We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Sophos UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The dashboard I have found the most valuable in Fortinet FortiGate."
"I appreciate FortiGate's flexibility, which allows for centralized management through FortiManager."
"You can create multiple Virtual Domains (VDOMs), which are treated as separate firewall instances."
"Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"It's a user-friendly firewall. Most of the tasks are very simple. It's simple to configure and troubleshoot this firewall."
"The initial setup of Fortinet FortiGate was straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"The stability and scalability of this solution are satisfactory. Its SD-WAN, VPN, and URL filtering features are very useful."
"I typically get involved with it when it comes to audit and compliance and having to gather evidence of those firewalls, routers, and rule sets. The evidence that I typically need is there."
"I like the firewall's vulnerability management features, which give you reminders to update your system and update your OS."
"The most valuable features are web filtering and application filtering."
"You just need a web browser to manage it, unlike Cisco, which requires another management system."
"The stability of the product has been good over the years."
"I like all the functions and features."
"The most important part of this solution is its reliability, as it just works without any fancy features."
"The most valuable feature is the security provided by the ATP."
"Sophos is a unified solution. We have anti-virus protection, firewall rules, knotting, and DACC all in one box."
"It has made our organization more secure, because we are using a VPN. We are not accessing services directly. It allows us to segregate some of the traffic for individuals which may be more of a developer role rather than an operational role needing access to developer resources, but not necessarily production operational resources."
"Sophos UTM provides security for our network here and access through a VPN connection for our remote users. It also offers the flexibility to create different tools for accessibility."
"It gives us the ability to manage our firewalls from the cloud and deploy a unified configuration onto them. Other competitors like Meraki have that ability, but they fail to optimize it in the way that Sophos has."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the simple-to-use interface."
"It is easy to manage."
"The most valuable features of Sophos UTM are the ease of use, it is very user-friendly. You can understand what they implement in the new firmware, and it's easy to manage the firewalls."
"Sophos UTM's most valuable features are profiling and its simple configuration."
"FortiGate support could do some improvements on their IPv6 configuration. Right now it's still in the very early stage for utilizing in an enterprise level network environment."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"It can be a little bit more user-friendly in terms of policy definition and implementation. It seems a little bit complicated, and it could be simplified."
"The monitor and the visibility, in this proxy, is very weak."
"Its filtering is sometimes too precise or strict. We sometimes have to bypass and authorize some of the sites, but they get blocked. We know that they are trusted sites, but they are blocked, and we don't know why."
"At first glance, the interface for the device is very confusing."
"It should be more stable. There should be full integration within Fortinet products themselves as well as with other third-party products. Especially when you're not dealing with SIEM and the correlation of the security box, we want Fortinet to be able to share that information with as many other products as it can."
"In the next release, maybe the documentation on how to use this solution could be improved."
"Its stability can be better. Their technical response from the support side can also be better."
"This is a difficult product to manage, so the administrator needs to have a good knowledge of it, otherwise, they will not be able to handle it properly."
"Palo Alto is like Microsoft. It has varied features, but it's too technical. A lot of the features could be simplified. The procedure, process, features, and usability could be more simple."
"Palo Alto needs to provide more support during the design phase and with proposals. They need to be more proactive, try to anticipate issues, and then help us to implement the transformation quickly."
"The solution's VPN, called GlobalProtect, could be improved as I've had a few issues with that."
"There is room for improvement in the area of customer service."
"I would like them to improve their GUI interface, making it more user-friendly."
"In terms of what could be improved, comparatively the price is very high. That would be the one thing."
"In Sophos UTM there is always a problem with the routing tables. If you want to see the routing table, you have to use the UI. You can't do it via a web browser. The routing table is better in Fortinet."
"Sophos UTM's internet security could be better."
"We'd like to see them offer their services on mobile devices like tablets. I'm not sure if that's an option or not."
"The memory and processing were problematic. The interface could be better."
"The reporting system needs to allow for customizations because many reports do not include details that we expect."
"We had some problems with the configuration. They had provided a CloudFormation template, and we had to go several rounds to make it work."
"I don't really have any notes for improvements."
"It would be nice if it had basic features, such as DLP (Data Loss Prevention)."
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Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is ranked 6th in Firewalls with 162 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is rated 8.6, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls writes "We get reports back from WildFire on a minute-by-minute basis". 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 NG Firewalls is most compared with Check Point NGFW, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Juniper SRX Series Firewall, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Cisco Secure Firewall and WatchGuard Firebox. See our Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls vs. Sophos UTM report.
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