We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls 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."Layer-3 firewall and routing are the most valuable features."
"The next-gen features, the unified threat management capabilities are something that just about everybody is interested in at this point."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"The next-generation firewall is great."
"This product is definitely scalable."
"The FortiGate controls the user's activities and maximizes my bandwidth use overall."
"A strong point of FortiGate is that the graphical interface is complete and easy to use, especially if we think there is a list of operations that we are able to perform inside."
"This is an easy solution to deploy."
"I like that they are more stable than the previous ones, and they allow a lot of other features."
"The initial setup process is quite easy."
"The most valuable features are application inspection and sandboxing. Application inspection decides where traffic is transmitted. If I have a perimeter report for a particular service, then other services or malicious services cannot use an open port. In this way, application inspection is doing a fantastic job. We also have a very good sandbox with almost no rate limit. It will inspect any file that comes in and goes out in a dedicated patch to identify malware. Therefore, these two things help me to protect our organization from any bad actors."
"The most valuable features are the IPS/IDS subscriptions."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the network protection."
"The key aspect of this solution that provides the most value is its next-gen capabilities, which represented a significant change for us."
"Identifying applications is very easy with this solution."
"Flexible and integrates well with apps and other security tools."
"SSL inspection is a valuable feature."
"We don't have to buy equipment to use it. And when our engineers set it up on our side, we just configured a few settings and we were in."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"Overall, we're very happy with our product."
"We use ZIA for outbound internet connectivity. The internet traffic of on-prem users will be directed to the ZIA cloud for security checks and web filtering."
"The solution offers a distributed organization to master and to control all of the endpoints."
"Zscaler covers all the features needed to replace a VPN or proxy solution. They are good. They've been on the market for 15 years now, so they are mature enough."
"The VPN is valuable, as the whole technology is very different from a traditional VPN."
"Compared to some other products, the DLP is not at par for the moment."
"Some configuration elements cannot be easily altered once created."
"The Web-filter in this solution is not very good."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"The UI could be improved."
"Palo Alto should improve their support. It's sometimes difficult to get the right technician or engineer to fix the problem as soon as possible."
"When it comes to their support, we have to select every single component that we want to include in a particular bundle. That is a very tedious process. T"
"I like the reports, but I wish the reporting was a little better. When I set up the automatic reports to come in, they're pretty basic. I would like them to be a little more advanced at the ACC monitoring and things like that. I still enjoy all the daily alerts that I get and all the daily PDFs and reports, but I just feel that it could expand upon the visualization of the reports."
"The machine learning in Palo Alto NG Firewalls for securing networks against threats that are able to evolve and morph rapidly is good, in general. But there have been some cases where we get false positives and Palo Alto has denied traffic when there have been new updates and signature releases. Valid traffic gets blocked. We have had some bad experiences with this. If there were an ability, before it denies traffic, to get some kind of notification that some traffic is going to be blocked, that would be good."
"The only real drawback to this product is that it is expensive. But you get what you pay for and there is no way to put a price on top-notch security."
"The VPN has room for improvement."
"I would like the option to be able to block the traffic from a specific country in a few clicks."
"Personally, I feel that their dashboards for reporting and things like that need some improvement."
"We'd like to have more plugins and integration."
"The OS capabilities and WSL support could be improved."
"The reporting functionality could be a bit easier to use. There is a reporting function, but it's quite hard to do any good reporting, from a user-management perspective. For example, if a department manager wants to know how his department is using the web, there is a way to get the data, but it's quite cumbersome to get it and show it well. And that's true for comparing between departments."
"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."
"The price of the solution could be improved."
"Sometimes it's not easy to use during large deployments of workstations."
"It needs better integration with other applications. It takes a fair amount of regular activity to apply the by-passes because it is very strict in its restrictions and frequently you have to go in and open things up to allow the workforce to work."
"What could be improved in Zscaler Internet Access is its price. It could be cheaper."
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Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is ranked 6th in Firewalls with 162 reviews while Zscaler Internet Access is ranked 2nd in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 46 reviews. Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is rated 8.6, while Zscaler Internet Access is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls writes "We get reports back from WildFire on a minute-by-minute basis". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Internet Access writes "Provides integrated CASB and file sandboxing but could be less expensive ". Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is most compared with Check Point NGFW, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Netgate pfSense, 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 Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls vs. Zscaler Internet Access report.
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