Likelihood to Recommend If you have Sonicwall firewalls, and want to store logs and generate custom reports, then this additional investment is worthy. If you only want to have storage for your logs, then I won't recommend this. You can opt for a Syslog tool or a SIEM platform for analyzing the same and storing logs.
Read full review If you have Symantec based environment including Symantec proxy and endpoints, Content and Malware Analysis is the obvious choice. You can't run the CAS-MAS as a standalone deployment, you need proxies or ICAP supported devices capable to send the files/URLS. It's not a network security device where you can flow/direct the traffic to C/MAS. It does not have UBA, NBA or NTR features, it is just working for analyzing files as expected.
Read full review Pros Consolidated Logging Reporting Custom and predefined templates for reporting Ease of integration with firewall and other tools Similar GUI and web console like of Sonicwall UTM and firewalls Read full review 0 day detection and prevenion Flawless integration with Symantec Ecosystem Integration with other vendors supporting ICAP is also working Custom and golden image support High performance on busy environments Many threats are already detected and prevented through the CAS, it improves the performance drastically. Already builtin virustotal integration Reference to updates and updates information where I can see the product/service detecting which APTs Multiple Antivirus engines which you can select/subscribe Manual submission of file is supported through the gui URL manual submission is also supported Read full review Cons We get reports on the basis of features, like system reports, content/url filtering reports. There must be an option to get reports no the basis of complete user activity, or user timeline They could have bundled or included management along with reporting Pricing considering only collecting of logs and generating reports only from Sonicwall firewalls, I feel is high. Read full review API support is lacking Symantec/Broadcom security vision in general Symantec support is not perfect You can't run the product as a standalone network device No packet capture capabiliy or work in span mode You need a dedicated hardware to make it run You need to buy Read full review Alternatives Considered Read full review We have been using many solutions even tested nearly all available 0day sandbox solutions in the market. We choose Symantec CMA as we have already Symantec endpoint protection/EDR on the client, Symantec proxy for the web access, SCMA fits our environment. We have a big bargain when we puchase lots of equipment from the Symantec. Detection and prevention is very good at SCMA but some constant issues; like the product is not designed for heterogeneous environments, we can not integrate the SCMA with WAFs, it's lacking in api and request/reply calls. There's no file scanning, discover the option. SIEM integration is not smooth. I can not run some of the SOAR playbooks through the SCMA.
Read full review Return on Investment We are not able to keep SonicWall firewall logs for more than 3 months, which has given a positive rating to compliances We are getting custom and scheduled reports of user web activities Logs are now stored safely and securely Read full review 0-day and APT risk is covered by the SCMA As the SSL is inspected and analyzed at Bluecoat proxy servers, hidden threats, malicous files are passed to SCMA to be analyzed. Getting full visibility at file trajectory level As it's a full proxy and ICAP integration, we are sure that the files are to analyzed and scanned for malicious activity. This is a big plus compared to NGFW analyze concept, as the NGFWs have special failsafe mechanisms allowing bypass of file analysis. SCMA fully catches the hidden threats. Flawless integration with Bluecoat systems is a big plus, customers are getting the same type of messages within their browsers. A negative impact is the standardization when I deploy SCAM to one of our locations. Then the auditors demand the same coverage within other areas and it comes with the cost. Especially maintaining these devices on premise environment has a significant cost. Read full review ScreenShots