We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall 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."Its stability is the most valuable."
"The most valuable features are the possibility of having one fabric for switching on security."
"The integration with Active Directory is one of the good features. Most of the customers are now looking for the Single Sign-on feature. So, being able to integrate Active Directory with the firewall is useful. It is also easy."
"The technical support in our region is excellent."
"What's most important is the ease of use."
"We've found the solution to be pretty stable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"The wireless control is helpful."
"We use the solution for application and server deployment."
"The solution has many useful features. For example, the solution allows users to create virtual IP addresses."
"The firewall policy control, URL content control, and antivirus are all the most valuable aspects. Threat prevention is as well quite good."
"It's auto-scalable, which is a great feature."
"It's helped us improve our security posture."
"I can easily configure it."
"The solution is stable."
"We secure the entry point to the virtual data center with the firewall."
"The solution is stable."
"In terms of management and visibility, there is a single panel where you can configure the policies for your entire organisation worldwide."
"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 is stable and reliable."
"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 solution’s customer service is good."
"The solution replaces multiple vendor technologies with one which makes it worth the cost."
"One feature that is valuable to me from an implementation point of view is that it's very easy to implement."
"There aren't really any negative aspects to discuss."
"Fortinet currently has many products bundled with FortiGate including the basic firewall and load balancer, and I think that that they need to have separate product portfolios for each of these specialized services."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"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."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"The UTM filtering needs improvement."
"Lacks training for new features."
"The interface could be improved, it's not very user friendly."
"You have to have a defined IP range within your network to associate it with your network. The problem is you have to plan ahead of time if you expect to use the firewall in the future so that you don't have to reconfigure your subnets or that specific IP range. Other than that, I don't any issues. I use it for basic configuration for a single application, so I really don't try to leverage it for multiple applications where I might find some complexity or challenges."
"It needs a lot of improvement, especially on intruder detection. They are working hard on that."
"There is room for further integration of AI into the system."
"Azure should be able to work better as a balancer also, instead of just being a firewall. It should have a wider mandate."
"It's a little heavy compared to a FortiGate or other firewalls."
"The product could be made more customizable."
"The solution doesn't offer the same capabilities of Fortinet. It should offer intrusion prevention and advance filtering. These are two very useful features offered on Fortinet that Azure lacks."
"Another thing that I would like to see is if Zscaler could have a separate product for direct access. I looked at a private access solution, but I understand there's a separate product that isn't integrated with this."
"Sometimes it's not easy to use during large deployments of workstations."
"They should enhance the audit reporting feature."
"One thing that needs to be improved is their presence in China. I'm not sure if that's a Zscaler thing or if it's a problem with all vendors in this space, but it would be nice to have better coverage in China. This concern is a common one for vendors across the board when dealing with the Chinese market."
"Zscaler should continue to make the user interface better. They should also improve the backup network and continue to expand it so that it can handle larger numbers of customers."
"Zscaler Internet Access's troubleshooting is very limited, and their textbook logs need to be more informative."
"The tool should improve the predefined dictionaries."
"One thing that they could improve is the ability to import rules from other platforms."
Azure Firewall is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Zscaler Internet Access is ranked 2nd in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 46 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while Zscaler Internet Access is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Azure Firewall writes "Easy to use and configure but could be more robust". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Internet Access writes "Provides integrated CASB and file sandboxing but could be less expensive ". Azure Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Check Point NGFW, 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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