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 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."
"The FortiGate controls the user's activities and maximizes my bandwidth use overall."
"The security features are about the best that I've seen anywhere."
"Some of the valuable features are the firewall, IPS, web filter, and gateway capabilities. Additionally, it is easy to use and flexible."
"It's inexpensive compared to some of the other technology out there."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"LinkGreat firewall capabilities"
"Layer-3 firewall and routing are the most valuable features."
"The stability of Sophos XG is good, it has good performance."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the flexibility of it, it's pretty versatile."
"We created and configured a VPN for connecting our remote sites and also to make it more secure and reliable. We also like its two-factor authentication features."
"The product's initial setup phase was straightforward."
"It is stable, flexible, and easy to use. It has got a web management portal that can be accessed from anywhere."
"The solution is scalable."
"The antivirus features are valuable."
"The solution offers a distributed organization to master and to control all of the endpoints."
"We don't have to buy equipment to use it. And when our engineers set it up on our side, we just configured a few settings and we were in."
"In terms of management and visibility, there is a single panel where you can configure the policies for your entire organisation worldwide."
"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."
"SSL inspection is a valuable feature."
"The solution replaces multiple vendor technologies with one which makes it worth the cost."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine and a half out of ten...The setup phase was easy."
"The solution is scalable and stable."
"Its customer service could be better."
"They should improve the interface to make it more user-friendly."
"I could not configure sFlow from the FortiGate graphical user interface. I realized that the sFlow configuration is available only from the CLI, and discovered that sFlow is not supported on virtual interfaces, such as VDOM links, IPsec, or GRE."
"The sniffing packets or packet captures, can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"There are just some services that aren't available. For example, the Ethernet or point-to-point protocols. They could add these services to their product offering - especially services for ISPs."
"It needs more available central management."
"The solution's framework needs to be frequently updated in order to have a stable solution."
"We recently did an upgrade on the Sophos XG firmware and we were surprised that after the upgrade, the automatic switch actually we were using did not work anymore."
"For the moment, managing the Sophos interface is a little bit challenging."
"They can lower its price. It is very expensive. We are looking for a less expensive solution depending on our budget. They can also improve it in terms of firewall protection."
"This solution could be improved with more effective bandwidth. I found that when I enable DDoS detection for our clients, bandwidth is reduced. If DDoS detection is disabled, the bandwidth will be high, but it isn't secure. We recommend that customers enable DDoS detection, but if they need high bandwidth, we recommend Palo Alto and FortiGate instead of Sophos."
"Support could be improved."
"Sophos XG could improve the policies, they are a bit confusing when creating them. There are many options that make it confusing and it could be simplified."
"Data traffic analysis could be better. I think Fortinet products like FortiAnalyzer are very effective in analyzing data traffic. I think it's better than Sophos. It could also be more stable."
"In Sophos XG, the throughput for larger networks is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"In terms of usage, here in the GCC, it's still growing a growing market, so the combination of DLP, data leak prevention, to a certain extent is fine. But what it requires is user-based access or role-based access. The solution needs to grow into that, which definitely takes time. There's not an easy way to integrate it, when you have a cloud-based solution."
"There are some performance issues when we add on additional controls."
"The solution can be improved by advancing some of the newer technologies such as the DLP feature, and adding email security."
"Technical support could be better."
"The interface for administration could be better. They should upgrade the management portal."
"There are a few features that are not compatible with the Azure cloud."
"They could provide more time for the onboarding the training of an IT person."
"Sometimes it's not easy to use during large deployments of workstations."
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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