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 for us is the VPN."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten since we never faced any issues."
"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."
"The analysis is very fast."
"Installing this product as a datacenter firewall for segregation and segmentation, and also configuring policies between zones has improved my organization."
"The backup is the best feature."
"The most valuable features of the solution are user-friendliness, price, good security, and cloud-related options."
"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."
"Sophos UTM is the simplest of these products to setup."
"It allows our developers to be able to securely log into servers to deploy and manage software."
"Configuration could not be made any easier."
"I have no problem with the cost or licensing of this solution. This is a primary reason whay I wanted this solution. It does the same thing cheaper than other name brands."
"Sophos UTM's best feature is SIM in the cloud, which combines the gateway solution and endpoint solution to send telemetry data to the cloud and provides full contact visibility regarding security."
"It's a stable solution."
"They are all good, but most-used are Network Protection and Web Filtering."
"The most valuable feature is the price. I've been requesting prices all over these years between different solutions like Fortinet, Palo Alto, and Check Point and Sophos has been the cheapest and the best of all of them that I have tried. I have been working with Fortinet, it's a fact that the price is surprisingly better."
"The initial setup was a little bit complex, mainly due to the GUI console and management challenges."
"I would give this product a rating of 9 out of 10 due to some slight issues of performance."
"The VPN and decryption need improvement."
"The size of Palo Alto's cloud is big but it could be easier to use from a product management perspective."
"The price could be better."
"I don't think it needs to improve anything, except maybe the speed to deploy the changes."
"The free version does not have real-time updates. It is slow."
"The cost of this solution could still be improved, in particular, giving product discounts for charitable causes."
"They could use more SSL VPN support."
"The UI can be cumbersome and, sometimes, features are not where you think they should be."
"Doesn't provide antivirus for individual computers."
"It is a little too CPU resource intensive, so we would like to see improvements there."
"The technical support only communicates via email. I would prefer to communicate directly with someone."
"The product could be simplified and made more self-explanatory."
"The interface configuration could be improved."
"In short, the UI and UX are the areas of improvement in Sophos UTM and similar solutions compared to Palo Alto."
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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