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Gophish vs Zscaler Software [Private Offer Only] comparison

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Gophish
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
4th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
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Zscaler Software [Private O...
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
458th
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
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Featured Reviews

JC
Administrador de sistemas informaticos en red at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
Phishing awareness campaigns have improved training impact but still need smarter automation
I think Gophish could be improved with more automation, for instance. It is great that you can create templates, schedule them, and do everything you want in Gophish, but it would be nice to have a small integrated AI model with which you could create email templates and phishing templates. It would be nice if Gophish implemented artificial intelligence. I wish Gophish could provide more support and be more advanced and that they continue developing it because it seems that Gophish does not get many updates, and I think they need to implement more features. It is great because it is free, but it needs more features. It would be cool if there was an artificial intelligence model that could create phishing campaigns or templates or email templates for you integrated within Gophish. I would rate it a seven. It is quite good and free software, but it needs more substance. It also depends on the number of clients a company has; it may be necessary to launch Gophish in a staggered way, which I also think is a drawback Gophish has. The issue is that if there are many people being targeted, for example, 5,000 employees in a company and you send 5,000, it may be that sending so many messages gets blocked by the security systems companies have. I think that Gophish could also improve the message sending flows. I gave it a seven because there are things to improve and it is not perfect. As I said before, it would be nice if templates could be created with AI, integrated into Gophish using an API with Gemini or ChatGPT or whichever, but the point is that it would be nice if the sending flows at large scale were better managed. When you send a phishing campaign to 5,000 people, you have to send it in sections in a staggered way, for example: to these 5,000 people it is going to be sent between eight in the morning and four in the afternoon. If you send them all at once, the phishing may get blocked and then the campaign has no effect. I would like it if Gophish implemented more improvements because they are needed, as it is kind of a bit stagnant. I hope that in the future they add more improvements including creating personalized templates with artificial intelligence and improving the message sending flows.
Carlos Snel - PeerSpot reviewer
Executive Director at Aquila ICT Solutions
Zero trust security has provided flexible protection and inspects real-time traffic effectively
From my perspective, I think about Zscaler Software [Private Offer Only], not much could be improved. It is working very well. The only thing is about the POP presence, where you hook into a continent or country. In some countries, South America has some coverage, but not as much as for instance North America or Europe. If you talk with large enterprises or multinationals that are everywhere in the world present, they might need something in Africa. Africa is also a continent where you have more and more enterprises having their subsidiaries there. Africa is not covered very thoroughly, in my opinion. It only has South Africa with points of presence and then Egypt. It is either very up north or very down south. If you are in the middle of Africa, which is an extremely large continent, then you have delays and latencies. That is not very nice. However, that is not only counting for Zscaler Software [Private Offer Only]; this is also for all competitors. I am working with Cato Networks now for more than a year and the same story applies to them. I also know other competitors of Zscaler Software [Private Offer Only] which have even less coverage. It is not something that I think everyone is keen on to expand in Africa because they do not see much traffic. However, if you have multinationals that are operating in Africa, then you cannot offer very good quality service because you have large latency if they are in the middle of Africa. Not even in the middle of Africa; if you talk about under Morocco, then you either connect to Cairo or you connect to Spain. Spain is closest, but if you always have redundancy, and if Spain falls out for whatever reason, even though that is not happening much because the data centers are very stable, then you have an enormous latency going to Cairo. Coming with this to more North Africa, if you talk about Angola and Mozambique in the middle of Africa, then you do not have much choice. You always have a lot of latency there. That is unfortunate. On the technical terms, that is where I stand. I mentioned this before, and it is still the same. I think I talked with you a few years back about this; I think three or four years ago. I mentioned exactly this topic then, and it is still the same. The other thing is, I think in terms of software, they are doing their best. They are buying in firms and buying in solutions, so they are expanding, and that is fine. I would rather say to Zscaler Software [Private Offer Only] to have better customer service because Zscaler Software [Private Offer Only], even with large enterprises and huge companies that I work for, they notice that Zscaler Software [Private Offer Only] service management is different. They are very big and they have less attention to client matters. If that would improve, it would be the best for Zscaler Software [Private Offer Only] to have better customer success managers, but more attention to clients and more direct interface to the deep core of the company for client matters if they have questions or specific things that they do not currently have. If I have something with the client, I have sometimes to escalate to the vice president that I know because I worked with him before, and that is unfortunate. That should not be necessary to go that route. You should have things arranged directly with an account manager or customer success manager of your client if you have problems, or at least have responses saying, this is impossible, we cannot do that because of this, this, this, whatever. At least you should have an answer. I think in the future, everyone in the branch is focusing on AI and quantum computing as a mix. I think on that end, everyone in the domain is working hard to find the best solutions against those two challenges. I think Zscaler Software [Private Offer Only] is doing their best as well there. That is the challenge for the upcoming years, to get the best answers to it. Eventually, they will compete with the same; fight it back with the same power. That means also with quantum computing or specially designed AI to attack back when attackers are attacking. I am not the genius saying that there will be a sort of war game coming up in the future in this domain. However, they are working on it, as all the others are doing, and I think that is absolutely the focus for the coming years because that is where everyone has concern about.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Gophish has positively impacted my organization by increasing awareness among my employees."
"Gophish has had a positive impact on my organization because it is open source, so it is free."
"Gophish has had a positive impact on my organization, as I noticed that since I used Gophish for the benefit of several clients, the maturity level of my clients was increasing."
"Using Gophish has helped me reduce my efforts and make more requests, allowing me to conduct many more phishing attacks in a shorter period."
"The impact it has had is that we have been able to sell it to clients who, for example, do not have the money to pay for a platform because they are small startups, and so with Gophish we create a solution that is cheaper for them."
"Gophish has impacted my organization positively in terms of security awareness, as I have noticed fewer phishing incidents and more responses towards reporting phishing emails as specific improvements."
"I think Gophish is a fantastic tool that, at least for my use case, worked perfectly."
"Gophish is stable and very reliable, and it has never let us down."
"I use Zscaler Software [Private Offer Only]'s real-time traffic inspection feature and find it helpful."
"Zscaler Software is very beneficial for my clients, reducing time by at least more than 50%, improving specific metrics through encrypted threat detection, increasing productivity, and reducing the workload of the analyst so they can respond faster."
"Zscaler Software [Private Offer Only] itself, I think it is pretty good and I only get compliments from clients that are using it after the implementation; they like it."
 

