We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall 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 next-gen features, the unified threat management capabilities are something that just about everybody is interested in at this point."
"The solution is very easy to understand. It's not overly complex."
"This version is stable. I don't have any issues with this solution, in our environment, it works well."
"The secure web gateway module and the application control module are valuable. HA operations are very easy."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"We are using the FortiGate 100D series. VPN, firewall, anti-malware, OTM, and intrusion prevention are useful features."
"Cisco ASA Firewall is a well known product. They're always updating it, and you know what they're doing and that it works."
"Strong in NAT and access-lists."
"They are easy to maintain."
"Cisco Secure Firewall is a good solution. In some ways, it is a reactive solution and we have it sitting in a whitelist mode rather than a blacklist mode. It seems to work fairly well for us."
"In v9.8 you are able to do active/backup HA with ASAv (Adaptive Security Virtual Appliance) deployed on MS Azure."
"Beats sophisticated cyber attacks with a superior security appliance."
"Integration with all the other Cisco tools is valuable."
"Sourcefire has been a great addition. The visibility and control have been nice."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Most of the features that Zscaler has to offer, we will deploy."
"Zscaler provides effective protection against various cyber threats ensuring a safe environment"
"It helps a lot of companies to reduce their downtime. Also, It helps businesses in terms of being secured and protected from any threats."
"Once you have Zscaler running you have access to configure it however you want."
"The scalability is okay. We have around 2200 people using this solution."
"Includes advanced tech protection."
"The solution offers good sandboxing."
"This product could be improved with Active directory integration and better handling in IPsec and GRE Tunnels."
"They should improve the interface to make it more user-friendly."
"Fortinet already improved FortiGate, but in the current market, many brands of security devices have improved together. Fortinet still needs to catch up with market standards. Fortinet is lacking in features in comparison to competitors."
"The support system could be improved."
"The support structure needs to be improved because every time we contact them, there is a delay in the response."
"It would be nice if FortiGate incorporated some built-in endpoint protection features. I would also like a built-in SOC dashboard for managing multiple Fortinet firewalls."
"The room for improvement is about the global delivery time period. Usually I need to wait for almost one month to deliver it overseas. So if you can shorten the deliver time it'd be great."
"We had a minor problem where there was a major system upgrade on the hardware platfrom and the Mac client was not available as soon as it might have been. The PC client was available immediately, but we had to wait a month or so, before there was a mac client. I was slightly irritated that it was not ready on time, but it was eventually resolved."
"The product's user interface is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"On firewall features, Fortinet is better. Cisco needs to become more competitive and add more features or meet Fortinet's offering."
"It would be great if some of the load times were faster."
"The Firepower FTD code is missing some old ASA firewalls codes. It's a small thing. But Firepower software isn't missing things that are essential, anymore."
"A feature that would allow me to load balance among multiple ISPs, especially since we have deployed it as a perimeter firewall, would be a great addition."
"One thing that Cisco could improve is the GUI. The graphic user interface should be more user-friendly."
"The only improvement that we could make is maybe [regarding] the roadmap, to have better visibility as to what we are targeting ahead in the next few quarters."
"The stability could be better because we have a lot of issues with the stability of Cisco Firepower."
"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."
"Data Leak Prevention is only for web filtering and there is no protection for email."
"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."
"Because it's on cloud, it doesn't allow application of extra settings."
"Zscaler Cloud Firewall should have a better understanding of all dynamic cloud applications."
"Its technical support services could be better."
"The product could improve its integration with some legacy systems."
"They do not provide a few components that are fundamental to differentiate the products"
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is ranked 24th in Firewalls with 15 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Cloud Firewall writes "A highly stable and comprehensive cloud security and access solution". Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Zscaler Cloud Firewall is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, OPNsense, Check Point NGFW and Sophos XG. See our Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Zscaler Cloud Firewall report.
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