We performed a comparison between SonicWall NSa 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."It's inexpensive compared to some of the other technology out there."
"It is very flexible to use."
"It's very easy to set up, it's very easy to make policies and, for an organization, that means you don't need IT expert in firewalls. You just need to have somebody who knows a little bit of IT, and that's it. With other products, you need someone with a "Masters" degree in firewalls."
"The performance is good."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"Initial setup is straightforward. There weren't too many issues with setting it up. It takes one hour or so."
"A strong point of FortiGate is the graphical interface is complete and easy to use."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"The product is simple to manage."
"One of the main features is the built-in storage capacity."
"User-friendly with good security and application control."
"Deep packet inspection and intelligent application control are the most valuable features. It is a very updated solution. It is very current as compared to other brands and vendors."
"Content filtering reduces the load on the available bandwidth and restricts employees from using distracting websites on the job, which leads to more productive hours."
"SonicWall NS has a lot of valuable features. One of the best SonicWall NSa features is the ability to collect mini routers and get only one user connection."
"The product blocks access when I visit unrecognized websites."
"The antivirus and items of that nature were quite helpful to have."
"In terms of management and visibility, there is a single panel where you can configure the policies for your entire organisation worldwide."
"The users are at different locations, and Zscaler helps us to put the organization's central security controls on these roaming users."
"Zscaler Internet Access's best feature is the granular policy controls."
"The most valuable feature of Zscaler Internet Access is that it is a consolidated solution, it comes with many features, such as DLP."
"SSL inspection is a valuable feature."
"The protection is most valuable."
"The solution’s customer service is good."
"The cloud proxy and integration are some of the key features. Since there is cloud waste, we can quickly provision it and start working on the configuration. On top of that, they have added a few more features. They have integrated CASB, and file sandboxing is part of it."
"There are mainly two areas of improvement in Fortinet FortiGate— the licensing cost and the timing of upgrading licenses for boxes."
"The room for improvement is about the global delivery time period. Usually I need to wait for almost one month to deliver it overseas. So if you can shorten the deliver time it'd be great."
"The support we receive when we need to upgrade is not satisfactory and has room for improvement."
"Its reporting and pricing need improvement."
"The improvement is related to logs. Instead of the CLI, we should be able to have more insights into the logs of the firewall in the GUI."
"In the next release, maybe the documentation on how to use this solution could be improved."
"Compared to some other products, the DLP is not at par for the moment."
"We were not able to build a full-mesh VPN; however, I am not sure if this was the fault of Fortinet FortiGate."
"We still get phishing emails that manage to come through from time to time."
"Port forwarding could use streamlining."
"The content ID needs to be improved."
"There are a few areas that need improvement including the VPN, user management, and reporting."
"SonicWall does not support DynDNS, yet this is an important feature for smaller companies that do not have a static IP address."
"The implementation for VLANs is a little bit cumbersome. It would be good to make that a little bit easier."
"The features I would like to see improve are the dashboard and the UI."
"We're not particularly fond of the way it generally performs. We are finding ourselves rebooting often. There are freeze-ups and that kind of thing. The stability needs to improve exponentially."
"They should enhance the audit reporting feature."
"The price of the solution could be improved."
"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."
"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 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."
"Currently, the solution's interface is not that user-friendly."
"The solution is expensive. They recently revised the pricing and packaging. Some of our existing customers have been asking for alternate solutions for a lower price."
"I don't know whether it's Zscaler or not, however, sometimes I can't access my time management. I need to wait and try again a few hours later. Typically, if I let some time pass, I can access it again."
SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 reviews while Zscaler Internet Access is ranked 2nd in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 47 reviews. SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8, while Zscaler Internet Access is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Internet Access writes "Provides integrated CASB and file sandboxing but could be less expensive ". SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense, 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 NSa vs. Zscaler Internet Access report.
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