We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Zscaler Cloud Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The ease of setting the solution up is a valuable aspect for us."
"The solution is stable."
"It is a safe product."
"The product is easy to use and is stable. The SV1 functionality is a benefit."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a security device. It can optimize security on the networks of a company. It actually protects the company from attacks from outside. With FortiGate, you can categorize the users. You can create a group of users that can access all of the websites for their work. You can limit other users' access."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The tool is a nice product and easy to handle. The software's user interface is also good. You can easily implement remote access in the solution."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, application control, IPS control, and FortiSandbox."
"The technology's very good. We have had a lot of good experience with this solution."
"I typically get involved with it when it comes to audit and compliance and having to gather evidence of those firewalls, routers, and rule sets. The evidence that I typically need is there."
"The trackability is most valuable. When a port is open for a protocol, such as port 443 for HTTPS, it can look inside the traffic and identify or verify the applications that are using the port, which was previously not possible with traditional firewalls."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to deeply analyze the connection or connection type."
"The most significant benefit is threat protection. Anti-malware uses signatures, so dynamic analyzers like WildFire are the best way to protect the company. It is a firewall based on application control, user ID, and security policy. We can use it based on user and application ID without a stateless firewall or TCPIP ports."
"In my opinion, Palo Alto has consistently been one of the best firewalls for enterprise security."
"It has the typical features of a next-generation firewall. It can do application control, antivirus, content filtering, etc."
"The product's most valuable features are the ease of deployment, regularly updated security information, and robust hardware."
"It provides in-depth visibility into your network, ensuring that traffic flowing into your organization, be it from offices or individual users, is effectively filtered and secured through multiple layers of protection."
"The product’s firewall and VPN package are fantastic compared to any other solution."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It helps a lot of companies to reduce their downtime. Also, It helps businesses in terms of being secured and protected from any threats."
"The solution offers good sandboxing."
"The visibility and log availability offered are highly valued for troubleshooting purposes, and this is a key factor driving customer interest in the firewall module."
"Once you have Zscaler running you have access to configure it however you want."
"The scalability is okay. We have around 2200 people using this solution."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding FortiAnalyzer to its solution, we should not have to use another solution. FortiAnalyzer can provide more detailed information."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"In the balance between links feature normally you can just choose one option to balance. It would be better for the solution to have more than one option, preferably three."
"Some features of Fortinet FortiGate are actually fee enabled that are inconvenient for deploying in production. Other issues relate to isolation with Cisco products and your server."
"The visibility of the network can be better. The GUI can be improved for better visibility of the network flow. Other solutions have better GUI in terms of network visibility."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"They could improve their support and pricing and maybe integration. It's a little more expensive that Check Point but the quality is better. Integration with firewall endpoints could be better. Palo Alto does have very good malware or antivirus protection. I think they could improve on that front."
"Most other VPN clients include mobile VPNs but Palo Alto does not."
"I would like them to bring in some features that would encourage traffic shaping or bandwidth routing, like other UTM firewalls, because the solution should be capable of limiting the bandwidth for rules."
"PA-220 Next-Generation Firewall would be perfect if it has spam filtering."
"I believe it would be beneficial if the solution could integrate with Google Chrome, especially for students who use Chromebooks. However, as far as I know, the solution currently does not support Google Chrome."
"This is a difficult product to manage, so the administrator needs to have a good knowledge of it, otherwise, they will not be able to handle it properly."
"I would like integration with Evident.io and RedLock."
"I think they need to have a proper hardware version for a smaller enterprise. We had to go to a very high-end version which is very expensive. If we chose the lower-end version, it would not meet our goals. A middle-end is missing in its portfolio."
"Data Leak Prevention is only for web filtering and there is no protection for email."
"They do not provide a few components that are fundamental to differentiate the products"
"Its technical support services could be better."
"The issue right now is probably that Zscaler is not providing web browser isolation. Another solution, Menlo, offers this. For one customer, we had to send traffic to Menlo to do the isolation for us. It was requested by the customer so that they could integrate any iframe. Zscaler needs to add this type of feature in their next release."
"Pricing is a challenge."
"Zscaler Cloud Firewall should have a better understanding of all dynamic cloud applications."
"There are some areas it could improve when it comes to blocking, we have to block some things manually. For example, if we block a top-level domain we have seen that the new IPs come through, the IPs are not blocked. There should be some more granular way of doing it. My only request is if you're blocking something at a top level, the sub-level sub-domains and all those other IPs should be blocked too automatically."
"Certain criteria need to be met if you want to scale this solution."
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Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is ranked 6th in Firewalls with 164 reviews while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is ranked 23rd in Firewalls with 15 reviews. Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is rated 8.6, while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls writes "We get reports back from WildFire on a minute-by-minute basis". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Cloud Firewall writes "A highly stable and comprehensive cloud security and access solution". Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is most compared with Check Point NGFW, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Netgate pfSense, whereas Zscaler Cloud Firewall is most compared with Azure Firewall, OPNsense, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos XG and Cisco Multicloud Defense. See our Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls vs. Zscaler Cloud Firewall report.
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