We performed a comparison between Illumio and Zscaler Internet Access based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about VMware, Akamai, Cisco and others in Cloud and Data Center Security."The flexibility of the solution is its most valuable feature."
"It has helped us to understand internal network visibility and firewall policy implementation. We use the product to simplify firewall policy implementation."
"The features that I have found most useful is the ability to centralize all the rules and then distribute them across various locations. However, I've encountered challenges related to tagging policies, which can be complex to devise. It's a matter that requires careful consideration and stakeholder involvement before implementing such policies."
"The solution helps to maintain logs and monitor activities. It also helps us with access management. The tool helps us to secure organizational data that include files."
"The product provides visibility into how the applications communicate and how the network protocols are being used."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Illumio Adaptive Security Platform is monitoring. When I have no requirement from the other application, I can use the web block traffic to build."
"The Explorer allows you to know the traffic between source and destination."
"Zscaler Internet Access's best feature is the granular policy controls."
"Zscaler Internet Access has helped us reduce the time that we spend managing security policies by about four hours a week. We can use this time to focus on other things, especially the IT team."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is SWG traffic."
"Zscaler Internet Access's roaming user feature is most valuable and is much better compared to other secure web gateways."
"It is easy to set up the solution."
"Overall, we're very happy with our product."
"The solution has reduced cyberattacks."
"The product’s agents don't work very well in OT environments."
"It requires a low-level re-architecting of the product."
"The interaction we've had with the support team hasn't been ideal. Technical support should be improved."
"The solution is very basic and doesn't do anything other than the orchestration of layer four endpoint firewall rules."
"Illumio Adaptive Security Platform could improve by supporting more operating systems. For example, Cisco and Apache appliances."
"Some of the features that can be improved is offer additional guidance on creating an effective and risk-free tagging policy would be highly beneficial."
"The customer service is lagging a bit. It could be better."
"I would like to see better data security in the product."
"We'd like for them to include some sort of antivirus tool."
"Zscaler Internet Access's troubleshooting is very limited, and their textbook logs need to be more informative."
"The tool should improve the predefined dictionaries."
"What could be improved in Zscaler Internet Access is its price. It could be cheaper."
"When you have appliances, SSL inspection is always a headache due to poor performance and/or lack of ciphers implemented. "
"Zscaler needs to add client-to-client communication. It's always client-to-server communication. The cloud and branch connectors could be improved because we're still dependent on traditional firewalls. They should eliminate this. They should also provide WAN devices should to compete with the SD-WAN solutions also."
"Cloud App’s database should be improved."
"Currently, the solution's interface is not that user-friendly."
Illumio is ranked 4th in Cloud and Data Center Security with 8 reviews while Zscaler Internet Access is ranked 2nd in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 46 reviews. Illumio is rated 8.0, while Zscaler Internet Access is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Illumio writes "Pprevents attackers or threats from spreading or moving laterally". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Internet Access writes "Provides integrated CASB and file sandboxing but could be less expensive ". Illumio is most compared with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, VMware NSX, Cisco Secure Workload, Zero Networks Microsegmentation and Microsoft Defender for Cloud, whereas Zscaler Internet Access is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Netskope , Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks and Menlo Security Remote Browser Isolation.
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