# iboss Reviews **Vendor:** iboss **Category:** [SD-WAN Solutions](https://www.g2.com/categories/sd-wan) **Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 16 ## About iboss iboss is a leading Zero Trust Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) cloud security platform that consolidates network and security technologies into a single cloud-based service. By integrating VPN, Secure Web Gateway (SWG), SD-WAN, branch firewalls, Browser Isolation, and Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) capabilities, iboss replaces legacy solutions to enhance security, reduce complexity, and lower costs. Utilizing Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), iboss grants users access only to the applications they need based on their identity, minimizing risks of breaches and data loss. As a unified network and security service with a single-pane-of-glass management console, iboss empowers organizations to enhance security, improve user experience, and support a distributed workforce in today's evolving digital landscape. Leveraging a purpose-built cloud architecture backed by 230+ issued and pending patents and more than 100 points of presence globally, iboss processes over 150 billion transactions daily, blocking 4 billion threats per day. More than 4,000 global enterprises trust the iboss platform to support their modern workforces, including a large number of Fortune 50 companies. iboss was named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide ZTNA, one of the Top 25 Cybersecurity Companies by The Software Report, one of the 25 highest-rated Private Cloud Computing Companies to work for by Battery Ventures, CRN’s top 20 Coolest Cloud Security Companies, and is one of Inc.’s 2024 Best Workplaces. To learn more, visit http://www.iboss.com ## iboss Reviews ### 1. Security Without Complications with Zero Trust **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carlos O. | Cyber security architect, Computer & Network Security, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 10, 2026 **What do you like best about iboss?** I like the Zero Trust architecture of iboss, as it secures user browsing regardless of their location, eliminating the need to use a VPN on each employee's computer. It has transformed the company's security by allowing direct and secure access to applications no matter where they are. Additionally, the implementation of iboss is simple and intuitive. **What do you dislike about iboss?** The user interface feels a bit overwhelming and somewhat outdated, navigating between the different layers of the platform can be somewhat confusing. **What problems is iboss solving and how is that benefiting you?** Iboss secures user navigation and prevents data leakage. Its Zero Trust architecture eliminates the need for VPNs and provides secure access to company applications regardless of the user's location. ### 2. one of the best cloud security **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joffrey G. | Systems Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2024 **What do you like best about iboss?** iboss zero trust network and cloud security **What do you dislike about iboss?** reporting dashboard no task progress during upgrades **What problems is iboss solving and how is that benefiting you?** secure web access for remote users, ### 3. iBoss solutions are super strong, secure and reliable **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2024 **What do you like best about iboss?** The wide range of features like advance threat protection, secure web gateway and data loss prevention etc. **What do you dislike about iboss?** There is nothing which I dislike about iBoss. **What problems is iboss solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helped us in web filtering, malware defence, data loss prevention (DLP), advance threat protection and secure access to prevent unauthorised acccess and data leakage. ### 4. Security at its finest **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christy W. | Inside Sales Agent, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 25, 2023 **What do you like best about iboss?** It's cost-effective and notifies me of any breaches that I come across. Updates on its own, so I do not have to do that manually. Everything is automatic, leaving me very little to do on my end. Love it! **What do you dislike about iboss?** So far, it has been one of the best products I've used for cyber security. Gives me peace of mind, especially knowing how many hackers are out there. Recommend this to other companies I collaborate with as well. **What problems is iboss solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is stopping hackers from getting into our database. Also, informing me of any bad sites that I may come across or if someone sends me a scam link. IBoss notifies me right away! ### 5. Cost solution that Provides update **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adriana A. | Program Coordinator, Fund-Raising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2023 **What do you like best about iboss?** iboss providing top-notch cyber security capabilities. In todays world where hackers are on the rise, it gives me peace of mind. **What do you dislike about iboss?** The migration process from Bluecoat hardware is difficult at times. Ive found that some advanced features for web security and geo-based browsing are lacking. **What problems is iboss solving and how is that benefiting you?** Previously managing and securing our network was a struggle. Their comprehensive web and email security solutions have improved our network security posture by safeguarding us from threats. ### 6. iBoss is iTerrible **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2023 **What do you like best about iboss?** The only positive aspect of iBoss is their reporting features. They are very robust. **What do you dislike about iboss?** The service requires dedicated hardware and a rather pricey licensing fee every year. It's slow, and changes require a user to log off and back on to the computer for they are applied. **What problems is iboss solving and how is that benefiting you?** We no longer use the product. It's antiquated compared to other offerings from goguardian and securly. ### 7. iBoss Journey Oct 2021 **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John H. | Software Development Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2021 **What do you like best about iboss?