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)."The analysis is very fast."
"Stability is never a concern."
"It gives a more accurate assessment of a virus in terms of whether it's truly a virus, malware, or a false positive. We have some legacy software that could pop up as being something that is malware. WildFire goes through and inspects it, and then it comes back and lets us know if it's a false positive. Usually, when it finds out that it's not a virus, it lets us know that it's benign, and it can exclude it from that scan, which means I don't even have to worry about that one popping up anymore."
"The cloud-based services are a nice feature."
"For example, if a security Intel threat talks about an IOC. We can then go to our MSP and say, "Is there a signature for this particular type of malware that just came out?" And if they'll say yes, then we'll say, "Okay. Does it apply to these firewalls? And have we seen any hits on it?" There's absolutely value in it."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"I like the analysis they apply to the unknown files, and I think they have good technology to use as a sandboxing tool. I didn't find something similar to WildFire in the marketplace."
"WildFire has been instrumental in blocking a number of new threats, before common desktop anti-virus tools were able to detect them."
"We've found the technical support to be helpful."
"The packet filtering's great. You get out what you put into it. It works great as long as you know your security and configure everything adequately. If you just pop one in and it's not configured, then it's basically wide open. It kind of depends on the admin skill, but it's an excellent product."
"The firewall itself is very strong and provides great security."
"It has allowed us to design a bespoke cloud space for our clients, while still having an excellent level of protection."
"The implementation with the AWS environment was good."
"The solution can scale."
"The most valuable feature is ransomware protection."
"It does not take much effort or thinking to understand how it works."
"The global product feature needs improvement, the VPN, and we need some enhanced features."
"The data analytical system for deployment needs to improve."
"The size of Palo Alto's cloud is big but it could be easier to use from a product management perspective."
"The cost of the solution is excessively high."
"I would give this product a rating of 9 out of 10 due to some slight issues of performance."
"The GUI is better in 8.0, but I still feel it lacks the fast response most of us desire. Logs are much quicker."
"I would like to see them continue on their developmental roadmap for the product."
"When you contact support, there is no guarantee that they will be available to help you tackle the issue that you are facing."
"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."
"Monitoring and reporting are areas that need improvement."
"The solution needs better integration with captive portals and XGs."
"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."
"Last year, Sophos had some major internal management changes that negatively impacted their support."
"The virus updates will always depend on new viruses that are discovered. Maybe they can send a notification or a reminder for update time."
"It's stable, but the reaction time of the GUI is terrible."
"Support for IKEv2 is needed in this solution."
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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