We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall 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."The notable features that I have found most valuable are that it includes the antivirus, and also IPS, and even SD-WAN."
"It's super reliable. I don't think I've ever had a reliability issue with it."
"Their proxy-based inspection is responsive and secure."
"The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"The solution is extremely reliable."
"The most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"It is very stable compared to other firewall products."
"The most valuable feature must be AnyConnect. We have quite a few customers who use it. It is easy to use and the stablest thing that we have. We have experienced some issues on all our VPN clients, but AnyConnect has been the stablest one."
"The most valuable feature for the customers is that they can control what communication is allowed and what is not allowed. That is, they can allow or deny client traffic."
"Integration with all the other Cisco tools is valuable."
"One thing I like about the product is the logging features, the way it logs, the way it forwards the logs in Syslog."
"The GUI is among the most valuable features,"
"The most valuable features of Cisco firewalls are the IPS and IDS items. We find them very helpful. Those are the biggest things because we have some odd, custom-made products in our environment. What we've found through their IPS and IDS is that their vulnerability engines have caught things that are near-Zero-day items, inside of our network."
"We have multiple secure internal networks linked with our plants. We are from a oil company, so we have multiple plant areas which need to have restricted network access. Therefore, we are using it for restricting access to the plant area."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"After a proper implementation, the maintenance is very low."
"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."
"Zscaler Internet Access's roaming user feature is most valuable and is much better compared to other secure web gateways."
"Tech support is good."
"The most valuable features I found in Zscaler Internet Access are the restriction of users for a particular URL, the security feature related to stopping DDoS, and the VPN."
"The URL filtering has been the most valuable feature."
"Zscaler excels in security protection and the cloud is always up-to-date. It does not matter if you are a small or big organisation, you will receive the same security quality."
"The captive portal could be improved."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"FortiOS is not simple."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"There are just some services that aren't available. For example, the Ethernet or point-to-point protocols. They could add these services to their product offering - especially services for ISPs."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"At first glance, the interface for the device is very confusing."
"It would be great if some of the load times were faster."
"One of my colleagues is using the firewall as an IPS, but he is worried about Firepower's performance... With the 10 Gb devices, when it gets to 5 Gbps, the CPU usage goes up a lot and he cannot manage the IPS."
"The ability to integrate (as options) all-in-one features -- like anti-spam, anti-virus, etc."
"Lacks a good graphical user interface."
"I would like to see an IE version of the solution where it is ruggedized."
"The ease of use needs improvement. It is complex to operate the solution. The user interface is not friendly."
"Firewalls, in general, were not really designed for normal IT personnel, but for firewall and network experts. Therefore, they missed a lot of options and did not provide any good reporting or improvement options."
"I would like to see them release a patch for ASAv with cross-platform FirePower integration."
"Zscaler Internet Access needs to integrate more ISPs. It is good to have more than three ISPs."
"What could be improved in Zscaler Internet Access is its price. It could be cheaper."
"Zscaler Internet Access could improve by adding a VPN feature."
"I would like to see the ability to choose a pool of IPs for my company, set up rules based on them, and know that those IPs are not used by other companies."
"Sometimes it's not easy to use during large deployments of workstations."
"We'd like for them to include some sort of antivirus tool."
"One thing that they could improve is the ability to import rules from other platforms."
"There are a few features that are not compatible with the Azure cloud."
Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews while Zscaler Internet Access is ranked 2nd in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 46 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2, while Zscaler Internet Access is rated 8.2. 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 Internet Access writes "Provides integrated CASB and file sandboxing but could be less expensive ". 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 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 Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Zscaler Internet Access report.
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