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Data Analyst at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
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Provides granular level control allows setting application policies per application for each user but some cloud instances might not be managed properly
Pros and Cons
  • "It has been helpful in maintaining our infrastructure. The granular level control it offers allows us to set application policies per application for each user."
  • "User management can be improved."

What is our primary use case?

It serves various purposes. Overall, it's pretty good. Not bad at all.

How has it helped my organization?

It has been helpful in maintaining our infrastructure. The granular level control it offers allows us to set application policies per application for each user.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature is policy creation and creating cloud instances.

What needs improvement?

Zscaler CASB need to improve the functioning of the application, especially the sanctioning of the application.

Another area of improvement is the granular level control of how you can assign policies based on user access. Currently, their granularity is not that good. They either give you access to CloudApp or not. User management can be improved.

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For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using this solution for a year. I use the latest version.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I would rate the stability a nine out of ten. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It is a scalable solution. 

How are customer service and support?


How would you rate customer service and support?

Neutral

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was very straightforward.

What was our ROI?

We have seen an ROI.

What other advice do I have?

I would advise other users to focus on properly managing the cloud instances and avoid overcomplicating cloud application policies unless it's absolutely necessary.

Overall, I would rate the solution a seven out of ten. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud
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Arnab - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Analyst at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
Valuable feature of micro tunnels management, enhancing the overall control and highly scalable solution
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable feature is the manageability of the micro tunnels."
  • "There is improvement in enhancing proper manageability, policies, and logs. So, log management could be improved."

What is our primary use case?

We are using it for monitoring the global areas, which Zscaler considers for people who are roaming around the system to have a secure connection to internal applications.

How has it helped my organization?

It has made things easier and more secure while connecting to the client's private applications.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature is the manageability of the micro tunnels.

What needs improvement?

There is improvement in enhancing proper manageability, policies, and logs. So, log management could be improved.

Moreover, I'd just like to see an improvement in stability.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using this solution for six months. We use the latest version 6.1. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I would rate the stability a seven out of ten. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Scalability is good. 

How was the initial setup?

The setup is straightforward, but it's a little more technical. Nevertheless, it's pretty straightforward.

What about the implementation team?

We have it deployed on both cloud and on-premises.

What was our ROI?

We have definitely seen an ROI. 

What other advice do I have?

Overall, I'll rate it at nine out of ten.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Excellent proxy and content filtering
Pros and Cons
  • "SASE's most valuable features are proxy and content filtering."
  • "An area for improvement would be the ease of configuration."

What is our primary use case?

I mainly use SASE for proxy and content filtering.

What is most valuable?

SASE's most valuable features are proxy and content filtering.

What needs improvement?

An area for improvement would be the ease of configuration.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using Zscaler SASE for two to three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

SASE is stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

SASE is scalable if users need to increase the network it supports - it's quite transparent from the end-user perspective.

How are customer service and support?

Zscaler's technical support is quite good.

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is fairly straightforward.

What other advice do I have?

I would advise those thinking of implementing SASE to ensure that their technical requirements are well-established and that the transition process is understood. I would give SASE a rating of nine out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Microsoft Azure
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Security Solution Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Cloud security, built-in scalability, and professional technical support
Pros and Cons
  • "The most valuable features of this solution are the CASB solutions, which is protecting their Office 365."
  • "The interface needs a bit of work."

What is our primary use case?

Our role is as consultant, architectural, and pre-sales.

Rather than purchasing new VPNs and other architecture, our clients use Zscaler SASE to allow their workers to work from home due to COVID. 

How has it helped my organization?

It decreases the overhead that they are running when it comes to licenses for the VPNs and allows them to merge multiple technologies, such as the VPN capabilities, and the CASB solution.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable features of this solution are the CASB solutions, which is protecting their Office 365.

What needs improvement?

The interface needs a bit of work. It could be a little more streamlined and more intuitive.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been selling this solution for two years.

Our clients are using the latest version.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Absolutely, this is a stable solution. It has been what we expected.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The scalability by definition is kind of intrinsically built-in. Everything that I have seen is easy to scale.

