We performed a comparison between McAfee StoneGate [EOL] 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."This version is stable. I don't have any issues with this solution, in our environment, it works well."
"The features that prevent internet connections, the filtering are the most valuable because we did not have any internet protection before."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is the simple configuration."
"FortiGate Secure SD-WAN includes best-of-breed next-generation firewall (NGFW) security, SD-WAN, advanced routing, and WAN optimization capabilities, delivering a security-driven networking WAN edge transformation in a unified offering."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"It works well with a highly-active cluster."
"We did not have issues with scalabiliy."
"Whether you are in a hotel somewhere, or in Africa, it does not matter. You will get the Zscaler protection presence anywhere."
"The solution offers a distributed organization to master and to control all of the endpoints."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"Overall, we're very happy with our product."
"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 initial setup is very straightforward."
"We enjoy all of the proxy capabilities and the capability to integrate into the SIEM/SOC solution."
"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."
"We had some issues in the beginning while setting it up, but after doing the firmware update, it is working fine."
"Currently, FortiGate is providing SSL VPN. But they're missing some features that are available in Palo Alto's SSL VPN."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"The routing capability on the FortiGate devices has room for improvement."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"The scalability could be better."
"Tunnel flapping was one of the major things I had seen wherein your internet link remains but your VPN tunnel is down. However, since I got a fix from the TAC team, I have not noticed it, but the customer complained a few times that they couldn't access the internet because of this problem."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"After some experience with the solution, we had to do some redesign, but generally, we were happy with the product."
"There are some performance issues when we add on additional controls."
"Zscaler does not provide dedicated IPs to each customer. Hence, they share a pool of IPs provided by Zscaler. There is a chance of blacklisting these IPs. I also do not like the multi-management portal."
"In terms of user experience, it could be better."
"Zscaler should provide adjacent services, which would be complementary to their current offering that could to be more pragmatic for a customer. For example, if you take Akamai, you get multiple sets of services, all depending on the customer and the strategy and the complexity and the problems. In some areas, they are more varied in terms of coverage."
"An improvement would be if they could provide an out-of-the-box experience, like 20 to 30 features all ready to go. In comparison, LogRhythm offers out-of-the-box features. With Zscaler Internet Access, there is firewall IPS, multiple security services, filtering, DLP, and CASB browser isolation. These are things that all users are going to be using. However, when an administrator or architect would start building this, I would definitely need to engage professional services to help clients do it."
"Technical support could be better."
"Zscaler Internet Access could improve by adding a VPN feature."
"I would like to see more training and video documentation."
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McAfee StoneGate [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls while Zscaler Internet Access is ranked 2nd in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 46 reviews. McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is rated 7.0, while Zscaler Internet Access is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of McAfee StoneGate [EOL] writes "The HA cluster had issues during deployment, but the solution gives us better application control than with our previous solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Internet Access writes "Provides integrated CASB and file sandboxing but could be less expensive ". McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is most compared with , 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.
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