Cisco Secure Web Appliance vs. Websense TRITON (Discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cisco Secure Web Appliance
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Cisco Secure Web Appliance (formerly Cisco Web Security Appliance [WSA]), powered by Cisco Talos, protects by automatically blocking risky sites and testing unknown sites before allowing users to link to them, helping with compliance. It is available models S690, S390, and S190.N/A
Websense TRITON (Discontinued)
Score 1.0 out of 10
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TRITON from the former Websense was the company's brand for the Internet security platform and web security gateway from that company. Since Websense was merged to form Forcepoint, the TRITON line of products have been discontinued.N/A
Pricing
Cisco Secure Web ApplianceWebsense TRITON (Discontinued)
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Cisco Secure Web ApplianceWebsense TRITON (Discontinued)
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Cisco Secure Web ApplianceWebsense TRITON (Discontinued)
Top Pros
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User Ratings
Cisco Secure Web ApplianceWebsense TRITON (Discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
6.6
(9 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
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Support Rating
6.4
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Cisco Secure Web ApplianceWebsense TRITON (Discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
Cisco
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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Discontinued Products
If you want to prevent data leakage, you must setup TRITON to make it. You can find any attempts with many various ways - by email, removable device, endpoint agent etc. It gives you to nearly %100 protection!
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Pros
Cisco
  • 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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Discontinued Products
  • It useful for the largest companies.
  • Easy to manage it, after installation there's no need hardly to support it.
  • Forcepoint's supports are always good, easy to communicate and quick to solve problems.
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Cons
Cisco
  • I think that the interface could need updates to adapt it to a much more current system, achieve quick access to necessary tools and adapt the platform to a much more customizable and comfortable system to work with.
  • It is undoubtedly a platform that is worth having, however, the license costs could be better adjusted to small businesses so that it can be accessed more easily.
  • It could be a bit complex to use, the use of codes is quite extensive, it could be adjusted to something much more practical but just as efficient.
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Discontinued Products
  • There is nothing actually.
  • There is nothing actually.
  • There is nothing actually.
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Usability
Cisco
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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Discontinued Products
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Support Rating
Cisco
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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Discontinued Products
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Alternatives Considered
Cisco
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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Discontinued Products
I don't have any strong ideas comparing two products, sorry.
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Return on Investment
Cisco
  • 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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Discontinued Products
  • Releasing too many agent versions makes it difficult to deploy the whole organization.
  • Not specifically, but we've found too many attempts about data leakage. It directly saved money.
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