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)."Whole team can use the firewall and understand it."
"They have many different options with Palo Alto WildFire and the set-up is quick. If you have all the details in hand, it does not take more than 15 minutes to deploy a firewall."
"It is stable and pretty much scalable."
"I like the analysis they apply to the unknown files, and I think they have good technology to use as a sandboxing tool. I didn't find something similar to WildFire in the marketplace."
"Scalable ATP solution that's quick to set up. It demonstrates good performance and stability."
"Installing this product as a datacenter firewall for segregation and segmentation, and also configuring policies between zones has improved my organization."
"The backup is the best feature."
"The solution is completely integrated with all the other Palo Alto products. I think that it is the best part for endpoint protection. The firewall features include URL and DNS filtering, threat protection, and antivirus."
"An easy solution to learn because the graphics are very intuitive."
"With over 150 firewalls in our portal, management and monitoring have never been easier."
"The management suite is easy and the agent is easy to develop."
"The most valuable features of the solution are application filtering and web filtering."
"It makes it a lot easier for us to maintain things. Prior to it, things were more difficult. This means less time on us. We can focus on other things. The recovery is more in man-hours for us than anything else."
"Has great security features and does a good job of protecting the network."
"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."
"With Sophos, we have not had any incidents this year. The security provided has been good. It has proven to be okay for our needs."
"The global product feature needs improvement, the VPN, and we need some enhanced features."
"I think it would be nice for Palo Alto to work without the connection to the cloud. It is 100% powerful when connected to the cloud. But, if you disconnect from the cloud, you only get 40-50% power."
"The automation and responsiveness need improvement."
"The price could be better."
"The free version does not have real-time updates. It is slow."
"As a firewall and 360 degrees of security, there needs to be more maturity."
"The initial setup was a little bit complex, mainly due to the GUI console and management challenges."
"The price of WildFire should be reduced in order to make it more affordable for our customers."
"VPN needs IKEv2, but it’s in the roadmap. Also, all new, cool features will only come to the new Sophos XG Firewall."
"The solution needs better integration with captive portals and XGs."
"The integration capabilities could be better."
"Initially, there were issues with the wireless network as wireless access points were disappearing from the dashboard after some time."
"The reporting system needs to allow for customizations because many reports do not include details that we expect."
"Stay away from the wireless models, since you cannot put them in HA. They start to give you some weird issues once you start getting into multiple SSIDs and networks."
"Updates come out agonizingly slowly, a trickle."
"The support could be better."
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, Proofpoint Email Protection, Juniper SRX Series Firewall 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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