We performed a comparison between Check Point NGFW 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 feature I like most is the SD-WAN. It allows you to manage more than one ISP at the same time. And there is a high-availability mode, so if one of your ISPs is down, you still have a backup."
"The most valuable feature of FortiGate is FortiView which provides proactive monitoring."
"The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"All of the features of Fortinet FortiGate are useful and the security protection is good."
"FortiGate has a strong security topic which allows all of the Fortinet devices to communicate and share information which makes their security more powerful."
"I think that the UTM features are the most value, as it truly protects my infrastructure."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"It is easy to administrate and maintain."
"I have to say that it was Application Control and web filtering are excellent."
"I love the redesigned interface starting with R80 as well as the ability for multiple engineers to work on the policy simultaneously."
"It's quite a stable solution."
"Making configuring numerous layers of security policies easy to use was always one of the things I liked most about their firewall solution."
"The detection rate for any cyberattacks/suspicious activity is very high (more than 90%)."
"Apart from it having very good features, I personally like the vulnerability assistance via report management which detects host and network vulnerability."
"They utilize various gateway features, including Identity as a Service (IDaaS), anti-spam, antivirus, and other security measures, effectively creating a robust defense against a wide range of potential risks."
"The solution offers a distributed organization to master and to control all of the endpoints."
"There is no lag in service when accessing the internet."
"We use ZIA for outbound internet connectivity. The internet traffic of on-prem users will be directed to the ZIA cloud for security checks and web filtering."
"It is easy to set up the solution."
"The solution replaces multiple vendor technologies with one which makes it worth the cost."
"Tech support is good."
"I like the granularity of the control of all the traffic, including SSL inspection. I also like the fact that the user interface is intuitive. The latencies with Zscaler are minimal compared to those of any other competitor. Other competitors do not really have the global scale that Zscaler has and cannot promise low latencies."
"The protection is most valuable."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"In some cases, its initial setup could be hard for customers."
"There are problems with the custom reporting of the unique traffic. The data is there, but it is too difficult for us to extract."
"They should improve the interface to make it more user-friendly."
"The UI could be improved."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"The scalability could be better."
"Lacks training for new features."
"The price of this product could be improved."
"The level and availability of training should be improved."
"The complexity could be fixed. It's a bit complex to set up, for example."
"The presentation of the reports need to be more user-friendly."
"The only reasons we are looking at other solutions are price and integration."
"It's expensive, but its price is reasonable looking at its functionality and power"
"The virtual environment is not stable at all. We have some customers who are using the virtual environment feature, and sometimes it crashes. We have many tickets open and the response is not as good as expected. We have to wait months for a resolution."
"Of the areas of improvement that I want to see in this product, without a doubt, one is the technical support. In this time of globalization, with so many cyberattacks and risks, the Check Point support staff take a long time to attend to incidents due to the high demand."
"Currently, the solution's interface is not that user-friendly."
"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."
"The solution can be improved by advancing some of the newer technologies such as the DLP feature, and adding email security."
"Zscaler Internet Access could improve by adding a VPN feature."
"Zscaler should provide adjacent services, which would be complementary to their current offering that could to be more pragmatic for a customer. For example, if you take Akamai, you get multiple sets of services, all depending on the customer and the strategy and the complexity and the problems. In some areas, they are more varied in terms of coverage."
"The solution is expensive. They recently revised the pricing and packaging. Some of our existing customers have been asking for alternate solutions for a lower price."
"An improvement would be if they could provide an out-of-the-box experience, like 20 to 30 features all ready to go. In comparison, LogRhythm offers out-of-the-box features. With Zscaler Internet Access, there is firewall IPS, multiple security services, filtering, DLP, and CASB browser isolation. These are things that all users are going to be using. However, when an administrator or architect would start building this, I would definitely need to engage professional services to help clients do it."
"The reporting functionality could be a bit easier to use. There is a reporting function, but it's quite hard to do any good reporting, from a user-management perspective. For example, if a department manager wants to know how his department is using the web, there is a way to get the data, but it's quite cumbersome to get it and show it well. And that's true for comparing between departments."
Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 277 reviews while Zscaler Internet Access is ranked 2nd in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 46 reviews. Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8, while Zscaler Internet Access is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Check Point NGFW writes "Good antivirus protection and URL filtering with very good user identification capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Internet Access writes "Provides integrated CASB and file sandboxing but could be less expensive ". Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Azure Firewall, 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 Check Point NGFW vs. Zscaler Internet Access report.
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