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)."WildFire's application encryption is useful."
"I give the initial setup an eight out of ten."
"Intuitive threat prevention and analysis solution, with a machine learning feature. Scalable, stable, and protects against zero-day threats."
"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 feature of Palo Alto Networks WildFire is its ability to adapt to environments and its robustness."
"The solution has plenty of features."
"The technical support is good."
"Whole team can use the firewall and understand it."
"The scalability is good."
"Sophos UTM is very user-friendly and has good integration with other solutions."
"Sophos UTM's most valuable features are profiling and its simple configuration."
"It now controls all the security aspects of our web servers with Sophos UTM WAF."
"Sophos is a unified solution. We have anti-virus protection, firewall rules, knotting, and DACC all in one box."
"The most valuable feature is that it is easy to administer."
"Efficient and effective - it's easy to separate rules."
"Configuration could not be made any easier."
"The threat intelligence that we receiving in the reporting was not as expected. We were expecting more. Additionally, we should be able to whitelist a specific file based on a variety of attributes."
"The system performance degrades after the solution has been deployed for some time. The data that it gives us becomes a little bit slow. When you try to get some data for troubleshooting, it seems like it's working hard to extract that data."
"The product's false positive logs could be more user-friendly to understand. They could provide examples of precious cases to learn."
"The technical support response needs improvement."
"The deployment model could be better."
"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."
"The product fails to offer protection when dealing with high-severity vulnerabilities, making it an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Our main concern is that everything has to be synced with the WildFire Cloud and has to be checked through the subscription."
"The lack of import/export functions for network and service options drives me mad."
"The documentation during the AWS integration was a little fuzzy on getting it to work with how the whole public exposure versus private exposure, then routing some of the traffic."
"Finding information about Sophos’ sizing guidelines can actually be difficult. Also, Sophos does not make it clear what they mean by “users” when you are sizing a firewall, which then leads to undersized implementations."
"This product could use some improvement with web filtering. It takes a lot of time and effort to set up and maintain."
"It needs a better user interface. The one they have is not so good."
"Flexibility in pricing could be improved. It's more rigid in its pricing compared to its competitor: Kaspersky."
"The initial setup was straightforward. The full deployment takes approximately two days which could be simplified to reduce the time. The major part of the process is the configuration and the policy setup."
"Needs to improve the certificate management (ex. Let's Encrypt support)."
Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 60 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 3rd 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, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Proofpoint Email Protection 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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