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- Cyren DNS Security (Cyren Web Security) is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Recommend

10.0
Cyren DNS Security (Cyren Web Security)
100%
1 Rating
9.2
Sophos Secure Web Gateway (discontinued)
92%
2 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Cyren DNS Security (Cyren Web Security)
For any form of company control on a larger scale where threats can have a very detrimental effect but not suited to SME scenarios was cost factor would be a key component and not require as much automation.
IT Manager
LV Shipping & TransportTransportation/Trucking/Railroad, 501-1000 employees
Sophos Secure Web Gateway (discontinued)
Sophos Secure Web Gateway is great for almost any business that needs an easily-manageable proxy server. We're a medium-sized enterprise, but the product would work great for much larger companies as well. The only real limitations would be hardware resources, but it isn't that intensive. The administration of it is very intuitive, and it was quick to set up.Where it might not make sense is across multiple sites, unless all internet traffic is funneled through one place. It would be a bit complicated to maintain multiple setups.
Technical Administrator
New Hampshire Retirement SystemGovernment Administration, 51-200 employees
Pros
Cyren DNS Security (Cyren Web Security)
- Category Control in multiple languages.
- Simple interface controls whever I am.
- Swift and experienced support team.
IT Manager
LV Shipping & TransportTransportation/Trucking/Railroad, 501-1000 employees
Sophos Secure Web Gateway (discontinued)
- When IT Admins need to deploy virtually.
- When IT Admins want to have high availability without an extra cost (via the Virtual Appliance Deployment).
- When IT Admins want to control and give the internet fair use within the organization.
CEO And Founder
Advisor Consulting Group CorpComputer Networking, 1-10 employees
Cons
Cyren DNS Security (Cyren Web Security)
- Some enhancements to filetype control as PDF's can be flagged wrongly preventing download as executables
- Quicker log updating on the fly error checking.
IT Manager
LV Shipping & TransportTransportation/Trucking/Railroad, 501-1000 employees
Sophos Secure Web Gateway (discontinued)
- Administrator Permissions: There's not enough granularity on the administrative side. We ran into an issue where we wanted to restrict junior admins from being able to see traffic per user. But in doing so, it also prevented them from adusting some other settings they had to have access to, like setting exceptions for sites.
- CA Database: I occasionally run into issues where the list of certificate authorities in the appliance is not up to date, and I have to manually add a CA. These aren't rare, never-heard-of authorities, either, but they are usually subsidiaries of one of the major ones.
- Feedback: Sometimes it takes some good detective skills to track down why a legitimate site isn't working. It's often because of content hosted elsewhere (images, for example), but the reports aren't always clear as to what actually gets blocked. It takes some trial and error sometimes to unblock something that should be okay for our business.
Technical Administrator
New Hampshire Retirement SystemGovernment Administration, 51-200 employees
Pricing Details
Cyren DNS Security (Cyren Web Security)
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Sophos Secure Web Gateway (discontinued)
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Alternatives Considered
Cyren DNS Security (Cyren Web Security)
Better price point and interface and system thinking ahead to the future and not re-using the same old systems.
IT Manager
LV Shipping & TransportTransportation/Trucking/Railroad, 501-1000 employees
Sophos Secure Web Gateway (discontinued)
Sophos Secure Web Gateway has flexible pricing and deployment options. It offers a huge range of categorization options and they also pull web categorization info from other services
CEO And Founder
Advisor Consulting Group CorpComputer Networking, 1-10 employees
Return on Investment
Cyren DNS Security (Cyren Web Security)
- Protected against some dangerous day zero threats.
IT Manager
LV Shipping & TransportTransportation/Trucking/Railroad, 501-1000 employees
Sophos Secure Web Gateway (discontinued)
- We have not had a single instance of malware since installing Web Gateway. We have other ways to prevent infections and attacks, of course, so this is just one tool in the box, but we had a handful before this from people visiting sites they should not have. Web Gateway has prevented those, at least.
- There was some pushback initially as users had to deal with some business sites not working (usually due to CA problems). After the initial growing pains, however, we've seen very few other problems.
- The appliance updates itself, in the middle of the night, so that reduces some overhead and planned downtime.
Technical Administrator
New Hampshire Retirement SystemGovernment Administration, 51-200 employees