We performed a comparison between Meraki MX 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."The dashboard is very intuitive and easy to understand."
"In terms of WAN optimization, it's completely cloud-controlled. Anyone can manage their network environment from a mobile phone."
"The simplicity of configuration is the most valuable feature of the solution."
"It's flexible, easy to configure, and easy to manage."
"When you try to create an IP or when you have an alert about when a website is banned, these features are helpful."
"Since it has an integrated dashboard for all the products, customers can get complete network analytics regarding what the user is doing, monitoring, and observing."
"Both the scalability and the scalability are great with Meraki MX."
"The features we have found most valuable are the firewall and the monitoring tools."
"One feature that is valuable to me from an implementation point of view is that it's very easy to implement."
"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 solution is scalable and stable."
"The solution replaces multiple vendor technologies with one which makes it worth the cost."
"The URL filtering has been the most valuable feature."
"The solution is stable."
"The scanning feature is impressive, because they do not introduce a big latency to the traffic."
"For our needs, the cloud-native proxy architecture is a very good solution. We are moving away from on-prem appliances and moving more toward cloud-based solutions. Zscaler is a good fit for our strategy. This architecture helps with cyber threats because we inspect most of the traffic and we can see that a lot of threats are stopped directly in the secure web gateway."
"It would be great if the Meraki devices let us see, in real time, the internet demand on a single device."
"As far as what needs to be improved — nothing really comes to mind. It does what we need it to do."
"Could possibly use deeper configurations."
"We do not have account managers in our region for the solution. Some governments don't use the product since it is attached to the internet."
"Expensive licensing and firewall stops immediately working if the license is not renewed at expiration date."
"What I would like to see in the next version is to have more interfaces for WAN links."
"The solution's pricing should be reduced."
"I do not have the kind of feature I need for SSL decryption in Meraki MX. It would be great to see the SSL decryption feature in Meraki MX."
"Technical support could be better."
"Zscaler should continue to make the user interface better. They should also improve the backup network and continue to expand it so that it can handle larger numbers of customers."
"What could be improved in Zscaler Internet Access is its price. It could be cheaper."
"One thing that they could improve is the ability to import rules from other platforms."
"In terms of usage, here in the GCC, it's still growing a growing market, so the combination of DLP, data leak prevention, to a certain extent is fine. But what it requires is user-based access or role-based access. The solution needs to grow into that, which definitely takes time. There's not an easy way to integrate it, when you have a cloud-based solution."
"Zscaler Internet Access can improve by adding traffic filtering based on the DNS."
"If they can also integrate with the multi-factor authentication to prompt users to do another, second-factor authentication, that would be ideal."
"Zscaler does not provide dedicated IPs to each customer. Hence, they share a pool of IPs provided by Zscaler. There is a chance of blacklisting these IPs. I also do not like the multi-management portal."
Meraki MX is ranked 2nd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 59 reviews while Zscaler Internet Access is ranked 2nd in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 46 reviews. Meraki MX is rated 8.2, while Zscaler Internet Access is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Meraki MX writes "Cost-effective, simplified, easy to manage, and reliable with advanced security features and granular visibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Internet Access writes "Provides integrated CASB and file sandboxing but could be less expensive ". Meraki MX is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall and Sophos XG, 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 Meraki MX vs. Zscaler Internet Access report.
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