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)."Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten since we never faced any issues."
"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 of this solution is how it keeps up-to-date with viruses."
"The cloud-based services are a nice feature."
"It catches modified signatures of known viruses."
"Remote access is excellent."
"The technical support is good."
"High availability with active-active and active-passive modes."
"UTM 9 brings along IPSec as well as iPhone and iPad support. This seems small but it’s useful."
"With over 150 firewalls in our portal, management and monitoring have never been easier."
"Configuration troubleshooting is eased by the use of the color-coded, live firewall log."
"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."
"Sophos UTM has improved the porting section. It has improved security by seeing the gaps. For example, when you discover that an entry has been using a certain application, with Sophos UTM acting as a Layer 7 firewall, you can block the application, not the port."
"It allows me to easily connect with more than forty-five remote sites and more than fifty remote users between IPsec and SSL VPN, applying the web filter and application filter to ensure a secure connection."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the endpoint protection feature."
"The solution can scale."
"The technical support response needs improvement."
"The VPN and decryption need improvement."
"High availability features are lacking."
"The cyber security visibility and forensics features to receive more information about incidents could improve in Palo Alto Networks WildFire."
"The initial setup was complex."
"The solution can improve its traffic management."
"The global product feature needs improvement, the VPN, and we need some enhanced features."
"The data analytical system for deployment needs to improve."
"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."
"There is absolutely no support when using AWS. If you buy the on-premise Sophos solution, you get support."
"The technical support team’s response time could be improved."
"The virus updates will always depend on new viruses that are discovered. Maybe they can send a notification or a reminder for update time."
"We had some problems with the configuration. They had provided a CloudFormation template, and we had to go several rounds to make it work."
"Doesn't provide antivirus for individual computers."
"I would like them to move from the Classic Load Balancer to the Network Load Balancer. This would make it easier to do certain things with Amazon. They are able to do some enhancements with Network Load Balancer that they are unable to do with Classic Load Balancer."
"They could reduce the price."
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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