We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks WildFire and Sophos XG 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)."WildFire has been instrumental in blocking a number of new threats, before common desktop anti-virus tools were able to detect them."
"With this product, we receive the best monitoring and reports."
"For example, if a security Intel threat talks about an IOC. We can then go to our MSP and say, "Is there a signature for this particular type of malware that just came out?" And if they'll say yes, then we'll say, "Okay. Does it apply to these firewalls? And have we seen any hits on it?" There's absolutely value in it."
"It has a user-friendly interface."
"My primary use case for this solution is for a secure gateway."
"It is stable and pretty much scalable."
"You have better control because you define apps. You just don't define ports. You define apps, and the apps are monitored in the traffic. It is more specific than the Cisco firewall when it comes to our needs."
"The scalability is acceptable."
"The most valuable features are its nice interfaces and configuration. The endpoint is also very good."
"The initial setup is very straightforward and the solution is extremely user-friendly."
"We've deployed quite a number for our users and our customers, and the feedback is quite positive in terms of management and also administration."
"Sophos firewalls are scalable. They are pretty strong in security. So, when they provide any kind of firewall, they provide all the features such as anti-spam, antivirus, etc."
"The product offers many great features."
"It is very easy to configure and straightforward. The firewall rules are straightforward. It works great out of the box. It has been working as advertised, and I haven't had any issues with it."
"Everything is consolidated into a single box, offering comprehensive functionality, including Wi-Fi access and other features."
"The antivirus features are valuable."
"The VPN and decryption need improvement."
"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 cost of this solution could still be improved, in particular, giving product discounts for charitable causes."
"There are more specialized solutions that compete with Wildfire. Therefore, they need to work on their machine learning and AI to be more competitive."
"Many years back an update caused an issue with the firewall. However, Palo Alto not only informed us of said issue, they also sent an update that fixed the issue before I even had time to log in to determine if the issue affected our services."
"When comparing this solution to others it is not as good overall."
"The cost of the solution is excessively high."
"The free version does not have real-time updates. It is slow."
"I would like to see the performance improved."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements made to the policy and simplify the policy-making, as the complexity of it makes it really tough."
"They need to improve the SD-WAN feature."
"The time taken by Sophos XG's support team to respond to and resolve an issue is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"It would be better if they made their own hardware like Palo Alto and Fortinet. They use their own ASICs and claim it is more secure."
"While it is a secure solution, I believe it could be improved."
"We encounter difficulties while navigating through certain features and functionalities of the product."
"The solution could improve by having better security."
Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. Palo Alto Networks WildFire is rated 8.4, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. 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 XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Proofpoint Email Protection and Fortinet FortiSandbox, whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS and SonicWall TZ.
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