Symantec Web Security Service

by Broadcom

120

Reviews

4.4

Star rating

Rank in Browser Isolation

Pros and cons

Pros

Security Protection
Ease of Use
Simple
Easy Access
Implementation Ease
Affordable

Cons

Notification Issues
Software Bugs
Integration Issues
Expensive
Software Instability
Poor Customer Support

Traffic & LLM citations

Monthly G2.com page views and citations by AI answer engines for Symantec Web Security Service.

Page views and citations · Symantec Web Security Service

Source: G2 review data

Winning from

Based on reviewers who said they switched from another product.

Forcepoint Web Security

2 switched

Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

1 switched

Sectigo Certificate Manager

1 switched

Cloudflare Application Security and Performance

1 switched

Losing to

Based on reviewers of other products who said they switched from Symantec Web Security Service.

Netgate pfSense

1 switched

Mimecast Advanced Email Security

1 switched

Whalebone

1 switched

CrowdStrike Falcon Data Protection

1 switched

Sophos Endpoint

1 switched

Key stats

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Enterprise

Adoption by company size

Segment	Share of reviews
Small Business	28.3%
Mid-Market	24.2%
Enterprise	47.5%

Quarterly history

Quarter	Reviews	Star rating
2025 Q1	2	4.3

Satisfaction ratings

Ease of Use9.1

Ease of Setup9.0

Quality of Support8.6

Meets Requirements8.9

What reviewers say

About symantec

4.0

“Easy to use, implement and manage. Simple UI with complete functionality and policy creation.”

Senior

Proxy between you and web

4.5

“The best is it work as aproxy between me and the web to help us identify malicious websites which can try stealing our private data and information.We gets the real time warning and all such websites are auto blocked by the software.”

User

Secure Solution

4.0

“Easy to use interface that makes the platform very intuitive”

Software Engineer