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, Fortinet and others in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)."It has a user-friendly interface."
"It is stable and pretty much scalable."
"My primary use case for this solution is for a secure gateway."
"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."
"The solution is easy to use and the Panorama feature is good. The software management or the malware blocking and some authentication management system are good."
"The solution is scalable."
"Remote access is excellent."
"With this product, we receive the best monitoring and reports."
"We recommend Sophos XG as a priority as it is much more reliable and has efficient technical assistance."
"The solution has very good security features, is easy to use for administrators and users, and has informative reports."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"We found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"The two most valuable feature of Sophos XG is, one the option to filter according to different applications and two, the integration with the Active Directory."
"The user interface is very good. It's already quite simple and easy to use."
"The most valuable features of Sophos XG for our use cases are its firewall capabilities, its ability to connect to wide area and local networks, and its VPN functionality."
"The solution was able to be integrated well with exciting hardware and software and in multiple business sectors."
"In the future, Palo Alto could reduce the time it takes to process the file."
"The automation and responsiveness need improvement."
"Palo Alto Networks WildFire should be more real-time in nature. The signature updates should happen in a minute or less than a minute to be a very good feature for the customer."
"The global product feature needs improvement, the VPN, and we need some enhanced features."
"I would like to see them continue on their developmental roadmap for the product."
"The VPN and decryption need improvement."
"The system performance degrades after the solution has been deployed for some time. The data that it gives us becomes a little bit slow. When you try to get some data for troubleshooting, it seems like it's working hard to extract that data."
"They provide a medium level of technical support."
"One area where Sophos XG could improve is in its patch management system."
"While it is possible to configure between two of the solution's devices in the same model, the high available usually fails."
"The VPN features can be improved. Due to covid-19, we have a lot of employees that work from home and we need better VPN capabilities."
"The response time could stand improvement."
"Its user interface is a little bit slow."
"There is an area that is very specific to our setup, where working tools you cannot easily establish a VPN between two internal networks."
"We are having challenges when using Zoom with Sophos XG deployed."
"Everything is working as expected at this moment, but the anti-spam solution in Sophos XG needs to be improved. It needs more granular features and more stability. The anti-spam solution currently doesn't have many features, and we would like to have more features. At this moment, there is no expression filter for anti-spam. We need something to be able to filter subjects or attachments in emails based on the keyword. Sometimes, there is an issue with anti-spam, and Sophos XG suddenly stops processing incoming or outgoing emails. The only solution for this issue is to restart the appliance. Their support should be improved. It takes a long time to escalate a support case from level one to level two."
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, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Proofpoint Email Protection and Fortinet FortiSandbox, whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS and SonicWall TZ.
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