We performed a comparison between Sophos XG and Zscaler Internet Access 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 customization potential is quite impressive."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"We are using the FortiGate 100D series. VPN, firewall, anti-malware, OTM, and intrusion prevention are useful features."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"It increases security posture and is helpful for firewall reporting, intrusion protection, web filtering, and SD-WAN implementation."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"It has a very friendly interface like the Cyberoam iNG units, it has customizable policies, it has proper templates that you can even modify, and you can customize the rules, down to each single user."
"The most valuable feature is that it scans all of the data for any kind of malware."
"I like the firewall, inbound, and outbound modules the most. The VPN feature also works well. It is very easy to configure rules in Sophos XG. We have got local service here in Zimbabwe from Sophos, which is something that I like a lot. We have got good local support, and they come on-site when we have any challenges. Sophos provides a lot of good training all around Zimbabwe. They are quite dominant here, similar to other solutions like Fortinet or WatchGuard."
"The firewall feature of Sophos XG has been the most effective for threat prevention."
"I have found the feature allowing you to manage everything from a centralized location beneficial."
"SD-WAN features should be added."
"We have found that the simplicity of the XG 210 is its most valuable feature."
"The simplicity of the setup is the most valuable feature."
"The scanning feature is impressive, because they do not introduce a big latency to the traffic."
"After a proper implementation, the maintenance is very low."
"The VPN is valuable, as the whole technology is very different from a traditional VPN."
"For our needs, the cloud-native proxy architecture is a very good solution. We are moving away from on-prem appliances and moving more toward cloud-based solutions. Zscaler is a good fit for our strategy. This architecture helps with cyber threats because we inspect most of the traffic and we can see that a lot of threats are stopped directly in the secure web gateway."
"It is easy to set up the solution."
"The security is excellent."
"The solution replaces multiple vendor technologies with one which makes it worth the cost."
"The protection is most valuable."
"Fortinet FortiGate is not very easy to use. The navigation could be improved to make it easier to use."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a firewall solution and once it's deployed, you can rest assured that your system is secure."
"Currently, without the additional reporting module, we only have access to basic reporting."
"In the balance between links feature normally you can just choose one option to balance. It would be better for the solution to have more than one option, preferably three."
"We would like to see better pricing."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"It should be more stable. There should be full integration within Fortinet products themselves as well as with other third-party products. Especially when you're not dealing with SIEM and the correlation of the security box, we want Fortinet to be able to share that information with as many other products as it can."
"It is very expensive, and their support is not very good. I hope that their technical support will be better in the future."
"I used to work with Fortinet, and sometimes I see that the SD-WAN feature could be better because it's much easier in Fortinet."
"The current bandwidth consumption is no longer shown in the XG and XGS."
"Technical support can be slow to respond, which is something that should be improved."
"It would be helpful if they had a set of standard templates because it would assist in the beginning, when you are just getting started."
"The price should be cheaper."
"The solution is tied to the US dollar. You need to pay whatever the equivalent is in your own currency, and, if the exchange is bad, it can really add to the cost."
"We are having challenges when using Zoom with Sophos XG deployed."
"Could have a more simplified functionality for users."
"We'd like to have more plugins and integration."
"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."
"Currently, the solution's interface is not that user-friendly."
"There are some performance issues when we add on additional controls."
"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."
"One thing that needs to be improved is their presence in China. I'm not sure if that's a Zscaler thing or if it's a problem with all vendors in this space, but it would be nice to have better coverage in China. This concern is a common one for vendors across the board when dealing with the Chinese market."
"They block Zscaler IPs when the traffic origin is from Zscaler IPs. They've been blocked by certain government organizations so the end users are not able to visit those websites unless we ask them to unblock those IP. This is a bit problematic."
"We'd like for them to include some sort of antivirus tool."
Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews while Zscaler Internet Access is ranked 2nd in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 46 reviews. Sophos XG is rated 8.2, while Zscaler Internet Access is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Sophos XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Internet Access writes "Provides integrated CASB and file sandboxing but could be less expensive ". Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS, SonicWall TZ and Meraki MX, 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. See our Sophos XG vs. Zscaler Internet Access report.
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