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)."Stability is never a concern."
"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."
"With this product, we receive the best monitoring and reports."
"The most valuable features are all of the security features in terms of protection and SSL and VPN."
"Scalable ATP solution that's quick to set up. It demonstrates good performance and stability."
"Whole team can use the firewall and understand it."
"My primary use case for this solution is for a secure gateway."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"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."
"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 three most important features for us are web protection, web server protection, and network protection."
"I like the web filtering options."
"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."
"Monitoring and reporting are areas that need improvement."
"With Sophos, we have not had any incidents this year. The security provided has been good. It has proven to be okay for our needs."
"The most valuable feature is the price. I've been requesting prices all over these years between different solutions like Fortinet, Palo Alto, and Check Point and Sophos has been the cheapest and the best of all of them that I have tried. I have been working with Fortinet, it's a fact that the price is surprisingly better."
"The solution can improve its traffic management."
"The GUI is better in 8.0, but I still feel it lacks the fast response most of us desire. Logs are much quicker."
"When comparing this solution to others it is not as good overall."
"The cost of the solution is excessively high."
"Our main concern is that everything has to be synced with the WildFire Cloud and has to be checked through the subscription."
"There are more specialized solutions that compete with Wildfire. Therefore, they need to work on their machine learning and AI to be more competitive."
"In the future, Palo Alto could reduce the time it takes to process the file."
"I don't think it needs to improve anything, except maybe the speed to deploy the changes."
"We need to speed up the support."
"Monitoring and reporting are areas that need improvement."
"VPN needs IKEv2, but it’s in the roadmap. Also, all new, cool features will only come to the new Sophos XG Firewall."
"In Sophos UTM there is always a problem with the routing tables. If you want to see the routing table, you have to use the UI. You can't do it via a web browser. The routing table is better in Fortinet."
"Sophos should be more user-friendly, have more dashboards, and an easier implementation."
"It's stable, but the reaction time of the GUI is terrible."
"There's an issue that when we deploy UTM on fiber, it automatically upgrades to the latest version without giving an option to stay on the current one."
"We need a better VPN client for the customers."
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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