We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks WildFire and Sophos UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, ESET and others in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)."The backup is the best feature."
"The most valuable features of the solution are user-friendliness, price, good security, and cloud-related options."
"The solution has plenty of features."
"Their technical support is outstanding and top-notch."
"My primary use case for this solution is for a secure gateway."
"Being an application-based firewall, this is one of the critical focus factors along with the threat prevention services it provides."
"The analysis is very fast."
"Scalable ATP solution that's quick to set up. It demonstrates good performance and stability."
"It is a stable product... I rate the solution's technical support a nine out of ten...The initial setup is quite easy because they have all the information on their website."
"Good basic firewall functions with advanced firewall scanning."
"The scalability is good."
"The solution is easy to handle and configure."
"What I like about Sophos UTM is that it improves my company's security. The solution is easy to set up, which I like, and it's very stable."
"It allows our developers to be able to securely log into servers to deploy and manage software."
"We've found the technical support to be helpful."
"Sophos is a unified solution. We have anti-virus protection, firewall rules, knotting, and DACC all in one box."
"When you contact support, there is no guarantee that they will be available to help you tackle the issue that you are facing."
"I don't think it needs to improve anything, except maybe the speed to deploy the changes."
"Our main concern is that everything has to be synced with the WildFire Cloud and has to be checked through the subscription."
"The price could be better."
"The only problem with this solution is the cost. It's expensive."
"It's not really their problem, it's a problem across the board. There will always be problems with interrupted traffic. We have to set it up where we're playing a middle man game where we're stripping it out, looking at it, and then putting it back together and sending it on its way. That requires CPU cycles. And there's some overhead with that."
"The solution can improve its traffic management."
"The product fails to offer protection when dealing with high-severity vulnerabilities, making it an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Sophos UTM could improve the way the configuration has to be done. I have to do the configuration through the command line interface but if it could be done through the graphical user interface it would be much better."
"I would like them to move from the Classic Load Balancer to the Network Load Balancer. This would make it easier to do certain things with Amazon. They are able to do some enhancements with Network Load Balancer that they are unable to do with Classic Load Balancer."
"The interface configuration could be improved."
"The scalability of the product is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The reporting system needs to allow for customizations because many reports do not include details that we expect."
"Sophos customer support could use some improvement."
"The lack of import/export functions for network and service options drives me mad."
"The solution needs to do better at covering mobile devices, although they may have an integrated solution for that purpose."
Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Palo Alto Networks WildFire is rated 8.4, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks WildFire writes "Good technical support and provides automatic analysis that saves us time in filtering email". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Proofpoint Email Protection and Fortinet FortiSandbox, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Fortinet FortiGate, Sophos XG, OPNsense and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls.
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