We performed a comparison between Sophos XG 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."The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ability to work in proxy mode, which other solutions, such as Palo Alto cannot. There are some features that are better that come at no extra license or subscriptions cost, such as basic SD-WAN. The DLT is useful, other solutions have the same feature too, such as Palo Alto."
"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."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are it is one of the most mature firewalls in the UTM bundle."
"We use a southern institution that's audited for IT security and the reporting that automatically comes off the unit makes it much easier to meet compliance standards and makes it easier as far as the amount of time that has to be spent to compile that information. If you get your reporting set up correctly when you initially set it up, you just select the one you want and hit print. The auditing trail on it is the best feature."
"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."
"The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"One of the valuable features is a standardized OS."
"The technical support is great."
"IPS works smoothly."
"The security of Sophos XG is very good."
"The VPN access for users is also a great thing, especially nowadays when working from home."
"The multifactor authentication is helpful because whenever the user wants to connect to the firewall, they have to use the authenticator before they can access it."
"We created and configured a VPN for connecting our remote sites and also to make it more secure and reliable. We also like its two-factor authentication features."
"The most valuable feature is the VPN aspect."
"The solution offers a good firewall endpoint and email encryption."
"The tool's most valuable feature is threat protection and DLP features. So far, basic DLP features like content protection and blocking. Furthermore, for remote users, features such as back filtering and application control are available, allowing for command and control from our side. It is very easy to understand policy applications."
"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 provides effective protection against various cyber threats ensuring a safe environment"
"It provides in-depth visibility into your network, ensuring that traffic flowing into your organization, be it from offices or individual users, is effectively filtered and secured through multiple layers of protection."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Zscaler Cloud Firewall understands the applications in the current generation and adapts to the present generation cloud applications."
"The product’s firewall and VPN package are fantastic compared to any other solution."
"Includes advanced tech protection."
"Once you have Zscaler running you have access to configure it however you want."
"I have to say that the initial setup was complex. The deployment took a few days to get set up. Initially, we were using an IPVanish. We switched to this tool since we thought it would be easier. But it turns out it wasn't easier to set up and run."
"I would suggest that Fortinet add sandboxing to their solution."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"With FortiGate, the main complaint that I have heard is about the technical support."
"There is a lot of improvement needed with SSL-VPN."
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"They sometimes hide some features and if you want to enable them, you have to go in the CLI, enable the feature and configure it through the CLI. Customers, typically, like everything to be done by the GUI."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"Network security is in need of improvement."
"Areas for improvement would be the access points and the on-premise version, which is very bad."
"Sometimes when you roll out a new firmware, you find that the rules you already have in place are broken, so it's difficult to migrate to a new firmware. That's the only downside I've experienced in Sophos."
"We feel that the GUI can be improved a bit because it has a lot of information and looks a bit outdated."
"When you are using it as a controller for the wireless access points, it doesn't perform well. It is not suitable for the public cloud. It is more suitable for enterprise data. It is not really the equipment for cloud data centers. I am looking for a data center firewall."
"It would be helpful if the solution offered some tutorial videos to help new users learn the system quickly."
"The pricing has gotten much higher."
"I can't use the product's application control feature, making it a disadvantage of the solution where improvements are required."
"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."
"They do not provide a few components that are fundamental to differentiate the products"
"Instead of the standard license, they should certainly provide customers with the visibility to access and view the logs."
"Zscaler Cloud Firewall should have a better understanding of all dynamic cloud applications."
"The product could improve its integration with some legacy systems."
"When it comes to customer support, there is room for improvement in Zscaler's service."
"Because it's on cloud, it doesn't allow application of extra settings."
"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 XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is ranked 23rd in Firewalls with 15 reviews. Sophos XG is rated 8.2, while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Sophos XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Cloud Firewall writes "A highly stable and comprehensive cloud security and access solution". Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS, SonicWall TZ and Meraki MX, whereas Zscaler Cloud Firewall is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall, OPNsense and Cisco Multicloud Defense. See our Sophos XG vs. Zscaler Cloud Firewall report.
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