How are customer service and technical support?

My experience with technical support is that they have always been professional, on point, and very knowledgeable.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was straightforward.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate Zscaler SASE a ten out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Private Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Senior Security Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Excellent scalability, good performance, and very nice private access features
Pros and Cons
  • "The scalability of the solution is great."
  • "There are latency issues with the solution. They are small, however, they are there when you compare it to other vendors."

What is our primary use case?

Increase performance, stability and Secure Remote access for Remote Users. 

What is most valuable?

Two great features that we really like on the solution are the Internet Access and Private Access. The path solutions available that help protect the customer's internet access and ensuring B2B secure access are great.

The scalability of the solution is great.

The solution offers very good performance.

What needs improvement?

Due to the fact that it's a multi-tenant hosted environment, it should be noted that other solutions, like Palo Alto, are single-tenant solutions. It's the customer that's hosting it, it's a single tenant. Zscaler hosts a SaaS solution and a multi-tenant, not a single-tenant environment. It would be nice if they offered that as well. This is where probably Zscaler can differentiate itself.

There are latency issues with the solution. They are small, however, they are there when you compare it to other vendors. These things only come up when you're talking to enterprise customers who are really looking at those things. For smaller to mid-sized customers, Zscaler makes more sense. These things make it cheaper and more efficient, as well, for Zscaler. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I am actually a technical field engineer. I make solutions that help customers with different products. I don't use it personally. I sell it to different customers. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The scalability of the solution is top of the line. It's one of its great selling features. Users can scale easily if and when they need to.

In terms of how many people use it typically, it depends on the company size. If you're like the last one I worked with, which was an enterprise customer, you can have five, 10, even all 5,000 users that, especially here in COVID times, are working remotely. It depends on the size of the organization and depends on the roles of people who need the secure access. 

An enterprise customer who has 5,000, 10,000 users, for example, will find that most of the users who need secure access to it, depending on the data you're hosting, will be at about 50-60%. They may not be on it one time, but that's where the licensing will be. At least 50-60% of the users, or the workforce in the company. This will only increase due to the COVID times when people are working more remotely.

How are customer service and technical support?

I personally have never used technical support. However, I also haven't heard any complaints from customers in relation to the level of support they provide. It must be okay if we haven't heard anything.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I also sell Palo Alto as well.

I have been selling Zscaler, however, I only have had hands-on experience in Palo Alto. I don't have answers yet on Zscaler. The last hands-on experience I had on any device was two and a half years ago when I was more involved. I am just technical sales now. 

How was the initial setup?

I haven't deployed the solution yet myself.  I wouldn't be able to comment on the process. I don't know if it's complex or straightforward.

That said, from what I've seen in customers that have deployed it, I've never really heard a bad comment from anyone who is using it.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I'm not a direct customer, so I don't know what the exact cost of the solution is, on average. It would depend on the company's size.

What other advice do I have?

We're a Zscaler partner.

When you implement Zscaler, you're actually utilizing the best of what the technology has to offer. 

I've only heard good things about the solution. I'd rate it eight out of ten.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner
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Sr. Consultant, Cyber Security at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Stable and has a straightforward setup, with available templates to choose from so there's no need to create templates from scratch
Pros and Cons
  • "Zscaler Cloud DLP provides you with basic DLP features that you get out of the box such as keywords, regular expressions, and data identifiers, for example, your social security numbers, and credit card numbers, with everything built into the product, so you can directly use those features within the policies. You don't need to create it from scratch, and to me, this is the biggest benefit of Zscaler Cloud DLP. You have a lot of templates to choose from in the solution, rather than having to create templates from scratch or reinvent templates."
  • "The only issue with Zscaler Cloud DLP is that it only gives you DLP protection from web traffic, which is flowing out, while a full-blown DLP solution such as Forcepoint or Symantec gives you DLP coverage for multiple channels. Zscaler Cloud DLP doesn't give you coverage for email, fax, and USB channels, and this is the only challenge or room for improvement in the solution. It's just an extension on top of what you're buying on the proxy, so it's just an added layer, and it doesn't cover DLP on a very broad level. I'm unsure if Zcaler is in the business of competing with a full-blown DLP solution, and if there's a plan to expand the features of Zscaler Cloud DLP beyond the web channel because you'll have to deploy a full-blown agent for it. I'm unsure if this is on the cards because the solution is just an added layer that you get with your proxy. I've asked the Zcaler team whether there's a plan to go full DLP in the future, but I didn't get a positive response. There isn't any feature I'd like added to Zscaler Cloud DLP currently, because anything you could think of that should be in cloud or SaaS solutions is already there, except for machine learning, as it's the only functionality that seems to be lacking in the solution. Machine learning is an additional policy available in other DLP solutions in the market, but my team didn't find it in Zscaler Cloud DLP."

