We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks WildFire and Symantec Web Isolation 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)."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."
"The most valuable feature is the Automatic Verdict, to recognize whether something is a threat, or not."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks WildFire is its ability to adapt to environments and its robustness."
"Stability is never a concern."
"My primary use case for this solution is for a secure gateway."
"We have found that Palo Alto Networks WildFire is scalable. We currently have six thousand users for the product."
"Using WildFire has reduced the number of viruses and the amount of malware that comes into our system, which means that I don't have to rely on the end-users to identify it."
"The backup is the best feature."
"The most valuable feature of Symantec Web Isolation is the user-friendliness of the solution."
"They provide a medium level of technical support."
"I would like to see them continue on their developmental roadmap for the product."
"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 automation and responsiveness need improvement."
"The deployment model could be better."
"The product's false positive logs could be more user-friendly to understand. They could provide examples of precious cases to learn."
"The cost of the solution is excessively high."
"The technical support response needs improvement."
"Symantec Web Isolation could improve by reducing licensing costs."
Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews while Symantec Web Isolation is ranked 23rd in Anti-Malware Tools with 1 review. Palo Alto Networks WildFire is rated 8.4, while Symantec Web Isolation is rated 9.0. 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 Web Isolation writes "User-friendly, reliable, and good support". Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Proofpoint Email Protection, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Fortinet FortiSandbox, whereas Symantec Web Isolation is most compared with Menlo Security Secure Web Gateway.
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