We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks VM-Series 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."We have been able to offer several services to customers in a single box."
"Whenever I need something, Fortinet improves and updates the software for me."
"The SD-WAN is the most valuable feature."
"The main reason why I purchased the particular unit was that it had good reviews and what other people were saying as far as its completeness and its leading capabilities in terms of endpoint security was very 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."
"Our security improved from being able to put in rules and close off unwanted traffic."
"The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is very easy to use."
"The most valuable features are web control and IPS/IDS."
"In AWS, Palo Alto provides us a better view than flow logs for network traffic."
"The most valuable feature is that you can control your traffic flowing out and coming it, allowing you to apply malware and threat protection, as well as vulnerability checks."
"The solution strengthens our IT posture."
"The interface with Panorama makes it very easy to use."
"The Palo Alto VM-Series is nice because I can move the firewalls easily."
"We use the product on our Azure network firewalls."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It is a stable solution."
"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."
"The product’s firewall and VPN package are fantastic compared to any other solution."
"The scalability is okay. We have around 2200 people using this solution."
"Zscaler provides effective protection against various cyber threats ensuring a safe environment"
"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."
"Most of the features that Zscaler has to offer, we will deploy."
"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."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"It would be nice if backups could more easily migrate between different models."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"It'll help if Palo Alto Networks provided better documentation."
"The current licensing model can be a sore point as we're paying for features we're not fully utilizing."
"I would like a way to do everything programmatically, or be able to copy the configs from different prices at different levels."
"The DLP functionality or data classification can be improved in the solution's basic firewalling."
"Integrative capabilities with other solutions should be addressed."
"I would like to have automatic daily reporting, such as how many users have connected via SSL VPN."
"The utilization monitoring and GUI have room for improvement."
"Just sometimes it can be a bit sluggish navigating through pages. That is just purely because of Java."
"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."
"Data Leak Prevention is only for web filtering and there is no protection for email."
"The issue right now is probably that Zscaler is not providing web browser isolation. Another solution, Menlo, offers this. For one customer, we had to send traffic to Menlo to do the isolation for us. It was requested by the customer so that they could integrate any iframe. Zscaler needs to add this type of feature in their next release."
"Its technical support services could be better."
"Because it's on cloud, it doesn't allow application of extra settings."
"Pricing is a challenge."
"The product could improve its integration with some legacy systems."
"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."
Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 53 reviews while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is ranked 23rd in Firewalls with 15 reviews. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6, while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Cloud Firewall writes "A highly stable and comprehensive cloud security and access solution". Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Juniper SRX Series Firewall, whereas Zscaler Cloud Firewall is most compared with Azure Firewall, OPNsense, Cisco Multicloud Defense, Cisco Secure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Palo Alto Networks VM-Series vs. Zscaler Cloud Firewall report.
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