We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate-VM 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 email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"The web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"The CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"Fortinet FortiGate is user-friendly and affordable."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"The response is very quick and they can visually resolve our problems in a short period."
"Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"The most valuable feature is the UTM, which gives them an advantage over other firewalls."
"It gives all the features of a full-fledged firewall with great performance."
"I rate the tool's stability a ten out of ten."
"It offers the same robust features and functionality in virtual, on-premise, and traditional data center environments."
"The most valuable feature is the WAN optimization."
"The most valuable features are network security, VLAN, network protection, and encryption are very valuable to us."
"The most valuable feature is geofencing, where we can block all access from all non-domestic locations."
"The reporting is good."
"The solution offers good sandboxing."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The product’s firewall and VPN package are fantastic compared to any other solution."
"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."
"It helps a lot of companies to reduce their downtime. Also, It helps businesses in terms of being secured and protected from any threats."
"Most of the features that Zscaler has to offer, we will deploy."
"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."
"It is a stable solution."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"In some cases, its initial setup could be hard for customers."
"The way everything is set up could be easier. Currently, people need a lot of experience and knowledge to administer it and to link it to devices."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"The license renewal process, annual renewal price, and the web application firewall features should be improved."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"FortiLink is the interface on the firewall that allows you to extend switch management across all of your switches in the network. The problem with it is that you can't use multiple interfaces unless you set them up in a lag. Only then you can run them. So, it forces you to use a core type of switch to propagate that management out to the rest of the switches, and then it is running the case at 200. It leaves you with 18 ports on the firewall because it is also a layer-three router that could also be used as a switch, but as soon as you do that, you can't really use them. They could do a little bit more clean up in the way the stacking interface works. Some use cases and the documentation on the FortiLink checking interface are a little outdated. I can find stuff on version 5 or more, but it is hard to find information on some of the newer firmware. The biggest thing I would like to see is some improvement in the switch management feature. I would like to be able to relegate some of the ports, which are on the firewall itself, to act as a switch to take advantage of those ports. Some of these firewalls have clarity ports on them. If I can use those, it would mean that I need to buy two less switches, which saves time. I get why they don't, but I would still like to see it because it would save a little bit of space in the server rack."
"Cisco Meraki products are rising very quickly in the cloud and the connected era. Meraki products offer much better ROI, upgradability, and manageability."
"In the next releases, it would be nice to see central cloud management."
"It needs an Application Inspection."
"Their offering for MFA isn't the cleanest."
"The block, the clarity, the quarantine command, is not very user-friendly. You would have to do everything through the command line and I would have preferred if it wasn't a CLI."
"We face some issues with the IPsec connection during replication."
"Sizing can be challenging for customers interested in using Fortinet FortiGate-VM."
"The performance could be better. Some features need to have quality control when the switch is working. The dedicated bandwidth for some users is not reliable."
"Deployment can be difficult and they could dispense with reliance on FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer."
"Certain criteria need to be met if you want to scale this solution."
"Its technical support services could be better."
"Data Leak Prevention is only for web filtering and there is no protection for email."
"They do not provide a few components that are fundamental to differentiate the products"
"Because it's on cloud, it doesn't allow application of extra settings."
"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."
"When it comes to customer support, there is room for improvement in Zscaler's service."
Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is ranked 23rd in Firewalls with 15 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4, while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate-VM writes "An easy-to-manage and configure tool that provides ample documentation to help with the setup phase". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Cloud Firewall writes "A highly stable and comprehensive cloud security and access solution". Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense and Cisco Secure 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 Fortinet FortiGate-VM vs. Zscaler Cloud Firewall report.
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