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)."Installing this product as a datacenter firewall for segregation and segmentation, and also configuring policies between zones has improved my organization."
"Their technical support is outstanding and top-notch."
"The most effective feature of WildFire for threat analysis is its collaboration with other security profiles on our Palo Alto firewall."
"I love the idea of Palo Alto Networks WildFire. It's more geared toward preventing malware. If someone's laptop or phone is malware-infected, the tool prevents it from uploading valuable corporate data outside the corporate network. That's what I love about Palo Alto Networks WildFire. It stops malware in its tracks."
"The solution has plenty of features."
"The graphic user interface of Palo Alto is good and it's easy to configure."
"Being an application-based firewall, this is one of the critical focus factors along with the threat prevention services it provides."
"It has a user-friendly interface."
"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."
"Configuration troubleshooting is eased by the use of the color-coded, live firewall log."
"It now controls all the security aspects of our web servers with Sophos UTM WAF."
"What I like about Sophos UTM is that it improves my company's security. The solution is easy to set up, which I like, and it's very stable."
"I have no problem with the cost or licensing of this solution. This is a primary reason whay I wanted this solution. It does the same thing cheaper than other name brands."
"The firewall itself is very strong and provides great security."
"They are all good, but most-used are Network Protection and Web Filtering."
"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."
"The initial setup was a little bit complex, mainly due to the GUI console and management challenges."
"Other vendors have some sort of bandwidth management built into the firewall itself and Palo Alto is missing that."
"There are some formats that the solution cannot support ."
"When you contact support, there is no guarantee that they will be available to help you tackle the issue that you are facing."
"I think it would be nice for Palo Alto to work without the connection to the cloud. It is 100% powerful when connected to the cloud. But, if you disconnect from the cloud, you only get 40-50% power."
"Management and web filtering can be improved. There should also be better reporting, particularly around web filtering."
"Our main concern is that everything has to be synced with the WildFire Cloud and has to be checked through the subscription."
"The product's false positive logs could be more user-friendly to understand. They could provide examples of precious cases to learn."
"There can be a delay when it comes to reaching out to technical support."
"Flexibility in pricing could be improved. It's more rigid in its pricing compared to its competitor: Kaspersky."
"It's stable, but the reaction time of the GUI is terrible."
"I don't really have any notes for improvements."
"Last year, Sophos had some major internal management changes that negatively impacted their support."
"Initially, there were issues with the wireless network as wireless access points were disappearing from the dashboard after some time."
"The solution is not scalable."
"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."
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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