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)."The analysis is very fast."
"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."
"A good tool for file scanning and email threat detection, especially when it comes to attachments and communications."
"It is the best device in comparison to other network products in the marketplace."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is how it keeps up-to-date with viruses."
"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 has plenty of features."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten since we never faced any issues."
"The most valuable feature is the IPS. It also protects us from malware."
"Efficient and effective - it's easy to separate rules."
"We find all of the features valuable because together they fit the needs of our customers."
"This is a very stable product."
"The solution is scalable."
"Good basic firewall functions with advanced firewall scanning."
"Configuration could not be made any easier."
"What I like about Sophos UTM is that it improves my company's security. The solution is easy to set up, which I like, and it's very stable."
"They should make their user interface a little more user-friendly."
"Palo Alto Networks WildFire could improve by adding support for manual submission of suspicious files and URLs. Additionally, it would be an advantage to add rule-based analysis. Currently, it uses only static and AI. We need to be able to analyze archive files."
"Many years back an update caused an issue with the firewall. However, Palo Alto not only informed us of said issue, they also sent an update that fixed the issue before I even had time to log in to determine if the issue affected our services."
"It would be nice if there was an easier way to install and deploy it, such as through the inclusion of wizards."
"The technical support response needs improvement."
"I don't think it needs to improve anything, except maybe the speed to deploy the changes."
"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."
"There are more specialized solutions that compete with Wildfire. Therefore, they need to work on their machine learning and AI to be more competitive."
"The pricing is an issue."
"Monitoring and reporting are areas that need improvement."
"It is a little too CPU resource intensive, so we would like to see improvements there."
"I don't really have any notes for improvements."
"We didn’t find any issues but I know there have been some in the last few years."
"This product could use some improvement with web filtering. It takes a lot of time and effort to set up and maintain."
"We need a better VPN client for the customers."
"The classification segregation of applications lacks sufficient definition."
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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