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)."It is stable and pretty much scalable."
"The technical support is good."
"The most valuable features of the solution are user-friendliness, price, good security, and cloud-related options."
"WildFire has been instrumental in blocking a number of new threats, before common desktop anti-virus tools were able to detect them."
"The most valuable features are all of the security features in terms of protection and SSL and VPN."
"The most valuable feature is the improved security that it offers."
"The solution is easy to use and the Panorama feature is good. The software management or the malware blocking and some authentication management system are good."
"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 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."
"The most valuable feature is that it is easy to administer."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the firewall application and application control."
"Sophos UTM's most valuable features are profiling and its simple configuration."
"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 cost of the solution is very reasonable."
"It is easy to manage."
"There are more specialized solutions that compete with Wildfire. Therefore, they need to work on their machine learning and AI to be more competitive."
"The product's false positive logs could be more user-friendly to understand. They could provide examples of precious cases to learn."
"Management and web filtering can be improved. There should also be better reporting, particularly around web filtering."
"Palo Alto Networks WildFire should be more real-time in nature. The signature updates should happen in a minute or less than a minute to be a very good feature for the customer."
"The automation and responsiveness need improvement."
"The technical support response needs improvement."
"The initial setup was complex."
"I would like to see them continue on their developmental roadmap for the product."
"When we call support, we get put on hold for a long time."
"The lack of import/export functions for network and service options drives me mad."
"It is a little too CPU resource intensive, so we would like to see improvements there."
"It does have built-in policies, which enable you to disable USB devices, etc. It would be nice if they had more policies because there are not that many of them."
"The memory and processing were problematic. The interface could be better."
"I would like to see Sophos UTM add support for all the new threat-detection technologies and the ability to respond to novel security threats that come along every day."
"They could use more SSL VPN support."
"The application control is really bad. It needs a lot of enhancements. The traffic shaping and bandwidth control, and application control need a lot of work."
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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