We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks VM-Series 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."It is very flexible to use."
"I really like the captive portal feature for our guest network. It has nice VLAN features in terms of separating our network. The anti-virus is also good."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"The next-generation firewall is great."
"The usage in general is pretty good."
"The network security and cloud security are most valuable."
"Provides good firewall security and has great VPN features."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution enables organizations to enforce policies."
"It is very stable. It is fairly easy to use."
"It gives us the ease that we are secure. We have set up the proper things that help make our data safe."
"What I like about the VM-Series is that you can launch them in a very short time."
"The most valuable feature is the Posture Assessment."
"We can monitor the traffic manually and detect threats. Additionally, we can block different IP addresses and URLs."
"It is an easy-to-scale product."
"The VM-Series reports how much bandwidth a particular IP is using. You don't need to regularly log into a website, like a Cisco command, to see what kind of ACL it's getting. There isn't an ACL use portal event. You can go there and see how much my ACL has been getting me."
"The product’s firewall and VPN package are fantastic compared to any other solution."
"The solution is scalable."
"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."
"I like the ease of deployment and its flexibility. We don't need to deal with license, quotes, procurement, delivery, and installation. Everything is software-based, and it's very easy to operate."
"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."
"Zscaler Cloud Firewall understands the applications in the current generation and adapts to the present generation cloud applications."
"Includes advanced tech protection."
"The solution offers good sandboxing."
"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."
"We would like to see a better training platform implemented."
"This product could be improved with Active directory integration and better handling in IPsec and GRE Tunnels."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"The performance could be a bit better. Right now, I find it to be lacking. Having good performance is very important for our work."
"It needs more available central management."
"The product could be better in terms of performance than one of its competitors."
"Integrative capabilities with other solutions should be addressed."
"The user-friendliness of the UI could be improved."
"The web interface is very slow, and it needs to be faster."
"The current licensing model can be a sore point as we're paying for features we're not fully utilizing."
"The product's AIOps process needs improvement."
"There are various reports that come with the box or with the VMware, but you can only run them daily."
"We feel that the setup was complex. So, we asked the tech team about the setup process. They explained how to deploy it in the right way, which made it very simple."
"The product could improve its integration with some legacy systems."
"There are some areas it could improve when it comes to blocking, we have to block some things manually. For example, if we block a top-level domain we have seen that the new IPs come through, the IPs are not blocked. There should be some more granular way of doing it. My only request is if you're blocking something at a top level, the sub-level sub-domains and all those other IPs should be blocked too automatically."
"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."
"They do not provide a few components that are fundamental to differentiate the products"
"When it comes to customer support, there is room for improvement in Zscaler's service."
"We are having some issues with internet access being denied when organizational ID-based policies change. For example, a lower level employee ends up getting the same level of access as that of a higher level employee."
"It would be nice to have some sort of a form factor, a physical form factor perhaps, or virtual machine that you could install on devices or on a cloud, and have some cloud computing."
"Instead of the standard license, they should certainly provide customers with the visibility to access and view the logs."
Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 11th in Firewalls with 53 reviews while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 15 reviews. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6, while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is rated 8.4. 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 Cloud Firewall writes "A highly stable and comprehensive cloud security and access solution". 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 Cloud Firewall is most compared with Azure Firewall, OPNsense, Cisco Multicloud Defense, Cisco Secure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Palo Alto Networks VM-Series vs. Zscaler Cloud Firewall report.
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