We performed a comparison between Sophos UTM and Zscaler Cloud Firewall 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."I really like the captive portal feature for our guest network. It has nice VLAN features in terms of separating our network. The anti-virus is also good."
"We purchased Fortinet because of the pricing, its functionality, because it met our requirements, and the total cost of ownership over five years was quite reasonable. In the market, Fortinet is rated quite well."
"The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"The main reason why I purchased the particular unit was that it had good reviews and what other people were saying as far as its completeness and its leading capabilities in terms of endpoint security was very good."
"Web filtering and two-factor authentication are great features."
"The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. Anyone can easily maintain it."
"It is simple to manage, and there are a lot of functionalities in the same box."
"What I like about the solution is the ease of use."
"It's a stable solution."
"It gives us the ability to manage our firewalls from the cloud and deploy a unified configuration onto them. Other competitors like Meraki have that ability, but they fail to optimize it in the way that Sophos has."
"I like the web filtering options."
"It works well without any maintenance. So far, it has worked pretty well regardless of the traffic."
"The solution's sandboxing, application center, and database engine are good."
"We've found the technical support to be helpful."
"The stability of Sophos UTM is very good. The solution has been stable since Sophos took over Cyberoam which was the original company providing this solution."
"Once you have Zscaler running you have access to configure it however you want."
"Most of the features that Zscaler has to offer, we will deploy."
"Includes advanced tech protection."
"It is a stable solution."
"The solution offers good sandboxing."
"Zscaler provides effective protection against various cyber threats ensuring a safe environment"
"Zscaler Cloud Firewall understands the applications in the current generation and adapts to the present generation cloud applications."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more storage in the hardware for log data."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"The renewal price and the availability could be improved."
"The room for improvement is about the global delivery time period. Usually I need to wait for almost one month to deliver it overseas. So if you can shorten the deliver time it'd be great."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"NGN, reporting and controls."
"The product could be simplified and made more self-explanatory."
"There needs to be some improvement in the IPsec VPN. There is implementation only support. I have version one. I'd be most interested in having IP version two from the protocol."
"The scalability of the product is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The UI can be cumbersome and, sometimes, features are not where you think they should be."
"It would be nice if it had basic features, such as DLP (Data Loss Prevention)."
"Flexibility in pricing could be improved. It's more rigid in its pricing compared to its competitor: Kaspersky."
"In Sophos UTM there is always a problem with the routing tables. If you want to see the routing table, you have to use the UI. You can't do it via a web browser. The routing table is better in Fortinet."
"Anti-phishing functionality should be improved."
"The product could improve its integration with some legacy systems."
"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."
"Its technical support services could be better."
"Zscaler Cloud Firewall should have a better understanding of all dynamic cloud applications."
"It would be nice to have some sort of a form factor, a physical form factor perhaps, or virtual machine that you could install on devices or on a cloud, and have some cloud computing."
"Certain criteria need to be met if you want to scale this solution."
"Data Leak Prevention is only for web filtering and there is no protection for email."
"It would be better if they improved their policy, package visibility, and flexibility while we're creating rules for inspection. It could also be cheaper or more things could be included in the basic package. In the next release, I would like better coverage in the Asia Pacific region and better quality of service."
Sophos UTM is ranked 3rd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 15 reviews. Sophos UTM is rated 8.4, while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Cloud Firewall writes "A highly stable and comprehensive cloud security and access solution". Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Zscaler Cloud Firewall is most compared with Azure Firewall, OPNsense, Cisco Multicloud Defense, Cisco Secure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Sophos UTM vs. Zscaler Cloud Firewall report.
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