We performed a comparison between McAfee StoneGate [EOL] and Zscaler Cloud Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The user interface (UI) is very, very good."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"Centralized monitoring, policy management, and virtualized appliances allow us to take control over our public and private infrastructure."
"We did not have issues with scalabiliy."
"It works well with a highly-active cluster."
"Zscaler provides effective protection against various cyber threats ensuring a safe environment"
"Zscaler Cloud Firewall understands the applications in the current generation and adapts to the present generation cloud applications."
"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."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It is a stable solution."
"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."
"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."
"There is a lot of improvement needed with SSL-VPN."
"FortiGate should have a better way of detecting and managing the system memory because otherwise if the memory is too low, a system restart is required."
"Scalability for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be improved. SD-WAN security for this solution also needs some improvement."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"Application management can be improved."
"Sometimes you do need to know some CLI commands, so it's a bit harder for technicians or new people that don't know it."
"A sandbox would be good in order to be able to inspect the emails containing spam and be able to validate the emails that contain malware, prior to delivering to the customer."
"The UI could be improved."
"After some experience with the solution, we had to do some redesign, but generally, we were happy with the product."
"Data Leak Prevention is only for web filtering and there is no protection for email."
"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."
"Certain criteria need to be met if you want to scale this solution."
"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."
"When it comes to customer support, there is room for improvement in Zscaler's service."
"Pricing is a challenge."
"Because it's on cloud, it doesn't allow application of extra settings."
"Its technical support services could be better."
Earn 20 points
McAfee StoneGate [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is ranked 24th in Firewalls with 15 reviews. McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is rated 7.0, while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of McAfee StoneGate [EOL] writes "The HA cluster had issues during deployment, but the solution gives us better application control than with our previous solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Cloud Firewall writes "A highly stable and comprehensive cloud security and access solution". McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Zscaler Cloud Firewall is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, OPNsense, Cisco Secure Firewall and Check Point NGFW.
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