** The third party integrations offered by iBoss closes the gap against other vendors who develop native support for security functions in house. **What do you dislike about iboss?** Frequent outages, missed SLA's, and challenging to get RCA with support. **What problems is iboss solving and how is that benefiting you?** We hope to completely migrate off our Bluecoat hardware. This has not been possible yet. ### 8. Iboss - the first true cloud proxy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matthew B. | Head of IT, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 08, 2020 **What do you like best about iboss?** All our users are protected by the service wherever they are without the need for added infrastructure. Price point is good Simple admin controls will instant reaction to changes **What do you dislike about iboss?** Whish we were able to do more agent reporting by AD object to give a compliance report of which devices have the product installed **Recommendations to others considering iboss:** Stop looking and start buying licenses, this product does all you need without the headaches **What problems is iboss solving and how is that benefiting you?** Total business coverage with a web security product provided by a cloud-native solution, we have not had to buy any extra resource to manage this nor have the additional supporting staff to manage the physical. ### 9. Awesome Filtering System **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pranav J. | Manager, Information Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2020 **What do you like best about iboss?** iBoss has met and exceeded all of our needs. The support team is knowledgeable and great to work with! **What do you dislike about iboss?** So far no complaints or issues. Happy with product. **What problems is iboss solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sites categorization, allow, and blocking sites is so easy. Also, the setup is very easy to manage. ### 10. iBoss is simply masterful and consistent as a Team and a Solution! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jason B. | Technical Support | Administrator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2019 **What do you like best about iboss?** I appreciate the Dashboard because it teaches you while you interact with it. Most things are clearly laid out in a practical way. The Technical Team is especially helpful. Every agent has been prompt and the Engineers have addressed all of our issues swiftly and accurately. I deal with Microsoft Office 365 support and by comparison, I would rank iBoss' Engineering support and objectives in the same positive way. The Solution as a whole is an eyeopener and has definitely shaped the way we view security and planning ahead. The knowledge that is shared so clearly and with simplicity has really helped our team to focus directly on the "needs and wants" versus the nuts and bolts of Code. Yes there is a vitue to working with code and understanding it, but iBoss has closed the gap for us and definitely have presented a Trusted Source for our use without the fear of being taken advantage of as a lesser one in the relationship. I feel empowered each time i interact with iBoss agents and engineers. This would be equivalent to a true replication of qualities and discipline which I am able to inherit or absorb by proportion into my own capacity at any time of growth. As a result of that - the effectiveness of the Platform itself is extended into my jurisdiction as well. Thank you for that. **What do you dislike about iboss?** The Granular rules are a bit of a challenge ad this time and are untouched at this stage of our implementation. In the future, there should be an account holder Video Tutorial to perhaps allow us to review those advanced features at our pace and then after we complete that, we would graduate to an engineer assisted support session. If there could be a deeper level consultation after a certain phase of the deployment and production, we would be able to refine even more. As reminded in a previous consultation, iBoss is the expert and is able to observe trends so easily that it could recommend various best practices reasonably fast. **Recommendations to others considering iboss:** I would Recommend the Gateway on prem as well. **What problems is iboss solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to block out unwanted traffic and sites. We are also able to observe other hidden traffic during website sessions and increase the depth of our blocking categories. We do watch for added categories that need further filtering and we go in and attack those as well. We will be looking into the DLP features in the near future, but only after we tune in our current deployment. *** what if iBoss had a learning feature - such as some of the Anti-virus approach. For example the product would observe all your activites and therefore begin recommending some general settings. Microsoft 365 and Azure does some of this Analysis on their Back-End as well. I believe they give you a score and help you set some goals on the different areas to achieve best security. ### 11. Great reporting tools. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 11, 2020 **What do you like best about iboss?** The reporting tools although extensive, provide great detail. **What do you dislike about iboss?** There were about four sites that we had issues with whitelisting and it took several engineers to resolve the issue. **Recommendations to others considering iboss:** Great system that serves the intended purpose. Reporting is extensive. **What problems is iboss solving and how is that benefiting you?** Web protocol security. Able to receive more detailed reporting. ### 12. Cloud-based security done right **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 24, 2020 **What do you like best about iboss?** Ease of use and stability. We have not had a single outage in the 1 year we have been using it. **What do you dislike about iboss?** So far so good, no complaints. Has been stable and transparent to the users. **What problems is iboss solving and how is that benefiting you?** Web security and geo-based browsing ### 13. We have used iboss for over 5 years and I have been very pleased **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 04, 2019 **What do you like best about iboss?** iBoss is easy to use once you complete the training and their support staff is dedicated and committed to helping their customers resolve issues. We are a school district and web security is extremely important to us and I trust iBoss to keep my network secure. **What do you dislike about iboss?