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Fortinet FortiSandbox vs Palo Alto Networks WildFire vs RiskIQ Illuminate comparison

 

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Mindshare comparison

Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Fortinet FortiSandbox5.3%
Microsoft Defender for Office 3657.6%
Palo Alto Networks WildFire7.5%
Other79.6%
Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)
Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Palo Alto Networks WildFire7.5%
Microsoft Defender for Office 3657.6%
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint5.5%
Other79.4%
Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)
Attack Surface Management (ASM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
RiskIQ Illuminate1.0%
CrowdStrike Falcon7.2%
Darktrace4.9%
Other86.9%
Attack Surface Management (ASM)
 

Featured Reviews

AN
Security Manager at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Advanced sandboxing has protected users from zero-day threats and has simplified secure file scanning
The smooth integrations between Fortinet FortiSandbox and other Fortinet solutions such as FortiWeb and FortiFirewall and with other Fortinet environments are what I really appreciate. We have minimum false positives during threat detection. Our clients have not given negative feedback from detection. As you know, it still needs some tuning after implementation. However, we never receive negative feedback for many false positives during implementation.
RK
Engineer at Taalumgroup
Achieve effective threat prevention and seamless integration with powerful technical support
Integration with third-party products is possible. For example, connecting a mail gateway with Palo Alto Networks WildFire allows them to handle prevention. Palo Alto Networks WildFire is a cloud-based sandboxing solution. The firewall is connected to WildFire, and XDR performs sandboxing from the cloud. WildFire conducts malware scanning and emulation, then informs the firewall to block threats based on the response. It also generates reports regarding malware and other issues. The sandboxing process involves sending sample files to the cloud for scanning, checking file authenticity, certificates, and detecting malicious code. WildFire performs multiple checks and informs the XDR agent about file status. This automatic process occurs within minutes or seconds. For unknown or suspicious files, immediate blocking occurs while samples are sent to WildFire for identification. I rate Palo Alto Networks WildFire a 9 out of 10.
SimonClark - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Advisor - Director at Fort Net UK
Able to discover unpatched servers, offers good stability, and scales very well
A low-cost service to evaluate the risk score of a supply chain would be very helpful. This could be useful for insurance companies offering cyber insurance to enterprise customers, providing the insurer with a valuable way to unobtrusively, quickly, and frequently assess their customers and apply appropriate premiums for the level of risk. This would also be useful for enterprises. They could, for example, assess companies prior to a merger or acquisition. What would also be useful for any enterprise would be if their supply chain has some kind of direct digital access to parts of their network.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The product is great. It can be deployed on the cloud or on-premises."
"Setup and installation is very easy with the Fortinet Portal."
"The main benefit of Fortinet FortiSandbox is that it allows organizations to detect and prevent unknown threats from entering an infrastructure."
"Fortinet FortiSandbox's most valuable feature is the security it provides against threats, such as ransomware. Additionally, it integrates well with APIs."
"The installation is easy and straightforward."
"You have access to a report as to what behaviors the example file entered in the registry, showing how Windows changed parameters in order to obtain a breach, and this is demonstrated by the report."
"Fortinet FortiSandbox puts suspicious files in quarantine, analyzes for virus risks, and lets them out of quarantine if it detects no risk."
"The most valuable features for me when it comes to Fortinet FortiSandbox are the integrity of the Sandbox and the power of the analyzing tool of the solution."
"WildFire's application encryption is useful."
"High availability with active-active and active-passive modes."
"​Installing this product as a datacenter firewall for segregation and segmentation, and also configuring policies between zones has improved my organization."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks WildFire is its ability to adapt to environments and its robustness."
"I absolutely recommend WildFire because it dramatically reduces response times against zero-day attacks."
"It has powerful threat prevention capability with very few false positives."
"The technical support is good; they provide good service."
"Technology-wise, it is good because of the granular controls we get in Palo Alto Networks."
"The solution is stable with 12 years of established historical data."
"Attack Surface Management provided our customers with visibility on everything in their network and domains - anything publicly-facing on the internet - and shows where they have potential vulnerabilities."
 

Cons

"The licensing can be very confusing. It needs to be simplified."
"The initial setup of Fortinet FortiSandbox is complex. You cannot only deploy Fortinet FortiSandbox without deploying the stack of Fortinet solutions. The implementation and integration are challenging tasks with the device and placement in the network. We needed to do POC and offloading testing."
"The response time from technical support should be improved."
"The initial setup is not too complex but could be easier."
"If we can have more dashboards, it would be good."
"Most people are confused about how to use the right integration of the right Fortinet product."
"Fortinet FortiSandbox can improve by decreasing the time of analysis response. Other solutions have a better response time, such as WildFire."
"The area I would like this solution to be improved in is the integrations for Sandbox with AI and big data ML mechanisms. I think this would be a practical improvement."
"As a firewall and 360 degrees of security, there needs to be more maturity."
"Palo Alto doesn't do much to support the on-premise version. It wants too much self-support for the on-premise version of WildFire."
"The configuration should be made a little bit easier. I understand why it is as it is, but there should be a way to make it easier from the user side."
"Palo Alto limits the files submitted per day."
"Customer Service: Great when I was at a large company but average or less than average at a small company."
"The only complaint that we receive from our customers is in regards to the price."
"The only problem with this solution is the cost. It's expensive."
"There are not any negative aspects; the only issue is the price when compared to others."
"The product scales from small to enormous, however, the pricing is not suitable for very small companies."
"A low-cost service to evaluate the risk score of a supply chain would be very helpful."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Fortinet is more reasonable than Palo Alto."
"The solution is affordable."
"FortiSandbox is a subscription that can be purchased from Fortinet directly. Only using FortiSandbox as features purchased as a subscription in the cloud."
"The price of Fortinet FortiSandbox is expensive."
"Fortinet FortiSandbox is a nominally priced product, so I would not say that it is a very cheap tool."
"There is a license to use this solution."
"I rate the product's pricing a five or six on a scale of one to ten, where one is low, and ten is high."
"The license for Fortinet FortiSandbox depends on the use case."
"It depends on the features. Additional features cost additional money as well."
"The solution is a bit expensive."
"It is a reasonable price compared to other solutions on the market."
"The physical appliance is around €3,000 or €4,000, and then, you have the licensing for a year for around €3,000."
"The solution is overpriced."
"It's pretty expensive but with respect to value for money, it's okay."
"Setup costs and licensing for WildFire are comparable to other enterprise solutions."
"The pricing is highly expensive."
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Security Consultant at Webernetz.net - Network Security Consulting
Mar 11, 2015
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Top Industries

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Comms Service Provider
10%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Government
8%
Computer Software Company
8%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Comms Service Provider
8%
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Small Business15
Midsize Enterprise13
Large Enterprise9
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Small Business37
Midsize Enterprise16
Large Enterprise29
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Fortinet FortiSandbox?
The real-time analysis capability of FortiSandbox is beneficial for email analysis.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Fortinet FortiSandbox?
The cost is in the mid-range. It is not low and it is not high.
What needs improvement with Fortinet FortiSandbox?
I think Fortinet FortiSandbox could introduce more automation tools and AI tools.
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