Cisco Secure Access vs. Ericom Security by Cradlepoint vs. Symantec Cloud Secure Web Gateway

Cisco Secure Access has allowed us to monitor and adjust access to web-based resources. We have been able to manage and provide granular rules to allow access to required resources. We are now transitioning to a more zero-trust approach, and so far, the product has demonstrated its capabilities, allowing us to move forward with this approach.

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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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• It offers various security capabilities, including ZTNA, FWaaS, VPNaaS, DNS Security, Data loss prevention, advanced malware protection, etc., all in a single comprehensive solution.
• It enables your employees to access SaaS applications and internet securely
• By isolating sensitive applications and data into smaller segments, it reduces potential damage from a security breach.

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

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• The integration into the Meraki dashboard is not yet complete, you have to use several interfaces to complete the configuration, the services should be fully integrated to provide better handling
• Integration of firewall rules onprem and cloud should be standardized
• Better user management / import

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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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When evaluating secure access and Zero Trust solutions, we looked closely at several leading platforms including Zscaler ZPA/ZIA, Palo Alto Prisma Access, Microsoft Entra Private Access, and Netskope SSE alongside Cisco Secure Access.Our assessment focused on areas that matter most in large, globally distributed, regulated enterprise environments: security effectiveness, ecosystem integration, operational manageability, scalability, and ROI.

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.

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• Prevent access to malicious content, which has proven to be useful.
• We have reduced appliance count and maintenance as this is a fully cloud based solution.
• Lightweight agent that doesn't consume too many resources from the client machines.
• ability to make changes and have them deployed to agents quickly.

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

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