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 graphic user interface of Palo Alto is good and it's easy to configure."
"We get support in the free version."
"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."
"The solution has plenty of features."
"Stability is never a concern."
"Intuitive threat prevention and analysis solution, with a machine learning feature. Scalable, stable, and protects against zero-day threats."
"The most valuable features are all of the security features in terms of protection and SSL and VPN."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is that it is easy to administer."
"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."
"Sophos integrates seamlessly, and we don't even feel it is running in the background."
"It helped to connect our satellite offices to the main Amazon infrastructure in a circular way."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the IPS. It also protects us from malware."
"The initial setup has been fine."
"The scalability is good."
"The threat intelligence that we receiving in the reporting was not as expected. We were expecting more. Additionally, we should be able to whitelist a specific file based on a variety of attributes."
"As a firewall and 360 degrees of security, there needs to be more maturity."
"The deployment model could be better."
"Other vendors have some sort of bandwidth management built into the firewall itself and Palo Alto is missing that."
"The solution can improve its traffic management."
"The initial setup was a little bit complex, mainly due to the GUI console and management challenges."
"I would give this product a rating of 9 out of 10 due to some slight issues of performance."
"High availability features are lacking."
"I would like them to move from the Classic Load Balancer to the Network Load Balancer. This would make it easier to do certain things with Amazon. They are able to do some enhancements with Network Load Balancer that they are unable to do with Classic Load Balancer."
"We didn’t find any issues but I know there have been some in the last few years."
"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."
"The solution's technical support for India needs to be improved."
"The technical support team’s response time could be improved."
"The only time we face a problem or issues is when we place a ticket. We have found that response is very slow."
"Sophos should be more user-friendly, have more dashboards, and an easier implementation."
"Needs to improve the certificate management (ex. Let's Encrypt 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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