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."The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is Quota."
"We can detect any attack of viruses or malware at the first point of contact."
"The signature database and zero-day detection are Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features."
"It's an easy solution to set up."
"The pipe filter application is an outstanding feature."
"It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"The firewall provides network visibility and reporting capabilities, constantly improving over time. It can be integrated with the cloud console, allowing centralized management of multiple firewalls. integration with endpoint security products ensures seamless traffic flow and rule enforcement, even when endpoints are not directly connected to the firewall."
"The solution is scalable."
"Sophos XG's price is right, and it's easy to manage. It's a good fit for our current needs at the moment."
"Sophos XG is very useful, it does many things."
"Everything is consolidated into a single box, offering comprehensive functionality, including Wi-Fi access and other features."
"The product has a console that is based in the cloud for all their products. In this console, they have email security, firewall security, endpoint security, et cetera. All of the products on offer in the console are very useful for us."
"The installation is easy. There is a wizard that can be used for a single connection making it simple and if you have multiple connections you can configure it manually."
"The interface is very user-friendly and it's easy to manage."
"Most of the features that Zscaler has to offer, we will deploy."
"The solution offers good sandboxing."
"Zscaler Cloud Firewall understands the applications in the current generation and adapts to the present generation cloud applications."
"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."
"The product’s firewall and VPN package are fantastic compared to any other solution."
"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."
"I like the ease of deployment and its flexibility. We don't need to deal with license, quotes, procurement, delivery, and installation. Everything is software-based, and it's very easy to operate."
"It is a stable solution."
"With the reports, you can see it, and you can get good feelings so upper management can go, "Oh, wow. That looks pretty." However, it's very basic."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"Application management can be improved."
"Maybe they could make some features more accessible, such as a way to translate directions between two networks that share the same subnets."
"The security of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"Palo Alto has a feature called WildFire Analysis that is unavailable in FortiGate. WildFire is better than a sandbox because it can address zero-day threats and vulnerabilities. It can immediately identify zero-day threats from the cloud."
"I am using the Azure Active Directory in my company and it was complicated to integrate this solution with Azure."
"The installation could be faster and is longer than that of other solutions, lasting more than a month instead of five minutes."
"The support engineers of the product are not very tech-savvy, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The solution could improve by making the graphical interface better and increasing the performance."
"They should improve the hardware. If they can do that, it will be a very good product."
"They need to do more quality checks before they release firmware upgrades. Currently, a few Cyberoam firewall customers are facing some issues while upgrading the Cyberoam firmware to Sophos. After the new firmware is installed, they are seeing some performance issues, which require some bug fixes. The performance is fine after getting the required support. Customers who are already using Sophos hardware are quite satisfied with this solution. Their support should also be improved. We are facing difficulties getting support on time through email or phone."
"There is an area that is very specific to our setup, where working tools you cannot easily establish a VPN between two internal networks."
"The two main areas where this product needs improvement are routing and reporting."
"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."
"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."
"Because it's on cloud, it doesn't allow application of extra settings."
"Its technical support services could be better."
"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."
"The product could improve its integration with some legacy systems."
"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."
"Data Leak Prevention is only for web filtering and there is no protection for email."
Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is ranked 23rd in Firewalls with 15 reviews. Sophos XG is rated 8.2, while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is rated 8.4. 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, SonicWall TZ and Sophos UTM, whereas Zscaler Cloud Firewall is most compared with Azure Firewall, OPNsense, Cisco Multicloud Defense, Cisco Secure Firewall and Juniper vSRX. See our Sophos XG vs. Zscaler Cloud Firewall report.
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