We performed a comparison between Sophos UTM 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."Fortinet FortiGate's reliability is valuable."
"Our project needs to link two sides through the internet. One of these was in Cairo and the other in another city. We used FortiGate as the integrating solution between the two locations, i.e. the Fortinet 30E & 100E."
"The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"The Fortinet FortiGate local partners were good. I did not have direct contact with Fortinet support."
"Some of the key features of the solution is that it has good reporting, you can receive many details from the connection, for example, clients and website information."
"Our security improved from being able to put in rules and close off unwanted traffic."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"It does a lot for you for intrusion protection and as an antivirus. The threat management bundle is worth the money. You don't need another company to monitor your web traffic for you. You can do everything yourself on the firewall. You restrict your own black list for people on the firewall. You don't need to pay some other company for another product to do that for you. The firewall can do that for you. So, it's an easy-to-use product for people to be independent. They don't need to rely on other vendors to do what the firewall can do. They can do everything."
"Sophos is a unified solution. We have anti-virus protection, firewall rules, knotting, and DACC all in one box."
"Good basic firewall functions with advanced firewall scanning."
"With over 150 firewalls in our portal, management and monitoring have never been easier."
"Sophos integrates seamlessly, and we don't even feel it is running in the background."
"It's easy to use."
"The solution is stable."
"It is easy to manage."
"Scaling out cannot be easier, as there are many migration paths."
"Zscaler provides effective protection against various cyber threats ensuring a safe environment"
"Includes advanced tech protection."
"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."
"Zscaler Cloud Firewall understands the applications in the current generation and adapts to the present generation cloud applications."
"Most of the features that Zscaler has to offer, we will deploy."
"The solution is scalable."
"The product’s firewall and VPN package are fantastic compared to any other solution."
"It is a stable solution."
"In terms of what could be improved, the SD-WAN is quite difficult, because if you install the new box, 15 is okay, but if you change from an old configuration, if there is already configuration and a policy when you change to SD-WAN, you must change the whole policy that you see in the interface."
"The renewal price and the availability could be improved."
"It should come integrated or have its own type of network monitor tool in a module. There should just be one package, and you are good to go."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"In the balance between links feature normally you can just choose one option to balance. It would be better for the solution to have more than one option, preferably three."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having a frequent ask questions(FAQ) area for people to receive quick answers to popular questions. Additionally, it would be beneficial to have an SMS notification feature. For example, if you cannot access your email you could receive an SMS message."
"FortiOS is not simple."
"The Wi-Fi controller needs a lot of improvement."
"They could reduce the price."
"This product could use some improvement with web filtering. It takes a lot of time and effort to set up and maintain."
"The support could be better."
"The solution needs to do better at covering mobile devices, although they may have an integrated solution for that purpose."
"In short, the UI and UX are the areas of improvement in Sophos UTM and similar solutions compared to Palo Alto."
"An area for improvement in Sophos UTM is load balancing because my company cannot use it currently. If Sophos could release a new configuration for the load balancing feature to work for my company, that would be great."
"Updates come out agonizingly slowly, a trickle."
"We had some problems with the configuration. They had provided a CloudFormation template, and we had to go several rounds to make it work."
"Pricing is a challenge."
"Because it's on cloud, it doesn't allow application of extra settings."
"It would be better if they improved their policy, package visibility, and flexibility while we're creating rules for inspection. It could also be cheaper or more things could be included in the basic package. In the next release, I would like better coverage in the Asia Pacific region and better quality of service."
"They do not provide a few components that are fundamental to differentiate the products"
"It would be nice to have some sort of a form factor, a physical form factor perhaps, or virtual machine that you could install on devices or on a cloud, and have some cloud computing."
"Its technical support services could be better."
"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."
"When it comes to customer support, there is room for improvement in Zscaler's service."
Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is ranked 23rd in Firewalls with 15 reviews. Sophos UTM is rated 8.4, while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is rated 8.4. 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 Cloud Firewall writes "A highly stable and comprehensive cloud security and access solution". Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure 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 Sophos UTM vs. Zscaler Cloud Firewall report.
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