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)."Whole team can use the firewall and understand it."
"The most valuable feature is the cloud-based protection against zero-day malware attacks."
"We have found that Palo Alto Networks WildFire is scalable. We currently have six thousand users for the product."
"Remote access is excellent."
"The most valuable feature is the improved security that it offers."
"We get support in the free version."
"The solution is scalable."
"It is stable and pretty much scalable."
"The solution is easy to handle and configure."
"It allows me to easily connect with more than forty-five remote sites and more than fifty remote users between IPsec and SSL VPN, applying the web filter and application filter to ensure a secure connection."
"The scalability is good."
"I like the web filtering options."
"The features that I've known to be most valuable are both the web security features as well as the web firewall capabilities. As a partner of Sophos firewall, we have some clients and they are using Sophos firewall UTM and we are using it as well."
"It has helped by identifying threats within the company. If there are computers or servers that are compromised, then we are able to identify them right away in the system."
"The most valuable feature is the IPS. It also protects us from malware."
"An easy solution to learn because the graphics are very intuitive."
"The VPN and decryption need improvement."
"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 product's false positive logs could be more user-friendly to understand. They could provide examples of precious cases to learn."
"The only problem with this solution is the cost. It's expensive."
"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."
"The initial setup was a little bit complex, mainly due to the GUI console and management challenges."
"The cost of this solution could still be improved, in particular, giving product discounts for charitable causes."
"The automation and responsiveness need improvement."
"Sophos should be more user-friendly, have more dashboards, and an easier implementation."
"We had some problems with the configuration. They had provided a CloudFormation template, and we had to go several rounds to make it work."
"The virus updates will always depend on new viruses that are discovered. Maybe they can send a notification or a reminder for update time."
"The scalability of the product is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"There is absolutely no support when using AWS. If you buy the on-premise Sophos solution, you get support."
"The logs are not clear, which means that you need an additional piece of software in order to read them clearly."
"The lack of import/export functions for network and service options drives me mad."
"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 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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