We performed a comparison between SonicWall TZ 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."The UTM feature is quite good. FortiAP is easy to deploy because both Fortigate and FortiAP are under the same brand. Otherwise, you need to do more work on the configuration."
"The most valuable feature is the FortiManager for centralized management."
"Fortinet FortiGate is stable. It's used across all the countries, this is the way most multinationals run their system."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"Its user interface is good, and it is always working fine."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is Quota."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"I've found the technical support to be helpful."
"I have found this solution to be easier to use when compared to other products, such as those offered by Cisco."
"The product’s filtering and URL-blocking features are valuable."
"Access restriction and IP whitelisting are the most valuable features."
"The most common feature in the firewall, apart from that traditional firewall, would be the security services, like application control, URL filtering, Gateway Anti-Virus, and IPS protection. These are the essential features in the firewalls which I think, has to be enabled and properly used at every network infrastructure."
"User-friendly firewall solution which scales well, is stable, and has high availability."
"The stability is very nice."
"Technical support is good."
"Zscaler Internet Access's roaming user feature is most valuable and is much better compared to other secure web gateways."
"The solution’s customer service is good."
"After a proper implementation, the maintenance is very low."
"The solution offers a distributed organization to master and to control all of the endpoints."
"For our needs, the cloud-native proxy architecture is a very good solution. We are moving away from on-prem appliances and moving more toward cloud-based solutions. Zscaler is a good fit for our strategy. This architecture helps with cyber threats because we inspect most of the traffic and we can see that a lot of threats are stopped directly in the secure web gateway."
"The VPN is valuable, as the whole technology is very different from a traditional VPN."
"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."
"We enjoy all of the proxy capabilities and the capability to integrate into the SIEM/SOC solution."
"Improvement is needed in the Web Filter quotas to restrict users with allocated quotas."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution. However, my issue is the performance only. When I use all the profiles, this affects the performance. From the beginning, I should have had a better sizing of the box."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"Getting support can be slow."
"The technology in this particular version is very old."
"An additional feature that I would like to see is reporting that includes metrics to give me more information about the number of viruses that it has actually detected and interrupted."
"There is a point I don't like about SonicWall in the past and now. Most of the destinations we look at when we're detecting some user using too much bandwidth or something like that, SonicWall just gave us destination IP address, instead of the full qualified domain name. I think that's the most important part that is still missing. I think that's the most important for us."
"The monitoring is a little bit confusing."
"The user support could be improved because you have to go outside to get that kind of support."
"Although the pricing is good, it could always be lower. If we get to pay less, we're happier."
"We would like to improve the rules configuration in SonicWall TZ. Sometimes the rules don't work."
"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."
"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."
"In terms of user experience, it could be better."
"If they can also integrate with the multi-factor authentication to prompt users to do another, second-factor authentication, that would be ideal."
"It also needs better integration with other applications as well. There are some restrictions."
"Sometimes it's not easy to use during large deployments of workstations."
"Zscaler should continue to make the user interface better. They should also improve the backup network and continue to expand it so that it can handle larger numbers of customers."
"They could provide more time for the onboarding the training of an IT person."
SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews while Zscaler Internet Access is ranked 2nd in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 46 reviews. SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0, while Zscaler Internet Access is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SonicWall TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Internet Access writes "Provides integrated CASB and file sandboxing but could be less expensive ". SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and WatchGuard Firebox, 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 TZ vs. Zscaler Internet Access report.
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