We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Zscaler Internet Access 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 most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is load balancing. It can provide central management and VPNA. Additionally, it has enhanced our security environment."
"The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. Anyone can easily maintain it."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"Fortinet offers the latest versions to cater to the needs of enterprises."
"FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"Valuable features include the Web Application Firewall, and it even has DLP (data leak prevention)."
"FortiGate's web and URL filtering are unlike any other firewall I've used. The functionality of URL filtering in those solutions is problematic because everything is encrypted, and firewalls can't break that encryption protocol. Fortinet has an SSL proxy, so the encryption is done before the packet ever leaves the FortiGate. The URL filter is definitely one of the most helpful features."
"You already can scale it if you put it in Auto Scaling groups. If you put it in a load balancer, it should already be able to scale."
"The interface with Panorama makes it very easy to use."
"The most effective features for threat prevention are application-based prevention and WildFire. These features cover various threats, such as ransomware, malware, etc. They provide real-time visibility. By applying appropriate policies, threats can be blocked."
"It gives us the ease that we are secure. We have set up the proper things that help make our data safe."
"It has excellent scalability."
"The most effective features of the solution for threat prevention are Layer 7 inspection, SSL decryption, IPS, and the web filtering profile."
"The most valuable feature is the Posture Assessment."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series's most valuable feature is the visibility of the environment."
"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."
"The solution has reduced cyberattacks."
"Overall, we're very happy with our product."
"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 cloud proxy and integration are some of the key features. Since there is cloud waste, we can quickly provision it and start working on the configuration. On top of that, they have added a few more features. They have integrated CASB, and file sandboxing is part of it."
"One on the main benefits is protection all time from anywhere."
"The security is excellent."
"Zscaler Web Security protects our users in remote locations from internet threats - even if they are not connected to our network."
"The reporting in Fortinet FortiGate could improve. Customers are having to purchase additional reporting components. When I have used the Sophos solution it is a complete solution, in Fortinet FortiGate you have to use additional tools to have the features needed."
"I need user-behavior analytics, to find threat scenarios from inside the organization, insider attacks. That would be very helpful for us. In addition, I would like next-generation features for small and medium businesses. These businesses require UTM, all in one product. Fortinet must include it."
"The UI could be improved."
"The pricing could be a bit better, especially when you consider how they have the most basic offering priced."
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"With FortiGate, the main complaint that I have heard is about the technical support."
"FortiOS is not simple."
"FortiGate is really good. We have been using it for quite some time. Initially, when we started off, we had around 70 plus devices of FortiGate, but then Check Point and Palo Alto took over the place. From the product perspective, there are no issues, but from the account perspective, we have had issues. Fortinet's presence in our company is very less. I don't see any Fortinet account managers talking to us, and that presence has diluted in the last two and a half or three years. We have close to 1,500 firewalls. Out of these, 60% of firewalls are from Palo Alto, and a few firewalls are from Check Point. FortiGate firewalls are very less now. It is not because of the product; it is because of the relationship. I don't think they had a good relationship with us, and there was some kind of disconnect for a very long time. The relationship between their accounts team and my leadership team seems to be the reason for phasing out FortiGate."
"The DLP functionality or data classification can be improved in the solution's basic firewalling."
"The interface is all Java-based. I would prefer an HTML5 interface."
"The solution must improve Zero Trust integration and use cases."
"The one issue that I didn't like is that the SNMP integration with interfaces didn't record the interface counters."
"There are some delays that I have observed when my company communicates with Palo Alto's support engineers."
"The utilization monitoring and GUI have room for improvement."
"I would like to have automatic daily reporting, such as how many users have connected via SSL VPN."
"In the next release, I would like to see better integration between the endpoints and the firewalls."
"They should enhance the audit reporting feature."
"The tool should improve the predefined dictionaries."
"What could be improved in Zscaler Internet Access is its price. It could be cheaper."
"If they can also integrate with the multi-factor authentication to prompt users to do another, second-factor authentication, that would be ideal."
"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."
"Zscaler Internet Access needs to integrate more ISPs. It is good to have more than three ISPs."
"Zscaler needs to add client-to-client communication. It's always client-to-server communication. The cloud and branch connectors could be improved because we're still dependent on traditional firewalls. They should eliminate this. They should also provide WAN devices should to compete with the SD-WAN solutions also."
"The interface for administration could be better. They should upgrade the management portal."
Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 52 reviews while Zscaler Internet Access is ranked 2nd in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 46 reviews. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6, while Zscaler Internet Access is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Internet Access writes "Provides integrated CASB and file sandboxing but could be less expensive ". Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Juniper SRX Series Firewall, 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. See our Palo Alto Networks VM-Series vs. Zscaler Internet Access report.
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