We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls 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."Unified Threat Management (UTM) features."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is URL filtering."
"Fortinet FortiGate is user-friendly and affordable."
"Mainly the FortiGate reporting system is very good. It guides us through all the expectations of security. Fortinet provides us all that we need for security. Also, Fortinet FortiGate is a next-generation firewall. It is much more advanced than others."
"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."
"I like Fortinet's cloud management. It allows me to manage all my devices in different branches for three cloud accounts. Even though I use on-prem devices, I can manage everything on the cloud."
"I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable."
"I'm pretty happy with its reliability. It is also very scalable."
"This is arguably the best security protection that you can buy."
"The ease of use and the ease of configuration of our policies are the most valuable features."
"Its flexibility is the most valuable."
"Comments have some delay, but overall, it's a good product."
"We have not had to replace hardware routers nor purchase additional hardware. So, that has provided a little bit of an ROI."
"The scalability is very good."
"I like the sandbox feature, and it's very good. It kills each malware deployment in the sense of signatures within five minutes. So, we can secure our network and infrastructure very well within the stipulated time. The WildFire functionality is very good because a few files are also getting blocked. It's critical as malware attacks are also getting ignored, and the logging is very well maintained in this firewall. The most valuable solutions in this field are application-based firewalls. That is the main criteria of the firewall and functionality. We can get all the logs related to this and each and every packet. I like that the firewall is working as an application. The application-based entity we have deployed is well maintained and working very well. We were able to find lots of vulnerabilities when we deployed it, but we could not disclose all. But there were vulnerabilities we could block by updating the firewall and taking actions on clientside machines. So, we got to know that we have lots of vulnerabilities inside the organization too, and we took lots of steps and resolved the number of vulnerabilities. Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is an all-in-one solution. It provides every entity log, which is a very good functionality of this firewall. It gives every packet and aspect that the firewall is performing through its logs, and it does it very well. This firewall's unified platform helped eliminate multiple network security tools. If anyone uses P2P sites, cryptocurrency websites, or any illegal sites, we can block it easily. It gives us a proper alert for these kinds of sites, and it properly secures our network. Monitoring is the best thing we are doing here, and we can block this kind of vulnerability as soon as it comes to us."
"The solution does a great job of identifying malicious items and vulnerabilities with URL filtering."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos XGS is the application control."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"Spam filtering is what I love most about XGS."
"Sophos XGS' best features are simplicity and its built-in reporting tool."
"The scalability of Sophos XGS is very good."
"The VPN is the best feature."
"Its customer service could be better."
"They need to improve their technical support."
"There are some complex administration tasks in their administration portal. That needs to be improved."
"It should provide better visibility over the network and more information in the form of reports for the end users. Its installation should also be easier."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"Their software support needs improvement. I would prefer to have better support for bug fixes. Sometimes, we open a ticket, and it is very difficult to get a solution. Specifically, we are not at all happy with their support for load balancing."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"The UTM filtering needs improvement."
"The built-in machine learning features provide some automation, but I think there should be an option for manual review because nothing replaces the human eye."
"The only real drawback to this product is that it is expensive. But you get what you pay for and there is no way to put a price on top-notch security."
"With new features and applications you get bugs."
"The pricing could be improved. They need to work on the setup over the firewall, VLAN, and PPPoE."
"It's too expensive."
"Enhancements could potentially be made to the firmware to improve its inspectability."
"I would like to see some Machine Learning because I have observed new types of attacks that are able to bypass existing security rules."
"I would like them to improve their GUI interface, making it more user-friendly."
"Sophos XGS would benefit from further development in the SD-WAN area."
"We'd like an interface that can monitor everything."
"There are some bugs relating to the product that allow VPN users to bypass the firewall."
"Sophos XGS could improve the price."
"In Sophos, the user portal is not user-friendly."
"The price of Sophos XGS could improve, it is high."
"Sometimes, we haven't received proper support. They couldn't find the solutions that we required. One thing that we need is an NTP server facility. The Sophos XGS device does not have this capacity or this feature."
"I would like to see a history of the monthly bandwidth utilization, the bandwidth consumption for a period of time."
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Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is ranked 6th in Firewalls with 162 reviews while Sophos XGS is ranked 17th in Firewalls with 58 reviews. Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is rated 8.6, while Sophos XGS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls writes "We get reports back from WildFire on a minute-by-minute basis". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos XGS writes "Highly stable, scalable, and priced well". Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is most compared with Check Point NGFW, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Sangfor NGAF, whereas Sophos XGS is most compared with Sophos XG, OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, WatchGuard Firebox and Meraki MX. See our Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls vs. Sophos XGS report.
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