We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks VM-Series 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."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."
"Unified Threat Management (UTM) features."
"The most valuable feature is the web filter."
"Consolidated our network environment at all locations, but mainly at our datacenter."
"Mainly the FortiGate reporting system is very good. It guides us through all the expectations of security. Fortinet provides us all that we need for security. Also, Fortinet FortiGate is a next-generation firewall. It is much more advanced than others."
"Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"Virtual Domains (VDOMs) are a feature that we found valuable."
"Provides good firewall security and has great VPN features."
"We use the product on our Azure network firewalls."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series has everything centralized. You have the VPN solution, firewall, routing, UDR, flexibility, updates, and full visibility of your traffic."
"The most valuable feature is that you can control your traffic flowing out and coming it, allowing you to apply malware and threat protection, as well as vulnerability checks."
"The VM-Series scalability is fast and easy to implement, improving our security posture as our Azure network grows."
"The technical support for the solution is very good."
"The solution strengthens our IT posture."
"It has a good performance which helps you with the stability of your virtual environment."
"The URL filtering has been the most valuable feature."
"One feature that is valuable to me from an implementation point of view is that it's very easy to implement."
"The protection is most valuable."
"The solution is scalable and stable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is SWG traffic."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The solution offers a distributed organization to master and to control all of the endpoints."
"Zscaler Internet Access protects using data loss prevention. If you have a CASB exposing your cloud out into the network, then Zscaler Internet Access will go ahead and control that unknown cloud application in the CASB, protecting it. There is also data detection with exact data match. This improves the data coming into your cloud so you are protecting it."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"Some of the filtering is not robust, you can escape it with a VPN. Some of the users bypass some of the filters. It catches some but it also misses some, that area could be improved. It's functioning reasonably but there's room for improvement in that area."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"Improvement is needed in the Web Filter quotas to restrict users with allocated quotas."
"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."
"The support is the main thing that needs to be improved."
"In terms of what could be improved, the SD-WAN is quite difficult, because if you install the new box, 15 is okay, but if you change from an old configuration, if there is already configuration and a policy when you change to SD-WAN, you must change the whole policy that you see in the interface."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series needs to improve its order process."
"With Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, it is hard for me to manage its network configuration part."
"At the beginning of the implementation, we had some difficulties with the scripts, but Palo Alto Networks support together with a local partner finally fixed it."
"The disadvantage with Palo Alto is that they don't have a cloud-based solution that includes a secure web gateway."
"There is no proper support channel to follow up on cases."
"The utilization monitoring and GUI have room for improvement."
"There's room for improvement in terms of integration with the load balancer. It isn't like Fortinet, which has a load balancer built into its firewall. It is effortless to integrate within the load balancer-plus-firewall solution."
"There should be an option for direct integration with the Azure platform."
"One thing that needs to be improved is their presence in China. I'm not sure if that's a Zscaler thing or if it's a problem with all vendors in this space, but it would be nice to have better coverage in China. This concern is a common one for vendors across the board when dealing with the Chinese market."
"Zscaler Internet Access could improve by adding a VPN feature."
"They could provide more time for the onboarding the training of an IT person."
"They should enhance the audit reporting feature."
"Zscaler Internet Access's troubleshooting is very limited, and their textbook logs need to be more informative."
"An improvement would be if they could provide an out-of-the-box experience, like 20 to 30 features all ready to go. In comparison, LogRhythm offers out-of-the-box features. With Zscaler Internet Access, there is firewall IPS, multiple security services, filtering, DLP, and CASB browser isolation. These are things that all users are going to be using. However, when an administrator or architect would start building this, I would definitely need to engage professional services to help clients do it."
"The solution can be improved by advancing some of the newer technologies such as the DLP feature, and adding email security."
"The main issue with Zscaler Internet Access is proxy IP detection, which sometimes makes sites inaccessible."
Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 52 reviews while Zscaler Internet Access is ranked 2nd in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 46 reviews. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6, while Zscaler Internet Access is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Internet Access writes "Provides integrated CASB and file sandboxing but could be less expensive ". Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Juniper SRX Series Firewall, 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 Palo Alto Networks VM-Series vs. Zscaler Internet Access report.
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