We performed a comparison between NetWitness Platform and Palo Alto Networks WildFire based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Log Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It gives the capability for the incident response team to correlate logs to identify any kind of problem like malware and incidents in a general sense, both for logs and packets."
"Offers a good wireless feature."
"The product has a user-friendly interface and a valuable feature for threat intelligence integration."
"The newer 11.5 version that my team is using has found it to have good mapping."
"Performance and reporting are very good."
"NetWitness can be highly beneficial for incident detection and response."
"Setting up NetWitness is straightforward. There are multiple connectors, including standard and specialized connectors. One purpose of the connectors is the enhanced capability integrate the custom applications. NetWitness comes with E6 appliances and application images that we use for the initial configurations and for the OS stack information. From there, you can consider the correlation rules, integrate the different log sources, and easily create correlation rules and backlog reports."
"The solution is really scalable for the high-end power, enterprise customer."
"With this product, we receive the best monitoring and reports."
"The reporting feature helps our performance."
"I give the initial setup an eight out of ten."
"Remote access is excellent."
"WildFire has been instrumental in blocking a number of new threats, before common desktop anti-virus tools were able to detect them."
"The way that the solution quickly updates to adjust to threats is the solution's most valuable aspect. When there's a security attack, within five minutes, all Wildfire subscribers have access to updates so that all systems will be safe. Its threat prevention is way better than other vendor products."
"The most valuable features of this solution are sandbox capabilities."
"The most effective feature of WildFire for threat analysis is its collaboration with other security profiles on our Palo Alto firewall."
"The threat detection capability and centralizing and upgrading capability need to be improved. The threat alert capability needs to be improved as well because there is some lag time at present. They need to work on their database search too."
"The initial setup is very complex and should be simplified."
"It should have a monitoring feature. It would help us analyze the current state of attacks faster from a single platform."
"Lots of competing products have vulnerability protection built into their products, and this solution would be improved by including that support."
"The multi-tenant capabilities are lagging compared to IBM QRadar."
"The user interface is a little bit difficult for new users and it needs to be improved."
"They should implement algorithms to digest that data and produce additional, more advanced reporting, alerting and support of internal security teams."
"Log aggregation is an issue with this solution because there are a huge number of alerts in a single instance."
"The only complaint that we receive from our customers is in regards to the price."
"Our main concern is that everything has to be synced with the WildFire Cloud and has to be checked through the subscription."
"There are more specialized solutions that compete with Wildfire. Therefore, they need to work on their machine learning and AI to be more competitive."
"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 price could be better."
"The price of WildFire should be reduced in order to make it more affordable for our customers."
"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 configuration should be made a little bit easier. I understand why it is as it is, but there should be a way to make it easier from the user side."
NetWitness Platform is ranked 18th in Log Management with 36 reviews while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews. NetWitness Platform is rated 7.4, while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of NetWitness Platform writes "Can find out if there is lateral movement, but integration and workflow need improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks WildFire writes "Good technical support and provides automatic analysis that saves us time in filtering email". NetWitness Platform is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, RSA enVision, IBM Security QRadar, Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Microsoft Sentinel, whereas Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Proofpoint Email Protection and Fortinet FortiSandbox. See our NetWitness Platform vs. Palo Alto Networks WildFire report.
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