BetterCloud vs. Cisco CloudLock

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
BetterCloud
Score 9.7 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
BetterCloud aims to eliminate up to 78% of SaaS management work by automating user lifecycle processes and day-to-day operations.N/A
Cisco CloudLock
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
CloudLock is a cloud security option acquired by Cisco in August 2016.N/A
Pricing
BetterCloudCisco CloudLock
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BetterCloudCisco CloudLock
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional DetailsUsers are all employees within an organization that use the connected SaaS applications.
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Community Pulse
BetterCloudCisco CloudLock
Considered Both Products
BetterCloud
Chose BetterCloud
Far and away a better capability when it comes to integrations and automation. My experience with BetterCloud, especially from a support perspective has ALWAYS been great. As the product has progressed from FLASHPANEL to g.bettecloud to app.bettercloud that support experience …
Chose BetterCloud
More functionality. More robust functionality. Better support. More expensive. Overall, better.
Chose BetterCloud
BetterCloud has a much more friendly UI when it comes to building workflows as I've mentioned before. Our team has visited Okta workflows a number of times but it was incredibly difficult to replicate our current BetterCloud workflows into Okta because the Okta UI for workflow …
Chose BetterCloud
When we evaluated the products, Bettercloud came through because of price and customer service. The company listens to you and takes the advise of the customers to help mold and create a better product. Okta was a close second choice, it is a great product as well. We have …
Chose BetterCloud
BetterCloud exists as a unique product that doesn't directly compete with many other products or companies. It does handle user management, policy management, security and compliance, and more but other products don't tie things together the same way that Bettercloud does. It …
Chose BetterCloud
There are very services that actually do what Bettercloud does, and we haven’t evaluated any because they usually fall under a group of enterprise software that I like to stay far away from. There are applications with similar goals, but there’s a lot of unnecessary …
Chose BetterCloud
BetterCloud has proven way more efficient than the native Google Admin application. It has saved us from having to perform custom programming for delegation admin tasks, and has been the best admin suite we have used to date.
Chose BetterCloud
Google is great, however, BetterCloud is able to go into the backend of Google which helps us out tremendously. Permissions with BetterCloud exceeds the application it is being used for which is amazing. BetterCloud's GUI is very easy to navigate, however, I feel it could be …
Chose BetterCloud
Compared to WiseStamp - BetterCloud is much more advanced for the purpose of creating, managing, applying, and updating signatures for users of a Google domain. Signatures can be applied by User, Group, or ORG, and policies can be created to reapply signatures according to a …
Cisco CloudLock
Chose Cisco CloudLock
Amazon Macie is limited to an AWS environment and fulfills some of the same functions that CloudLock does in SaaS products. Both are very valuable tools, so the decision is not really which to use, but whether to use both for their respective environments. In general I feel …
Chose Cisco CloudLock
We have not used other cloud security products. While choosing a product a large factor was the current and future integrations with other Cisco security stack products. While this product is not the most affordable, the security provided to the organization and client data is …
Chose Cisco CloudLock
Cisco CloudLock has an automatic approach to matters safety, analysis, and monitoring. Further, Cisco CloudLock has supported encryption, making it standard and simpler. Again, Cisco CloudLock [ensures] that credible details and documents such as credit card numbers are fully …
Chose Cisco CloudLock
It has a better alert mechanism and provides the facility to take action within the G Suite. With McAfee, we did not have these features and it is more cost-effective than McAfee. Although they are similar, now that we have used Cisco CloudLock, I would recommend using Cisco …
Best Alternatives
BetterCloudCisco CloudLock
Small Businesses
Teams Manager
Teams Manager
Score 8.0 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
Teams Manager
Teams Manager
Score 8.0 out of 10
Avanan
Avanan
Score 9.4 out of 10
Enterprises
SailPoint Identity Security Cloud
SailPoint Identity Security Cloud
Score 9.0 out of 10
Avanan
Avanan
Score 9.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
BetterCloudCisco CloudLock
Likelihood to Recommend
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10.0
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Support Rating
10.0
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User Testimonials
BetterCloudCisco CloudLock
Likelihood to Recommend
The manual deprovisioning and permissions management Bettercloud provides is really good. The state of workflow automations however is not where it needs to be, particularly if we can't use those workflows to automate user creation using not just our default username/email convention, but one that is very common across most organizations.
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Cisco CloudLock is there to shield the most sensitive business database and activities, for instance, the [customer's] credit cards, the code keys, the login details, among others. More so, Cisco CloudLock protects and monitors some information in various software or systems, like that of G-suit, making the entire system reliable and convenient. Finally, Cisco CloudLock determines the response of the activity be conducted to control some of the activities that [put] a company in threat.
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Pros
  • Allows us to quickly audit and assign delegates to email account, something that's completely missing in Google as an administrative function
  • Allows us to automate offboarding of a Google account
  • Allows us to perform bulk actions, like assigning email signatures and forwarding to hundreds of accounts at a time
  • Allows us to audit Google Drive files. Orphaned files are very common in Google Workspace, and BetterCloud allows us to find them and take ownership of them.
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  • Data Loss Prevention - files accessed from outside of the organization can be audited or blocked based on content, file type, and regex
  • Policy Management - policy options are sophisticated and give great control over the actions to be taken and when the policy should be triggered
  • Behavioral Analysis - cloudlock is usually the first place we learn about suspicious activity in our SaaS applications, such as login attempts from outside the country
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Cons
  • Integration with Google in the App version to allow pushing of email signatures, this feature is available in the legacy version.
  • More canned reports, although custom reports are available for you to build yourself.
  • More onsite visits with customers if available, to be onsite and see what challenges are available first hand.
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  • The security event notifications don't come as quickly as I would like
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Support Rating
Support for BetterCloud is excellent. They have fantastic email support who are very responsive and knowledgeable, but more importantly they have chat support that are absolutely top-notch. They have not only the knowledge to answer and help, but the capability to solve without escalations or runarounds. These support folks are the real deal.
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They are very quick to respond and go the extra mile to help address our issues. That said, we've only needed them at the early stages of implementation for support help and occasionally when we want to do a full re-scan of our site. They are very flexible in working with us on the timing of such scans.
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Alternatives Considered
Far and away a better capability when it comes to integrations and automation. My experience with BetterCloud, especially from a support perspective has ALWAYS been great. As the product has progressed from FLASHPANEL to g.bettecloud to app.bettercloud that support experience has stayed top notch.
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We have not used other cloud security products. While choosing a product a large factor was the current and future integrations with other Cisco security stack products. While this product is not the most affordable, the security provided to the organization and client data is well worth the investment. We use SecureX to integrate and perform automated responses.
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Return on Investment
  • Data monitoring: previously unavailable insight into our organization’s file-sharing habits and documents.
  • Granular roles: ability to set least-access permissions. And really, truly granular unlike some other applications.
  • Automation: we’ve already saved dozens of man hours using workflows. Gives us time to focus on things that matter without compromising common tasks.
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  • It has very positive impact.
  • Less monitoring spend.
  • Very cost effective.
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