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, Fortinet and others in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)."Scalable ATP solution that's quick to set up. It demonstrates good performance and stability."
"It is the best device in comparison to other network products in the marketplace."
"The technical support is good."
"Intuitive threat prevention and analysis solution, with a machine learning feature. Scalable, stable, and protects against zero-day threats."
"WildFire's application encryption is useful."
"It helps us when segmenting and securing the network and all sort of technologies, all sort of next generation needs. It's next generation phases of firewall like anti-virus, sandboxing, wifi, and VPN."
"The most valuable feature for us is the VPN."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten since we never faced any issues."
"Monitoring and reporting are areas that need improvement."
"The most valuable features of Sophos UTM are the ease of use, it is very user-friendly. You can understand what they implement in the new firmware, and it's easy to manage the firewalls."
"Sophos UTM is the simplest of these products to setup."
"The initial configuration is straightforward thanks to the web GUI. In 30 minutes, you can have a running firewall with UTM protection enabled."
"It helps us with protection, with concurrent use of the VPN."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is reporting, it is flexible. I can monitor the end user's devices, even when they are not on my network. It has good drill-down capabilities."
"It is a very good product. The threat monitoring process is the most valuable feature."
"Sophos UTM provides security for our network here and access through a VPN connection for our remote users. It also offers the flexibility to create different tools for accessibility."
"The cost of this solution could still be improved, in particular, giving product discounts for charitable causes."
"The price of WildFire should be reduced in order to make it more affordable for our customers."
"As a firewall and 360 degrees of security, there needs to be more maturity."
"There are some formats that the solution cannot support ."
"The size of Palo Alto's cloud is big but it could be easier to use from a product management perspective."
"The data analytical system for deployment needs to improve."
"The product's false positive logs could be more user-friendly to understand. They could provide examples of precious cases to learn."
"In terms of what I'd like to see in the next release of Palo Alto Networks WildFire, each release is based on malware that has been identified. The key problem is an average of six months from the time malware is written to the time it's discovered and a signature is created for it. The only advice that I can give is for them to shorten that timeframe. I don't know how they would do it, but if they shorten that, for example, cut it in half, they'll make themselves more famous."
"It is a pretty straightforward setup, but it should be some sort of documentation that takes you step-by-step to help set it up for your VPC."
"The logs are not clear, which means that you need an additional piece of software in order to read them clearly."
"Sophos should improve its ability to check something like bandwidth consumption for users or something more real-time."
"During initial configuration, I encountered a few issues."
"Initially, there were issues with the wireless network as wireless access points were disappearing from the dashboard after some time."
"I am going to flat out say technical support is terrible. Being a Platinum level customer, I am not happy with the support."
"The initial setup may be difficult for those not familiar with the product."
"I didn't like it much. It suits only small businesses. It isn't scalable and reliable. There is a very critical issue with the power supply."
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, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Proofpoint Email Protection 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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