We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate 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 solution is very easy to understand. It's not overly complex."
"Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"Its performance in fulfilling our requirements has been satisfactory."
"UTM/NGFW features and FortiCloud for logs and backups are awesome."
"The signature database and zero-day detection are Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features."
"Fortinet FortiGate's reliability is valuable."
"Offers good security and filtering."
"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."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The scalability is okay. We have around 2200 people using this solution."
"It helps a lot of companies to reduce their downtime. Also, It helps businesses in terms of being secured and protected from any threats."
"Zscaler Cloud Firewall understands the applications in the current generation and adapts to the present generation cloud applications."
"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 solution offers good sandboxing."
"Most of the features that Zscaler has to offer, we will deploy."
"Includes advanced tech protection."
"Its customer service could be better."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding FortiAnalyzer to its solution, we should not have to use another solution. FortiAnalyzer can provide more detailed information."
"WAN load-balancing could be a lot better at detecting when a link is poor or inconsistent, and not just flat out dead."
"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."
"It needs more available central management."
"The solution could have licensing fees reduced in the future."
"The firmware needs improvement because there are bugs when a new release comes through. Sometimes, the configuration changes, and it's a bit harder to see where the fail is. The first time that you have the firmware, it tends to have some issues, and it's better to wait a bit to update the equipment."
"Instead of the standard license, they should certainly provide customers with the visibility to access and view the logs."
"The product could improve its integration with some legacy systems."
"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."
"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."
"They do not provide a few components that are fundamental to differentiate the products"
"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."
"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."
Fortinet FortiGate is ranked 2nd in Firewalls with 306 reviews while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is ranked 23rd in Firewalls with 15 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate is rated 8.4, while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate writes "It's a reliable solution that's easy to install and cheaper than competitors ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Cloud Firewall writes "A highly stable and comprehensive cloud security and access solution". Fortinet FortiGate is most compared with Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Zscaler Cloud Firewall is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Cisco Secure Firewall, OPNsense and Sophos XG. See our Fortinet FortiGate vs. Zscaler Cloud Firewall report.
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