We performed a comparison between Sophos UTM and Zscaler Internet Access based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It helped to connect our satellite offices to the main Amazon infrastructure in a circular way."
"UTM 9 brings along IPSec as well as iPhone and iPad support. This seems small but it’s useful."
"It meets our compliance needs in an elastic computer environment."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the firewall application and application control."
"The intrusion prevention is great, and I like dual virus scanning on the network layer because we scan it through Avira and Sophos. Web filtering is also a fantastic option for clients who want to really lock down internet access."
"The solution is stable."
"Sophos UTM is very user-friendly and has good integration with other solutions."
"We use Sophos UTM as our main firewall with all its features included. Mainly, it controls all of our network perimeter security: firewall, IDS/IPS, and web application firewall (including VoIP)."
"The solution is stable."
"SSL inspection is a valuable feature."
"One on the main benefits is protection all time from anywhere."
"Tech support is good."
"Zscaler Internet Access protects using data loss prevention. If you have a CASB exposing your cloud out into the network, then Zscaler Internet Access will go ahead and control that unknown cloud application in the CASB, protecting it. There is also data detection with exact data match. This improves the data coming into your cloud so you are protecting it."
"Whether you are in a hotel somewhere, or in Africa, it does not matter. You will get the Zscaler protection presence anywhere."
"The protection is most valuable."
"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."
"The logs are not clear, which means that you need an additional piece of software in order to read them clearly."
"When we call support, we get put on hold for a long time."
"They could use more SSL VPN support."
"Monitoring and reporting are areas that need improvement."
"We need to speed up the support."
"The virus updates will always depend on new viruses that are discovered. Maybe they can send a notification or a reminder for update time."
"There needs to be some improvement in the IPsec VPN. There is implementation only support. I have version one. I'd be most interested in having IP version two from the protocol."
"There is absolutely no support when using AWS. If you buy the on-premise Sophos solution, you get support."
"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 interface for administration could be better. They should upgrade the management portal."
"When you have appliances, SSL inspection is always a headache due to poor performance and/or lack of ciphers implemented. "
"Currently, the solution's interface is not that user-friendly."
"There are a few features that are not compatible with the Azure cloud."
"The main issue with Zscaler Internet Access is proxy IP detection, which sometimes makes sites inaccessible."
"What could be improved in Zscaler Internet Access is its price. It could be cheaper."
"In terms of user experience, it could be better."
Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews while Zscaler Internet Access is ranked 2nd in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 46 reviews. Sophos UTM is rated 8.4, while Zscaler Internet Access is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Internet Access writes "Provides integrated CASB and file sandboxing but could be less expensive ". Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Fortinet FortiGate, Sophos XG, OPNsense and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Zscaler Internet Access is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Netskope , Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks and FortiSASE . See our Sophos UTM vs. Zscaler Internet Access report.
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