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."I like Fortinet FortiGate's antispam filter, SPN, and clustering features."
"It's user-friendly and easy to operate."
"The secure web gateway module and the application control module are valuable. HA operations are very easy."
"It's very easy to configure."
"We have found it to be very reliable and that's why our teams and various users in our company use it as our main firewall every day."
"Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"We can use our devices to check all of the perimeters. It secures email websites."
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"Innovative, advanced threat protection is the most valuable feature."
"Palo Alto NGFW provides a unified platform that natively integrates all security capabilities, which is very useful. This prevents us from having to go to a lot of different systems, and in some cases, many different systems in many different regions, because we are a global company with 60 remote offices around the world in 30 different countries. Its centralized platform is really what we look for in all services, whether it be security or otherwise."
"We have found the DPI ability to understand web applications and build access rules on web application categories first to be a great feature."
"Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls enable efficient application search, viewing, and configuration access across various services for different user groups within our company."
"The key aspect of this solution that provides the most value is its next-gen capabilities, which represented a significant change for us."
"GlobalProtect and App-ID features are very good."
"The most significant benefit is threat protection. Anti-malware uses signatures, so dynamic analyzers like WildFire are the best way to protect the company. It is a firewall based on application control, user ID, and security policy. We can use it based on user and application ID without a stateless firewall or TCPIP ports."
"Sophos XGS' best features are simplicity and its built-in reporting tool."
"The solution is cost-effective and easy to manage."
"The solution is scalable."
"It's much faster than the previous firewall, so you can do the work faster."
"The most valuable features of Sophos XGS for me are XGS IPS, SD-WAN, VPN setup, email protection, and integration with endpoint security."
"Sophos XGS has contributed to the reduction of the overall security costs of our company's customers."
"One of the main advantages of Sophos XGS is the processor. You don't have to wait a long time for when you are managing the firewall and the traffic is faster now."
"It offers an easy initial implementation."
"The ease of use could be improved."
"If they could extend their fabric towards other vendor environments for integration, that would be great."
"In terms of what could be improved, the SD-WAN is quite difficult, because if you install the new box, 15 is okay, but if you change from an old configuration, if there is already configuration and a policy when you change to SD-WAN, you must change the whole policy that you see in the interface."
"FortiGate support could do some improvements on their IPv6 configuration. Right now it's still in the very early stage for utilizing in an enterprise level network environment."
"The UI could be improved."
"It would be nice if FortiGate incorporated some built-in endpoint protection features. I would also like a built-in SOC dashboard for managing multiple Fortinet firewalls."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"Fortinet currently has many products bundled with FortiGate including the basic firewall and load balancer, and I think that that they need to have separate product portfolios for each of these specialized services."
"The cloud could be improved. I would like to have more visibility of the vulnerabilities of the network as well."
"We have not taken Palo Alto's firewall management solution because it's too expensive and we don't feel it delivers significant value."
"The cost of the device is very high."
"The solution has normal authentication, but does not have two-factor or multi-factor authentication. There is room for development there."
"When there was change from IPv4 to IPv6, some of the firewalls still didn't support IPv6. In North America, we have seen most customers are using IPv6, as they are getting the IPv6 IPs from their ISPs. Sometimes, when they go through the firewall, it denies the traffic."
"I would like to see better third-party orchestration so that it is easier for the team to work with different products."
"I would like integration with Evident.io and RedLock."
"Based on the features that I have seen so far, I do not see any room for improvement, but they can improve their CLI documentation. I haven't really seen much when it comes to CLI documentation."
"Level one technical support is not good at all and needs to be improved."
"The VPN capability needs some improvement in Sophos XGS."
"The price of Sophos XGS could improve, it is high."
"They should customers who are facing issues with their product reviews; they found bots in it. If they can do their proper research and use the user analysis and testing, that would greatly help the clients."
"Sophos' technical support has degraded in the last couple of years. They seem to need to ask a lot of questions, even with simple problems, and take a long time to provide solutions."
"It would be useful if Sophos XGS included DDNS-based features."
"Sophos XGS could improve by having better integration with Active Directory."
"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."
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Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 164 reviews while Sophos XGS is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 62 reviews. Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is rated 8.6, while Sophos XGS is rated 7.8. 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 "Easy to use, simple to learn, and offers great reporting". 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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