We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks WildFire and Symantec Advanced Threat Protection based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is the cloud-based protection against zero-day malware attacks."
"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."
"Being an application-based firewall, this is one of the critical focus factors along with the threat prevention services it provides."
"High availability with active-active and active-passive modes."
"We get support in the free version."
"Stability is never a concern."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"Symantec Endpoint Protection provides end-to-end protection. Along with antivirus protection, it has a lot of key areas, including intrusive prevention, firewall features, and application and device control."
"Endpoint to network protects the line."
"The Application Control code and the easy integration are valuable features."
"Currently we have 800-plus nodes connected with this solution, without any issues. The solution is scalable."
"Technical support has been helpful and responsive."
"The great advantage in using this product is it creates multiple services."
"The incident management on the solution is very good. You get a lot of detailed information about an incident. You also get a lot of documentation in connection with the CVI or integration."
"It has certainly helped out our audit efforts because we each stay compliant in terms of various security standards."
"The cost of this solution could still be improved, in particular, giving product discounts for charitable causes."
"When comparing this solution to others it is not as good overall."
"The free version does not have real-time updates. It is slow."
"Management and web filtering can be improved. There should also be better reporting, particularly around web filtering."
"The initial setup was complex."
"The only complaint that we receive from our customers is in regards to the price."
"The deployment model could be better."
"The global product feature needs improvement, the VPN, and we need some enhanced features."
"There are some features that would add value to this product. One of them would be a graphical presentation of threats that the system has encountered."
"Not ideal for advanced threat protection."
"The support for new OSs and older OSs could be a little tighter. They need to be more upfront about what protection services they're going to provide on new OSs. I haven't seen the Windows 11 version out yet. It is either already released in Beta, or the Beta will be released soon. There could be a little bit more advanced updates on what they're doing to help protect Windows 11 environments. They can let us know in advance so that we know it is going to be protected. We can't roll out the new OS without putting end-point protection on it. So, they should tell us what is their support model for that, and what are they doing to protect Windows 11. They're not telling me, and that's a criticism. The same issue is applicable to all the other antivirus tools. It is not just Symantec; all of them have this problem."
"Scalability could be better."
"The security features need to be improved."
"Entire threat protection is not available for the advanced features."
"There are limits with respect to blocking files by hash value or blocking IP addresses, and these limits should be removed."
"The support has dropped down to a five out of ten."
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Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews while Symantec Advanced Threat Protection is ranked 20th in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 14 reviews. Palo Alto Networks WildFire is rated 8.4, while Symantec Advanced Threat Protection 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 Symantec Advanced Threat Protection writes "Provides end-to-end antivirus protection and has good stability ". Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Proofpoint Email Protection and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Symantec Advanced Threat Protection is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Check Point SandBlast Network, Fortinet FortiSandbox, Trellix Network Detection and Response and Arbor DDoS. See our Palo Alto Networks WildFire vs. Symantec Advanced Threat Protection report.
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