We performed a comparison between Zscaler Cloud Firewall and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway 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 most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"Fortinet offers the latest versions to cater to the needs of enterprises."
"Fortinet FortiGate is stable. It's used across all the countries, this is the way most multinationals run their system."
"The pipe filter application is an outstanding feature."
"The product is easy to use and is stable. The SV1 functionality is a benefit."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"We can detect any attack of viruses or malware at the first point of contact."
"Their proxy-based inspection is responsive and secure."
"It is a stable solution."
"Most of the features that Zscaler has to offer, we will deploy."
"Zscaler Cloud Firewall understands the applications in the current generation and adapts to the present generation cloud applications."
"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."
"It helps a lot of companies to reduce their downtime. Also, It helps businesses in terms of being secured and protected from any threats."
"The scalability is okay. We have around 2200 people using this solution."
"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 initial setup is straightforward."
"This is a capable appliance and the standard features work well for us."
"The solution can scale well."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from web filtering, malware protection, and antivirus."
"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."
"When we cluster the two Fortinet FortiGate boxes together we have some issues."
"The main aspect of FortiGate that could be improved is load balancing. Our management team does not want to buy another appliance for only load balancing."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"The support system could be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"There are some problems that support cannot give you a logical reason as to why it happened. For example, I had a case where I was dealing with a WhatsApp application that was giving issues. Technical support gave more than one reason it could be giving issues, but none of them solved the problem. Eventually I solved the problem, but it was far from the solutions that support had given."
"I would suggest that Fortinet add sandboxing to their solution."
"Data Leak Prevention is only for web filtering and there is no protection for email."
"Pricing is a challenge."
"Instead of the standard license, they should certainly provide customers with the visibility to access and view the logs."
"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."
"Zscaler Cloud Firewall should have a better understanding of all dynamic cloud applications."
"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."
"We are having some issues with internet access being denied when organizational ID-based policies change. For example, a lower level employee ends up getting the same level of access as that of a higher level employee."
"Sometimes it reboots when you least expect it, and that's the main issue."
"Although manageable, the user interface is a little bit slow and could be improved."
"The product has some scalability and data management issues where improvements are required."
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Zscaler Cloud Firewall is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 15 reviews while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is ranked 14th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 3 reviews. Zscaler Cloud Firewall is rated 8.4, while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is rated 6.0. The top reviewer of Zscaler Cloud Firewall writes "A highly stable and comprehensive cloud security and access solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zyxel Unified Security Gateway writes "Offers good anti-spam and web filtering features but needs to improve in the area of scalability". Zscaler Cloud Firewall is most compared with Azure Firewall, OPNsense, Cisco Multicloud Defense, Cisco Secure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, WatchGuard Firebox and SonicWall TZ. See our Zscaler Cloud Firewall vs. Zyxel Unified Security Gateway report.
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