We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate, OPNsense, and Zscaler Internet Access based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"It's a firewall that secures our internal network. I have been using it since 2013, and I find that most of the features are advanced, and very user friendly."
"It's inexpensive compared to some of the other technology out there."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"I like that they have given me a solution at a fair price."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are it is one of the most mature firewalls in the UTM bundle."
"It has improved our organization with control data."
"The IPS is good. It protect my network from attackers."
"I feel that its valuable features are that it is simple and free."
"It is a very good solution. I like the dashboard. I can see what is going on and manage it as I like it."
"OPNsense is highly stable."
"It's open source."
"OPNsense is easy to use and open source."
"The initial implementation process is simple."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to configure."
"The solution is good for a basic firewall for a small business or for home use."
"The solution replaces multiple vendor technologies with one which makes it worth the cost."
"The most valuable feature is bandwidth control."
"The solution is scalable and stable."
"The most valuable feature of Zscaler Internet Access is that it is a consolidated solution, it comes with many features, such as DLP."
"Zscaler Internet Access protects using data loss prevention. If you have a CASB exposing your cloud out into the network, then Zscaler Internet Access will go ahead and control that unknown cloud application in the CASB, protecting it. There is also data detection with exact data match. This improves the data coming into your cloud so you are protecting it."
"The users are at different locations, and Zscaler helps us to put the organization's central security controls on these roaming users."
"For our needs, the cloud-native proxy architecture is a very good solution. We are moving away from on-prem appliances and moving more toward cloud-based solutions. Zscaler is a good fit for our strategy. This architecture helps with cyber threats because we inspect most of the traffic and we can see that a lot of threats are stopped directly in the secure web gateway."
"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."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"It is quite new for us, and we need to go more in-depth into the monitoring tools. It provides different features that we need to do what we want. So far, it is okay for us. In terms of improvement, in the future, they can provide a faster implementation of features. Some of the features are first available in other solutions. Fortinet sometimes takes a little bit longer than other solutions, such as Check Point, to implement new features."
"Fortinet FortiGate should improve the VPN tokens."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"One of the problems I was having was with user mapping, and it is an issue for which I have escalated tickets with Fortinet support."
"An area for improvement in OPNsense is the hardware, which needs to be updated more frequently. DNS blocking is another good feature I want to be added to the solution. pfSense has a peer-blocking feature that I also want to see in OPNsense."
"The solution could be more secure."
"OPNsense showed me some problems when using it in different environments. The problem is integration with a virtual server."
"The logging could improve in OPNsense."
"The ability to set the VPN IP address would be a welcome addition."
"While they do have paid options that actually gives better features, for most of the clients, if they tend to take a paid option will instead opt for Fortinet."
"OPNsense could improve by making the configuration more web-based rather than shell or command-line-based."
"When using the solution at the beginning was difficult. There was a steep learning curve."
"I don't know whether it's Zscaler or not, however, sometimes I can't access my time management. I need to wait and try again a few hours later. Typically, if I let some time pass, I can access it again."
"Do not expect to pay for the service and start using it, like Gmail. Zscaler requires a proper implementation to be done to make it successful."
"They block Zscaler IPs when the traffic origin is from Zscaler IPs. They've been blocked by certain government organizations so the end users are not able to visit those websites unless we ask them to unblock those IP. This is a bit problematic."
"The solution is expensive. They recently revised the pricing and packaging. Some of our existing customers have been asking for alternate solutions for a lower price."
"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."
"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."
"We'd like for them to include some sort of antivirus tool."
"Sometimes, support isn't available."
