G2 Vendor Directory

FortiCASB-SaaS vs. Symantec Web Security Service

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricFortiCASB-SaaS

by Fortinet

Symantec Web Security Service

by Broadcom

Overall rating4.54.4
Review count25120
Ease of use8.89.1
Ease of setup9.09.0
Quality of support8.48.6
Meets requirements9.18.9
NPS66.66666759.633028
Small Business36.0%28.3%
Mid-Market48.0%24.2%
Enterprise16.0%47.5%
Total page views91187
Total LLM citations52367

FortiCASB-SaaS

FortiCASB is Fortinet's cloud-native Cloud Access Security Broker service, designed to provide comprehensive visibility, compliance, data security, and threat protection for cloud-based services. By leveraging direct API access, FortiCASB enables deep inspection and policy management for data stored in various cloud application platforms. It offers detailed user analytics and management tools to ensure that organizational policies are enforced, safeguarding sensitive data across multiple SaaS applications.

Pros

    Symantec Web Security Service

    Symantec Web Security Service (WSS) provides the same proactive web protection capabilities delivered by the market’s leading on-premises Secure Web Gateway, Symantec ProxySG, but delivered as a resilient and performant cloud security service. Sitting between employees, wherever they are located, and the Internet, the service protects the enterprise from cyber threats, controls and protects corporate use of cloud applications and the web, prevents data leaks, and ensures compliance with all company information and web/cloud access policies.

    Pros

    • Security Protection
    • Ease of Use
    • Simple
    • Easy Access
    • Implementation Ease
    • Affordable