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)."Stability is never a concern."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"High availability with active-active and active-passive modes."
"We get support in the free version."
"With this product, we receive the best monitoring and reports."
"The most valuable features are all of the security features in terms of protection and SSL and VPN."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks WildFire is its ability to adapt to environments and its robustness."
"The graphic user interface of Palo Alto is good and it's easy to configure."
"The stability of Sophos UTM is very good. The solution has been stable since Sophos took over Cyberoam which was the original company providing this solution."
"We use Sophos UTM as our main firewall with all its features included. Mainly, it controls all of our network perimeter security: firewall, IDS/IPS, and web application firewall (including VoIP)."
"Sophos UTM is the simplest of these products to setup."
"Sophos SG UTM had all the basic functionality that you needed. It is user-friendly and easy to manage for any integrator."
"UTM 9 brings along IPSec as well as iPhone and iPad support. This seems small but it’s useful."
"Technical support is very responsive."
"The solution is stable."
"It makes it a lot easier for us to maintain things. Prior to it, things were more difficult. This means less time on us. We can focus on other things. The recovery is more in man-hours for us than anything else."
"The product fails to offer protection when dealing with high-severity vulnerabilities, making it an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The initial setup was complex."
"The only complaint that we receive from our customers is in regards to the price."
"I don't think it needs to improve anything, except maybe the speed to deploy the changes."
"Our main concern is that everything has to be synced with the WildFire Cloud and has to be checked through the subscription."
"There are certain changes that I was expecting in the previous version, and I hope that they are soon fixed. All of the problems that I have faced so far have been resolved."
"I would give this product a rating of 9 out of 10 due to some slight issues of performance."
"The price of WildFire should be reduced in order to make it more affordable for our customers."
"It needs a better user interface. The one they have is not so good."
"Support for IKEv2 is needed in this solution."
"Sophos customer support could use some improvement."
"They could definitely improve on the support, especially in other countries."
"The memory and processing were problematic. The interface could be better."
"The ease of use could be a bit better."
"Last year, Sophos had some major internal management changes that negatively impacted their support."
"It is a little too CPU resource intensive, so we would like to see improvements there."
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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