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."Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"It increases security posture and is helpful for firewall reporting, intrusion protection, web filtering, and SD-WAN implementation."
"The solution has very good threat and content filtering switches."
"A strong point of FortiGate is that the graphical interface is complete and easy to use, especially if we think there is a list of operations that we are able to perform inside."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"The product offers very good security."
"The solution is scalable."
"The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"It is a stable product... I rate the solution's technical support a nine out of ten...The initial setup is quite easy because they have all the information on their website."
"It has made our organization more secure, because we are using a VPN. We are not accessing services directly. It allows us to segregate some of the traffic for individuals which may be more of a developer role rather than an operational role needing access to developer resources, but not necessarily production operational resources."
"Configuration could not be made any easier."
"Stability-wise, I rate this solution a ten out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate this solution a ten out of ten."
"The product is extremely intuitive."
"The most valuable features of the solution are application filtering and web filtering."
"The initial configuration is straightforward thanks to the web GUI. In 30 minutes, you can have a running firewall with UTM protection enabled."
"The cost of the solution is very reasonable."
"It helps a lot of companies to reduce their downtime. Also, It helps businesses in terms of being secured and protected from any threats."
"Most of the features that Zscaler has to offer, we will deploy."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Includes advanced tech protection."
"The product’s firewall and VPN package are fantastic compared to any other solution."
"The solution is scalable."
"Once you have Zscaler running you have access to configure it however you want."
"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."
"The way everything is set up could be easier. Currently, people need a lot of experience and knowledge to administer it and to link it to devices."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"The routing capability on the FortiGate devices has room for improvement."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"Fortinet needs to overhaul its documentation."
"I don't really have any notes for improvements."
"The integration capabilities could be better."
"I would like this solution to support ICAP. Also, they no longer support on-premises management, and are forcing clients to use centralized management via the cloud, which I don't agree with."
"They could reduce the price."
"When we call support, we get put on hold for a long time."
"The technical support team’s response time could be improved."
"It needs a better user interface. The one they have is not so good."
"We'd like to see them offer their services on mobile devices like tablets. I'm not sure if that's an option or not."
"Because it's on cloud, it doesn't allow application of extra settings."
"They do not provide a few components that are fundamental to differentiate the products"
"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."
"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."
"Data Leak Prevention is only for web filtering and there is no protection for email."
"Certain criteria need to be met if you want to scale this solution."
"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."
"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."
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, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, OPNsense and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Sophos UTM vs. Zscaler Cloud Firewall report.
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