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 valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks WildFire is its ability to adapt to environments and its robustness."
"The solution is easy to use and the Panorama feature is good. The software management or the malware blocking and some authentication management system are good."
"The way that the solution quickly updates to adjust to threats is the solution's most valuable aspect. When there's a security attack, within five minutes, all Wildfire subscribers have access to updates so that all systems will be safe. Its threat prevention is way better than other vendor products."
"We get support in the free version."
"The solution is scalable."
"The most valuable features are all of the security features in terms of protection and SSL and VPN."
"It has a user-friendly interface."
"Stability is never a concern."
"It's easy to use."
"The solution is scalable."
"It has allowed us to design a bespoke cloud space for our clients, while still having an excellent level of protection."
"The initial setup was easy."
"The solution is easy to handle and configure."
"What I like about the solution is the ease of use."
"Sophos is a unified solution. We have anti-virus protection, firewall rules, knotting, and DACC all in one box."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the endpoint protection feature."
"The technical support response needs improvement."
"The only complaint that we receive from our customers is in regards to the price."
"Palo Alto Networks WildFire should be more real-time in nature. The signature updates should happen in a minute or less than a minute to be a very good feature for the customer."
"The data analytical system for deployment needs to improve."
"The support is good but they could be faster."
"The solution can improve its traffic management."
"The product's false positive logs could be more user-friendly to understand. They could provide examples of precious cases to learn."
"The global product feature needs improvement, the VPN, and we need some enhanced features."
"There needs to be some improvement in the IPsec VPN. There is implementation only support. I have version one. I'd be most interested in having IP version two from the protocol."
"Sophos UTM could improve the way the configuration has to be done. I have to do the configuration through the command line interface but if it could be done through the graphical user interface it would be much better."
"Initially, there were issues with the wireless network as wireless access points were disappearing from the dashboard after some time."
"With Sophos UTM, there is a general rule in the firewall when the country blocking can block some countries from accessing your data. In the current version, you still need to add it by putting in the IP range. This feature would be helpful for administrators and it gives them the advantage to block stuff in less 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."
"The reporting system needs to allow for customizations because many reports do not include details that we expect."
"Sophos UTM could improve if there was no limitation on users."
"This product could use some improvement with web filtering. It takes a lot of time and effort to set up and maintain."
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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