We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks WildFire and SonicWall NSa based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet and others in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)."The most valuable feature for us is the VPN."
"Intuitive threat prevention and analysis solution, with a machine learning feature. Scalable, stable, and protects against zero-day threats."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"The most effective feature of WildFire for threat analysis is its collaboration with other security profiles on our Palo Alto firewall."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks WildFire is its ability to adapt to environments and its robustness."
"I love the idea of Palo Alto Networks WildFire. It's more geared toward preventing malware. If someone's laptop or phone is malware-infected, the tool prevents it from uploading valuable corporate data outside the corporate network. That's what I love about Palo Alto Networks WildFire. It stops malware in its tracks."
"The backup is the best feature."
"A good tool for file scanning and email threat detection, especially when it comes to attachments and communications."
"The features I found most valuable are email security and web filtering."
"Easy to scale solution that provides advanced threat protection. Their technical support is very good, very knowledgeable, and easy to reach."
"Support is usually good when it comes to helping with issues."
"It is a brilliant product. It is a Unified Threat Management (UTM) system. It has got about 11 security services that take care of your perimeter security. It takes care of any kind of cyber threats that could come in. It takes care of creating VPNs between two SonicWalls instantly and very easily. It has got spyware in it as well as a firewall. It has also got a gateway antivirus and an application firewall that can block things from outside."
"Deep packet inspection and intelligent application control are the most valuable features. It is a very updated solution. It is very current as compared to other brands and vendors."
"Easy to setup and implement"
"The most valuable feature is the sandbox."
"For me, the most valuable feature of SonicWall NSa is the UTM."
"The support is good but they could be faster."
"In the future, Palo Alto could reduce the time it takes to process the file."
"The size of Palo Alto's cloud is big but it could be easier to use from a product management perspective."
"I would give this product a rating of 9 out of 10 due to some slight issues of performance."
"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."
"Other vendors have some sort of bandwidth management built into the firewall itself and Palo Alto is missing that."
"The data analytical system for deployment needs to improve."
"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 content ID needs to be improved."
"The solution can be a bit expensive."
"When it comes to security I think all of the features are currently open to improvement."
"An area for improvement would be SonicWall NSa's integration with antiviruses."
"We still get phishing emails that manage to come through from time to time."
"I would like U.S.-based technical support."
"The product must enable integration with endpoint protection tools."
"I'd like to see integration with Microsoft 365 for authentication."
Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 reviews. Palo Alto Networks WildFire is rated 8.4, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. 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 SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Proofpoint Email Protection and Fortinet FortiSandbox, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Cisco Secure Firewall.
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