We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks PA-Series and Sophos XGS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."There are great templates, so you don't have to customize them if you don't want to. You do have the option to custom create some folders and some reports, however, with what is there, you don't really need to go through extra effort, as they already give you a lot of predefined views of reports and so forth."
"A strong point of FortiGate is the graphical interface is complete and easy to use."
"The CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"Fortigate is very scalable to serve our customers' needs. We have scaled already from fifty to more than a hundred instances of Fortinet FortiGate. Around 20 staff are required for deployment and maintenance, mostly engineers."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is security. They are known for efficiency and are on the top of Gartner Quadrant reviews. Fortinet FortiGate has an easy-to-use platform with a good graphical interface. The configuration is simple and the solution provides an overall good layer of security."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"Fortinet FortiGate has many valuable features, such as IDS, and intrusion detection. It has security features that are in part with the technologies that are available in the market."
"The notable features that I have found most valuable are that it includes the antivirus, and also IPS, and even SD-WAN."
"Palo Alto Networks firewalls offer single-mode panel processing with live scanning."
"It offers application-based policy enforcement. Palo Alto Networks firewalls help us recognize protocol anomalies, contrasting with other vendors that may require policies based on port numbers. With Palo Alto Networks, the port number isn't a constraint because their devices handle protocol traffic at Layer 7, allowing for accurate identification of protocol usage and port numbers. They can identify which protocol actually uses which port."
"The product's initial setup process was simple."
"I like the tool's security and web filtering features."
"It is stable when you set up something and put it into production. Once it works, you don't have other tasks or actions to perform."
"The solution is easy to manage."
"A valuable feature that we can consider is the deployment time, which is significantly reduced, almost 90% faster compared to other solutions. This leads to quicker deployment and less downtime."
"The solution provides good customer support."
"The threat intelligence capabilities of the tool are good."
"It is scalable."
"The VPN is the best feature."
"The centralized security is very good."
"The threat management system and VPN are most valuable."
"Spam filtering is what I love most about XGS."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"Sophos XGS' most valuable features are protection and intrusion prevention detection."
"Some of the software stability could improve."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"The performance could be a bit better. Right now, I find it to be lacking. Having good performance is very important for our work."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"It is very expensive, and their support is not very good. I hope that their technical support will be better in the future."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"With Palo Alto Networks PA-Series, I find that the support team takes a long time to resolve the issues that a user may face during the use of the product."
"The technical support offered by Palo Alto is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The solution's licensing price could be improved."
"Palo Alto should integrate artificial intelligence for security purposes in the background for well-known threats and new risks coming to the market."
"Utilizing these features as a unified solution can require additional setup, particularly when incorporating Panorama for centralized management, which may involve extra costs."
"The UI definitely needs work. In my opinion, the UI could be simpler and more user-friendly for the average user."
"Palo Alto Networks PA-Series should improve its price. It should also include a feature similar to Sophos' Security Heartbeat."
"The product's gateway services can be improved."
"The VPN capability needs some improvement in Sophos XGS."
"I rate Sophos' support five out of 10. It's sometimes difficult to contact them, and finding a solution is not easy."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"We'd like an interface that can monitor everything."
"We'd always like the solution to be a bit less in terms of cost."
"Sophos XGS could improve the price."
"There are some issues with conversion and user roles when upgrading to Cyberoam."
"It would be nice to have features like the network access control (NAC) that Cisco has for Identity Services Engine. In the next release, I would also like to see an increase in the performance of the processing units."
Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is ranked 17th in Firewalls with 28 reviews while Sophos XGS is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 62 reviews. Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is rated 8.6, while Sophos XGS is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks PA-Series writes "Offers trained customer support, stability and ease of use ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos XGS writes "Easy to use, simple to learn, and offers great reporting". Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is most compared with OPNsense, SonicWall NSa, Sophos XG and Juniper SRX Series Firewall, whereas Sophos XGS is most compared with Sophos XG, OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, WatchGuard Firebox and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Palo Alto Networks PA-Series vs. Sophos XGS report.
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