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, Fortinet and others in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)."The reporting feature helps our performance."
"It is stable and pretty much scalable."
"The graphic user interface of Palo Alto is good and it's easy to configure."
"With this product, we receive the best monitoring and reports."
"The most valuable feature is the improved security that it offers."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks WildFire is its ability to adapt to environments and its robustness."
"The cloud-based services are a nice feature."
"The most valuable features of the solution are user-friendliness, price, good security, and cloud-related options."
"They are all good, but most-used are Network Protection and Web Filtering."
"We've found the technical support to be helpful."
"The stability, overall, is excellent. I haven't had a problem in the last two years."
"The cost of the solution is very reasonable."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the firewall application and application control."
"If a computer does get infected the Sophos appliance lets us know via it's Advanced Threat Protection so we can get a much faster response time."
"The firewall itself is very strong and provides great security."
"It gives us the ability to manage our firewalls from the cloud and deploy a unified configuration onto them. Other competitors like Meraki have that ability, but they fail to optimize it in the way that Sophos has."
"High availability features are lacking."
"The price could be better."
"Any enhancements should likely be focused on the firewall appliance to further strengthen overall security capabilities, such as refining app and user identity features."
"The product fails to offer protection when dealing with high-severity vulnerabilities, making it an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The configuration should be made a little bit easier. I understand why it is as it is, but there should be a way to make it easier from the user side."
"The initial setup was complex."
"The cost of this solution could still be improved, in particular, giving product discounts for charitable causes."
"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."
"We didn’t find any issues but I know there have been some in the last few years."
"As it stands right now, when we have an internet failure on WAN1, it takes several minutes before our WAN2 connection picks up the traffic"
"Sophos should improve its ability to check something like bandwidth consumption for users or something more real-time."
"The technical support team’s response time could be improved."
"Email spam filtering only works if you have an on-prem Exchange server. It doesn't interface with Office 365 like the XG model. That would be one feature that they could improve. They're not going to do it because they're trying to push us all to XG."
"Initially, there were issues with the wireless network as wireless access points were disappearing from the dashboard after some time."
"The UI can be cumbersome and, sometimes, features are not where you think they should be."
"We need to speed up the support."
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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