We performed a comparison between Sophos XG 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."FortiGate is flexible and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"It's very easy to set up, it's very easy to make policies and, for an organization, that means you don't need IT expert in firewalls. You just need to have somebody who knows a little bit of IT, and that's it. With other products, you need someone with a "Masters" degree in firewalls."
"FortiGate SD-WAN facilitated a smooth transition for our customers between their two internet service providers, ensuring uninterrupted connectivity without any downtime."
"The user interface is relatively easy. The devices are easy to deploy and figure out when you have experience with other security appliances."
"The usage in general is pretty good."
"The virtual firewall feature is the most valuable. We have around 1,500 firewalls. We did not buy individual hardware, and the virtual firewalls made sense because we don't have to keep on buying the hardware. FortiGate is easier to use as compared to Checkpoint devices. It is user friendly and has a good UI. You don't need much expertise to work on this firewall. You don't need to worry much about DCLA, commands, and things like that."
"It's very fast and easy to configure."
"This is a very stable solution."
"The VPN feature is the most valuable. It has come in handy during this period when people are working from home. The filtering feature is also valuable because you can easily filter the sites that you don't want to visit. You can also set timely surfing quotas."
"Sophos is a comrehensive solution which allows me to configure all the attendant products, such as Sophos' firewall, Endpoint and Encryption features."
"The solution is more cost-effective than FortiGate, Cisco and Palo Alto, which have very expensive licenses."
"I like the fact that it can self remove malware and do updates on the cloud via Sophos Central."
"So far, I'm happy that they have recently added a firewall role, so I feel a little more comfortable with the security. The threat management is good."
"The solution is stable. I've had very few problems with it."
"If you want to install antivirus and firewalling on endpoints, then Sophos is the best option."
"The solution offers good sandboxing."
"The scalability is okay. We have around 2200 people using this solution."
"The product’s firewall and VPN package are fantastic compared to any other solution."
"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 is a stable solution."
"Zscaler Cloud Firewall understands the applications in the current generation and adapts to the present generation cloud applications."
"Includes advanced tech protection."
"It helps a lot of companies to reduce their downtime. Also, It helps businesses in terms of being secured and protected from any threats."
"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."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"The pricing could always be better."
"Its price could be better."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"One of the problems I was having was with user mapping, and it is an issue for which I have escalated tickets with Fortinet support."
"We would like to see a better training platform implemented."
"Some of the filtering is not robust, you can escape it with a VPN. Some of the users bypass some of the filters. It catches some but it also misses some, that area could be improved. It's functioning reasonably but there's room for improvement in that area."
"Sophos XG could improve Data Loss Prevention(DLP)."
"Sophos can definitely improve with the interoperability between solutions."
"The security of Sophos XG could be improved."
"They should include fiber ports on smaller product models and the tools should be improved for scalability."
"This solution could be improved with more effective bandwidth. I found that when I enable DDoS detection for our clients, bandwidth is reduced. If DDoS detection is disabled, the bandwidth will be high, but it isn't secure. We recommend that customers enable DDoS detection, but if they need high bandwidth, we recommend Palo Alto and FortiGate instead of Sophos."
"For the moment, managing the Sophos interface is a little bit challenging."
"I would like to have remote access to clients using a static IP for a certain period of time."
"There needs to be a way that we can distinguish between educational institutions on Youtube and other Youtube videos. You can do this on Fortinet. Basically, they can block all other Youtube videos besides those that are from educational institutions. With Sophos, you either allow for all Youtube videos or none at all. They need to allow for more specification on different websites."
"Zscaler Cloud Firewall should have a better understanding of all dynamic cloud applications."
"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."
"Pricing is a challenge."
"Certain criteria need to be met if you want to scale this solution."
"Its technical support services could be better."
"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."
"They do not provide a few components that are fundamental to differentiate the products"
"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."
Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 191 reviews while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is ranked 24th in Firewalls with 15 reviews. Sophos XG is rated 8.2, while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Sophos XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Cloud Firewall writes "A highly stable and comprehensive cloud security and access solution". Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and SonicWall TZ, whereas Zscaler Cloud Firewall is most compared with Azure Firewall, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall and Check Point NGFW. See our Sophos XG vs. Zscaler Cloud Firewall report.
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