We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Zscaler Cloud Firewall 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 performance is good."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"It does a lot for you for intrusion protection and as an antivirus. The threat management bundle is worth the money. You don't need another company to monitor your web traffic for you. You can do everything yourself on the firewall. You restrict your own black list for people on the firewall. You don't need to pay some other company for another product to do that for you. The firewall can do that for you. So, it's an easy-to-use product for people to be independent. They don't need to rely on other vendors to do what the firewall can do. They can do everything."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"It is simple to manage, and there are a lot of functionalities in the same box."
"The reporting and monitoring are very good."
"Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"In my opinion, Palo Alto has consistently been one of the best firewalls for enterprise security."
"Most of the features in Palo Alto are very valuable."
"The trackability is most valuable. When a port is open for a protocol, such as port 443 for HTTPS, it can look inside the traffic and identify or verify the applications that are using the port, which was previously not possible with traditional firewalls."
"The most important thing is that it's really user-friendly. I have almost stopped using the CLI because I like the graphical interface. You can do whatever you want on a single screen, including all the configuration and implementation, using Panorama. You don't have to switch from one place to another."
"We have found the SSL decryption within this solution to be great; you can enable this feature and have the ability to see more of what is happening across your network."
"With its single pane of glass, it makes monitoring and troubleshooting a bit more homogeneous. We are not looking at multiple platforms and monitoring management tools. It is more efficient from that perspective. It is more of a common monitoring and control system for multiple aspects of what used to be different systems. It provides efficiency and time savings."
"Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls provide a unified platform that natively integrates all security capabilities."
"The most important part of this solution is its reliability, as it just works without any fancy features."
"Most of the features that Zscaler has to offer, we will deploy."
"The scalability is okay. We have around 2200 people using this solution."
"It is a stable solution."
"It provides in-depth visibility into your network, ensuring that traffic flowing into your organization, be it from offices or individual users, is effectively filtered and secured through multiple layers of protection."
"The visibility and log availability offered are highly valued for troubleshooting purposes, and this is a key factor driving customer interest in the firewall module."
"The solution is scalable."
"The product’s firewall and VPN package are fantastic compared to any other solution."
"Zscaler Cloud Firewall understands the applications in the current generation and adapts to the present generation cloud applications."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"I would like Fortinet to add more automation to FortiGate."
"The pricing could always be better."
"Currently, without the additional reporting module, we only have access to basic reporting."
"We sometimes have issues with FortiGate's routing table in the latest firmware update. We had to downgrade the device because our customers complained about bugs."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"In some cases, its initial setup could be hard for customers."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"Palo Alto is like Microsoft. It has varied features, but it's too technical. A lot of the features could be simplified. The procedure, process, features, and usability could be more simple."
"In my opinion, the training provided is satisfactory, but there is certainly room for improvement. It would be great to have more comprehensive training at a lower cost, or even for free."
"The solution could be more cost-effective."
"We use ACC which is a tool for verifying the activity or traffic within your network. Currently, in ACC, the time of the samples that they offer is about five minutes. When you try to go down to a shorter duration, you can't. You only have five minutes. They can provide samples for shorter durations, such as one minute."
"Personally, I feel that their dashboards for reporting and things like that need some improvement."
"The solution's VPN, called GlobalProtect, could be improved as I've had a few issues with that."
"We have a lot of the older firewall models, i.e., the PA-220. It seems that with newer operating systems the PA-220 is becoming slower than when I first bought it. It is not really an issue for users who are passing traffic through the firewall, but more from the management access of it."
"The analytics could be improved."
"Its technical support services could be better."
"It would be nice to have some sort of a form factor, a physical form factor perhaps, or virtual machine that you could install on devices or on a cloud, and have some cloud computing."
"They do not provide a few components that are fundamental to differentiate the products"
"Zscaler Cloud Firewall should have a better understanding of all dynamic cloud applications."
"Certain criteria need to be met if you want to scale this solution."
"Data Leak Prevention is only for web filtering and there is no protection for email."
"There are some areas it could improve when it comes to blocking, we have to block some things manually. For example, if we block a top-level domain we have seen that the new IPs come through, the IPs are not blocked. There should be some more granular way of doing it. My only request is if you're blocking something at a top level, the sub-level sub-domains and all those other IPs should be blocked too automatically."
"We are having some issues with internet access being denied when organizational ID-based policies change. For example, a lower level employee ends up getting the same level of access as that of a higher level employee."
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Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is ranked 6th in Firewalls with 76 reviews while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is ranked 27th in Firewalls with 11 reviews. Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is rated 8.8, while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls writes "Provides zero trust implementation, more visibility, and eliminated security holes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Cloud Firewall writes "Flexible licensing with good performance and support". Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is most compared with Azure Firewall, Check Point NGFW, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Netgate pfSense, whereas Zscaler Cloud Firewall is most compared with Azure Firewall, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Check Point NGFW and Netgate pfSense. See our Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls vs. Zscaler Cloud Firewall report.
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