We performed a comparison between SonicWall TZ 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 solution is scalable."
"The most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"We use the FortiGate Sandbox to detect zero-day vulnerabilities, such as anomalies or malware, that are unknown and have not yet been discovered."
"We use a lot of function on the IPS and it works well for us."
"Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"Fortinet FortiGate is stable. It's used across all the countries, this is the way most multinationals run their system."
"The next-gen features, the unified threat management capabilities are something that just about everybody is interested in at this point."
"The signature database and zero-day detection are Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features."
"The feature we found most valuable in SonicWall TZ is that it is user-friendly for an administrator."
"Content filtering and application rules are the most valuable features. It is also easy to configure."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"The best thing about the product is the very good threat prevention output."
"SonicWall TZ is a very cost-effective solution that provides good security."
"The solution's VPN is very good for stability and detecting threats."
"We use the content filter quite a lot because it's an office setting. During working hours, we like to censor the sites users can visit so it increases productivity. Therefore, the content filter has been good for us."
"The general feature is the antivirus policy, followed by the ransomware protection, and these are the features I was looking at."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to drop packets."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine and a half out of ten...The setup phase was easy."
"The solution replaces multiple vendor technologies with one which makes it worth the cost."
"The solution is scalable and stable."
"After a proper implementation, the maintenance is very low."
"The VPN is valuable, as the whole technology is very different from a traditional VPN."
"The solution’s customer service is good."
"The solution offers a distributed organization to master and to control all of the endpoints."
"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."
"We were not able to build a full-mesh VPN; however, I am not sure if this was the fault of Fortinet FortiGate."
"The sniffing packets or packet captures, can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing."
"It would be a benefit if Fortinet would release a one-stop solution that is better integrated with other products and an automated emergency response system."
"We have an issue with hotel guest vouchers."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"It should be more stable. There should be full integration within Fortinet products themselves as well as with other third-party products. Especially when you're not dealing with SIEM and the correlation of the security box, we want Fortinet to be able to share that information with as many other products as it can."
"Fortinet currently has many products bundled with FortiGate including the basic firewall and load balancer, and I think that that they need to have separate product portfolios for each of these specialized services."
"The solution's pricing could be made cheaper."
"It could probably be more user-friendly, and it could be more scalable with releases and subscriptions."
"Its pricing can be better. It is very expensive."
"I'd like to have cloud management at no additional cost. Unfortunately, leveraging SonicWall's cloud management capabilities is cost-prohibitive, so we don't use it. They should have a reasonable subscription or offer it to us at no cost as an MSP."
"The monitoring is a little bit confusing."
"FortiGate has a client DNS in the firewall, but SonicWall doesn't have that. To create or configure a site-to-site VPN tunnel, we have to give a DNS name. Currently, we have to get the DNS name from a third party and then include it in SonicWall, whereas FortiGate has its own client DNS, so it provides a DNS name, and it does not require a third party. There should be a graphical option to view the network utilization and bandwidth usage."
"The solution should provide some additional ports."
"There is still room for improvement, and it's not advisable even if the organization has grown."
"The reporting functionality could be a bit easier to use. There is a reporting function, but it's quite hard to do any good reporting, from a user-management perspective. For example, if a department manager wants to know how his department is using the web, there is a way to get the data, but it's quite cumbersome to get it and show it well. And that's true for comparing between departments."
"Zscaler should provide adjacent services, which would be complementary to their current offering that could to be more pragmatic for a customer. For example, if you take Akamai, you get multiple sets of services, all depending on the customer and the strategy and the complexity and the problems. In some areas, they are more varied in terms of coverage."
"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."
"The solution can be improved by advancing some of the newer technologies such as the DLP feature, and adding email security."
"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."
"Sometimes it's not easy to use during large deployments of workstations."
"Currently, the solution's interface is not that user-friendly."
"Zscaler needs to add client-to-client communication. It's always client-to-server communication. The cloud and branch connectors could be improved because we're still dependent on traditional firewalls. They should eliminate this. They should also provide WAN devices should to compete with the SD-WAN solutions also."
SonicWall TZ is ranked 11th in Firewalls with 19 reviews while Zscaler Internet Access is ranked 2nd in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 29 reviews. SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0, while Zscaler Internet Access is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SonicWall TZ writes "Highly acceptable on a small scale, straightforward out the box installation, with a good price point". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Internet Access writes "Configuring policies is user-friendly but challenges with stability". SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and Cisco Secure 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 SonicWall TZ vs. Zscaler Internet Access report.
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