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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    FireMon

    Score7.9 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    FireMon is a real-time security policy management solution built for today’s complex multi-vendor, enterprise environments. Supporting the latest firewall and policy enforcement technologies spanning on-premises networks to the cloud, FireMon delivers visibility and control across the entire IT landscape to automate policy changes, meet compliance standards, to minimize policy-related risk. Since creating their policy management solution in 2004, FireMon states they've helped…N/A

    Zscaler Data Security

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AZscaler Data Security is a cloud-delivered platform built to safeguard an organization's sensitive data. It locates sensitive data, understands its risk exposure, and secures sensitive data across the web, email, workloads, private apps, and BYOD endpoints.N/A
    Pricing
    FireMonZscaler Data Security
    Editions & Modules
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    FireMonZscaler Data Security
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    FireMonZscaler Data Security
    Considered Both Products
    FireMon
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
    16 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
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    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    17 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    13 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    94%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    FireMonZscaler Data Security
    Data Preparation
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    Zscaler Data Security
    7.7
    13 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    FireMonZscaler Data Security
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.9
    (69 ratings)
    7.9
    (19 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.8
    (7 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    7.5
    (19 ratings)
    Availability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    7.7
    (17 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Product Scalability
    7.9
    (48 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    FireMonZscaler Data Security
    Likelihood to Recommend
    FireMon
    FireMon is best used in a large environment (for example, I have >100
    firewalls in my environment). It's best used when trying to improve
    security posture and showing changes in firewall security over time. It
    might not be the best choice for smaller environments or those that aren't concerned about security management.
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    Zscaler
    Great for network DLP, web, and endpoint monitoring. DSPM data discovery works well for key structured and unstructured data sources. An area for improvement is simplifying the interface into a single pane for reviewing incidents and making it part of the tooling, rather than a separate module with a fee (incident receiver).
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    Pros
    FireMon
    • Give good real time reporting for anyone making a change to any of our firewalls
    • Provides good reporting tools that are out of box
    • Provide good customization tools that is specific to our needs
    • Upgrades are a simple process and support does relatively well with assisting us.
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    Zscaler
    • If the policy is set correctly, it identifies DLP (Data Loss Prevention).
    • Scanning zip files to find executables works really well.
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    Cons
    FireMon
    • Some features could be added to the existing functionality which include NAT rules usage
    • Rule expiration normalization from firewalls rather than entering them in rule documentation
    • .csv exports of the files from the firewall pane only gives usage for 30 days by default and that should be increased
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    Zscaler
    • The DLP dictionary functions need to be expanded upon, such as matching all regex patterns with any phrases and vice versa. The only way to do this today is to create two dictionaries and then use an engine to combine them; however, this approach loses the ability to utilize proximity.
    • Regex does not support lookaheads.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    FireMon
    The shell is locked out and we can't run any general centos commands. The implementation and maintainence of the arch is very complex. Even with the right identifiers on log messages the log collection keeps failing. The warning messages on the device are ambiguous. The log messages on firemon are a bit confusing and don't show the exact issue.
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    Zscaler
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    Usability
    FireMon
    It save me time and I'm able to have the review - review the rule independently with using my time.
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    Zscaler
    Zscaler Data Protection is a complete solution for protecting your valuable data. No matter whether the data resides at your on-prem, cloud, or any workload or at the data center, Zscaler has a foolproof mechanism to protect it at any cost with zero tolerance. Also, Zscaler Data Protection has a perfect UI for deploying, managing, and maintaining our different kinds of environments. (e.g., On-Prem or Hybrid).
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    Reliability and Availability
    FireMon
    FireMon has been relatively stable overall. However, there have been a handful of times where we had issues with the console. For example, we couldn't update which devices to include in a security assessment. The initial suggestion from support was to just reboot it. It seems like there weren't many other options available such as to restart services before going to the extreme of a complete reboot.
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    Zscaler
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    Performance
    FireMon
    I'm not sure we have the largest implementation of FireMon out there but we do have a few 1000 devices being probed by FireMon. Overall, the system's performance has been rock solid. The console refreshes quickly and reports are generated within an expected timeframe.
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    Zscaler
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    Support Rating
    FireMon
    FireMon technical support is awesome! They respond quickly to our requests and they are well trained and very knowledgeable about the tool. Some issues have to be referred to the development team, but technical support largely provides solutions for any issues that we may have.
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    Zscaler
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    Implementation Rating
    FireMon
    Implementation is fairly simple. Most issues can be resolved by referencing manuals.
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    Zscaler
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    Alternatives Considered
    FireMon
    I has worked with AlgoSec and while they are very similar product, I find the FireMon is easier to understand and get rolling with. While both require some learning, FireMon is by far the easier one. Once you have an understanding of how things are arranged and labeled you can easily import firewalls and begin to work on them to improve them
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    Zscaler
    Thought about deploying zero trust cloud within our environment, but we are still in the early stages of our digital transformation projects. Still evaluating current options, but we knew Zscaler Data Security took a strict approach to data, so that's what we wanted to evaluate.
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    Scalability
    FireMon
    Firemon Is easily scalable and maintainable with any size team. Although it requires some tech debt, it is well worth the time to invest to ensure compliance is visible and reports are accurate. Although our environment is very large we do not fully utilize the scalability of the Firemon product.
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    Zscaler
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    Return on Investment
    FireMon
    • FireMon's Compliance Reporting provided an immediate and tangible benefit
    • FireMon helps identify egregious or erroneous rules quickly across multiple platforms
    • FireMon took our audit process from an Excel spreadsheet into a far more advanced process with readily available context for reviewers
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    Zscaler
    • It has had a positive impact on protection of intellectual property
    • It had a negative impact on us as tenant to tenant connectivity needs to get better.
    • Positive news in how it integrates with our identity provider
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