Authentic8 Silo vs. Zscaler Internet Access

One of the things that I like the most about using Authentic8 Silo is its security system, it is quite reliable and allows you to browse the internet without worrying that some type of information may be leaked. Currently, there are countless cyber dangers that endanger the integrity of your company, with the help of Authentic8 Silo it is much easier to determine which people may or may not have access to certain information.

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Zscaler Internet Access is an internet tunnel that pairs with the network adapter to secure traffic between servers and workstations. It can refresh policies automatically and log intrusions but does not broadcast intrusions. Cloud-based Zscaler Internet Access is easy to deploy and scale, with no hardware or software needed. In a hybrid model, Zscaler Internet Access performs some security functions on-premises and others in the cloud, allowing organizations to keep infrastructure. There is a slight learning curve from VPN and appliance architecture to this paradigm.

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• It seems incredible to me that you have web code stored on servers within a cloud.
• Silo is truly a cloud service, leveraging the expected capacity and performance of the cloud along with resiliency.

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• Automatically block the malicious content and websites
• Scans inbound and outbound network packets
• Has a proxy server through which all the network calls pass through
• We have customized Zscaler Internet Access to block websites like Netflix, Hotstar etc which can hinder producivity

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• For us who have adopted this product very easily, we have not found any fault with it because we can perform all our activities more efficiently and quickly with efficient use.

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• My personal opinion about Zscaler is their idea is that all the services are online and are moving to the cloud but the truth is some of them have to stay on-premise and employees still need to work from an office. Zscaler simply doesn't have any on-premise solutions like an NGFW to provide a complete package. We are supporting Fortinet NGFW for our on-premise solution.
• As mentioned earlier Zscaler being hosted online we don't get the full flexibility of managing our firewalls. Although it's a good thing we keep running into problems like when we want to allow list a service from a specific source IP Zscaler cannot provide a static IP for that. They route traffic through multiple IP addresses and the IP's keep changing every 15-20 minutes. So you cannot allow list a specific IP on the receiving end. The only way to move forward would be to allow an entire range of IP's which opens a security loophole on the receiving end.
• For every small thing we have to keep opening a ticket with Zscaler. Their response rate is fast but still in a fast-moving world it's not fast enough. Especially since we need to get approval from our change control to get something done and then again we have to raise a ticket to get something done from the Zscaler side.

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Zscaler is a mandatory solution required by almost every large organization with a workforce working remotely or using cloud-based apps. Its deployment is relatively easy and it keeps on working in the background without actively bothering the user. Apart from a few weird messages which a user is unable to comprehend, Zscaler is able to provide fast and safe access to the internet and other external applications.

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I cannot give a fair rating for this as I have not had to contact Zscaler support. There was one time we had to contact them because we needed to check if they were having issues on their end. Our ISP was actually the problem but support seemed very friendly.

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Zscaler Intenet Access proved to be superior and the difference for us was the speed of policy delivery since your policy is applied in a web console and is effective in a matter of seconds. Another point to congratulate the solution is its compatibility with different platforms (macOS, Linux, Windows, Android, and iOS).

• From my point of view, with this tool we have not found flaws in the product, so we can be very comfortable since the evaluation of vulnerabilities and the verification of block lists offer complete security beyond encryption.

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• ROI is there and it is safeguarding the data and user access to net.
• Being a cloud based can be scaled up when required.
• Third parties can be allowed based on the company IT policies (Clients or Vendors etc.) for business perspective.

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