We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall 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."Fortigate is very scalable to serve our customers' needs. We have scaled already from fifty to more than a hundred instances of Fortinet FortiGate. Around 20 staff are required for deployment and maintenance, mostly engineers."
"Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"This solution has solid UTM features combined with a nice GUI."
"We use a southern institution that's audited for IT security and the reporting that automatically comes off the unit makes it much easier to meet compliance standards and makes it easier as far as the amount of time that has to be spent to compile that information. If you get your reporting set up correctly when you initially set it up, you just select the one you want and hit print. The auditing trail on it is the best feature."
"The dashboard I have found the most valuable in Fortinet FortiGate."
"It is simple to manage, and there are a lot of functionalities in the same box."
"The virtual firewall feature is the most valuable. We have around 1,500 firewalls. We did not buy individual hardware, and the virtual firewalls made sense because we don't have to keep on buying the hardware. FortiGate is easier to use as compared to Checkpoint devices. It is user friendly and has a good UI. You don't need much expertise to work on this firewall. You don't need to worry much about DCLA, commands, and things like that."
"Its ability to work with the traffic."
"The technical team is always available when we have problems."
"I like the firewall features, Snort, and the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)."
"Provides good integrations and reporting."
"The configuration capabilities and the integration with other tools are the most valuable features. I really like this product. Cisco is one of my favorite brands, and I always think Cisco solutions are very reliable, easy to configure, and very secure."
"The most valuable features for my client are the ASDM and monitoring."
"Management Console and user profiling to define activities."
"Integration with all the other Cisco tools is valuable."
"The product’s firewall and VPN package are fantastic compared to any other solution."
"I like the ease of deployment and its flexibility. We don't need to deal with license, quotes, procurement, delivery, and installation. Everything is software-based, and it's very easy to operate."
"Includes advanced tech protection."
"It provides in-depth visibility into your network, ensuring that traffic flowing into your organization, be it from offices or individual users, is effectively filtered and secured through multiple layers of protection."
"The visibility and log availability offered are highly valued for troubleshooting purposes, and this is a key factor driving customer interest in the firewall module."
"Zscaler Cloud Firewall understands the applications in the current generation and adapts to the present generation cloud applications."
"Most of the features that Zscaler has to offer, we will deploy."
"It is a stable solution."
"I don't like that anything more than very basic reporting is not included."
"They should offer special pricing to premium partners and customers."
"Application management can be improved."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"Some of the filtering is not robust, you can escape it with a VPN. Some of the users bypass some of the filters. It catches some but it also misses some, that area could be improved. It's functioning reasonably but there's room for improvement in that area."
"The cloud management and automation capability could be improved."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"The solution’s GUI could be better."
"The reporting and other features are nice, but there is an issue with applying the configuration. That part needs some improvement."
"We are replacing ASA with FTD which offers many new features not available using ASA."
"Some of the features, like the stability, need to be improved."
"The scalability has room for improvement."
"It needs more tunneling capabilities."
"We found it difficult to publish an antennae sidewalk with the ASDM. I think Cisco should improve this by creating a simpler interface for the firewall."
"I would like more features in conjunction with other solutions, like Fortinet."
"When it comes to customer support, there is room for improvement in Zscaler's service."
"Instead of the standard license, they should certainly provide customers with the visibility to access and view the logs."
"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."
"Because it's on cloud, it doesn't allow application of extra settings."
"Zscaler Cloud Firewall should have a better understanding of all dynamic cloud applications."
"There are some areas it could improve when it comes to blocking, we have to block some things manually. For example, if we block a top-level domain we have seen that the new IPs come through, the IPs are not blocked. There should be some more granular way of doing it. My only request is if you're blocking something at a top level, the sub-level sub-domains and all those other IPs should be blocked too automatically."
"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."
"Certain criteria need to be met if you want to scale this solution."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is ranked 23rd in Firewalls with 15 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Cloud Firewall writes "A highly stable and comprehensive cloud security and access solution". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Zscaler Cloud Firewall is most compared with Azure Firewall, OPNsense, Cisco Multicloud Defense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Sophos XG. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Zscaler Cloud Firewall report.
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