We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks WildFire and Sophos XG 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)."It is the best device in comparison to other network products in the marketplace."
"It gives a more accurate assessment of a virus in terms of whether it's truly a virus, malware, or a false positive. We have some legacy software that could pop up as being something that is malware. WildFire goes through and inspects it, and then it comes back and lets us know if it's a false positive. Usually, when it finds out that it's not a virus, it lets us know that it's benign, and it can exclude it from that scan, which means I don't even have to worry about that one popping up anymore."
"The solution is completely integrated with all the other Palo Alto products. I think that it is the best part for endpoint protection. The firewall features include URL and DNS filtering, threat protection, and antivirus."
"Detailed reporting on analysis of content. The inspections are easily applied to security policy profiles and profile groups, and may be assigned on a per-rule basis."
"The most valuable feature is the Automatic Verdict, to recognize whether something is a threat, or not."
"WildFire has been instrumental in blocking a number of new threats, before common desktop anti-virus tools were able to detect them."
"The cloud-based services are a nice feature."
"The reporting feature helps our performance."
"I like the tunneling part which we are using for the VOIP. We have various other sites where we connect via tunneling. The tunneling part is very fast and easy to implement."
"Some of the most valuable features are filtering and application control. The DDoS detection also shows traffic jamming and traffic shaping."
"It's a complete firewall solution that has everything."
"I have found configuring the ports to be easier in Sophos XG compared to the other devices."
"Dashboard is easy to use and the reporting offers a lot of detail."
"The product's initial setup phase was straightforward."
"Valuable features include: the ease of setting up the VPN connection; the fact they have the cloud management option, so I can manage the firewall on a cloud platform from anywhere I am; the user interface is very user-friendly, so it's very easy for the administrator to make any policy changes."
"The dashboard is customizable as well. It gives you the feature of including what you need to see as soon as you open the dashboard and to remove the non-necessary stuff, which varies from one organization to the next and from one IT manager to the next. And it has a wide variety of reports as well, template and customizable reports."
"The free version does not have real-time updates. It is slow."
"It's not really their problem, it's a problem across the board. There will always be problems with interrupted traffic. We have to set it up where we're playing a middle man game where we're stripping it out, looking at it, and then putting it back together and sending it on its way. That requires CPU cycles. And there's some overhead with that."
"The global product feature needs improvement, the VPN, and we need some enhanced features."
"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 support is good but they could be faster."
"The deployment model could be better."
"The cyber security visibility and forensics features to receive more information about incidents could improve in Palo Alto Networks WildFire."
"They should improve the hardware. If they can do that, it will be a very good product."
"The support service level agreement in regard to the amount of time needed to upgrade things is too low. It should be higher."
"The pricing can be high unless you choose a longer contract."
"I need to open the email to see what it contains and the value of it before I know whether to access it or not."
"The pricing has gotten much higher."
"They made some changes to the firmware update sometime last year, which moved some of the policies from where they were before. Some of the policies, such as NAS policies, were separated, which made it a bit hard for people to trace the policies they had configured."
"I can't use the product's application control feature, making it a disadvantage of the solution where improvements are required."
"One feature I would like to add is remote wipeout capability. This would be useful in cases where a user leaves the organization and fails to return their laptop. Remote wipeout would allow for the deletion of data from the device with a single command. Regarding technical support from Sophos XG, it's generally satisfactory. However, the response time could be improved. It takes around one hour to receive assistance, but reducing this to 30-45 minutes would benefit us."
Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. Palo Alto Networks WildFire is rated 8.4, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. 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 XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". 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 XG is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS and SonicWall TZ.
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