We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks PA-Series 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 solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"We can use our devices to check all of the perimeters. It secures email websites."
"It is very flexible to use."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"I like Fortinet's cloud management. It allows me to manage all my devices in different branches for three cloud accounts. Even though I use on-prem devices, I can manage everything on the cloud."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"It is a scalable solution."
"It offers a seamless transition from one option to another, making it exceptionally versatile and user-friendly in an enterprise setting."
"Palo Alto blocks the new threats better than other tools."
"The tool's most valuable feature is WildFire."
"I like the tool's security and web filtering features."
"The solution provides good customer support."
"It is scalable. But that depends on what model you are using."
"A valuable feature that we can consider is the deployment time, which is significantly reduced. It is almost 90% faster compared to other solutions."
"Zscaler provides effective protection against various cyber threats ensuring a safe environment"
"Most of the features that Zscaler has to offer, we will deploy."
"Once you have Zscaler running you have access to configure it however you want."
"Zscaler Cloud Firewall understands the applications in the current generation and adapts to the present generation cloud applications."
"The solution is scalable."
"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."
"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 solution offers good sandboxing."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"The support structure needs to be improved because every time we contact them, there is a delay in the response."
"The improvement is related to logs. Instead of the CLI, we should be able to have more insights into the logs of the firewall in the GUI."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution. However, my issue is the performance only. When I use all the profiles, this affects the performance. From the beginning, I should have had a better sizing of the box."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"The biggest "gotcha" is that if the client purchases what they call the UTM shared bundle, which has unified threat management on both, it's not as easy to manage if you have more than one firewall."
"Their software support needs improvement. I would prefer to have better support for bug fixes. Sometimes, we open a ticket, and it is very difficult to get a solution. Specifically, we are not at all happy with their support for load balancing."
"I encountered a slight issue with the application portal, which was not functioning correctly."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved because it is an expensive solution."
"The web interface is slow."
"As we migrate fully into the cloud, additional features like capacity upgrading and improvements to hardware resources will be necessary, especially since our equipment consists of older-generation switches and routers."
"The SD-WAN feature of Palo Alto Networks is not good compared to FortiGate."
"With Palo Alto Networks PA-Series, I find that the support team takes a long time to resolve the issues that a user may face during the use of the product."
"There is room for improvement in streamlining this process for smoother transitions."
"The interface is complex."
"The issue right now is probably that Zscaler is not providing web browser isolation. Another solution, Menlo, offers this. For one customer, we had to send traffic to Menlo to do the isolation for us. It was requested by the customer so that they could integrate any iframe. Zscaler needs to add this type of feature in their next release."
"The product could improve its integration with some legacy systems."
"Certain criteria need to be met if you want to scale this solution."
"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."
"Zscaler Cloud Firewall should have a better understanding of all dynamic cloud applications."
"They do not provide a few components that are fundamental to differentiate the products"
"It would be better if they improved their policy, package visibility, and flexibility while we're creating rules for inspection. It could also be cheaper or more things could be included in the basic package. In the next release, I would like better coverage in the Asia Pacific region and better quality of service."
"Instead of the standard license, they should certainly provide customers with the visibility to access and view the logs."
Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 28 reviews while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is ranked 23rd in Firewalls with 15 reviews. Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is rated 8.6, while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks PA-Series writes "Offers trained customer support, stability and ease of use ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Cloud Firewall writes "A highly stable and comprehensive cloud security and access solution". Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is most compared with OPNsense, SonicWall NSa, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Sophos XG and Netgate pfSense, whereas Zscaler Cloud Firewall is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall, OPNsense and Sophos XG. See our Palo Alto Networks PA-Series vs. Zscaler Cloud Firewall report.
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