We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Sophos XGS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"FortiGate is flexible and easy to use."
"The response is very quick and they can visually resolve our problems in a short period."
"Our security improved from being able to put in rules and close off unwanted traffic."
"The management console is pretty simple, so anyone who understands networking can initially deploy the solution."
"The most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control."
"This product is definitely scalable."
"Initial setup is straightforward. There weren't too many issues with setting it up. It takes one hour or so."
"There are many valuable features within the solution. This includes security, a user-friendly firewall, antivirus, and global protection."
"IoT security is most valuable in the current version. Content IDs, DDoS protection, zone protection, and DLP are the most prominent features in Palo Alto Networks NG Firewall. It is easier to configure than other solutions."
"It's a next-generation firewall and it's pretty stable. You don't have to worry about if you restart it for some maintenance. It will just come back."
"The best feature is the packet inspection; compared to solutions like Cisco and FortiGate, Palo Alto's packet inspection is much less CPU intensive, allowing it to detect threats embedded within packages more quickly and efficiently."
"The Unified Threat Management (UTM) module, which consists of the basic firewall and IPS services, is what the majority of our customers use in Palo Alto Firewall."
"From my experience, comparing it to other products, the granularity you can have in the application is very good. The application detection is excellent. It's certainly one of the best."
"Application control, IPS, and sandboxing towards the cloud are the most valuable features. It is a very user-friendly product with a very easy-to-use interface."
"The performance of Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is the most valuable feature."
"It's much faster than the previous firewall, so you can do the work faster."
"Sophos XGS's best features are its VPN and ATPR1 cert protection."
"The most valuable features in Sophos XGS are bandwidth management, content filtering, and WAN link management failover. If one internet activity or one link would fail, automatically it will switch over to another one."
"The solution is very user-friendly, and the GUI is so good that I don't have to use the CLI. This eliminates the need for typing; clicking allows me to get to what I'm looking for."
"The product was easy for us to install."
"The solution is easy to use and configure, once you know how to apply the policies."
"The initial setup is very simple."
"The most valuable features of Sophos XGS are the ease of use and powerful interface."
"There can be more security in hybrid implementations. When a customer has a hybrid environment where some parts are in the cloud, we need a consistent security solution for such scenarios."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"Backup can be improved."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"The support we receive when we need to upgrade is not satisfactory and has room for improvement."
"Palo Alto can do a little bit better when it comes to the User-ID part. I've been facing problems related to double authentication. You have a computer user, but you also have a VPN user, and when you do a single sign-on to another page, these logs can sometimes generate a problem notification. It doesn't happen a lot, but in some networks, it could be a problem. It would be very helpful to have the ability to restrict the connections that you can have in your VPN. For example, if you have the credentials, you can connect with the same user account from different computers or devices. If you have the domain information, you can connect from different devices. That's a problem that they need to address and resolve. They should ensure that at any moment, only one person is connected through a specific user account."
"Generating reports is not so easy."
"The solution is not straightforward."
"People sometimes find it more expensive as compared to other solutions. There are also fewer training opportunities for Palo Alto than Cisco and other vendors."
"Most other VPN clients include mobile VPNs but Palo Alto does not."
"The first level of support will usually do nothing for you. If you're an IT company, you're not looking for level one support. You need to escalate. Other vendors have a direct support line for enterprise clients, but not Palo Alto."
"It's too expensive."
"The SD-WAN product is fairly new. They could probably improve that in terms of customizing it and making the configuration a little bit easier."
"There are some issues with conversion and user roles when upgrading to Cyberoam."
"Sometimes, we haven't received proper support. They couldn't find the solutions that we required. One thing that we need is an NTP server facility. The Sophos XGS device does not have this capacity or this feature."
"The support team are helpful when you eventually get hold of them which takes a long time. They can improve how quickly you get technical support."
"It has recently started to suddenly block and crash."
"Sophos XGS needs improvement with the threshold values. Other solutions have the capacity to handle more users."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"Sophos XGS could improve by having a Network Access Control(NAC). This feature is a basic function in other firewalls and should be added, such as Palo Alto."
"Sophos XGS could be improved by adding a built-in hyper-converged solution."
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Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is ranked 6th in Firewalls with 162 reviews while Sophos XGS is ranked 17th in Firewalls with 58 reviews. Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is rated 8.6, while Sophos XGS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls writes "We get reports back from WildFire on a minute-by-minute basis". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos XGS writes "Easy to use, simple to learn, and offers great reporting". Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is most compared with Check Point NGFW, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Sangfor NGAF, whereas Sophos XGS is most compared with Sophos XG, OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, WatchGuard Firebox and Meraki MX. See our Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls vs. Sophos XGS report.
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