We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall and Zscaler Internet Access based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Fortinet has a very good solution for Secure SD-WAN. One very good feature is that they have robust and simple FortiOS through which they provide all solutions. That's their strength. There's not much complexity involved with the Secure SD-WAN solution of Fortinet as compared to Cisco's solution, which has a lot of flexibility but complexity also comes with that flexibility."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"It's very easy to set up, it's very easy to make policies and, for an organization, that means you don't need IT expert in firewalls. You just need to have somebody who knows a little bit of IT, and that's it. With other products, you need someone with a "Masters" degree in firewalls."
"The reporting and monitoring are very good."
"The solution is very, very easy to use."
"The most valuable features are that it is very simple to configure and to manage."
"We can use our devices to check all of the perimeters. It secures email websites."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"Azure's cost-effectiveness is its major advantage."
"We secure the entry point to the virtual data center with the firewall."
"I think that one of the best features is definitely the premium version, along with the IDPs in terms of the intrusion detection and prevention system."
"The solution has many useful features. For example, the solution allows users to create virtual IP addresses."
"In terms of the reporting, it's beautiful. It integrates with Azure monitoring and with Azure policies. That piece is a big help. You can set governing policies and you can use the application firewall, as well as the Azure Firewall, to enforce those policies."
"It is easy for me to protect certain ports or even the IP addresses, as well as do whitelisting, blacklisting, and the FQDN when we want virtual machines connected and to protect certain websites."
"The Layer four features are okay and meet my business needs."
"Azure Firewall is a cloud-native solution that removes the pain of load balancers."
"The protection is most valuable."
"The URL filtering has been the most valuable feature."
"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."
"The solution replaces multiple vendor technologies with one which makes it worth the cost."
"The most valuable features of Zscaler Internet Access are it's on the cloud, high network performance, and the interception of users is very easy."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine and a half out of ten...The setup phase was easy."
"One on the main benefits is protection all time from anywhere."
"Overall, we're very happy with our product."
"The performance could be a bit better. Right now, I find it to be lacking. Having good performance is very important for our work."
"The support we receive when we need to upgrade is not satisfactory and has room for improvement."
"The performance and speed are aspects of the solution that could always be improved upon."
"A sandbox would be good in order to be able to inspect the emails containing spam and be able to validate the emails that contain malware, prior to delivering to the customer."
"The monitor and the visibility, in this proxy, is very weak."
"The solution lacks multi-language support."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"I would like to see more advanced developments of a wireless controller in the future."
"An Azure firewall is not a real firewall."
"It would be nice to be able to create groupings for servers and offer groups of IP addresses."
"Azure Firewall has limited visibility for IDPS, no TLS inspection, no app ID, no user ID, no content ID, no device ID. There is no antivirus or anti-spyware. Azure Firewall doesn't scan traffic for malware unless it triggers an IDPS signature. There is no sandbox or machine learning functionality, meaning we are not protected from Zero-day threats. There is no DNS security and limited web categories."
"For large organizations, a third-party firewall would be an added advantage, because it would have more advanced features, things that are not in Azure Firewall."
"The development area and QA area could be improved. With those improvements, we can improve projects and take even less time to implement them."
"The product could be made more customizable."
"It has fewer features than you can get from other firewalls, like anti-spam and anti-phishing. Those kinds of things are not included. It only includes IDS and IDB."
"The solution should incorporate features similar to competitors like split tunneling."
"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."
"One thing that they could improve is the ability to import rules from other platforms."
"It also needs better integration with other applications as well. There are some restrictions."
"The interface for administration could be better. They should upgrade the management portal."
"The price of the solution could be improved."
"The OS capabilities and WSL support could be improved."
"We'd like to have more plugins and integration."
"The tool should improve the predefined dictionaries."
Azure Firewall is ranked 22nd in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Zscaler Internet Access is ranked 2nd in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 46 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while Zscaler Internet Access is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Azure Firewall writes "Easy to use and configure but could be more robust". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Internet Access writes "Provides integrated CASB and file sandboxing but could be less expensive ". Azure Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Check Point NGFW, 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.
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