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, Fortinet and others in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)."What I like about Palo Alto is that it is a complete product, with everything in it."
"The most valuable features of this solution are sandbox capabilities."
"Their technical support is outstanding and top-notch."
"My primary use case for this solution is for a secure gateway."
"The most valuable features of the solution are user-friendliness, price, good security, and cloud-related options."
"The graphic user interface of Palo Alto is good and it's easy to configure."
"The most valuable features of Palo Alto Networks WildFire are the good URL and file analysis that uses artificial intelligence. It has different interfaces, such as rest, SMTP protocol, and HTTPS. The Security incidents and event management are very good. Additionally, there are many file types that are supported and there is no limit to the number of files it can handle simultaneously. It integrates well with SIEM solutions."
"High availability with active-active and active-passive modes."
"It has helped by identifying threats within the company. If there are computers or servers that are compromised, then we are able to identify them right away in the system."
"The solution is scalable."
"Configuration could not be made any easier."
"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)."
"The three most important features for us are web protection, web server protection, and network protection."
"The most valuable features of Sophos UTM are the ease of use, it is very user-friendly. You can understand what they implement in the new firmware, and it's easy to manage the firewalls."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the endpoint protection feature."
"Sophos UTM has a good user interface and granular security controls."
"The only problem with this solution is the cost. It's expensive."
"Palo Alto Networks WildFire could improve by adding support for manual submission of suspicious files and URLs. Additionally, it would be an advantage to add rule-based analysis. Currently, it uses only static and AI. We need to be able to analyze archive files."
"The cost of the solution is excessively high."
"The support is good but they could be faster."
"As a firewall and 360 degrees of security, there needs to be more maturity."
"The technical support response needs improvement."
"I would give this product a rating of 9 out of 10 due to some slight issues of performance."
"I don't think it needs to improve anything, except maybe the speed to deploy the changes."
"In short, the UI and UX are the areas of improvement in Sophos UTM and similar solutions compared to Palo Alto."
"The solution needs to do better at covering mobile devices, although they may have an integrated solution for that purpose."
"The reporting could be a lot better."
"We didn’t find any issues but I know there have been some in the last few years."
"It does have built-in policies, which enable you to disable USB devices, etc. It would be nice if they had more policies because there are not that many of them."
"There is still room for improvement in wireless protection. I don't mean their WiFi device is bad, but there are still things to improve on, such as WiFi roaming."
"When we call support, we get put on hold for a long time."
"The product could be simplified and made more self-explanatory."
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, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Proofpoint Email Protection 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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