We performed a comparison between SonicWall TZ 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."Fortigate is very scalable to serve our customers' needs. We have scaled already from fifty to more than a hundred instances of Fortinet FortiGate. Around 20 staff are required for deployment and maintenance, mostly engineers."
"The secure web gateway module and the application control module are valuable. HA operations are very easy."
"Fortinet FortiGate's reliability is valuable."
"It's inexpensive compared to some of the other technology out there."
"It is useful for protecting and segregating the internal networks from the internet. Most of our customers also use the FortiGate client to connect to their offices by using the VPN client, and of course, they usually activate the antivirus, deep inspection, and intrusion prevention services. They are also using it for web filtering and implementing various policies dealing with forwardings, NAT, etc."
"The reporting and monitoring are very good."
"I like how we can achieve total integration."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"I like the firewall product, the security server, and the content filter."
"We use the content filter quite a lot because it's an office setting. During working hours, we like to censor the sites users can visit so it increases productivity. Therefore, the content filter has been good for us."
"Once it's configured properly, the solution is unbreakable."
"I have found this solution to be easier to use when compared to other products, such as those offered by Cisco."
"User-friendly firewall solution which scales well, is stable, and has high availability."
"From our point of view, the most valuable feature was the ease of deployment."
"The most valuable features are unified threat management which provides security intelligence and the VPN for both site-to-site and remote access."
"SonicWall TZ is stable."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is SWG traffic."
"The most valuable features of Zscaler Internet Access are it's on the cloud, high network performance, and the interception of users is very easy."
"The data loss prevention feature is the most valuable. It stops our users from inadvertently leaking our customers' data to the Internet or anywhere else it shouldn't go."
"The policies are very intuitive and easy to configure, with very little possibility of messing things up."
"The solution’s customer service is good."
"The scanning feature is impressive, because they do not introduce a big latency to the traffic."
"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."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"It should be more stable. There should be full integration within Fortinet products themselves as well as with other third-party products. Especially when you're not dealing with SIEM and the correlation of the security box, we want Fortinet to be able to share that information with as many other products as it can."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"If they had better integration with security products, such as Cisco ISE or Rapid Threat Containment, then it would be an improvement."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"There is room for improvement related to the logging and reporting aspect."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"The sniffing packets or packet captures, can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing."
"The lack of support is having me look into other solutions to replace SonicWALL."
"The dashboard needs to be improved."
"There is a point I don't like about SonicWall in the past and now. Most of the destinations we look at when we're detecting some user using too much bandwidth or something like that, SonicWall just gave us destination IP address, instead of the full qualified domain name. I think that's the most important part that is still missing. I think that's the most important for us."
"The solution's antivirus checking could be improved so that we can have a deeper inspection of the packets."
"The areas we would like to see improvement include more features available similar to the equivalent FortiGate appliance, e.g. SSL encryption and inspection. Two-factor authentication capability would be another additional feature that could be included in the next release."
"The small business line has less PPS throughput."
"We would like to improve the rules configuration in SonicWall TZ. Sometimes the rules don't work."
"I can't get the support that I need from SonicWall."
"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."
"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."
"In terms of usage, here in the GCC, it's still growing a growing market, so the combination of DLP, data leak prevention, to a certain extent is fine. But what it requires is user-based access or role-based access. The solution needs to grow into that, which definitely takes time. There's not an easy way to integrate it, when you have a cloud-based solution."
"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."
"When you have appliances, SSL inspection is always a headache due to poor performance and/or lack of ciphers implemented. "
"I would like to see more training and video documentation."
"The solution is expensive. They recently revised the pricing and packaging. Some of our existing customers have been asking for alternate solutions for a lower price."
"They should enhance the audit reporting feature."
SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews while Zscaler Internet Access is ranked 2nd in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 46 reviews. SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0, while Zscaler Internet Access is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SonicWall TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Internet Access writes "Provides integrated CASB and file sandboxing but could be less expensive ". SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and WatchGuard Firebox, 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 SonicWall TZ vs. Zscaler Internet Access report.
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