Cons

"The feature of actually taking the website's source code might be something which is not so ethical, because you're copying from the main website even though you're learning."
"I think Gophish could be improved with a user-level function, meaning if the person is strong or weak, we send more or fewer awareness emails, and rely on real attacks in order to be able to create a template by itself."
"I do not really have any improvements in mind at the moment, but offering ready-made templates that we could use or examples of emails that we could directly use would be beneficial."
"Gophish can be improved in that it is an open-source solution and there is a bottleneck issue related to sending emails."
"Currently, we do not think Gophish requires much improvement other than a better graphical user interface."
"Although the tool is very good, I think there could be some improvements, especially when it comes to leveraging AI for testing and also when it comes to the expansion beyond email phishing."
"I would rate it a seven. It is quite good and free software, but it needs more substance."
"I believe Gophish can be improved by adding new features based on attack types in the future, particularly for new zero-day attacks, and incorporating AI-based tools to enhance analyzing and automation."
"I would rather say to Zscaler Software [Private Offer Only] to have better customer service because Zscaler Software [Private Offer Only], even with large enterprises and huge companies that I work for, they notice that Zscaler Software [Private Offer Only] service management is different."
"Regarding Zscaler Software [Private Offer Only], to be honest, we do not like it."
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11%
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Gophish?
My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing shows that the setup cost is not very high; Gophish is completely free, as it is an open-source tool.
What needs improvement with Gophish?
I believe Gophish can be improved in a few areas. First, the user interface could be made more modern and beginner-friendly. The current setup is simple, but for a new user, campaign creation, land...
What is your primary use case for Gophish?
My main use case for Gophish is to run a phishing awareness campaign inside an organization in a safe and controlled way. For example, instead of waiting for a real attacker to send a fake email to...
What needs improvement with Zscaler Software [Private Offer Only]?
One area for improvement for Zscaler Software is that they should have their dependency on AI validated and verified. Because if they are a service provider, they are doing a good job, but they hav...
What is your primary use case for Zscaler Software [Private Offer Only]?
Zscaler Software provides cloud security as the use case for my clients.
 

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