We performed a comparison between Azure 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."Good load balancing feature."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a security device. It can optimize security on the networks of a company. It actually protects the company from attacks from outside. With FortiGate, you can categorize the users. You can create a group of users that can access all of the websites for their work. You can limit other users' access."
"Fortinet FortiGate is scalable for our users. Right now, we have almost 70 users. We do not have any plan to increase our usage of FortiGate. For maintaining the firewall solution, one staff member is enough."
"The solution is extremely reliable."
"It's user-friendly and easy to operate."
"Their proxy-based inspection is responsive and secure."
"It is user friendly, and has all the features you need."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the rules and quality of service."
"All its features are good. That's why we recommend it."
"Azure's cost-effectiveness is its major advantage."
"We secure the entry point to the virtual data center with the firewall."
"Microsoft's technical support is very good. They're quite knowledgable and responsive."
"We use the solution for application and server deployment."
"Among the most valuable features are the DDoS protection that protects your virtual machines, the threat intelligence, and traffic filtering."
"The solution has many useful features. For example, the solution allows users to create virtual IP addresses."
"The solution can autoscale."
"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."
"It is a stable solution."
"The product’s firewall and VPN package are fantastic compared to any other solution."
"The solution offers good sandboxing."
"Includes advanced tech protection."
"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."
"Zscaler provides effective protection against various cyber threats ensuring a safe environment"
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve by integrating the web application firewall and the DDoS protection part of the solution. Having a WAF feature, web application firewall, and proxy together would be a good benefit."
"It would be good if they had fewer updates."
"The captive portal could be improved."
"Scalability for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be improved. SD-WAN security for this solution also needs some improvement."
"The reporting in Fortinet FortiGate could improve. Customers are having to purchase additional reporting components. When I have used the Sophos solution it is a complete solution, in Fortinet FortiGate you have to use additional tools to have the features needed."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more capabilities for troubleshooting VPN connections. For example, I do get some feedback about the current status, but I could use some history and logging of important events. The information is logged in our Syslog server, but I could use that information from the device. If they could provide a GUI to have some more insight on what's going with my VPN would be useful."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"Its reporting and pricing need improvement."
"There is room for further integration of AI into the system."
"Currently, it only supports IP addresses, so you have to be specific about the IPs that are in your environment."
"Right now, with Azure Firewall, we cannot have a normal inbound traffic flow. For inbound, Microsoft suggests using application gateways, so the options are very limited. I cannot use this firewall as an intermediate firewall because of the limitations, and I cannot point routing to another firewall. So if I want to use back-to-back firewall architecture in my environment, I cannot use Azure Firewall for that type of configuration either."
"The solution should incorporate features similar to competitors like split tunneling."
"For large organizations, a third-party firewall would be an added advantage, because it would have more advanced features, things that are not in Azure Firewall."
"This solution is not mature when it comes to handling perimeter traffic like internet browsing."
"The reporting, logging, and monitoring features, as well as the flexibility of the policies, need to be improved."
"The tool needs to improve the onboarding and transition process for on-prem users."
"We are having some issues with internet access being denied when organizational ID-based policies change. For example, a lower level employee ends up getting the same level of access as that of a higher level employee."
"Pricing is a challenge."
"Because it's on cloud, it doesn't allow application of extra settings."
"Instead of the standard license, they should certainly provide customers with the visibility to access and view the logs."
"When it comes to customer support, there is room for improvement in Zscaler's service."
"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."
"Data Leak Prevention is only for web filtering and there is no protection for email."
"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."
Azure Firewall is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is ranked 23rd in Firewalls with 15 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Azure Firewall writes "Easy to use and configure but could be more robust". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Cloud Firewall writes "A highly stable and comprehensive cloud security and access solution". Azure Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Sophos XG, whereas Zscaler Cloud Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall, OPNsense, Sophos XG and Cisco Multicloud Defense. See our Azure Firewall vs. Zscaler Cloud Firewall report.
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