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 ATP (Advanced Threat Protection)."I give the initial setup an eight out of ten."
"It has a user-friendly interface."
"The technical support is good."
"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."
"The way that the solution quickly updates to adjust to threats is the solution's most valuable aspect. When there's a security attack, within five minutes, all Wildfire subscribers have access to updates so that all systems will be safe. Its threat prevention is way better than other vendor products."
"I like the analysis they apply to the unknown files, and I think they have good technology to use as a sandboxing tool. I didn't find something similar to WildFire in the marketplace."
"The most valuable feature is the Automatic Verdict, to recognize whether something is a threat, or not."
"The solution is scalable."
"Monitoring and reporting are areas that need improvement."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is reporting, it is flexible. I can monitor the end user's devices, even when they are not on my network. It has good drill-down capabilities."
"It now controls all the security aspects of our web servers with Sophos UTM WAF."
"It is not an easy task to protect your web servers from the big bad internet. The Web Server Protection in this solution does it elegantly and, if configured correctly, even hides the server's base system from prying eyes."
"Sophos SG UTM had all the basic functionality that you needed. It is user-friendly and easy to manage for any integrator."
"The most valuable feature is the IPS. It also protects us from malware."
"Sophos UTM's best feature is SIM in the cloud, which combines the gateway solution and endpoint solution to send telemetry data to the cloud and provides full contact visibility regarding security."
"It has allowed us to design a bespoke cloud space for our clients, while still having an excellent level of protection."
"The cyber security visibility and forensics features to receive more information about incidents could improve in Palo Alto Networks WildFire."
"Other vendors have some sort of bandwidth management built into the firewall itself and Palo Alto is missing that."
"The global product feature needs improvement, the VPN, and we need some enhanced features."
"It would be nice if there was an easier way to install and deploy it, such as through the inclusion of wizards."
"The price could be better."
"The product's false positive logs could be more user-friendly to understand. They could provide examples of precious cases to learn."
"The price of WildFire should be reduced in order to make it more affordable for our customers."
"They should make their user interface a little more user-friendly."
"Sophos should improve its ability to check something like bandwidth consumption for users or something more real-time."
"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."
"I would like this solution to support ICAP. Also, they no longer support on-premises management, and are forcing clients to use centralized management via the cloud, which I don't agree with."
"It needs a better user interface. The one they have is not so good."
"Needs to improve the certificate management (ex. Let's Encrypt support)."
"I am going to flat out say technical support is terrible. Being a Platinum level customer, I am not happy with the support."
"I would like some features that are available in other brands. For example, I sometimes a person is using too much bandwidth, and it isn't easy to find this information in Sophos. Also, we have to switch connections manually when we are using a VPN and lose the MPLS connection. It isn't automatic."
"The management suite is easy and the agent is easy to develop."
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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