Zscaler Alternatives

Zscaler is described as 'Consolidates your stacks of gateway security appliances into integrated, cloud-based security services. Since it’s security as a service, there’s no physical or virtual hardware to deploy or manage, so getting started is simple' and is an app in the network & admin category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Zscaler for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Self-Hosted and Web-based apps. The best Zscaler alternative is Pi-hole, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Zscaler are Privoxy, Squid, Polipo and dope.security.

Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard
Zscaler alternatives page was last updated

Alternatives list

  1. Pi-hole icon
     176 likes

    Blocks ads for all connected devices at the DNS layer without client setup. Provides web control, in-app ad and tracker blocking, DHCP and API support, regex filtering, privacy modes, audit logs, and long-term query analytics for network management.

    40 Pi-hole alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • CentOS
    • Fedora
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • Raspberry Pi OS
    • Raspberry Pi
     
  2. Privoxy icon
     60 likes

    Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk.

    57 Privoxy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. Squid icon
     59 likes

    Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator.

    24 Squid alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
  4. Polipo icon
     25 likes

    A small and fast caching web proxy (a web cache, an HTTP proxy, a proxy server). Polipo can be used in place of ad-filtering, privacy-enhancing proxies such as Junkbuster, Privoxy or WWWOFFLE. As Polipo has much more refined HTTP support, it doesnt impose the speed tax usually...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Your new Secure Web Gateway. No stopovers. No outages. That’s dope.security, the Fly-Direct SWG. URL filtering, SSL Inspection, Cloud App Controls, and more.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    |
    1
    Comments about dope.security as an Alternative to Zscaler
    kunala
    Positive
    0

    No backhauling of traffic (stopovers), all security done at endpoint - FLY DIRECT!

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    dope.security icon
    dope.security icon
    • dope.security is Paid and ProprietaryZscaler is also Paid and Proprietary
  6. Ad Muncher icon
     39 likes

    Ad Muncher is a powerful advert and popup blocking system for all browsers and advert-displaying programs like Pando, SopCast, ICQ, Morpheus, Kazaa, Grokster, Opera, PalTalk, iMesh, Bearshare, LimeWire, TVAnts.

    56 Ad Muncher alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. XplicitTrust icon
     1 like

    Seamless connectivity across existing network topologies. Zero Trust principles. Zero client configuration. Deployed in a few minutes. Single sign-on. Multi-Factor-Authentication. Passwordless. Precise access controls. Evaluate device security posture.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Online
    • Raspberry Pi
     
  8. Blocks all Ads (banners, popups, teasers) in Safari browser for iOS devices: iPhone, iPad, iPod

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  9. Formerly a commercial product, Yahoo! donated it to the Apache Foundation, and it is now an Apache TLP.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
     
  10. HTCD icon
     1 like

    HTCD provides CPR for your environment—instantaneous Compliance automation, Prioritization of security findings, and Remediation—crafted on-demand for your cloud.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
10 of 10 Zscaler alternatives