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Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway vs. Skyhigh Secure Web Gateway

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    Forcepoint SWG

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AThe Forcepoint ONE Secure Web Gateway (SWG) is one of the three foundational gateways of the Forcepoint ONE all-in-one cloud platform. Forcepoint ONE SWG monitors and controlsany interaction with any website, including blocking access to websites based on category and risk score, blocking download of malware, blocking upload of sensitive data to personal filesharing accounts, detecting shadow IT, and optionally providingRemote Browser Isolation (RBI) with Content Disarm andReconstruction (CDR).N/A

    Skyhigh Secure Web Gateway

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASkyhigh Secure Web Gateway (replacing the former McAfee Web Gateway) is presented by the vendor as high-performance on-premises web security, that can be deployed as dedicated hardware or a virtual machine. With it, users can enforce internet-use policies, analyze the nature and intent of content and active code entering the network, and use DLP technology to scan outbound traffic.N/A
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Forcepoint SWGSkyhigh Secure Web Gateway
    Considered Both Products
    Forcepoint
    Chose Forcepoint SWG
    Forcepoint was a much more robust product, had progressive add on (DLP, email). We did a shoot out and their suite was heads over better.
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    Trellix (Musarubra US LLC)
    Chose Skyhigh Secure Web Gateway
    Kind of flexibility in Deployment and Customization which we get with McAfee Web Gateway was the driving factor we went with it and it has met our expectations. After implementing the McAfee Web Gateway, the count of the service desk tickets raised by users related to the web …
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    Would buy again
    70%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    86%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    78%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Medium-sized Companies
    UniFi Cloud Gateways
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Forcepoint SWG
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Skyhigh Secure Web Gateway
    Score8 out of 10
    Cisco Secure Web Appliance
    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Forcepoint SWGSkyhigh Secure Web Gateway
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (76 ratings)
    7.9
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Forcepoint SWGSkyhigh Secure Web Gateway
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Forcepoint
    Over the years, [in our experience], the maintenance of the Forcepoint Web Security solution proved to be more cumbersome and troublesome with each version upgrade. In addition, it did not transition well to support the large increase of remote workers. We also experienced weird incompatibilities with the client. We have since replaced this solution with Zscaler Internet Access, a cloud-based secure web gateway solution with a client that behaves as expected, is more flexible, and requires significantly less administration.
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    Trellix (Musarubra US LLC)
    McAfee Web Gateway is best suited for all types of organizations if they wan to achieve the security for their users as it has the large intel database as well. The best part is its flexible hybrid deployment methods- it can be deployed on premises (hardware and virtual), in the cloud, or both for the high availability.
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    Pros
    Forcepoint
    • It prevents users from accessing websites that may have recently been created for the purpose of distributing malware.
    • It prevents users from accidentally or intentionally accessing websites that are considered inappropriate for a work environment.
    • It allows us to create different policies for different teams in our organization.
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    Trellix (Musarubra US LLC)
    • Great malware protection.
    • Excellent sandboxing.
    • Great URL filtering.
    • Very good pre-defined policies.
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    Cons
    Forcepoint
    • The user access logs contain a lot of useless information. I understand this is very hard to tackle as I've seen this across any product that logs web activity.
    • I would like to see more customization options of website block pages.
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    Trellix (Musarubra US LLC)
    • Support response
    • Better pricing
    • Best practices guides
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Forcepoint
    It is very stable, the organisation has "locked in" the product and has no plans to change or try another product. We have already renewed our 2019-2020 licenses. It is user friendly and people catch on easily when they first use it. The only downtime is when we install Microsoft updates! It has excellent reporting which help in determining how the organisation's Internet is used and also during both internal and external IT audits.
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    Usability
    Forcepoint
    Despite the intimidating Linux CLI when you use the appliance for troubleshooting, the web security usability compensates as most of the Administration of the system is done there. It is GUI based and has an easy to use UI where one can navigate around rather easily like getting reports, checking alerts, looking the whole setup under deployment to check if all services are running in one place though there are other parts to the system.
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    Trellix (Musarubra US LLC)
    Excellent products based on all the needs we had. Most of our use cases has been able to implement. DLP is kind of difficult to implement but possible. However you needs a big team to handle the tools as it's capabilities and management is complex. Nevertheles you can find a way to leverage all the funcionality when needed.
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    Support Rating
    Forcepoint
    The is a quick first response to acknowledge your issue and the Engineers never take more than two hours to fix an issue and we hardly get issues looking at the fact that the system is pretty stable. There is also a robust Knowledge Base in the site for known problems.
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    Trellix (Musarubra US LLC)
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    Implementation Rating
    Forcepoint
    Research known issues with upgrading from the Support Knowledge base, this will enable you avoid road blocks along the way and reduce your dependence on Forcepoint Support
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    Trellix (Musarubra US LLC)
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    Forcepoint
    To be honest, once using Forcepoint for our Web Security, I have not wanted to look anywhere else. The dashboard gives me quick insight of threats, productivity, and bandwidth usage. Again, this is a layer in my security and it fills many holes. I feel safe and I do like I can just let it do its thing
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    Trellix (Musarubra US LLC)
    The configuration of the Cisco Secure Web Appliance of even worse than the one of Skyhigh's Secure Web Gateway. The detecction rate was slightly higher but the visibility worse.
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    Return on Investment
    Forcepoint
    • Being a non-profit the cost is a bit higher than some competitors so our ROI takes a bit longer to recoup. I would really like to see better non-profit pricing.
    • The ease of doing a report on someone cuts down on the IT man-hours to do website tracking for managers as we can do it from a central point whereas in the past (prior to Forcepoint/Websense) we would have to ghost their machine to look for activity as well as their local servers.
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    Trellix (Musarubra US LLC)
    • An effective tool in enforcing Internet policies.
    • Adds a necessary layer of Internet security over and above UTM Firewall offerings.
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