** IBoss can be difficult to manage WITHOUT training, once you have trained on their system it is easy. Make sure that you take advantage of their support team. They will spend time with you to ensure that you understand how to navigate their web filter. **Recommendations to others considering iboss:** I would recommend this product for web-filtering. Make sure that you receive training and you will really find iBoss to be a useful tool. **What problems is iboss solving and how is that benefiting you?** My IBoss web filter ensures that we state compliant and children are safely surfing the web. ### 14. Blocks everything you need and then some! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2018 **What do you like best about iboss?** It captures and blocks everything that is needed and then some. Nothing gets through and if a website you need to access is being blocked, there is a simple form to fill out and it gets approved by the moderators as soon as they review it. **What do you dislike about iboss?** The fact that it blocks anything and everything is slightly annoying. You could be on a website such as PBS and it will block it if there is a forum/comments area. Note* this may be an administration/moderator issue and not the application, if this is the case then iboss is awesome at doing its job! **Recommendations to others considering iboss:** Get it, it does its job well and with little to no issues! **What problems is iboss solving and how is that benefiting you?** The problem of children accidentally or even purposefully accessing websites they shouldn't be on during school time such as social media or any inappropriate sites. ### 15. Best web filter solution for schools **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Palvan A. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2018 **What do you like best about iboss?** I like the flexibility and robustness of the product. Support is very helpful and responseful in a short time. Also, we like how it provides onsite and offsite webfilter 24/7 on student devices. **What do you dislike about iboss?** Price is little high for kind of small institutions. We went with on premise servers options which caused high price as well. **Recommendations to others considering iboss:** If you can afford it go for it. **What problems is iboss solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use iboss to apply customized web filter for our Staff, Student and Guest users. ### 16. My thoughts about iBoss **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2018 **What do you like best about iboss?** We just upgraded to the NBC. So I like the rolling upgrade option. **What do you dislike about iboss?** Our migration process from the swg to the NBC was painstaking. Not all cases where like this. There is an automated sync. It just did not work for our case. **What problems is iboss solving and how is that benefiting you?** This filters the students web content. ## iboss Discussions - [Could the scripted installs also have more of an Automated option?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/could-the-scripted-installs-also-have-more-of-an-automated-option) - 2 comments, 1 upvote - [How do I bypass iboss on a school computer?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-do-i-bypass-iboss-on-a-school-computer) - 1 comment - [View iboss pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/iboss/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-21+07%3A40%3A56+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=7b1f0f1c-fcaa-444c-962b-6048044d08da&secure%5Btoken%5D=12ca8e968fee56a3f77d8ff950eba989d3518e728d3e2ca4655a20b96b07a45a&format=llm_user) ## iboss Features **Network Management** - Network Segmentation - Network Mapping - Security Analytics - API/Integrations **Analysis** - User Analytics - Cloud Gap Analytics - Anomoly Detection **Protection** - Quarantine - Continuous Monitoring - Off-Network Protection - Guest Network Protection - BYOD Protection - Native DNS over HTTPS (DoH) **Management** - Multicloud Management - DLP Configuration - Dynamic Scaling - Policy Enforcement **Components - Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)** - Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) - Wide Area Network (WAN) - Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) - Secure Web Gateway (SWG) - Firewall as a Service **Components - Secure Service Edge (SSE)** - Secure Web Gateway (SWG) - Firewall as a Service - Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) - Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) **Cloud Visibility** - Data Discovery - Cloud Registry - Cloud Gap Analytics **Security** - Security Automation - Application Security - Workload Protection - Data Protection **Functionality** - SSO - Cloud Registry - Mobile Device Mangement **Functionality** - DNS Lookups - Threat Intelligence - Advanced Traffic Filtering **Monitoring** - Data Center Networking - Multicloud Visibility - Anomaly Detection **Artificial Intelligence - Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)** - Predictive Capabilities - Real-Time Threat Detection - Automation **Artificial Intelligence -Secure Service Edge (SSE)** - Automation - Predictive Capabilities - Real-Time Threat Detection **Security** - Data Security - Data loss Prevention - Security Auditing **Identity Management** - Adaptive Access Control - Identity Scoring - User Monitoring **Security** - Governance - Data loss Prevention - Data Encryption/Security - Access Control **Administration** - Whitelisting - Policy Enforcement - Incident Reports - Domain Categorization - Multi-Network Management **Protection** - Firewall-as-a-Service - Cloud Application Brokerage - Web Gateway - Adaptive Access Control **Agentic AI - Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platforms** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Agentic AI - Secure Service Edge (SSE)** - Decision Making - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Proactive Assistance **Identity** - SSO - Governance - User Analytics **Generative AI** - AI Text Summarization - AI Text Generation ## Top iboss Alternatives - [Cisco Umbrella](https://www.g2.com/products/cisco-umbrella/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (266 reviews) - [Netskope One Platform](https://www.g2.com/products/netskope-one-platform/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (70 reviews) - [Okta](https://www.g2.com/products/okta/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (1,199 reviews)