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Cisco CWS vs Cisco Secure Web Appliance

Cisco CWS
14 Ratings
Cisco Secure Web Appliance
26 Ratings
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Cisco CWS

14 Ratings
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Score 9.7 out of 100

Based on 14 reviews and ratings

Cisco Secure Web Appliance

26 Ratings
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Score 8.1 out of 100

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Attribute Ratings

  • Cisco Cloud Web Security is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend

Likelihood to Recommend

7.0

Cisco CWS

70%
1 Rating
6.2

Cisco Secure Web Appliance

62%
8 Ratings

Usability

Cisco CWS

N/A
0 Ratings
9.0

Cisco Secure Web Appliance

90%
1 Rating

Support Rating

Cisco CWS

N/A
0 Ratings
6.4

Cisco Secure Web Appliance

64%
4 Ratings

Likelihood to Recommend

Cisco CWS

Remote and telework but not for onsite filtering.

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Alan Matson, CCNA:S, MCP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Alan Matson, CCNA:S, MCP
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Cisco Secure Web Appliance

We have both scenarios where we can describe that. For example, in the HQ, where we have about 3,000 users, Cisco IronPort Web Security Appliance is the ideal solution, because we can consolidate all the Internet access, policies, rules, etc. in the same box. However, if you have small offices with a few users, it's hard to justify one big and expensive box that could cost more than the whole office infrastructure.

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Eduardo Viero | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Pros

Cisco CWS

  • Flexibility
  • Scalable
  • Ease of administration

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Alan Matson, CCNA:S, MCP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Alan Matson, CCNA:S, MCP
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Cisco Secure Web Appliance

  • SMA gave us central control over multiple servers, simplifying management.
  • Performance of the Appliance VM exceeded that of our old physical appliance-based solution.
  • Convenient licensing for virtualized environments that allows easy scaling.

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Cons

Cisco CWS

  • Intuitiveness of the UI
  • Real time reporting
  • Report detail

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Alan Matson, CCNA:S, MCP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Alan Matson, CCNA:S, MCP
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Cisco Secure Web Appliance

  • The default metrics on the dashboard visualization are not that useful. It is not much customizable too. Some of the dashboard features like load, volume, etc. can have a hide option.
  • The false negatives are more than false positives. A lot of the times, it verdicts the same email as malicious and non-malicious. This can be reduced.

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Kuntal Das | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Pricing Details

Cisco CWS

General

Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level set up fee?
No

Starting Price

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Cisco Secure Web Appliance

General

Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
—
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—
Entry-level set up fee?
No

Starting Price

—

Usability

Cisco CWS

No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic

Cisco Secure Web Appliance

Cisco Secure Web Appliance 9.0
Based on 1 answer
Because it's one of those products you almost don't realize it exists from the end user. From the administrator perspective, you can do everything on its web interface and it's very intuitive to manage, once you know the concepts behind identities, acls, etc. Also, once you build the control structure, I mean, you link 'local' groups with your own Active Directory groups, as we did here, you don't need to be managing those things on the appliance itself.

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Eduardo Viero | TrustRadius Reviewer
Eduardo Viero
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Support Rating

Cisco CWS

No score
No answers yet
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Cisco Secure Web Appliance

Cisco Secure Web Appliance 6.4
Based on 4 answers
Our experience with Cisco's support was terrible. Other than the fact that they don't respond to service-related emails with urgency, they also keep on changing the policies that affected us. Recently, they came up with a new look for the same software, which was insanely slow. Renewal of keys for the old interface took months. Overall, the support was not very friendly from the users' point of view.

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Kuntal Das | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Alternatives Considered

Cisco CWS

CWS is on par with Forcepoint cloud web security. It offers flexibility and scalability.

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Alan Matson, CCNA:S, MCP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Alan Matson, CCNA:S, MCP
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Cisco Secure Web Appliance

At home I have a McAfee service that does similar tasks and helps manage the users of my internet. McAfee seems more user friendly and easier to set exceptions.

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Return on Investment

Cisco CWS

  • Increased security
  • Decrease in number of infections

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Alan Matson, CCNA:S, MCP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Alan Matson, CCNA:S, MCP
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Cisco Secure Web Appliance

  • Security! Security! Security! We are financial company that work with very sensitive information. A lot of unsafe traffic was blocked on the Cisco IronPort WSA over years of using it. We did not earn on it but absolutely sure that we did not lose 'gazillion' of dollars being infected or scammed.
  • Easy to configure and use, no need to teach new personnel how work with this product (hopefully saving time = saving money).
  • Unfortunately the price of license subscription made financial managers push IT dept. to look for something cheaper.

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Valeryi Mezentsev | TrustRadius Reviewer
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