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)."The most effective feature of WildFire for threat analysis is its collaboration with other security profiles on our Palo Alto firewall."
"Scalable ATP solution that's quick to set up. It demonstrates good performance and stability."
"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."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"It catches modified signatures of known viruses."
"Being an application-based firewall, this is one of the critical focus factors along with the threat prevention services it provides."
"The graphic user interface of Palo Alto is good and it's easy to configure."
"It has a user-friendly interface."
"It's easy to use."
"We find all of the features valuable because together they fit the needs of our customers."
"Sophos UTM has a good user interface and granular security controls."
"The features that I've known to be most valuable are both the web security features as well as the web firewall capabilities. As a partner of Sophos firewall, we have some clients and they are using Sophos firewall UTM and we are using it as well."
"It helps us with protection, with concurrent use of the VPN."
"We've found the technical support to be helpful."
"They are all good, but most-used are Network Protection and Web Filtering."
"It is not an easy task to protect your web servers from the big bad internet. The Web Server Protection in this solution does it elegantly and, if configured correctly, even hides the server's base system from prying eyes."
"They provide a medium level of technical support."
"The technical support response needs improvement."
"I would like to see them continue on their developmental roadmap for the product."
"I think it would be nice for Palo Alto to work without the connection to the cloud. It is 100% powerful when connected to the cloud. But, if you disconnect from the cloud, you only get 40-50% power."
"Other vendors have some sort of bandwidth management built into the firewall itself and Palo Alto is missing that."
"When you contact support, there is no guarantee that they will be available to help you tackle the issue that you are facing."
"The cyber security visibility and forensics features to receive more information about incidents could improve in Palo Alto Networks WildFire."
"Our main concern is that everything has to be synced with the WildFire Cloud and has to be checked through the subscription."
"They could reduce the price."
"They could definitely improve on the support, especially in other countries."
"It is a little too CPU resource intensive, so we would like to see improvements there."
"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."
"Updates come out agonizingly slowly, a trickle."
"We would like to have unique viewable IDs for rules and in the packet filter logfile, for easier debugging of old log files."
"We had some problems with the configuration. They had provided a CloudFormation template, and we had to go several rounds to make it work."
"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."
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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