A Zscaler
Competitor
Make the switch from Zscaler ZIA to dope.swg.
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Weaknesses of Zscaler
Complicated Deployments
Zscaler deployments are not simple, especially for the customer that needs to get up and running quickly and seamlessly. They claim it’s great for large enterprise (with deep pockets), but what about everyone else?
dope.swg prioritizes customers of all sizes and industries. Whether you have 100 employees or 100,000, deploying dope.swg is 100% self-driven in a few easy steps.
Outdated User Interface
Zscaler has an outdated user interface that is complicated and filled with mega menus upon jumbo menus of options. Not to mention its not single-console.
dope.swg fully considers the admin experience — your experience. Every click, button, and menu placed intentionally with 100ms “real-time” feedback. Security should be simple, fast, and beautiful.
Not Fit For Remote
Zscaler is not remote friendly. In today’s day and age, users are now all over the world, and are subject to performance degradation due to forced stopover data centers. And they face even more challenges in proxy restricted countries.
dope.swg does not rely on data centers. This allows us to work consistently in every country and network. Never worry about data center degradations again.
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HOW ZSCALER WORKS
Zscaler Architecture
Zscaler’s secure web gateway is part of their Zero Trust Exchange (what does that even mean?) and sits between users and the internet where it terminates, inspects, and applies policy to connections. They claim this has its benefits as part of Zero Trust, but just think about it for a second. Transactions from A to B are being re-routed through a stopover for inspection. Your data is stopped in its tracks, decrypted, and inspected outside of the safety of your device.
Zscaler Performance
These stopovers result in massive performance degradations. Your data could be re-routed across the country, slowing down your requests on the daily. And if your primary data center goes down, then you’re potentially routed to a data center in a whole other country — or one that is now bottlenecked with everyone else who’s also affected by the outage — leading to a poor performing SWG.
Zscaler Reporting
Connection interceptions, data center outages... maybe the UX and reporting are great? Unfortunately not. Zscaler struggles when it comes to reporting and visualizations. It’s more or less a mega list of different tables and pie charts. It’s not helpful for the modern admin.
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DOES ZSCALER SUPPORT HTTP2?
Until the 6.2 release they downgraded you to HTTP/1.1 because they felt “HTTP/2.0 is purely a web acceleration protocol (not security), so it should be viewed in the broader context of user experience throughout the platform.” In other words, they didn’t prioritize user experience.
dope.swg is HTTP/2 always, because speed is part of the user experience.
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DS COMPARED TO ZSCALER
SSO Enabled Instant Trial
Mac native
Single Console
Auto-update
URL Filtering
anti-Malware
Cloud app controls
No datacenter reliance
HTTP2
Local SSL Inspection & Policy Enforcement
Soaring Reviews
dope.security cares deeply about design and user experience in a way that is unique to the security industry. Its first goal when creating a product is simplicity — the simplicity of architecture, purchasing, deployment and management.”
dope.security completely changed the game for us. Using dope.swg to upgrade endpoint security is remarkably easy, and moving from initial trial to full deployment was quick and self-service. Now, the Internet runs as designed and our team can spend time innovating, rather than trying to make a legacy SWG work.”
dope.security’s fly-direct approach is exactly what the SWG market needs. Legacy solutions are too complex and slow down every company that uses the Internet. By eliminating the stopover with a product-led growth (PLG) motion, dope.security is a true game changer.”
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