Skyhigh Secure Web Gateway vs. Sophos Web Content Filtering

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Skyhigh Secure Web Gateway
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Skyhigh 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
Sophos Web Content Filtering
Score 8.9 out of 10
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UK headquartered Sophos offers web content filtering.N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
Skyhigh Secure Web GatewaySophos Web Content Filtering
Likelihood to Recommend
7.6
(5 ratings)
9.0
(7 ratings)
Usability
9.0
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User Testimonials
Skyhigh Secure Web GatewaySophos Web Content Filtering
Likelihood to Recommend
Skyhigh Security
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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Sophos
Before Sophos, I would receive scammers regarding tradeshow lists. People wanted me to pay for lists, but these people weren't actually from the tradeshows. I can now block those, and have received much fewer of those scams. I am also able to open emails within quarantine to view them before deleting, releasing, allowing, or blocking. I use this to my advantage, and am able to make better decisions on what to do with the emails.
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Pros
Skyhigh Security
  • Great malware protection.
  • Excellent sandboxing.
  • Great URL filtering.
  • Very good pre-defined policies.
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Sophos
  • Sophos does an excellent job of category-based content filtering. It's easy to configure and flexible for many environments with the ability to tighten or loosen restrictions as requirements determing.
  • Sophos' built-in capabilites can force safe search rules to protect against content work-arounds like Image search and search engines in general.
  • The Sophos XTreme architecture also helps improve the overall performance of the Web Content Filtering solution. It is very quick and very transparent when in use on the network.
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Cons
Skyhigh Security
  • Support response
  • Better pricing
  • Best practices guides
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Sophos
  • It only allows UTF-8 encoded characters.
  • It does not support metadata.
  • It does not support comments in the custom filter file.
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Usability
Skyhigh Security
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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Sophos
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Alternatives Considered
Skyhigh Security
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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Sophos
Sophos has been a much easier product to configure and eventually manage, with preset rules and policies to start off right out of the box, saving administrators time from adding every category and or site. However you can add/import all know good company sites (internal url's) as well as local sites for a safer settings. (know sites)
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Return on Investment
Skyhigh Security
  • An effective tool in enforcing Internet policies.
  • Adds a necessary layer of Internet security over and above UTM Firewall offerings.
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Sophos
  • Super positive impact, the Sandstorming Add On, it increases protection at it's maximum level (for new or existent/variant threats).
  • Customers often have the need of a system capable of report everything that the network is being handed, Sophos Web Content Filtering achieves this.
  • The ROI is very fast since top management quickly see results on filtering and reporting of what is really going on within their networks.
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