We performed a comparison between SonicWall TZ 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 stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"Their proxy-based inspection is responsive and secure."
"It is easy to manage, and it doesn't need much knowledge from the team. It is a stable device, and there are many features that are included out of the box."
"It's user-friendly and easy to operate."
"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."
"It's very fast and easy to configure."
"I like the firewall product, the security server, and the content filter."
"The general feature is the antivirus policy, followed by the ransomware protection, and these are the features I was looking at."
"Good site categorization and application controls."
"SonicWall TZ think it's a good, solid, and stable product."
"The performance has been very good. Overall, the solution is quite stable."
"It does what it says it is going to do."
"Good VPN connection."
"From our point of view, the most valuable feature was the ease of deployment."
"The solution has reduced cyberattacks."
"Overall, we're very happy with our product."
"Zscaler Web Security protects our users in remote locations from internet threats - even if they are not connected to our network."
"The best thing about Zscaler Internet Access is the website filtering. In the UAE it's quite an important feature because most of the malware comes through the SQL injection and through downloads from websites. Zscaler helps protect against that."
"Zscaler Internet Access's roaming user feature is most valuable and is much better compared to other secure web gateways."
"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 feature of Zscaler Internet Access is that it is a consolidated solution, it comes with many features, such as DLP."
"The users are at different locations, and Zscaler helps us to put the organization's central security controls on these roaming users."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"The main aspect of FortiGate that could be improved is load balancing. Our management team does not want to buy another appliance for only load balancing."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"The sniffing packets or packet captures, can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing."
"There are some problems that support cannot give you a logical reason as to why it happened. For example, I had a case where I was dealing with a WhatsApp application that was giving issues. Technical support gave more than one reason it could be giving issues, but none of them solved the problem. Eventually I solved the problem, but it was far from the solutions that support had given."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"At first glance, the interface for the device is very confusing."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"I would like to see lower antivirus pricing."
"The VPN that is available in the new version is a bit bulky and slower in speed."
"The areas we would like to see improvement include more features available similar to the equivalent FortiGate appliance, e.g. SSL encryption and inspection. Two-factor authentication capability would be another additional feature that could be included in the next release."
"I currently have two of the issues from SonicWall. One issue is that the IP is not the public IP. Sometimes it moves to an alternate source and I have to refresh the new IP then we can go on."
"The log analyzer in SonicWall TZ is something that they need to improve upon."
"The market seems to be going to a cloud-supported, new generation of firewall products. I think that's probably going to be important to us, the next time around."
"You need to be a certificate holder to set it up and configure it. It's really important because it looks easy, but it is complex. You need to have the knowledge and experience. But this is normal for technical products. It's not a product for regular user. It's for technical people. You need to have skills."
"The technology in this particular version is very old."
"I would like to see the ability to choose a pool of IPs for my company, set up rules based on them, and know that those IPs are not used by other companies."
"Another thing that I would like to see is if Zscaler could have a separate product for direct access. I looked at a private access solution, but I understand there's a separate product that isn't integrated with this."
"Zscaler Internet Access's troubleshooting is very limited, and their textbook logs need to be more informative."
"The tool should improve the predefined dictionaries."
"The interface for administration could be better. They should upgrade the management portal."
"If they can also integrate with the multi-factor authentication to prompt users to do another, second-factor authentication, that would be ideal."
"Zscaler Internet Access can improve by adding traffic filtering based on the DNS."
"Cloud App’s database should be improved."
SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews while Zscaler Internet Access is ranked 2nd in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 46 reviews. SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0, while Zscaler Internet Access is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SonicWall TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Internet Access writes "Provides integrated CASB and file sandboxing but could be less expensive ". SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and WatchGuard Firebox, 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 SonicWall TZ vs. Zscaler Internet Access report.
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