 50,000 users would not be a problem for this product. 

I've used technical support rarely but when we've had an issue they respond relatively quickly and they know what to do. I like them. 

I have seen other products like Websense, which is Forcepoint now, and McAfee Web Gateway which is better than Websense, I think. The features are generally the same, but McAfee is easier to manage and maintain, easier to overview. It also has better debugging capabilities and better logging.

The initial setup is very, very straightforward. I think it's one of the best. 

I would definitely recommend this solution and would rate it a 10 out of 10. 

We use this solution to protect us against online threats, as well as for user activity monitoring.

The most valuable feature is the SSL decryption.

The cloud capability needs to be improved in terms of scalability. More generally, both scalability and performance on the cloud need to be improved.

The cloud needs improvement with respect to DLP.

We would like to have integration with Shadow IT analytics.

I have been working with the McAfee Web Gateway for five years.

This is a stable solution. It is constantly running across the entire enterprise.

Scalability on the cloud is something that needs improvement.

Our company has about 50,000 employees.

McAfee's technical support is fairly good.

Prior to McAfee, we were using Blue Coat. Two of the important things that Blue Coat was lacking are the SSL description capability and the in-line antivirus. I'm not sure if they have the capability now, but that is the reason that we switched to McAfee.

The initial setup is fairly straightforward and easy to perform.

Our in-house team implemented this solution. The architectural design and implementation were completed with the support and assistance of the McAfee team.

My advice for anybody who is implementing this solution is to use a hybrid model, rather than just something for a specific use case. Otherwise, you won't have a full 360-degree view. Integration with Active Directory is critical, as is the log integration with your SIEM solution. These are key factors that you need to consider.

If I were rating the on-premises and cloud-based features separately, I would give it a nine out of ten on-premises and a seven out of ten for the cloud.

Overall, I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

We use this solution as a CASB, a Cloud Access Security Broker, to gain insight into our cloud environment. We integrate this solution for our clients as a companion service to our main cloud product.

It gives us visibility into how the data is being used within our cloud environment. It shows the flow of information, and in our case, it has to with documentation that is restricted. For example, if a document contains credit card information or social security numbers then we are able to track it when somebody tries to delete them or do something else that is prohibited. We get flagged, which is the key. It enhances the visibility of what's in our cloud environment.

The most valuable feature for us is the integration with DLP. 

The biggest challenge we have with McAfee is their cross-cloud support. They tend to lag by a few months, in terms of providing support for new cloud platforms, or new cloud features. We're primarily focused on SaaS, so the other opportunities for them to improve their integration is with AWS and PaaS.

I would like to see better integration with on-premise tools.

That stability is good. It's a very good tool.

We have had no problems in terms of scalability.

We have a team of about forty people who use it. There is the DLP team, the various tenant cloud security administration team, and we also have our staff that uses it.

We found that the documentation is meager, but the response time from technical support is very good.

We did not use another solution prior to this one.

This solution is very easy to set up.

It took us about a month to get it up and running, but it took us four months to figure out how to use it amongst the different teams.

The licensing fees are based on what environments you are monitoring.

We did evaluate a couple of other options, and we have other solutions as well. We have Evident.io, one from Cisco, and one from Palo Alto. None of them are good in every environment, so we use a combination of these solutions.

I have found, based on implementations for multiple clients, that Evident.io doesn't meet the needs of all of the people. Evident.io is not a security protocol. It gives you visibility into your cloud, but it's not a broker. It's just an analysis tool. It is very PaaS-friendly, but not a SaaS-friendly tool. This is opposed to Skyhigh, which is SaaS-friendly but not PaaS-friendly.

My advice for anyone who is implementing this solution is to know what roles you will need to grant access to and have your roles predefined.

This solution has good coverage and good integration with other McAfee products. I am not giving it a perfect score because of the uneven coverage for other platforms. They tend to lag in terms of support for new platforms and new tools that come out on the cloud. 

I would rate this product a seven out of ten.

The primary use case is to prevent employees from extracting the data out of their corporate system and getting them outside through Gmail and things like that.

Predominantly, there are two valuable features: One is the data loss and the other one is network loss. 

It also prevents you from writing data to your Gmail and does not allow you to move your data outside of the corporate system. That is the most important feature for me.

I would like to see more power being given to the admin. In the sense that in case an employee is facing an issue and they want to configure a service, like attaching an email in Gmail, for example, they should be given the option to make the service request and get that configured on the go.

Stability has been good so far. 

We have 14,000 users using this solution, all of the employees in the company. Everybody has it installed on their laptops or their desktops.

I would advise someone considering this solution to configure it the way the OEM advises you. You should have a list of customization.

I would rate it a seven and a half out of ten.