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)."With this product, we receive the best monitoring and reports."
"A good tool for file scanning and email threat detection, especially when it comes to attachments and communications."
"We have found that Palo Alto Networks WildFire is scalable. We currently have six thousand users for the product."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks WildFire is its ability to adapt to environments and its robustness."
"The graphic user interface of Palo Alto is good and it's easy to configure."
"Scalable ATP solution that's quick to set up. It demonstrates good performance and stability."
"Remote access is excellent."
"My primary use case for this solution is for a secure gateway."
"The scalability is good."
"The initial setup was easy."
"Sophos is a unified solution. We have anti-virus protection, firewall rules, knotting, and DACC all in one box."
"The most valuable feature is the IPS. It also protects us from malware."
"Sophos UTM has improved the porting section. It has improved security by seeing the gaps. For example, when you discover that an entry has been using a certain application, with Sophos UTM acting as a Layer 7 firewall, you can block the application, not the port."
"Sophos SG UTM had all the basic functionality that you needed. It is user-friendly and easy to manage for any integrator."
"I would recommend UTM over XG because it's easier to manage."
"With Sophos, we have not had any incidents this year. The security provided has been good. It has proven to be okay for our needs."
"The initial setup was complex."
"There are certain changes that I was expecting in the previous version, and I hope that they are soon fixed. All of the problems that I have faced so far have been resolved."
"The deployment model could be better."
"The size of Palo Alto's cloud is big but it could be easier to use from a product management perspective."
"Management and web filtering can be improved. There should also be better reporting, particularly around web filtering."
"The cyber security visibility and forensics features to receive more information about incidents could improve in Palo Alto Networks WildFire."
"The product fails to offer protection when dealing with high-severity vulnerabilities, making it an area of concern where improvements are required."
"There are more specialized solutions that compete with Wildfire. Therefore, they need to work on their machine learning and AI to be more competitive."
"Monitoring and reporting are areas that need improvement."
"The solution's technical support for India needs to be improved."
"The integration capabilities could be better."
"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."
"The scalability of the product is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"I am going to flat out say technical support is terrible. Being a Platinum level customer, I am not happy with the support."
"The management suite is easy and the agent is easy to develop."
"Anti-phishing functionality should be improved."
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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