We performed a comparison between Cisco IOS Security 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 feature of Fortinet FortiGate is the simple configuration."
"The most useful functionality of Fortinet FortiGate is the user interface, multiple engines, and their cloud with the latest integrations. Additionally, the Security Fabric tool is very good."
"The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"Offers good security and filtering."
"The product is very stable, easy to troubleshoot, and configure, so it has reduced the time it takes for support."
"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."
"There is an easy process for configuring it, and it is straightforward to implement the device from scratch."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"Cisco IOS Security is very robust and works very well."
"The most valuable feature is endpoint protection."
"The product has valuable features for business intelligence."
"Cisco IOS allows us to keep the same security features as our principal offices."
"The most valuable feature is the scalability. The nice thing with the bigger vendors is that they're very good at scale."
"The Intrusion Firewall is a valuable feature."
"It is less expensive than alternative firewalls."
"There is a positive impact on security, particularly the intrusion feature, which helps keep the solution concealed and secure."
"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 scalability is okay. We have around 2200 people using this solution."
"Zscaler Cloud Firewall understands the applications in the current generation and adapts to the present generation cloud applications."
"The solution offers good sandboxing."
"The product’s firewall and VPN package are fantastic compared to any other 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."
"The solution is scalable."
"The solution needs to improve its integration with cybersecurity."
"The scalability could be better."
"We would like to see an upgrade to the VPN feature, we are using the VPN from outside of our office and there is a limitation to 10 connections, more connections would be suitable."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve if it had a cloud-managed solution."
"There are some problems that support cannot give you a logical reason as to why it happened. For example, I had a case where I was dealing with a WhatsApp application that was giving issues. Technical support gave more than one reason it could be giving issues, but none of them solved the problem. Eventually I solved the problem, but it was far from the solutions that support had given."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"The platform's interface could improve."
"It would be nice if backups could more easily migrate between different models."
"Signatures and other critical definitions need to be updated more frequently."
"If they could increase the performance a little better because the device sometimes gets slow."
"The graphical user interface or the GUI could be better. Beginners can use some devices with the GUI, but some security devices are configured using CLI. It would also be better if it had its own Intrusion Protection Service and Intrusion Detection Service on the server."
"There's a technology called SD-WAN that we would like to see. We are unable to handle multiple connections or to automatically load balance. I would like to have a feature that enables us to automatically prepare for load balancing."
"It takes too much time to deploy a policy to FMC. It takes around eight minutes. You can't afford any downtime when you're changing policies."
"The routers, don't have like long-term tendency features, or higher availability features available for the IOS. It could also use a better user interface."
"It would be ideal if the solution had more capacity."
"I would like upgrading iOS to be a bit easier."
"Data Leak Prevention is only for web filtering and there is no protection for email."
"Pricing is a challenge."
"Certain criteria need to be met if you want to scale this solution."
"The product could improve its integration with some legacy systems."
"They do not provide a few components that are fundamental to differentiate the products"
"Zscaler Cloud Firewall should have a better understanding of all dynamic cloud applications."
"When it comes to customer support, there is room for improvement in Zscaler's service."
"Its technical support services could be better."
Cisco IOS Security is ranked 22nd in Firewalls with 47 reviews while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is ranked 24th in Firewalls with 15 reviews. Cisco IOS Security is rated 8.0, while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco IOS Security writes "User-friendly and excels in documentation, making it easier to resolve issues". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Cloud Firewall writes "A highly stable and comprehensive cloud security and access solution". Cisco IOS Security is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Meraki MX, Fortinet FortiOS, Netgate pfSense and OPNsense, whereas Zscaler Cloud Firewall is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, OPNsense, Cisco Secure Firewall and Check Point NGFW. See our Cisco IOS Security vs. Zscaler Cloud Firewall report.
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