We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall and Zscaler Internet Access based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"It is quite easy to handle."
"I'm pretty happy with its reliability. It is also very scalable."
"The features that prevent internet connections, the filtering are the most valuable because we did not have any internet protection before."
"FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"Its user interface is good, and it is always working fine."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"The product offers very good security."
"It provided ease of maintenance. If a new firewall was needed, we only had to run the pipelines for this. So, the maintenance was very easy."
"We secure the entry point to the virtual data center with the firewall."
"Azure's cost-effectiveness is its major advantage."
"Performance and stability are the key features of this product."
"The most valuable feature is the integration into the overall cloud platform."
"All its features are good. That's why we recommend it."
"Azure Firewall's feature that I have found most valuable is its scalability."
"The most valuable feature is threat intelligence. It is based on filtering and can identify multiple threats."
"After a proper implementation, the maintenance is very low."
"Zscaler Web Security protects our users in remote locations from internet threats - even if they are not connected to our network."
"The most valuable feature of Zscaler Internet Access is that it is a consolidated solution, it comes with many features, such as DLP."
"The protection is most valuable."
"The solution’s customer service is good."
"One feature that is valuable to me from an implementation point of view is that it's very easy to implement."
"Whether you are in a hotel somewhere, or in Africa, it does not matter. You will get the Zscaler protection presence anywhere."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"They are doing good, but they can improve the distributor assignment. The availability of the product and the timeline of delivery are the main things. The distribution should be swift, and the distributor should not reach out to end customers directly. They should work as a distributor. There should also be one more local distributor. Currently, there is only one distributor in Pakistan, and the rest of them are in UAE. It is difficult to work with only one distributor. Sometimes, you don't get along with the same distributor, and that's why they should have one more distributor. Their licensing should also be improved. The activation or renewal of the product should be done from the date of renewal, not from the date on which the license expired."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"At first glance, the interface for the device is very confusing."
"We would like to see a better training platform implemented."
"We have an issue with hotel guest vouchers."
"The pricing could always be better."
"The threat intelligence part could be better. I don't see why our customers have to get an additional solution with Azure Firewall. It would be great if they made it on par with Palo Alto."
"The solution lacks artificial intelligence and machine learning. It might be in the roadmap. However, currently, it's not available."
"It is a cloud service, but the lending speed for each region is not always the same. For example, in China, the speed is slow. They need to think about how to make sure that the service pace or speed is always the same in all regions. It would be a great improvement if they can provide the same pace worldwide."
"The solution should incorporate features similar to competitors like split tunneling."
"It would be nice to be able to create groupings for servers and offer groups of IP addresses."
"There are a number of things that need to be simplified, but it's mostly costs. It needs to be simplified because it's pretty expensive."
"The development area and QA area could be improved. With those improvements, we can improve projects and take even less time to implement them."
"The reporting, logging, and monitoring features, as well as the flexibility of the policies, need to be improved."
"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."
"Do not expect to pay for the service and start using it, like Gmail. Zscaler requires a proper implementation to be done to make it successful."
"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."
"In every cloud service in the world, you have multiple upstream internet providers to create diversity so that if one of your providers fails, your network just continues. In South Africa, there is only one upstream provider, and that's not right. That that's a problem."
"The pricing is an issue. It is expensive if you have all of your users in the same location. It is expensive compared to other firewalls on the market."
"It needs better integration with other applications. It takes a fair amount of regular activity to apply the by-passes because it is very strict in its restrictions and frequently you have to go in and open things up to allow the workforce to work."
"Sometimes, support isn't available."
"Technical support could be better."
Azure Firewall is ranked 22nd in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Zscaler Internet Access is ranked 2nd in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 46 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while Zscaler Internet Access is rated 8.2. 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 Internet Access writes "Provides integrated CASB and file sandboxing but could be less expensive ". Azure Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Check Point NGFW, 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.
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