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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cloudflare

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ACloudflare’s connectivity cloud is a unified platform of cloud-native services designed to help enterprises regain control over their IT environments. Powered by an intelligent, programmable global cloud network, it is built to offer security, performance, visibility, and reliability.

    $20

    per month

    Symantec Edge Secure Gateway

    Score4 out of 10
    N/ASymantec Secure Web Gateway (SWG) protects organizations across the web, social media, applications, and mobile networks. SWG acts as a proxy between users and the internet to identify malicious websites and payloads and to control access to sensitive content. SWG solutions consolidate a broad feature-set to authenticate users, filter web traffic, identify cloud application usage, provide data loss prevention, deliver threat prevention, and ensure visibility into encrypted traffic.N/A
    Pricing
    CloudflareSymantec Edge Secure Gateway
    Editions & Modules
    Pro
    $20
    per month
    Business
    $200
    per month
    Free
    Free
    Enterprise
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    Pricing Offerings
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    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    CloudflareSymantec Edge Secure Gateway
    Considered Both Products
    Cloudflare
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    171 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    165 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    171 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    144 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    154 Answers
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    Features
    CloudflareSymantec Edge Secure Gateway
    DDoS Protection
    Comparison of DDoS Protection features of Cloudflare and Symantec Edge Secure Gateway
    Feature
    Cloudflare
    8.4
    6 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Symantec Edge Secure Gateway
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    Ratings
    Automatic Scalability9.47 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mitigation SLA8.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security policy management8.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    WAF capabilities8.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Request rate limiting7.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Traffic filtering7.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bot detection8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Global threat intelligence8.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Real-time analytics and reporting7.87 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Forcepoint SWG
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Skyhigh Secure Web Gateway
    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CloudflareSymantec Edge Secure Gateway
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (192 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.6
    (154 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor post-sale
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    CloudflareSymantec Edge Secure Gateway
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cloudflare
    Cloudflare has features as a CDN/Gateway/Reverse Proxy that simply don't exist in other solutions. Having so many capabilities under a single platform, with solid support and high uptime, has been essential. I would recommend it for hobby projects all the way to enterprise scale. There's a lot of push around AI and workers. Some feel like Cloudflare is following the hype. But after reading a lot about the new features, a decent amount of them has real value.
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    Broadcom
    • In our organization, Symantec ProxySG and Advanced Secure Gateway (ASG) is our primary and second line of defense facing the internet
    • It is positioned behind in conjunction with an intrusion protection service.
    • Before using this concept of defense, our Internet firewalls were continuously being overworked and saturated, slowing down traffic as a result.
    • It is not an option any more not to have Symantec ProxySG and Advanced Secure Gateway (ASG) in our infrastructure.
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    Pros
    Cloudflare
    • The best part is the content delivery network. Cloudflare has a large network of data centres around the world that helps cache and delivers content quickly to our customers.
    • Cloudflare offers us with a fast and reliable DNS service and with the world class features such as Cloudflare workers, SSL verification, certificate management and web application firewall. When all of these are combined together, it provides very strict security for our organization.
    • One of the most important feature that we use is the analytics and threat detection. It provides us with the real time insights of all the threats originating from multiple locations and landing on our websites.
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    Broadcom
    • In conjunction with Active Directory, we can allow or deny access to the internet very quickly. We can also determine the level of access to the internet.
    • To satisfy our executive requirements, we can provide regular reports on internet usage.
    • Malicious protection Symantec ProxySG and Advanced Secure Gateway (ASG) provides beyond our expectations.
    • It is our first level of defense, thus allowing us to reduce our investment in internal security systems.
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    Cons
    Cloudflare
    • In some cases, using Cloudflare can actually lead to slower website speeds if the network is congested or if the website's traffic is particularly heavy.
    • Some website owners may find that the level of customization offered by Cloudflare is limited, especially in comparison to other solutions.
    • While Cloudflare is easy to set up and manage, it may be too complex for users who are not familiar with web technologies.
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    Broadcom
    • On occasion, content analysis needs some tweaking. Specifically, when huge files our downloaded.
    • For our organization using cloud-based applications and services is very discouraged.
    • However, the universe seems to be trending towards cloud-based offerings.
    • It may be reassuring if Symantec ProxySG and Advanced Secure Gateway (ASG) could enhance protection in dealing with cloud services, particularly in protecting data.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cloudflare
    lower cost
    Incentivized
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    Broadcom
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    Usability
    Cloudflare
    Everything is extremely concise and all settings apply immediately and take effect globally. There is no reason to explicitly plan/think in terms of individual regions as one would have to traditional cloud offerings (AWS, OCI, Azure). All Cloudflare products integrate seamless as part of a single pipeline that executes from request to response.
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    Broadcom
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cloudflare
    In 6+ years of relying on Cloudflare, I think we experienced one or two brief outages that were Cloudflare's fault.
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    Broadcom
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    Performance
    Cloudflare
    Their Argo for the global network is the core feature we love.
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    Broadcom
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    Support Rating
    Cloudflare
    While I have had good support in the past from Cloudflare's technical support team, I have had some terrible experiences with billing support. I have had multiple tickets sent to their billing support that I will never receive a reply to for over a month. When I finally do get a reply, it has been an automated email that never gives me an answer to my question.
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    Broadcom
    • We have submitted support request to Symantec ProxySG and Advanced Secure Gateway (ASG). In all cases, responses have been timely, and very comprehensive.
    • The support staff is very knowledgeable and does not hesitate to involve expert resources as required.
    • We have never had an unsolved case with Symantec ProxySG and Advanced Secure Gateway (ASG).
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    Implementation Rating
    Cloudflare
    Very well executed implementation where our team was able to handle the implementation with guidance.
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    Broadcom
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cloudflare
    Nothing like it. Organizations can utilize these Cloudflare products to enhance their online presence by improving security, performance, reliability, and developer efficiency. Cloudflare is an American company that delivers services such as DNS, a content delivery network (CDN), and various other additional services to make websites faster and more secure. Cloudflare is used by over 26 million sites, resulting in the processing of more than 1 billion IP addresses each day.
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    Broadcom
    • Trend Micro IPS combined with Symantec ProxySG and Advanced Secure Gateway (ASG) is a winning formula for our organization
    • Palo Alto next-generation Firewall. Could not handle the load and protection level that we have today.
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    Scalability
    Cloudflare
    They are built for scale and have the capacity to handle all the traffic we could ever expect to get.
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    Broadcom
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    Return on Investment
    Cloudflare
    • Immediate ROI on Registrar and DNS hosting while giving a single plane of glass to managing both with domain registrations at cost, and no cost DNS hosting
    • WAF helped us move at risk servers/applications into a protected state allowing us to perform remediations at a measured pace and get them done right instead of band aide solutions.
    • CDN proxying increase the speed of our website while simultaneously reducing server load.
    • DMARC management and report interpretation allow use to identify weak points in our email systems, remediate and move to stricter policies without significantly increasing staff time spent managing it.
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    Broadcom
    • With the advent of the Symantec ProxySG and Advanced Secure Gateway (ASG), we have reduced by 95% the number of internal security incidents and events.
    • As a result, we have reduced the effort and cost of investigating security incidents.
    • Knock on wood, as a result, and we have never had any data or security breaches.
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