Forescout vs Zscaler Internet Access

Likelihood to Recommend

ForeScout CounterACT is well suited for a company looking to strengthen their network security. It has allowed us to be confident that there is not a rogue device connecting directly into our network to gain access to company information. It may not be suitable to a company with a small IT department as it does require time up front to initially configure and on an on-going basis to manage.

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Professional in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 201-500 employees

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[Zscaler Internet Access] is very well suited for scenarios where one is looking for hassle free internet and network connection. It ensures that your users can connect to any networks and they will be secure. Additional plus is ability to deploy Zscaler client to your company smartphones - this gives complete network protection. We only encounter a few issues with Zscaler Internet Access (mainly false-positives) but these were promptly resolve by the vendor.

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Wojciech Poludniewski

Chief Information Officer

Polcom GroupConstruction, 501-1000 employees

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Pros

Great in monitoring what applications versions are running and on what devices.
Good identification of unmanaged devices and segregating them.
Endpoint visibility.

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Shirleen Muraya

Branch Manager

SunTrust Robinson HumphreyInvestment Banking, 1001-5000 employees

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Zscaler completely moved away from the traditional firewall setup to a hosted firewall solution. We don't have to worry about the hardware failing or maintaining it as part of our service plan compared to our on-premise firewall. Zscaler has a lot of data centres across the world where they are maintaining their solutions so mobile consultants will always be close to one of their data centres.
Rolling out Zscaler solutions to our end customers' computers is actually pretty easy and hassle-free. As part of onboarding of new employees we can set up the Zscaler solution and push it to our end users' machines and get them connected to the cloud solutions.
Zscaler does proper market research on the latest emerging threats and they keep their firewall patched and updated to the latest versions so the security team does not have to worry about keeping the firewall updated.

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Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology

Computer & Network Security Company, 11-50 employees

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Cons

More demos and training for newer versions released.
Can be quite complex in building of policy due to policies being complicated.
More interactive GUI would be helpful.

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Candy Joey

Product Engineer

Micron TechnologySemiconductors, 10,001+ employees

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Chat or email support is not available. Only option is to either call them or raise a ticket by logging into their website.
Pricing is not transparent and quote based.
Access to websites is a little too slow with Zscaler monitoring on.

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Raman Ahuja

Associate Consultant

Tata Consultancy ServicesInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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Zscaler Internet Access 9.0

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The overall conclusion of the review is good. Zscalar have some limitations which will surely resolved in the updates provided by company from time to time. The best part is that it doesnt reduce the speed of internet.

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Jai Soni

Manager Key Accounts- International Business

Dabur India LimitedImport & Export, 5001-10,000 employees

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Usability

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Zscaler Internet Access 9.0

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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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Raman Ahuja

Associate Consultant

Tata Consultancy ServicesInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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Support Rating

Forescout 8.0

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They are prompt in their response with a complete resolution once they have identified the problem. Other OEM's generally give stop-gap arrangements and then later come with new upgrade versions. This gives downtime tasks to customers often, which isn't appreciated. Given the criticality of this software, their support is prompt.

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Harmesh Trivedi

Project Lead

Doyen InfosolutionsInformation Technology & Services, 201-500 employees

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Zscaler Internet Access 8.1

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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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Cody Plassmeyer

IT Network Specialist

Central Electric Power CooperativeUtilities, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Forescout Platform (CounterACT) is capable to perform intelligent device classifications which able to group and segmentize the assets effectively. Besides, the classification techniques can be customized according to the organization requirements. With agentless deployment, any new or unused inventory can be managed easily. Overall interface is quite user-friendly and able to simplify the administration tasks.

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Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology

1001-5000 employees

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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).

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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Return on Investment

We've managed to automate our cybersecurity to impressive extents, now the IT security team puts focus on more important things.
We've attained successful assets risk mitigation for our clients.

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Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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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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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ employees

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Forescout vs Zscaler Internet Access

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Zscaler Internet Access

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Zscaler Internet Access

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Free Trial

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Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

Likelihood to Renew

Usability

Support Rating

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