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)."It helps us when segmenting and securing the network and all sort of technologies, all sort of next generation needs. It's next generation phases of firewall like anti-virus, sandboxing, wifi, and VPN."
"The scalability is acceptable."
"The solution is completely integrated with all the other Palo Alto products. I think that it is the best part for endpoint protection. The firewall features include URL and DNS filtering, threat protection, and antivirus."
"Installing this product as a datacenter firewall for segregation and segmentation, and also configuring policies between zones has improved my organization."
"It has a user-friendly interface."
"Their technical support is outstanding and top-notch."
"It is the best device in comparison to other network products in the marketplace."
"The most valuable feature is the cloud-based protection against zero-day malware attacks."
"It is a very good product. The threat monitoring process is the most valuable feature."
"So far, the solution has been problem-free."
"It's a stable solution."
"It has allowed us to design a bespoke cloud space for our clients, while still having an excellent level of protection."
"The scalability is good."
"The most valuable feature is ransomware protection."
"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."
"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)."
"Our main concern is that everything has to be synced with the WildFire Cloud and has to be checked through the subscription."
"The GUI is better in 8.0, but I still feel it lacks the fast response most of us desire. Logs are much quicker."
"The deployment model could be better."
"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."
"As a firewall and 360 degrees of security, there needs to be more maturity."
"I would like to see them continue on their developmental roadmap for the product."
"In the future, Palo Alto could reduce the time it takes to process the file."
"It is a little too CPU resource intensive, so we would like to see improvements there."
"The technical support team’s response time could be improved."
"The UI can be cumbersome and, sometimes, features are not where you think they should be."
"They could definitely improve on the support, especially in other countries."
"They could reduce the price."
"The solution could be improved by adding cloud soundboxing."
"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."
"The initial setup was straightforward. The full deployment takes approximately two days which could be simplified to reduce the time. The major part of the process is the configuration and the policy setup."
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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