We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Sophos XG 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."The product is easy to use and is stable. The SV1 functionality is a benefit."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"It does a lot for you for intrusion protection and as an antivirus. The threat management bundle is worth the money. You don't need another company to monitor your web traffic for you. You can do everything yourself on the firewall. You restrict your own black list for people on the firewall. You don't need to pay some other company for another product to do that for you. The firewall can do that for you. So, it's an easy-to-use product for people to be independent. They don't need to rely on other vendors to do what the firewall can do. They can do everything."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable solution."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"It can expand easily."
"The IPsec tunnels are very easily created, and quite interoperable with devices from other vendors."
"We use a lot of function on the IPS and it works well for us."
"What I like about the VM-Series is that you can launch them in a very short time."
"I have not actually called their support line, because we have a direct contact to a senior engineer in the company for any issues that we handle with them. I will say they are very responsive, and they do give you the information you need when you need it."
"We have reduced the number of configuration lines by 90%. We need fewer number of admins right now because of it."
"It is reliable and the support is very good."
"The VM series has an advantage over the physical version because we are able to change the sources that the machine has, such as the amount of available RAM."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its stability, ease of implementation, ease of operation, and security."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is very easy to use."
"It has excellent scalability."
"The user interface is very good. It's already quite simple and easy to use."
"I like it for its simplicity. It is very simple to configure and implement. It is a very good product for medium-sized organizations."
"Content blocking for websites is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that the license offers everything."
"It is very easy to use. You can configure and monitor everything from one unique dashboard."
"The web application firewall reverse proxy is very good."
"The interface is very user-friendly and it's easy to manage."
"What I like about his program, is that it is easy to use and easy to manage."
"The UI could be improved."
"There are some problems that support cannot give you a logical reason as to why it happened. For example, I had a case where I was dealing with a WhatsApp application that was giving issues. Technical support gave more than one reason it could be giving issues, but none of them solved the problem. Eventually I solved the problem, but it was far from the solutions that support had given."
"A sandbox would be good in order to be able to inspect the emails containing spam and be able to validate the emails that contain malware, prior to delivering to the customer."
"Its reporting and pricing need improvement."
"If they had better integration with security products, such as Cisco ISE or Rapid Threat Containment, then it would be an improvement."
"Fortinet needs to overhaul its documentation."
"The user interface could be improved to make it less confusing and easier to set up."
"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."
"The DLP functionality or data classification can be improved in the solution's basic firewalling."
"The user-friendliness of the UI could be improved."
"In the next release, I would like to see better integration between the endpoints and the firewalls."
"The solution must improve Zero Trust integration and use cases."
"All areas need improvement: manufacturing, education, financial, etc."
"With Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, it is hard for me to manage its network configuration part."
"The only minor issue we've faced is with the app's ID configuration, which requires specific matching for application filtering."
"The one issue that I didn't like is that the SNMP integration with interfaces didn't record the interface counters."
"Support could be improved."
"Sophos XG could improve by making the remote access and VPN better."
"The initial setup is not straightforward."
"Their technical support needs improvement. I've been on hold with them for hours waiting for their support."
"It would be helpful if the solution offered some tutorial videos to help new users learn the system quickly."
"While it is possible to configure between two of the solution's devices in the same model, the high available usually fails."
"We feel that the GUI can be improved a bit because it has a lot of information and looks a bit outdated."
"The only area that requires improvement is scalability."
Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 53 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". 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 VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Juniper SRX Series Firewall, whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS, SonicWall TZ and Meraki MX. See our Palo Alto Networks VM-Series vs. Sophos XG report.
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