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)."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."
"Intuitive threat prevention and analysis solution, with a machine learning feature. Scalable, stable, and protects against zero-day threats."
"The analysis is very fast."
"The most valuable feature is the cloud-based protection against zero-day malware attacks."
"WildFire has been instrumental in blocking a number of new threats, before common desktop anti-virus tools were able to detect them."
"It helps us when segmenting and securing the network and all sort of technologies, all sort of next generation needs. It's next generation phases of firewall like anti-virus, sandboxing, wifi, and VPN."
"Stability is never a concern."
"Being an application-based firewall, this is one of the critical focus factors along with the threat prevention services it provides."
"There are many valuable features."
"The antivirus features are valuable."
"The firewall functionality and unified threat management are the most useful features."
"What I like about his program, is that it is easy to use and easy to manage."
"I like the functionality and the user interface."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos XG is the VBM."
"It is feature-rich, I like the server authentication, and the reports are good."
"The updates are helpful and add to the solution in a positive way."
"The support is good but they could be faster."
"The only complaint that we receive from our customers is in regards to the price."
"The VPN and decryption need improvement."
"Our main concern is that everything has to be synced with the WildFire Cloud and has to be checked through the subscription."
"I don't think it needs to improve anything, except maybe the speed to deploy the changes."
"I would give this product a rating of 9 out of 10 due to some slight issues of performance."
"Other vendors have some sort of bandwidth management built into the firewall itself and Palo Alto is missing that."
"The price could be better."
"Sophos XG does not have the ability to disconnect a user."
"We are facing some technical issues with Sophos XG right now. We have already escalated this issue with the Sophos technical support. They seem to be working on it. We are satisfied with the technical support. They reply quickly to our queries, but sometimes take time upgrading their systems."
"I'd like to see better reporting. While the logs are great, the reports are not."
"The user interface could be better."
"Lacks improved throughput performance in a box."
"The user interface could be improved and more bandwidth management would be helpful."
"One feature I would like to add is remote wipeout capability. This would be useful in cases where a user leaves the organization and fails to return their laptop. Remote wipeout would allow for the deletion of data from the device with a single command. Regarding technical support from Sophos XG, it's generally satisfactory. However, the response time could be improved. It takes around one hour to receive assistance, but reducing this to 30-45 minutes would benefit us."
"Areas for improvement would be the access points and the on-premise version, which is very bad."
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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