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 features of the solution are user-friendliness, price, good security, and cloud-related options."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is how it keeps up-to-date with viruses."
"The most valuable feature is the cloud-based protection against zero-day malware attacks."
"They have many different options with Palo Alto WildFire and the set-up is quick. If you have all the details in hand, it does not take more than 15 minutes to deploy a firewall."
"The most valuable features of this solution are sandbox capabilities."
"Whole team can use the firewall and understand it."
"The solution has plenty of features."
"WildFire has been instrumental in blocking a number of new threats, before common desktop anti-virus tools were able to detect them."
"The product is extremely intuitive."
"The stability of Sophos UTM is very good. The solution has been stable since Sophos took over Cyberoam which was the original company providing this solution."
"It is easy to manage."
"Sophos UTM is very user-friendly and has good integration with other solutions."
"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."
"Good basic firewall functions with advanced firewall scanning."
"It has allowed us to design a bespoke cloud space for our clients, while still having an excellent level of protection."
"The solution can improve its traffic management."
"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."
"The size of Palo Alto's cloud is big but it could be easier to use from a product management perspective."
"I don't think it needs to improve anything, except maybe the speed to deploy the changes."
"When comparing this solution to others it is not as good overall."
"Our main concern is that everything has to be synced with the WildFire Cloud and has to be checked through the subscription."
"In terms of what I'd like to see in the next release of Palo Alto Networks WildFire, each release is based on malware that has been identified. The key problem is an average of six months from the time malware is written to the time it's discovered and a signature is created for it. The only advice that I can give is for them to shorten that timeframe. I don't know how they would do it, but if they shorten that, for example, cut it in half, they'll make themselves more famous."
"The product fails to offer protection when dealing with high-severity vulnerabilities, making it an area of concern where improvements are required."
"I didn't like it much. It suits only small businesses. It isn't scalable and reliable. There is a very critical issue with the power supply."
"It would be nice if it had basic features, such as DLP (Data Loss Prevention)."
"Sophos UTM could improve if there was no limitation on users."
"Sophos should be more user-friendly, have more dashboards, and an easier implementation."
"The only time we face a problem or issues is when we place a ticket. We have found that response is very slow."
"The scalability of the product is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"When we call support, we get put on hold for a long time."
"The reporting could be a lot better."
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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