We performed a comparison between Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks and Zscaler CASB based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The protection offered by the product is the most valuable feature. It detects vulnerabilities or traps on our users' phones and then prompts them to clean up their devices. Tools we used previously would only discover, which required us to gather information on the backend, so Lookout is a welcome upgrade."
"The solution is stable."
"On the outside, the main differentiation is because Lookout ingest. They have ingested basically all of the apps for the last ten years and all the versions of all the apps, and we have that in a corporate database that allows us to do very large-scale machine learning and analysis on that data set. That's not something that any of the competitors really have the capability to do because they don't have access to the data set. A lot of the apps you can no longer get them because that version of the app is five or six years old, and it just doesn't exist anywhere anymore, except within our infrastructure. So, the ability to have that very rich dataset and learn from that dataset is a real differentiator."
"The most valuable features are the antivirus as a whole, the anti-malware, and all of the protection features that scan our enterprise devices."
"Palo Alto Firewall is one of the best firewalls in the world."
"There is a system for monitoring the traffic. You can monitor the traffic of the connected people and point out any issues on the connection part."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to change the gateway. For example, if there's a problem with a specific region or vendor, we can make modifications. The solution is scalable, and there are different gateways that can be created depending on the demand."
"Its frontend is user-friendly. It is easy to use for us."
"Prisma SaaS is very easy to use; it's common sense — it's the best-in-class."
"The tool's consolidation is pretty quick."
"You have the ability to create your own expressions for your data. Palo Alto understands that DLP is not the same for all consumers. You might have a particular need to fulfill, and they give you the opportunity to create a custom expression to match the specific format that you have. For a confidential file property that you have in your files, you can add a metadata field. It gives you that opportunity to create that."
"The scalability of the solution is excellent."
"It has been helpful in maintaining our infrastructure. The granular level control it offers allows us to set application policies per application for each user."
"The tool's scalability is good."
"Zscaler CASB's latency and architecture are excellent."
"Has a good zero trust feature."
"Overall, the solution does a pretty good job at web filtering."
"The most valuable features of Zscaler CASB are API integration and DLP."
"The stability depends on the service from where you access it. Because sometimes, the place you are in, you have Gateway. You don't have Gateway. The gateway is overutilized. At the end, you need to go through their gateways. And this is the key point here. You have a tracking point. If it's not well orchestrated, and it scales up as you add more to the existing team, you will suffer"
"We just submitted an enhancement request reflecting the main area we want to see improvement in; the APIs. Currently, we're able to build dashboards, but it's somewhat backward because we use our MDM API to create them. Lookout should provide API to customers so we can query our data and use it in our cloud, and this is the only outstanding area for improvement with the product right now."
"Lookout was moving into the SSE space. And so their work on SecureWeb Gateway and SD-WAN is still sort of evolving."
"From the analysis that we've done, they do seem to be maybe a step behind in trying to enter the market with a new solution. But when they do pick up, they do come out with some good products."
"Lacks a hybrid model which has API plus in-line security."
"The BGP filtering options on Prisma Access should be improved."
"Better integration with the MDM solution would be useful."
"They automatically update and they should give us time to fully understand what they're updating so that we can make sure it doesn't impact production."
"When we deploy firewall rules via Panorama, we find it's a little bit slow. We have a global environment and might have 100 gateways or VPNs in the cloud. When we deploy something, it tries to deploy it one-by-one, and that can be slow."
"I haven't seen any SD-WAN configuration capability. If Prisma Access would support SD-WAN, that would help... SD-WAN devices should be able to reach Prisma Access, and Palo Alto should support different, vendor-specific devices, not just Palo Alto devices, for SD-WAN configuration."
"While Palo Alto has understood the essence of building capabilities around cloud technology and have come up with a CASB offering, that is a very new product. There are other companies that have better offerings for understanding cloud applications and have more graceful controls. That's something that Palo Alto needs to work on."
"I would like to see support for custom applications."
"It needs to offer SSO, single sign-on, and items of that nature."
"User management can be improved."
"Zscaler CASB breaks down at times."
"Zscaler CASB should include integrations with other SaaS applications."
"The pre-defined dictionaries could be improved."
"The solution's granularity should be improved because it has limited granular options to control, visible, allow, block, delay, and receive."
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Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks is ranked 3rd in Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) with 58 reviews while Zscaler CASB is ranked 9th in Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) with 6 reviews. Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks is rated 8.2, while Zscaler CASB is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks writes "Integration with Palo Alto platforms such as Cortex Data Lake and Autofocus gives us visibility into our attack surface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler CASB writes "A stable solution that provides API integration and DLP, but lacks integrations with other SaaS applications". Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks is most compared with Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, Netskope , Cisco Umbrella, Zscaler Internet Access and Prisma SD-WAN, whereas Zscaler CASB is most compared with Skyhigh Security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, ThreatLocker Elevation Control, Cisco Umbrella and Ivanti Application Control. See our Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks vs. Zscaler CASB report.
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