We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks WildFire and Sophos UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The most effective feature of WildFire for threat analysis is its collaboration with other security profiles on our Palo Alto firewall."
"My primary use case for this solution is for a secure gateway."
"It is the best device in comparison to other network products in the marketplace."
"Intuitive threat prevention and analysis solution, with a machine learning feature. Scalable, stable, and protects against zero-day threats."
"It is stable and pretty much scalable."
"I give the initial setup an eight out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks WildFire is its ability to adapt to environments and its robustness."
"The most valuable feature is ransomware protection."
"It improved bandwidth utilization and provided link load balancing features for internet and intranet lease lines."
"I like the web filtering options."
"It has allowed us to design a bespoke cloud space for our clients, while still having an excellent level of protection."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the simple-to-use interface."
"The initial setup has been fine."
"Configuration could not be made any easier."
"It allows our developers to be able to securely log into servers to deploy and manage software."
"I would like to see them continue on their developmental roadmap for the product."
"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."
"Our main concern is that everything has to be synced with the WildFire Cloud and has to be checked through the subscription."
"They should make their user interface a little more user-friendly."
"The support is good but they could be faster."
"Other vendors have some sort of bandwidth management built into the firewall itself and Palo Alto is missing that."
"The product fails to offer protection when dealing with high-severity vulnerabilities, making it an area of concern where improvements are required."
"There are certain changes that I was expecting in the previous version, and I hope that they are soon fixed. All of the problems that I have faced so far have been resolved."
"The integration capabilities could be better."
"I think that additional metrics features are needed to be able to monitor other areas or to monitor as much as you can, at a fine-grain resolution."
"The initial setup was straightforward. The full deployment takes approximately two days which could be simplified to reduce the time. The major part of the process is the configuration and the policy setup."
"I don't really have any notes for improvements."
"The classification segregation of applications lacks sufficient definition."
"The solution is not scalable."
"The management suite is easy and the agent is easy to develop."
"Sophos UTM could improve the way the configuration has to be done. I have to do the configuration through the command line interface but if it could be done through the graphical user interface it would be much better."
Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in ATP (Advanced Threat Protection) 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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