We performed a comparison between SonicWall NSa 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 most valuable feature of FortiGate is FortiView which provides proactive monitoring."
"FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"Initial setup is easy to configure."
"The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and the UI. It has always provided me with what I needed. I have no need for additional costs that other solutions have, such as Sophos."
"With FortiClient, you can easily connect when you are home, check out what you want to do, and connect to your network when you are not at work. You can switch on servers and you can check what is wrong."
"We were looking for the VPN feature and controlling the inflow and outflow of all the traffic within the site and across the sites. We are also using it for the VPN and VLANs."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"The product is simple to manage."
"The firewall feature is most valuable since my work is to analyze if there is any potential attack. SonicWall NSa gives the perfect analysis."
"Content filtering reduces the load on the available bandwidth and restricts employees from using distracting websites on the job, which leads to more productive hours."
"I like the solution's configuration, interfaces, and user guides."
"The most valuable feature is the sandbox."
"We have not found any vulnerabilities since implementing the solution."
"The stability is better than other products."
"The functionality is the same whether it is on hardware or a virtual appliance. The interface is the same. It's nice that it's standardized."
"The most valuable feature of Zscaler Internet Access is that it is a consolidated solution, it comes with many features, such as DLP."
"After a proper implementation, the maintenance is very low."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to drop packets."
"It is easy to set up the solution."
"The best thing about Zscaler Internet Access is the website filtering. In the UAE it's quite an important feature because most of the malware comes through the SQL injection and through downloads from websites. Zscaler helps protect against that."
"Whether you are in a hotel somewhere, or in Africa, it does not matter. You will get the Zscaler protection presence anywhere."
"The solution is scalable and stable."
"In terms of management and visibility, there is a single panel where you can configure the policies for your entire organisation worldwide."
"Its customer service could be better."
"The central management for the FortiGate Fortinet Firewall needs improvement. They have the manager to do the essential management for both SD-WAN and for the security policy. They should also improve the SD-WAN function."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"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."
"I don't really have anything negative to say as far as Fortinet firewalls are concerned. If anything, they can support a user a little bit better. They can stop being so time-sensitive about how much time the support call has taken, and they can help you do it yourself."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"Potential improvement around the associated VPN cost"
"A room for improvement in SonicWall NSa is the log server because it could be more user-friendly compared to Fortinet and Palo Alto Networks. My company has many rule sets up for review, so sometimes, my team needs to use Excel for filtering, but the UI cannot support the Excel function."
"SonicWall NSa has occasional bugs, particularly during upgrades, and that's an area for improvement."
"The features I would like to see improve are the dashboard and the UI."
"SonicWall NSa needs to make their product more user-friendly."
"Some of the configurations could be better."
"The anti-spam requires a specific Java version on the server side (do not update it, otherwise it will break)."
"There are a few areas that need improvement including the VPN, user management, and reporting."
"There are some performance issues when we add on additional controls."
"We'd like for them to include some sort of antivirus tool."
"They should enhance the audit reporting feature."
"They block Zscaler IPs when the traffic origin is from Zscaler IPs. They've been blocked by certain government organizations so the end users are not able to visit those websites unless we ask them to unblock those IP. This is a bit problematic."
"The performance needs improvement. Some areas create performance issues and, depending on the use cases, require reconfiguration to perform again."
"The interface for administration could be better. They should upgrade the management portal."
"One thing that they could improve is the ability to import rules from other platforms."
"In terms of usage, here in the GCC, it's still growing a growing market, so the combination of DLP, data leak prevention, to a certain extent is fine. But what it requires is user-based access or role-based access. The solution needs to grow into that, which definitely takes time. There's not an easy way to integrate it, when you have a cloud-based solution."
SonicWall NSa is ranked 20th in Firewalls with 77 reviews while Zscaler Internet Access is ranked 2nd in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 46 reviews. SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8, while Zscaler Internet Access is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Internet Access writes "Provides integrated CASB and file sandboxing but could be less expensive ". SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense, 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 SonicWall NSa vs. Zscaler Internet Access report.
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