Item: Cisco Secure Web Appliance
Rating: 3
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cisco Secure Web Appliance is being used to monitor and prohibit any malicious activity from external websites. In addition, it is used to limit bandwidth usage to maintain end-user productivity. Currently, we are using it across the whole organization.

Pros and Cons

Bandwidth restriction
Prevent specific functionality in sites
Blocking and allowing of sites

Unblock feature for users needed
False negatives
Reporting feature

Most Important Features

Malware protection
Blocking
Transparent mode

Return on Investment

Prevention of website functions
End-user installation not necessary
AD sink

Alternatives Considered

Zscaler Internet Access, Sophos Secure Web Gateway and Cisco Umbrella

URL filtering is a feature that Cisco Secure Web Appliance does well. Cisco Secure Web Appliance latency is minimum to almost nothing.

Key Insights

Do you think Cisco Secure Web Appliance delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with Cisco Secure Web Appliance's feature set?

Yes

Did Cisco Secure Web Appliance live up to sales and marketing promises?

Did implementation of Cisco Secure Web Appliance go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Cisco Secure Web Appliance again?

Other Software Used

Cisco Umbrella

Likelihood to Recommend

No additional software installation needed for the endpoints. Preventing the need to install additional software on end-user equipment prevents any additional issues from an endpoint device. The use of API to automatically update exception list is a huge benefit.

Cisco Secure Web Appliance will give you security

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Secure Web Appliance (formerly Cisco WSA)