We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks WildFire and Zscaler Internet Access based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet and others in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)."It catches modified signatures of known viruses."
"I love the idea of Palo Alto Networks WildFire. It's more geared toward preventing malware. If someone's laptop or phone is malware-infected, the tool prevents it from uploading valuable corporate data outside the corporate network. That's what I love about Palo Alto Networks WildFire. It stops malware in its tracks."
"They have many different options with Palo Alto WildFire and the set-up is quick. If you have all the details in hand, it does not take more than 15 minutes to deploy a firewall."
"The cloud-based services are a nice feature."
"The technical support is good."
"The most valuable feature is the Automatic Verdict, to recognize whether something is a threat, or not."
"I like the analysis they apply to the unknown files, and I think they have good technology to use as a sandboxing tool. I didn't find something similar to WildFire in the marketplace."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten since we never faced any issues."
"The solution has reduced cyberattacks."
"We use ZIA for outbound internet connectivity. The internet traffic of on-prem users will be directed to the ZIA cloud for security checks and web filtering."
"Zscaler Web Security protects our users in remote locations from internet threats - even if they are not connected to our network."
"The solution is scalable and stable."
"The solution replaces multiple vendor technologies with one which makes it worth the cost."
"The URL filtering has been the most valuable feature."
"After a proper implementation, the maintenance is very low."
"The policies are very intuitive and easy to configure, with very little possibility of messing things up."
"The technical support response needs improvement."
"The support is good but they could be faster."
"The initial setup was complex."
"I would give this product a rating of 9 out of 10 due to some slight issues of performance."
"There are some formats that the solution cannot support ."
"The solution can improve its traffic management."
"It would be nice if there was an easier way to install and deploy it, such as through the inclusion of wizards."
"The size of Palo Alto's cloud is big but it could be easier to use from a product management perspective."
"Do not expect to pay for the service and start using it, like Gmail. Zscaler requires a proper implementation to be done to make it successful."
"Zscaler does not provide dedicated IPs to each customer. Hence, they share a pool of IPs provided by Zscaler. There is a chance of blacklisting these IPs. I also do not like the multi-management portal."
"Zscaler Internet Access can improve by adding traffic filtering based on the DNS."
"There are some performance issues when we add on additional controls."
"We'd like for them to include some sort of antivirus tool."
"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."
"Zscaler Internet Access's troubleshooting is very limited, and their textbook logs need to be more informative."
"The pricing is an issue. It is expensive if you have all of your users in the same location. It is expensive compared to other firewalls on the market."
Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews while Zscaler Internet Access is ranked 2nd in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 46 reviews. Palo Alto Networks WildFire is rated 8.4, while Zscaler Internet Access is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks WildFire writes "Good technical support and provides automatic analysis that saves us time in filtering email". 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 WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Proofpoint Email Protection and Trellix Network Detection and Response, whereas Zscaler Internet Access is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Netskope , Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks and Fortinet FortiGate.
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