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."Fortinet FortiGate is user-friendly and affordable."
"The threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"The solution is easy to configure and maintain remotely."
"The notable features that I have found most valuable are that it includes the antivirus, and also IPS, and even SD-WAN."
"I really like the captive portal feature for our guest network. It has nice VLAN features in terms of separating our network. The anti-virus is also good."
"We were looking for the VPN feature and controlling the inflow and outflow of all the traffic within the site and across the sites. We are also using it for the VPN and VLANs."
"The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good."
"Good load balancing feature."
"The most valuable feature is the protection available, and then ease of use and flexibility."
"I find the security we are able to do with the policies to be valuable. The monitoring is valuable as well."
"The feature we found most valuable in SonicWall TZ is that it is user-friendly for an administrator."
"SonicWall TZ is stable."
"We are able to block whatever we want to block by using this product. It provides all required security features, such as content filtering, VPN, in one box. Before switching to SonicWall, we had specified all required features."
"The feature with SonicWall that I have found most valuable is that all the models have the same interface. We don't need to learn different interfaces in the smaller or bigger models."
"The most valuable feature is content filtering and app control."
"The installation is straightforward and took approximately 30 minutes."
"There is no lag in service when accessing the internet."
"The solution offers a distributed organization to master and to control all of the endpoints."
"I like the granularity of the control of all the traffic, including SSL inspection. I also like the fact that the user interface is intuitive. The latencies with Zscaler are minimal compared to those of any other competitor. Other competitors do not really have the global scale that Zscaler has and cannot promise low latencies."
"One feature that is valuable to me from an implementation point of view is that it's very easy to implement."
"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."
"In terms of management and visibility, there is a single panel where you can configure the policies for your entire organisation worldwide."
"The security is excellent."
"We use ZIA for outbound internet connectivity. The internet traffic of on-prem users will be directed to the ZIA cloud for security checks and web filtering."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"The solution lacks multi-language support."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"If they had better integration with security products, such as Cisco ISE or Rapid Threat Containment, then it would be an improvement."
"Reporting is limited to providing an external appliance for improving the reporting capabilities of the FortiAnalyzer. It does not offer a central management and is also sold separably as an appliance."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve by integrating the web application firewall and the DDoS protection part of the solution. Having a WAF feature, web application firewall, and proxy together would be a good benefit."
"Application management can be improved."
"We would like to improve the rules configuration in SonicWall TZ. Sometimes the rules don't work."
"The solution's cost needs improvement."
"There is still room for improvement, and it's not advisable even if the organization has grown."
"The solution's antivirus checking could be improved so that we can have a deeper inspection of the packets."
"They should consider working a bit more on their ransomware application."
"Pricing could be lowered slightly."
"I think content filtering is the area this product should improve. It's a little tricky to get put in correctly."
"We encounter issues while generating new reports."
"We'd like for them to include some sort of antivirus tool."
"Technical support could be better."
"It needs better integration with other applications. It takes a fair amount of regular activity to apply the by-passes because it is very strict in its restrictions and frequently you have to go in and open things up to allow the workforce to work."
"Do not expect to pay for the service and start using it, like Gmail. Zscaler requires a proper implementation to be done to make it successful."
"An improvement would be if they could provide an out-of-the-box experience, like 20 to 30 features all ready to go. In comparison, LogRhythm offers out-of-the-box features. With Zscaler Internet Access, there is firewall IPS, multiple security services, filtering, DLP, and CASB browser isolation. These are things that all users are going to be using. However, when an administrator or architect would start building this, I would definitely need to engage professional services to help clients do it."
"They should enhance the audit reporting feature."
"Sometimes it's not easy to use during large deployments of workstations."
"We'd like to have more plugins and integration."
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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