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."The most useful functionality of Fortinet FortiGate is the user interface, multiple engines, and their cloud with the latest integrations. Additionally, the Security Fabric tool is very good."
"It is simple to manage, and there are a lot of functionalities in the same box."
"The management console is pretty simple, so anyone who understands networking can initially deploy the solution."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"What's most important is the ease of use."
"The feature I like most is the SD-WAN. It allows you to manage more than one ISP at the same time. And there is a high-availability mode, so if one of your ISPs is down, you still have a backup."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"A strong point of FortiGate is the graphical interface is complete and easy to use."
"I like the UI. Most things are accessible from the user interface and it is quite user-friendly. With respect to both VM-based firewalls and physical firewalls, it's easy to create updates."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series's most valuable feature is the visibility of the environment."
"The Palo Alto VM-Series is nice because I can move the firewalls easily."
"The product provides more visibility into our traffic."
"It is nice to have a rock solid security platform that we can count on."
"The feature that I have found the most useful is that it meets all our requirements technically."
"The most valuable features are the User ID, URL filtering, and application filtering."
"App-ID and User-ID have repeatedly shown value in securing business critical systems."
"It is a stable solution."
"The solution offers good sandboxing."
"Most of the features that Zscaler has to offer, we will deploy."
"Zscaler provides effective protection against various cyber threats ensuring a safe environment"
"Once you have Zscaler running you have access to configure it however you want."
"Zscaler Cloud Firewall understands the applications in the current generation and adapts to the present generation cloud applications."
"It helps a lot of companies to reduce their downtime. Also, It helps businesses in terms of being secured and protected from any threats."
"The scalability is okay. We have around 2200 people using this solution."
"They've become quite expensive."
"Application management can be improved."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"There are some license issues. Not every feature must have a separate license. There must be some of kind synergy between the license so we don't have to pay for every individual license that we would like to have."
"They can do more tests before they release new versions because I would like to be more assured. We had some experiences where they release something new and great, but some of the old features are disabled or they don't work well, which impacts the product satisfaction. The manufacturer should be able to prove that everything works or not only that it might work. This is applicable to most of the other services, software, and hardware companies. They all should work on this. We cannot trust every new release, such as a beta release, on the first day. We wait for some comments on the forums and from other companies that we know. We always wait a few weeks before we use the updated version. They should also extend the VPN client application, especially for Linux versions. Currently, it has an application for Linux devices, but it doesn't work the way we want to connect to the VPN. They use only the old connection, not the new one. They have VPN client applications for Windows and Mac, but they can add more useful features to better manage the devices and monitor the current health of each device. Such features would be helpful for our company."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate can be integrated with different platforms. They have integrations in place, but I can't say they're 100%."
"There should be an option for direct integration with the Azure platform."
"The disadvantage with Palo Alto is that they don't have a cloud-based solution that includes a secure web gateway."
"The reporting part of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Integrative capabilities with other solutions should be addressed."
"People are less aware of Palo Alto."
"We have run into some issues with scaling and limitations associated with some of the configurations."
"It would be helpful if we had a direct number for the support manager or the supporting engineer. That would be better than having to email every time because there would be less wait."
"The web interface is very slow, and it needs to be faster."
"They do not provide a few components that are fundamental to differentiate the products"
"Its technical support services could be better."
"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."
"Data Leak Prevention is only for web filtering and there is no protection for email."
"Because it's on cloud, it doesn't allow application of extra settings."
"The product could improve its integration with some legacy systems."
"Instead of the standard license, they should certainly provide customers with the visibility to access and view the logs."
"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."
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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