We performed a comparison between Cisco IOS Security and Zscaler Internet Access 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 solution can scale well."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"We use the filtering feature the most. It has filtering and inbuilt securities. We can create customized rules to define which users can access a particular type of site. We can create policies inside the firewall."
"Security, SD-WAN, and Streetscape are valuable features."
"Consolidated our network environment at all locations, but mainly at our datacenter."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"The web filtering feature and the intrusion protection system are the most valuable. It is a resilient appliance. I never had an issue with it in terms of any security breaches."
"Cisco IOS Security is a mature product with extensive capabilities, serving as the base for the defense layer. It offers good network visibility, which helps in rapid response through the Rapid Threat Containment feature. Its deployment and configuration are straightforward."
"The solution effectively integrates with Umbrella."
"Cisco has always been a premium product. There's a lot of other entry-level solutions. This is more robust."
"Technical support for this solution is very good."
"The solution is very user-friendly and easy to deal with."
"Cisco IOS allows us to keep the same security features as our principal offices."
"We use Cisco IOS Security mostly for routers to route off the firewall. It's a next-generation device."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco IOS Security is posturing."
"The VPN is valuable, as the whole technology is very different from a traditional VPN."
"The scanning feature is impressive, because they do not introduce a big latency to the traffic."
"Zscaler excels in security protection and the cloud is always up-to-date. It does not matter if you are a small or big organisation, you will receive the same security quality."
"The best thing about Zscaler Internet Access is the website filtering. In the UAE it's quite an important feature because most of the malware comes through the SQL injection and through downloads from websites. Zscaler helps protect against that."
"The most valuable feature is bandwidth control."
"The solution offers a distributed organization to master and to control all of the endpoints."
"The URL filtering has been the most valuable feature."
"After a proper implementation, the maintenance is very low."
"Fortinet FortiGate should improve the VPN tokens."
"Security is a continuous process. In every product, there is a requirement for improvement. Its pricing should also be improved according to Indian market requirements. They must also improve on the reporting part. Its reporting can be more precise. If we can get a real-time report in a specific format, it will be helpful for customers to know about the current status of their security."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"They sometimes hide some features and if you want to enable them, you have to go in the CLI, enable the feature and configure it through the CLI. Customers, typically, like everything to be done by the GUI."
"The solution lacks multi-language support."
"The solution can have more features in a single box that can be multi-applied to integrate everything."
"There are some problems that support cannot give you a logical reason as to why it happened. For example, I had a case where I was dealing with a WhatsApp application that was giving issues. Technical support gave more than one reason it could be giving issues, but none of them solved the problem. Eventually I solved the problem, but it was far from the solutions that support had given."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"We faced significant challenges related to licensing issues, particularly when licenses expire."
"We need to pay for the license and it is expensive."
"There's a technology called SD-WAN that we would like to see. We are unable to handle multiple connections or to automatically load balance. I would like to have a feature that enables us to automatically prepare for load balancing."
"Cisco IOS Security's monitoring is rather rudimentary and could be improved."
"Cisco IOS Security could improve its security features. There are competitors that have some additional security features, such as Fortinet FortiGate. Additionally, there should be better synchronization with Cisco IOS Security and other vendors, and improved AI features would be beneficial."
"The company needs to make its solution more affordable to make it more accessible to larger markets. Otherwise, it's seen as an enterprise-level solution that small or medium-sized organizations can't afford and therefore they won't even look at it."
"The routers, don't have like long-term tendency features, or higher availability features available for the IOS. It could also use a better user interface."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"If they can also integrate with the multi-factor authentication to prompt users to do another, second-factor authentication, that would be ideal."
"What could be improved in Zscaler Internet Access is its price. It could be cheaper."
"There are a few features that are not compatible with the Azure cloud."
"Zscaler should continue to make the user interface better. They should also improve the backup network and continue to expand it so that it can handle larger numbers of customers."
"The solution can be improved by advancing some of the newer technologies such as the DLP feature, and adding email security."
"Zscaler Internet Access's troubleshooting is very limited, and their textbook logs need to be more informative."
"Zscaler Internet Access could improve by adding a VPN feature."
"I would like to see more training and video documentation."
Cisco IOS Security is ranked 22nd in Firewalls with 47 reviews while Zscaler Internet Access is ranked 2nd in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 46 reviews. Cisco IOS Security is rated 8.0, while Zscaler Internet Access is rated 8.2. 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 Internet Access writes "Provides integrated CASB and file sandboxing but could be less expensive ". Cisco IOS Security is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Meraki MX, Fortinet FortiOS, Netgate pfSense and OPNsense, whereas Zscaler Internet Access is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Netskope , Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks and Appgate SDP. See our Cisco IOS Security vs. Zscaler Internet Access report.
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