We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks WildFire and Sophos UTM 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 feature is the improved security that it offers."
"Their technical support is outstanding and top-notch."
"The cloud-based services are a nice feature."
"It is the best device in comparison to other network products in the marketplace."
"The most valuable feature is the cloud-based protection against zero-day malware attacks."
"We have found that Palo Alto Networks WildFire is scalable. We currently have six thousand users for the product."
"It has a user-friendly interface."
"The analysis is very fast."
"It does not take much effort or thinking to understand how it works."
"It allows our developers to be able to securely log into servers to deploy and manage software."
"It's easy to use."
"It is easy to manage."
"It is not an easy task to protect your web servers from the big bad internet. The Web Server Protection in this solution does it elegantly and, if configured correctly, even hides the server's base system from prying eyes."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the endpoint protection feature."
"Brings greater visibility into the network traffic coming inside and passing away from the company."
"The packet filtering's great. You get out what you put into it. It works great as long as you know your security and configure everything adequately. If you just pop one in and it's not configured, then it's basically wide open. It kind of depends on the admin skill, but it's an excellent product."
"The size of Palo Alto's cloud is big but it could be easier to use from a product management perspective."
"The solution can improve its traffic management."
"There are some formats that the solution cannot support ."
"The product's false positive logs could be more user-friendly to understand. They could provide examples of precious cases to learn."
"The cyber security visibility and forensics features to receive more information about incidents could improve in Palo Alto Networks WildFire."
"I would like to see them continue on their developmental roadmap for the product."
"Many years back an update caused an issue with the firewall. However, Palo Alto not only informed us of said issue, they also sent an update that fixed the issue before I even had time to log in to determine if the issue affected our services."
"I would give this product a rating of 9 out of 10 due to some slight issues of performance."
"Updates come out agonizingly slowly, a trickle."
"Doesn't provide antivirus for individual computers."
"There is absolutely no support when using AWS. If you buy the on-premise Sophos solution, you get support."
"The pricing is an issue."
"Sophos UTM could be simplified, and they can improve on the many other features, like SD-WAN and load balancing. Sophos UTM is missing a few features that their competitors have. For example, if you have multiple branches you would like to connect, the load balancing features aren't available on multilink. If we create a VPM for multiple LAN links, we cannot load balance the traffic."
"The product could be simplified and made more self-explanatory."
"The classification segregation of applications lacks sufficient definition."
"The solution's technical support for India needs to be improved."
Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Palo Alto Networks WildFire is rated 8.4, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. 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 Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Proofpoint Email Protection, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Fortinet FortiSandbox, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Fortinet FortiGate, Sophos XG, OPNsense and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls.
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