Cisco Cloud Web Security vs. Symantec Web Security Service

Remote and telework but not for onsite filtering.

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Symantec Web Security Service monitors and filters network traffic to protect web servers from cyberattacks. Its single dashboard view, excellent UI/UX, and easy DLP integration make it a market leader. Excellent sandboxing for safe browsing in restricted IT networks. Threat categorization and stateful SSL description of web traffic to identify dynamic threat vectors. However, alerts and notifications only work quickly when large-scale DDoS attacks happen.

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• Flexibility
• Scalable
• Ease of administration

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• Complete web protection.
• Easy to setup.
• Great reputation and credibility.

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

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• Advanced and targeted attacks
• Policy granularity
• better support

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The support has become average ever since broadcom acquisition and they moving to GCP. There is no focus of existing customers as the presale do not exist

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

Incentivized

Symantec Web Security Service is a powerful tool for moderating website traffic and protecting user data. Easy DLP integration makes it a market leader, and it works with Symantec DLP and EDR to protect remote users' browsing activity. Threat categorization and stateful SSL description of web traffic to identify dynamic threat vectors. Unified threat dashboard with seamless alerting. So compared to other solutions, it is standout.

Incentivized

• Increased security
• Decrease in number of infections

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• Slightly on the costlier side.
• Less risk of security lapse.
• Extensive protection against web attacks.

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