We performed a comparison between Cisco IOS Security 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 performance is good."
"With FortiClient, you can easily connect when you are home, check out what you want to do, and connect to your network when you are not at work. You can switch on servers and you can check what is wrong."
"This is an easy solution to deploy."
"The user interface (UI) is very, very good."
"Their proxy-based inspection is responsive and secure."
"The solution has very good threat and content filtering switches."
"The IPS is good. It protect my network from attackers."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature is endpoint protection."
"Cisco IOS allows us to keep the same security features as our principal offices."
"You can scale it when you need to."
"The solution effectively integrates with Umbrella."
"The product has valuable features for business intelligence."
"Cisco is head-and-shoulders above all of the competition when it comes to technical support."
"The capabilities for scalability with this product are huge"
"The solution is easy to use."
"Once you have Zscaler running you have access to configure it however you want."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"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."
"I like the ease of deployment and its flexibility. We don't need to deal with license, quotes, procurement, delivery, and installation. Everything is software-based, and it's very easy to operate."
"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."
"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 scalability is okay. We have around 2200 people using this solution."
"The solution offers good sandboxing."
"Fortinet doesn't provide multiple virtual firewalls which would facilitate end users and customers."
"Reporting is limited to providing an external appliance for improving the reporting capabilities of the FortiAnalyzer. It does not offer a central management and is also sold separably as an appliance."
"Technical support is good but the response time could be faster."
"The platform's interface could improve."
"It should be more stable. There should be full integration within Fortinet products themselves as well as with other third-party products. Especially when you're not dealing with SIEM and the correlation of the security box, we want Fortinet to be able to share that information with as many other products as it can."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"The pricing could be a bit better, especially when you consider how they have the most basic offering priced."
"There are problems with the custom reporting of the unique traffic. The data is there, but it is too difficult for us to extract."
"It would be ideal if the solution had more capacity."
"The solution is not user friendly and it is hard to manage the GUI interface."
"With respect to user-friendliness, it is a command-line interface and those with such experience will get along just fine, whereas others may struggle."
"Cisco IOS Security's monitoring is rather rudimentary and could be improved."
"We faced significant challenges related to licensing issues, particularly when licenses expire."
"Cisco IOS Security could improve by having more compatibility with other Cisco solutions."
"Sometimes I find it difficult to manage. Some configurations are difficult for new engineers, for example."
"Cisco IOS Security should improve its functionalities."
"Certain criteria need to be met if you want to scale this solution."
"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."
"Pricing is a challenge."
"When it comes to customer support, there is room for improvement in Zscaler's service."
"Because it's on cloud, it doesn't allow application of extra settings."
"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."
"They do not provide a few components that are fundamental to differentiate the products"
"It would be nice to have some sort of a form factor, a physical form factor perhaps, or virtual machine that you could install on devices or on a cloud, and have some cloud computing."
Cisco IOS Security is ranked 22nd in Firewalls with 47 reviews while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is ranked 23rd in Firewalls with 15 reviews. Cisco IOS Security is rated 8.0, while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco IOS Security writes "User-friendly and excels in documentation, making it easier to resolve issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Cloud Firewall writes "A highly stable and comprehensive cloud security and access solution". Cisco IOS Security is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Meraki MX, Fortinet FortiOS, Netgate pfSense and OPNsense, whereas Zscaler Cloud Firewall is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall, OPNsense and Sophos XG. See our Cisco IOS Security vs. Zscaler Cloud Firewall report.
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