We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate-VM 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 most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control."
"The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is security. They are known for efficiency and are on the top of Gartner Quadrant reviews. Fortinet FortiGate has an easy-to-use platform with a good graphical interface. The configuration is simple and the solution provides an overall good layer of security."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"The simplicity of the configuration and the stability of the product are most valuable. The VPN concentrator is very useful."
"I am "headache free" that I don't have to categorize all the websites and that security has been pre categorized by the people, and that the services are getting updated. At least one part of my problem is over."
"The solution has very good threat and content filtering switches."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"I like the visibility and monitoring features because they're easy to use to monitor traffic. Features like geo-blocking and more have AI, and we're currently using all of it. But for now, we're only using geo-blocking, and we're able to block traffic from different countries. I also like that it's highly responsive. VM04 is also very powerful."
"Technical support has been super responsive and dedicated to getting any challenges resolved."
"FortiGate is a nice and very good product."
"I did like the ability to back up the configuration into the cloud, as opposed to having to store the configurations or just downloading them, the backups, to local devices."
"The solution offers good documentation."
"It's very easy to set up, even for more junior developers."
"We like FortiGate-VM's IPS features and its ability to create multiple virtual firewalls."
"The setup is simple."
"In terms of management and visibility, there is a single panel where you can configure the policies for your entire organisation worldwide."
"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."
"Tech support is good."
"After a proper implementation, the maintenance is very low."
"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 VPN is valuable, as the whole technology is very different from a traditional VPN."
"Zscaler Internet Access has helped us reduce the time that we spend managing security policies by about four hours a week. We can use this time to focus on other things, especially the IT team."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is SWG traffic."
"Fortinet should focus on enhancing the capabilities of FortiGate by consolidating its various products, such as FortiGate Cloud, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"I'm not sure if it's something that they already have or are developing something, however, we need some dedicated features for container security."
"I think there could be more QoS features"
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"The solution could have licensing fees reduced in the future."
"They should offer special pricing to premium partners and customers."
"There were quite a few problems with the stability of the system."
"his is not a good solution for enterprises. It's better for smaller companies."
"The stability of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Improvements are needed for the responsive UI and JIT traffic reporting."
"To improve FortiGate-VM, Fortinet needs to harden it more. For example, if you are using Hyper-V, then you need guidelines for hardening FortiGate-VM that are specific to the Hyper-V environment. If it's VMware, there should be at least a guideline on how to harden the firewall."
"We are experiencing a failed login issue. There should also be improvements in functionalities we store to enhance our services."
"Not a ten because I think that Cisco is better."
"The product does not have a good graphical interface."
"We have lost some information and we do not know how that happened through the solution. So that needs improvement."
"In every cloud service in the world, you have multiple upstream internet providers to create diversity so that if one of your providers fails, your network just continues. In South Africa, there is only one upstream provider, and that's not right. That that's a problem."
"The main issue with Zscaler Internet Access is proxy IP detection, which sometimes makes sites inaccessible."
"One thing that needs to be improved is their presence in China. I'm not sure if that's a Zscaler thing or if it's a problem with all vendors in this space, but it would be nice to have better coverage in China. This concern is a common one for vendors across the board when dealing with the Chinese market."
"One thing that they could improve is the ability to import rules from other platforms."
"In terms of user experience, it could be better."
"It needs better integration with other applications. It takes a fair amount of regular activity to apply the by-passes because it is very strict in its restrictions and frequently you have to go in and open things up to allow the workforce to work."
"I would like to see more training and video documentation."
"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."
Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews while Zscaler Internet Access is ranked 2nd in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 46 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4, while Zscaler Internet Access is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate-VM writes "An easy-to-manage and configure tool that provides ample documentation to help with the setup phase". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Internet Access writes "Provides integrated CASB and file sandboxing but could be less expensive ". Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense and Cisco Secure Firewall, 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 Fortinet FortiGate-VM vs. Zscaler Internet Access report.
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