What is our primary use case?

I use Zscaler Cloud DLP for its DLP features. It gives you all the basic features such as keywords, regular expressions, data identifiers, etc., but the only difference is that you can only apply the DLP policies to web traffic.

What is most valuable?

Zscaler Cloud DLP provides you with basic DLP features that you get out of the box such as keywords, regular expressions, and data identifiers, for example, your social security numbers, and credit card numbers, with everything built into the product, so you can directly use those features within the policies. You don't need to create it from scratch, and to me, this is the biggest benefit of Zscaler Cloud DLP. You have a lot of templates to choose from in the solution, rather than having to create templates from scratch or reinvent templates.

What needs improvement?

The only issue with Zscaler Cloud DLP is that it only gives you DLP protection from web traffic, which is flowing out, while a full-blown DLP solution such as Forcepoint or Symantec gives you DLP coverage for multiple channels.

Zscaler Cloud DLP doesn't give you coverage for email, fax, and USB channels, and this is the only challenge or room for improvement in the solution. It's just an extension on top of what you're buying on the proxy, so it's just an added layer, and it doesn't cover DLP on a very broad level.

I'm unsure if Zcaler is in the business of competing with a full-blown DLP solution, and if there's a plan to expand the features of Zscaler Cloud DLP beyond the web channel because you'll have to deploy a full-blown agent for it. I'm unsure if this is on the cards because the solution is just an added layer that you get with your proxy. I've asked the Zcaler team whether there's a plan to go full DLP in the future, but I didn't get a positive response.

There isn't any feature I'd like added to Zscaler Cloud DLP currently, because anything you could think of that should be in cloud or SaaS solutions is already there, except for machine learning, as it's the only functionality that seems to be lacking in the solution. Machine learning is an additional policy available in other DLP solutions in the market, but my team didn't find it in Zscaler Cloud DLP.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been working with Zscaler Cloud DLP for a year and a half.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Zscaler Cloud DLP is a very stable product. My team had very, very few complaints about it, and I never had a situation where an end user would come to me and complain about performance or latency issues with Zscaler Cloud DLP.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Zscaler Cloud DLP is a scalable product.

How are customer service and support?

We've never contacted the Zscaler Cloud DLP technical support team because it's a very straightforward product, so we didn't need help or raised cases about it.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup for Zscaler Cloud DLP was very straightforward because the portal walks you through it, and you get initial help for a few hours from Zcaler professionals who help you and walk you through the entire setup process.  The team understands what your needs are and give you the best possible suggestions on how to use Zscaler Cloud DLP, how to administer it, and how to maintain it, so that's all good.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The licensing model for Zscaler Cloud DLP allows you to only buy what you need. You don't need to buy it as a whole, so it's good.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I evaluated Forcepoint and Symantec DLP solutions, and both are equally good.

What other advice do I have?

I'm still working with Zscaler Cloud DLP.

Zscaler Cloud DLP is not difficult to maintain, and maintaining it is the vendor's responsibility, so you don't need to worry about it.

I would recommend Zscaler Cloud DLP to others because it's the best proxy product in the market at the moment.

Zscaler Cloud DLP is a pretty good product. It's just missing one or two features, so I would rate it as eight out of ten.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner
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