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)."Being an application-based firewall, this is one of the critical focus factors along with the threat prevention services it provides."
"The technical support is good."
"The most effective feature of WildFire for threat analysis is its collaboration with other security profiles on our Palo Alto firewall."
"The most valuable feature is the Automatic Verdict, to recognize whether something is a threat, or not."
"The most valuable features of the solution are user-friendliness, price, good security, and cloud-related options."
"The most valuable features of this solution are sandbox capabilities."
"My primary use case for this solution is for a secure gateway."
"We get support in the free version."
"The solution is stable."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"It improved bandwidth utilization and provided link load balancing features for internet and intranet lease lines."
"It's a stable solution."
"Sophos UTM is the simplest of these products to setup."
"It meets our compliance needs in an elastic computer environment."
"The implementation with the AWS environment was good."
"The UTM features are reasonably strong and the patterns are updated on a regular basis"
"Palo Alto Networks WildFire could improve by adding support for manual submission of suspicious files and URLs. Additionally, it would be an advantage to add rule-based analysis. Currently, it uses only static and AI. We need to be able to analyze archive files."
"The cyber security visibility and forensics features to receive more information about incidents could improve in Palo Alto Networks WildFire."
"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."
"Other vendors have some sort of bandwidth management built into the firewall itself and Palo Alto is missing that."
"It would be nice if there was an easier way to install and deploy it, such as through the inclusion of wizards."
"The free version does not have real-time updates. It is slow."
"The global product feature needs improvement, the VPN, and we need some enhanced features."
"Many years back an update caused an issue with the firewall. However, Palo Alto not only informed us of said issue, they also sent an update that fixed the issue before I even had time to log in to determine if the issue affected our services."
"I didn't like it much. It suits only small businesses. It isn't scalable and reliable. There is a very critical issue with the power supply."
"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 reporting could be a lot better."
"The only time we face a problem or issues is when we place a ticket. We have found that response is very slow."
"When we call support, we get put on hold for a long time."
"The UI can be cumbersome and, sometimes, features are not where you think they should be."
"The scalability of the product is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"We need to speed up the 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, 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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