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Zscaler Internet Access pros and cons

Vendor: Zscaler
4.2 out of 5
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PROS

Zscaler Internet Access excels in security protection and offers continuous updates in the cloud, benefiting organizations of all sizes with consistent security quality.
Users experience protection at all times from any location, with notable benefits including seamless roaming user security and VPN-replacing features.
Through centralized management and visibility, Zscaler Internet Access provides a single panel to configure policies for the entire organization globally, reducing maintenance efforts significantly.
The integration of data loss prevention, bandwidth control, and high-performance network features enhances overall security, minimizing threats effectively.
Zscaler Internet Access has positively impacted organizations by enhancing security environments, offering scalability, and ensuring effective threat detection and prevention through its advanced capabilities.

CONS

Zscaler Internet Access requires a proper implementation for success and is not readily usable like consumer applications.
Pricing is high compared to other firewalls, especially for users in the same location.
There are integration issues with other applications, necessitating frequent adjustments and by-passes.
Technical support and documentation need improvements, including training and resource availability.
Zscaler Internet Access lacks features like dedicated IPs for clients, which could result in IP blacklisting.
 

Zscaler Internet Access Pros review quotes

chiefexe795285 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Executive Officer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Mar 6, 2018
Zscaler excels in security protection and the cloud is always up-to-date. It does not matter if you are a small or big organisation, you will receive the same security quality.
CEO832 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
Oct 4, 2018
Whether you are in a hotel somewhere, or in Africa, it does not matter. You will get the Zscaler protection presence anywhere.
PZ
Chief Technical Officer at Accountabilit
Mar 26, 2019
All internet access flows through the Zscaler proxy, regardless of whether people are in office or remote. I have greater control site access and I minimize the number of compromises that we experience to almost none.
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SR
IT Manager at SiVEST
Jun 24, 2019
Zscaler Web Security protects our users in remote locations from internet threats - even if they are not connected to our network.
it_user1059291 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Projects & Innovation Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jun 30, 2019
The most valuable feature is bandwidth control.
it_user1051764 - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Information Security Architect at a engineering company with 10,001+ employees
Dec 9, 2019
The scanning feature is impressive, because they do not introduce a big latency to the traffic.
it_user1150056 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at Onesecure
Aug 19, 2019
The initial setup was straightforward. The biggest thing for us was to build our own policies. The deployment itself was only a few hours.
KS
Consultant at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Aug 20, 2019
The best thing about Zscaler Internet Access is the website filtering. In the UAE it's quite an important feature because most of the malware comes through the SQL injection and through downloads from websites. Zscaler helps protect against that.
it_user1138029 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Partner with 1-10 employees
Aug 21, 2019
The solution offers a distributed organization to master and to control all of the endpoints.
GB
Channel Alliances Leader Germany at ALE
Nov 30, 2020
The security is excellent.
 

Zscaler Internet Access Cons review quotes

chiefexe795285 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Executive Officer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Mar 6, 2018
​When you have appliances, SSL inspection is always a headache due to poor performance and/or lack of ciphers implemented. ​
CEO832 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
Oct 4, 2018
The pricing is an issue. It is expensive if you have all of your users in the same location. It is expensive compared to other firewalls on the market.
PZ
Chief Technical Officer at Accountabilit
Mar 26, 2019
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.
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SR
IT Manager at SiVEST
Jun 24, 2019
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.
it_user1059291 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Projects & Innovation Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jun 30, 2019
It also needs better integration with other applications as well. There are some restrictions.
it_user1051764 - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Information Security Architect at a engineering company with 10,001+ employees
Dec 9, 2019
I would like to see the ability to choose a pool of IPs for my company, set up rules based on them, and know that those IPs are not used by other companies.
it_user1150056 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at Onesecure
Aug 19, 2019
In every cloud service in the world, you have multiple upstream internet providers to create diversity so that if one of your providers fails, your network just continues. In South Africa, there is only one upstream provider, and that's not right. That that's a problem.
KS
Consultant at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Aug 20, 2019
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.
it_user1138029 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Partner with 1-10 employees
Aug 21, 2019
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.
GB
Channel Alliances Leader Germany at ALE
Nov 30, 2020
I don't know whether it's Zscaler or not, however, sometimes I can't access my time management. I need to wait and try again a few hours later. Typically, if I let some time pass, I can access it again.