# Cloudflare vs Zscaler vs Palo Alto Prisma Access for cloud edge security: which is worth the migration effort for a company consolidating vendors?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">When the goal is consolidating vendors, the migration question is less about which platform is strongest in isolation and more about which one absorbs the most of your existing stack with the least disruption. These picks are from the <a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-edge-security">Cloud Edge Security</a> category, with each product's G2 rating alongside. I have included one additional consolidation-oriented option beyond the three named in the question.</p><ul>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/prisma-access/reviews"><strong>Prisma Access</strong></a> (4.3 stars, 73 reviews) draws consistent praise from reviewers for pulling next-gen firewall, secure web gateway, ZTNA, and threat prevention into a single cloud-delivered service, and reviewers at large multinational operations report that it has consolidated the most for them. The recurring caveat is that the setup is complex, and reviewers point to vendor lock-in and bandwidth-based licensing to plan for.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/cato-networks-cato-sase-cloud/reviews"><strong>Cato SASE Cloud</strong></a> (4.5 stars, 83 reviews) is described by reviewers as purpose-built for exactly this problem, folding SD-WAN, firewall-as-a-service, SWG, CASB, and ZTNA into one console and removing the "swivel-chair" troubleshooting across separate boxes. Reviewers note that migrating off legacy appliances still requires planning and that its bandwidth-tier licensing can get complex.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/zscaler-private-access/reviews"><strong>Zscaler Private Access</strong></a> (4.4 stars, 137 reviews) is more narrowly a VPN replacement than a full edge suite, so reviewers value it most for zero-trust, app-level access that hides internal apps from the internet. A common theme is that policy configuration takes time to get right when moving from a traditional VPN.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/cloudflare-one-sase/reviews"><strong>Cloudflare One (SASE)</strong></a> (4.6 stars, 105 reviews) runs everything on Cloudflare's global network, and reviewers like that zero-trust access, DNS filtering, and threat protection are all in one dashboard, with fast performance. Reviewers note that some features feel newer and less mature than those of long-established competitors.</li>
</ul><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">What is driving your consolidation, cost, headcount, or audit simplicity? And for anyone who migrated off a legacy VPN to one of these, how long did the cutover actually take?</p>

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## Comments
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Migration lift aside, the review data is pretty consistent on where the friction actually shows up: reviewers on Prisma Access flag vendor lock-in and complex licensing, ZPA reviewers call out policy configuration as the slow part of moving off a VPN, and Cloudflare One reviewers note some features still feel newer than the incumbents&#39;. That tracks with what I&#39;d expect: the edge/SASE layer swap is usually the easier part, it&#39;s the policy migration inside ZTNA that eats the timeline.

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