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)."Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten since we never faced any issues."
"It helps us when segmenting and securing the network and all sort of technologies, all sort of next generation needs. It's next generation phases of firewall like anti-virus, sandboxing, wifi, and VPN."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is how it keeps up-to-date with viruses."
"The most valuable features of the solution are user-friendliness, price, good security, and cloud-related options."
"With this product, we receive the best monitoring and reports."
"Whole team can use the firewall and understand it."
"The graphic user interface of Palo Alto is good and it's easy to configure."
"The solution has plenty of features."
"An easy solution to learn because the graphics are very intuitive."
"It has made our organization more secure, because we are using a VPN. We are not accessing services directly. It allows us to segregate some of the traffic for individuals which may be more of a developer role rather than an operational role needing access to developer resources, but not necessarily production operational resources."
"The stability, overall, is excellent. I haven't had a problem in the last two years."
"This is a very stable product."
"The UTM features are reasonably strong and the patterns are updated on a regular basis"
"It helped to connect our satellite offices to the main Amazon infrastructure in a circular way."
"Configuration troubleshooting is eased by the use of the color-coded, live firewall log."
"The most valuable features of Sophos UTM are the ease of use, it is very user-friendly. You can understand what they implement in the new firmware, and it's easy to manage the firewalls."
"The system performance degrades after the solution has been deployed for some time. The data that it gives us becomes a little bit slow. When you try to get some data for troubleshooting, it seems like it's working hard to extract that data."
"The product's false positive logs could be more user-friendly to understand. They could provide examples of precious cases to learn."
"The automation and responsiveness need improvement."
"The cost of this solution could still be improved, in particular, giving product discounts for charitable causes."
"The initial setup was complex."
"The product fails to offer protection when dealing with high-severity vulnerabilities, making it an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Many years back an update caused an issue with the firewall. However, Palo Alto not only informed us of said issue, they also sent an update that fixed the issue before I even had time to log in to determine if the issue affected our services."
"In terms of what I'd like to see in the next release of Palo Alto Networks WildFire, each release is based on malware that has been identified. The key problem is an average of six months from the time malware is written to the time it's discovered and a signature is created for it. The only advice that I can give is for them to shorten that timeframe. I don't know how they would do it, but if they shorten that, for example, cut it in half, they'll make themselves more famous."
"Anti-phishing functionality should be improved."
"The UI can be cumbersome and, sometimes, features are not where you think they should be."
"I am going to flat out say technical support is terrible. Being a Platinum level customer, I am not happy with the support."
"It's stable, but the reaction time of the GUI is terrible."
"Updates come out agonizingly slowly, a trickle."
"Needs to improve the certificate management (ex. Let's Encrypt support)."
"The reporting system needs to allow for customizations because many reports do not include details that we expect."
"The reporting could be a lot 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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