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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Akamai Identity Cloud

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/AAkamai Identity Cloud (formerly Janrain, acquired January 2019) supports the collection of customer identity data through social and traditional registration and login as well as diverse engagement capabilities like Commenting, Ratings and Reviews and Live Chat. The customer identity data is stored in one unified individual-level profile, making it available for use across a marketing organization and broader enterprise through out of the box integrations with the most common technology…

    $0

    up to 2,500 users

    Forcepoint SWG

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AThe Forcepoint ONE Secure Web Gateway (SWG) is one of the three foundational gateways of the Forcepoint ONE all-in-one cloud platform. Forcepoint ONE SWG monitors and controlsany interaction with any website, including blocking access to websites based on category and risk score, blocking download of malware, blocking upload of sensitive data to personal filesharing accounts, detecting shadow IT, and optionally providingRemote Browser Isolation (RBI) with Content Disarm andReconstruction (CDR).N/A

    NordLayer

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/ANordLayer provides cybersecurity tools for businesses of any size or work model developed by the standard of NordVPN. NordLayer helps organizations secure networks and enhance internet security and modernizes network and resource access with technical improvements aligning with the best regulatory compliance standards. Helping organizations to adopt FWaaS, ZTNA, and SWG principles, NordLayer is focused on the Security Service Edge of cybersecurity services.…

    $8

    per month if Yearly plan per user

    Pricing
    Akamai Identity CloudForcepoint SWGNordLayer
    Editions & Modules
    Free Basic Social Login
    $0
    up to 2,500 users
    Enterprise
    $5,000
    100k users
    Pro
    $1,000/$2,250
    10k/25k users
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    Lite
    $8
    per month if Yearly plan per user
    Core
    $11
    per month if Yearly plan per user
    Premium
    $14
    per month if Yearly plan per user
    Custom
    x
    per month if Yearly plan per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Akamai Identity CloudForcepoint SWGNordLayer
    Free Trial
    YesNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsFor full platform pricing, please contact us.——
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    User Ratings
    Akamai Identity CloudForcepoint SWGNordLayer
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (76 ratings)
    8.7
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
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    10.0
    (3 ratings)
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    Usability
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    10.0
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    Support Rating
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    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    Akamai Identity CloudForcepoint SWGNordLayer
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Akamai
    It helps to store our data online and also they provide security to our data. We can access our data anytime and anywhere. The Initial setup was heavy it could have been much better. To overcome this they do provide good customer support where we can call them to clear our concerns. It is not suitable for small business people where the cost is high inside many can't afford their plans.
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    Forcepoint
    Over the years, [in our experience], the maintenance of the Forcepoint Web Security solution proved to be more cumbersome and troublesome with each version upgrade. In addition, it did not transition well to support the large increase of remote workers. We also experienced weird incompatibilities with the client. We have since replaced this solution with Zscaler Internet Access, a cloud-based secure web gateway solution with a client that behaves as expected, is more flexible, and requires significantly less administration.
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    Nord Security
    NordLayer has become an invaluable resource for our security posture and day-to-day activity. The primary use case is preventing staff members from accessing sensitive resources on an unencrypted connection, applying NordLayer and conditional access policies in congruency. The ability to create teams and assigned them to specific dedicated servers is also helpful and allows for further security segmentation
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    Pros
    Akamai
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    Forcepoint
    • It prevents users from accessing websites that may have recently been created for the purpose of distributing malware.
    • It prevents users from accidentally or intentionally accessing websites that are considered inappropriate for a work environment.
    • It allows us to create different policies for different teams in our organization.
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    Nord Security
    • Easy to use
    • Simple user interface desgin
    • Support many VPN protocol
    • Fast and reliable connection
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    Cons
    Akamai
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    Forcepoint
    • The user access logs contain a lot of useless information. I understand this is very hard to tackle as I've seen this across any product that logs web activity.
    • I would like to see more customization options of website block pages.
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    Nord Security
    • The browser plugin needs some work, or some research about what browser/OS restrictions may limit its functionality. Ours does not work at all even after contacting support so we do not use it
    • Toast/Windows notifications scheduled or deployed through admin center would be amazing. The ability to remind a user who has been disconnected for X hours would be a great feature
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Akamai
    No answers on this topic
    Forcepoint
    It is very stable, the organisation has "locked in" the product and has no plans to change or try another product. We have already renewed our 2019-2020 licenses. It is user friendly and people catch on easily when they first use it. The only downtime is when we install Microsoft updates! It has excellent reporting which help in determining how the organisation's Internet is used and also during both internal and external IT audits.
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    Nord Security
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    Usability
    Akamai
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    Forcepoint
    Despite the intimidating Linux CLI when you use the appliance for troubleshooting, the web security usability compensates as most of the Administration of the system is done there. It is GUI based and has an easy to use UI where one can navigate around rather easily like getting reports, checking alerts, looking the whole setup under deployment to check if all services are running in one place though there are other parts to the system.
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    Nord Security
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    Support Rating
    Akamai
    No answers on this topic
    Forcepoint
    The is a quick first response to acknowledge your issue and the Engineers never take more than two hours to fix an issue and we hardly get issues looking at the fact that the system is pretty stable. There is also a robust Knowledge Base in the site for known problems.
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    Nord Security
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    Implementation Rating
    Akamai
    No answers on this topic
    Forcepoint
    Research known issues with upgrading from the Support Knowledge base, this will enable you avoid road blocks along the way and reduce your dependence on Forcepoint Support
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    Nord Security
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    Alternatives Considered
    Akamai
    We are using Janrain to protect our data from internet attacks and they also have good customer support to cover critical instances. Customer data can be accessed easily. They also have an MFA facility to stop unauthorized persons [from] accessing the data. They also provide a 30-day basic plan to experience their facility which can be useful to know the features and facility of that product.
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    Forcepoint
    To be honest, once using Forcepoint for our Web Security, I have not wanted to look anywhere else. The dashboard gives me quick insight of threats, productivity, and bandwidth usage. Again, this is a layer in my security and it fills many holes. I feel safe and I do like I can just let it do its thing
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    Nord Security
    easy configuration and use case
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    Return on Investment
    Akamai
    • Customer data can be easily accessed
    • we have protected our data which can also be accessed anywhere without worrying [about] internet attacks
    • Pricing is bit high for what we get
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    Forcepoint
    • Being a non-profit the cost is a bit higher than some competitors so our ROI takes a bit longer to recoup. I would really like to see better non-profit pricing.
    • The ease of doing a report on someone cuts down on the IT man-hours to do website tracking for managers as we can do it from a central point whereas in the past (prior to Forcepoint/Websense) we would have to ghost their machine to look for activity as well as their local servers.
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    Nord Security
    • Improved sercurity
    • Incresed productivity
    • Performance impact
    Incentivized
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