Cisco Sourcefire SNORT vs Zscaler Cloud IPS comparison

"The solution is rather easy to use."

"Cisco technical support is unbeatable. It offers a premium service every time."

"The solution can be integrated with some network electors like Cisco Stealthwatch, Cisco ISE, and Active Directory to provide the client with authentication certificates."

"The most valuable features of Cisco Sourcefire SNORT are the dashboard for monitoring events."

"The tool's most valuable feature is threat detection, which is important because we have multiple layers not only in Cisco."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the filtering."

"Solid intrusion detection and prevention that scales easily in very large environments."

"I like most of Cisco's features, like malware detection and URL filtering."

"The initial setup is straightforward and easy in comparison with other solutions."

"The best feature is that Zscaler allows for a separation between cloud applications and URL filtering. For example, under the cloud application segment, I can bypass Microsoft Office 365 without the need to add URLs manually. It's one click, so that's handy."

"The initial setup process is easy."

"Cloud IPS integration is seamless, and it uses a Zero Trust model. It also simplifies overall user access management."

"The product's most valuable feature is complete SSL inspection."

"While the alerts they offer are good, it could improve it in the sense that they should be more detailed to make the alerts more useful to us in general. Sometimes the solution will offer up false positives. Due to the fact that the alerts aren't detailed, we have to go dig around to see why is it being blocked. The solution would be infinitely better if there was just a bit more detail in the alert information and logging we receive."

"I want to see a better dashboard for the product. The dashboard can be a bit modified or enhanced."

"I did not experience any pain points that required improvement. Maybe a couple of false-positives, but that's about it."

"There are problems setting up VPNs for some regions."

"To be frank, the product is not really stable, although they're working on that. Whenever I go to the technical community with an issue, they will usually say that it is not there yet, but the technical team are working on it. The issues are not insolvable. I think they should just keep working on the product to make sure that the product can become very stable. The technical support is great. I appreciate that. We have a lot of communities supporting Firepower now, so you can find help for whatever issue you have."

"We are unhappy with technical support for this solution, and it is not as professional as what we typically expect from Cisco."

"The implementation could be a bit easier."

"With the next release, I would like to see some PBR, so that you can do the configuration with the features."

"We encounter issues sharing IP addresses with other companies using the software."

"When it comes to scalability, the IPsec could be improved."

"There is always room for improvement."

"We recently had a significant issue with Zscaler. I think they have too many customers and some of their connection edge nodes went down because there were too many requests. I think they aren't scaling enough to keep up with the demand in some areas. That's one thing they should improve."

"They have given limited free access for a year. Instead, they should increase the file size and give limited free access for around two months. It will allow engineers to evaluate the product."

"If one is an extremely expensive product, and ten is cheap, I rate the tool's price as a five."

"I don't know the exact amount, but most of the time when I go to a company with a proposition, they will say, "This thing that you are selling is good, but it's expensive. Why don't you propose something like FortiGate, Check Point, or Palo Alto?" Cisco device are expensive compared to other devices."

"We have a three-year license for this solution."

"Licensing for this solution is paid on a yearly basis."

"The cost is per port and can be expensive but it does include training and support for three years."

"The software has become more expensive at present."

"The product is not affordable for small and medium enterprises."

"Zscaler has so far been solely responsible for all the sales we have done with it, so it would be more suited than us to address any issues concerning the pricing."