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)."Scalable ATP solution that's quick to set up. It demonstrates good performance and stability."
"The most valuable features are all of the security features in terms of protection and SSL and VPN."
"The cloud-based services are a nice feature."
"They have many different options with Palo Alto WildFire and the set-up is quick. If you have all the details in hand, it does not take more than 15 minutes to deploy a firewall."
"Intuitive threat prevention and analysis solution, with a machine learning feature. Scalable, stable, and protects against zero-day threats."
"With this product, we receive the best monitoring and reports."
"Remote access is excellent."
"Detailed reporting on analysis of content. The inspections are easily applied to security policy profiles and profile groups, and may be assigned on a per-rule basis."
"The initial setup has been fine."
"Sophos UTM is very user-friendly and has good integration with other solutions."
"The initial setup was easy."
"It now controls all the security aspects of our web servers with Sophos UTM WAF."
"It's a stable solution."
"It gives us the ability to manage our firewalls from the cloud and deploy a unified configuration onto them. Other competitors like Meraki have that ability, but they fail to optimize it in the way that Sophos has."
"It helps us with protection, with concurrent use of the VPN."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is reporting, it is flexible. I can monitor the end user's devices, even when they are not on my network. It has good drill-down capabilities."
"The automation and responsiveness need improvement."
"It's not really their problem, it's a problem across the board. There will always be problems with interrupted traffic. We have to set it up where we're playing a middle man game where we're stripping it out, looking at it, and then putting it back together and sending it on its way. That requires CPU cycles. And there's some overhead with that."
"The support is good but they could be faster."
"The global product feature needs improvement, the VPN, and we need some enhanced features."
"The cost of this solution could still be improved, in particular, giving product discounts for charitable causes."
"High availability features are lacking."
"Other vendors have some sort of bandwidth management built into the firewall itself and Palo Alto is missing that."
"As a firewall and 360 degrees of security, there needs to be more maturity."
"We'd like to see them offer their services on mobile devices like tablets. I'm not sure if that's an option or not."
"Initially, there were issues with the wireless network as wireless access points were disappearing from the dashboard after some time."
"The documentation during the AWS integration was a little fuzzy on getting it to work with how the whole public exposure versus private exposure, then routing some of the traffic."
"They could use more SSL VPN support."
"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."
"Sophos UTM could improve if there was no limitation on users."
"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 classification segregation of applications lacks sufficient definition."
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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