FortiGate NGFW vs Zscaler: What are the differences?

What is FortiGate NGFW? Enable security-driven networking and consolidate industry-leading security. It enables security-driven networking and consolidate industry-leading security capabilities such as intrusion prevention system (IPS), web filtering, secure sockets layer (SSL) inspection, and automated threat protection. It meet the performance needs of highly scalable, hybrid IT architectures, enabling organizations to reduce complexity and manage security risks.

What is Zscaler? Secure, simplify and transform IT with cloud security platform. It is a global cloud-based information security company that provides Internet security, web security, firewalls, sandboxing, SSL inspection, antivirus, vulnerability management and granular control of user activity in cloud computing, mobile and Internet of things environments.

FortiGate NGFW and Zscaler can be categorized as "Security" tools.

Some of the features offered by FortiGate NGFW are:

• Remove uncontrolled blind spots with SSL inspection of all encrypted flows, including TLS 1.3
• Industry’s best-of-breed security with automated threat protection
• Intelligently share threat information across the entire digital attack surface to provide quick and automated protection

On the other hand, Zscaler provides the following key features:

• Internet security
• Web security
• Firewalls