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)."Scalable ATP solution that's quick to set up. It demonstrates good performance and stability."
"A good tool for file scanning and email threat detection, especially when it comes to attachments and communications."
"Intuitive threat prevention and analysis solution, with a machine learning feature. Scalable, stable, and protects against zero-day threats."
"Remote access is excellent."
"Their technical support is outstanding and top-notch."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"What I like about Palo Alto is that it is a complete product, with everything in it."
"It helps us when segmenting and securing the network and all sort of technologies, all sort of next generation needs. It's next generation phases of firewall like anti-virus, sandboxing, wifi, and VPN."
"Sophos integrates seamlessly, and we don't even feel it is running in the background."
"We find all of the features valuable because together they fit the needs of our customers."
"It helped to connect our satellite offices to the main Amazon infrastructure in a circular way."
"The firewall itself is very strong and provides great security."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the firewall application and application control."
"Sophos UTM has a good user interface and granular security controls."
"An easy solution to learn because the graphics are very intuitive."
"I like the web filtering options."
"I don't think it needs to improve anything, except maybe the speed to deploy the changes."
"The free version does not have real-time updates. It is slow."
"In the future, Palo Alto could reduce the time it takes to process the file."
"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."
"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."
"The automation and responsiveness need improvement."
"I would give this product a rating of 9 out of 10 due to some slight issues of performance."
"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."
"As it stands right now, when we have an internet failure on WAN1, it takes several minutes before our WAN2 connection picks up the traffic"
"The reporting system needs to allow for customizations because many reports do not include details that we expect."
"The solution is not scalable."
"There can be a delay when it comes to reaching out to technical support."
"Anti-phishing functionality should be improved."
"We need to speed up the support."
"Stay away from the wireless models, since you cannot put them in HA. They start to give you some weird issues once you start getting into multiple SSIDs and networks."
"It's stable, but the reaction time of the GUI is terrible."
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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