We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks K2-Series and Sophos UTM 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 threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"This is a quality product with ok support, and it is better than the competition we've tried."
"Initial setup is straightforward. There weren't too many issues with setting it up. It takes one hour or so."
"Our security improved from being able to put in rules and close off unwanted traffic."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"There are great templates, so you don't have to customize them if you don't want to. You do have the option to custom create some folders and some reports, however, with what is there, you don't really need to go through extra effort, as they already give you a lot of predefined views of reports and so forth."
"The SD-WAN is the most valuable feature."
"Simple integrations with the domain controllers and other inventories"
"Palo Alto has a unique solution for DNS security, which is very good."
"We've found the solution offers us good stability."
"Everything I could possibly want has already been implanted in the new version."
"Overall, this is a very simple and very effective firewall, and I am satisfied with it."
"This firewall is very good for our customers because they don't have to write their own rules for adding an application."
"The scalability of the product is quite high."
"I have found the threat profile feature valuable."
"It has made our organization more secure, because we are using a VPN. We are not accessing services directly. It allows us to segregate some of the traffic for individuals which may be more of a developer role rather than an operational role needing access to developer resources, but not necessarily production operational resources."
"It is not an easy task to protect your web servers from the big bad internet. The Web Server Protection in this solution does it elegantly and, if configured correctly, even hides the server's base system from prying eyes."
"The most valuable feature is that it is easy to administer."
"I like the web filtering options."
"Sophos SG UTM had all the basic functionality that you needed. It is user-friendly and easy to manage for any integrator."
"It has helped by identifying threats within the company. If there are computers or servers that are compromised, then we are able to identify them right away in the system."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the endpoint protection feature."
"The stability, overall, is excellent. I haven't had a problem in the last two years."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"One of the problems I was having was with user mapping, and it is an issue for which I have escalated tickets with Fortinet support."
"The solution needs to improve its integration with cybersecurity."
"The license renewal process, annual renewal price, and the web application firewall features should be improved."
"If I had any criticism that I would give FortiGate, it would be that they need to stop changing their logging format. Every time we do a firmware upgrade, it is a massive issue on the SIM. Parsers have to be rebuilt. Even the FortiGate guys came in and said that they don't play well in the sandbox."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"Lacks training for new features."
"Palo Alto releases a lot of bug fixes for their firewalls, which means it's necessary to do frequent upgrades. They should work on decreasing their bugs so that upgrades aren't needed so often."
"When it comes to renewing the solution, they tend to try to jack up the pricing."
"The licensing cost is a typical complaint with many clients. The solution is expensive."
"It would be really helpful to have dashboards that provide information on IOC blockings such as where and how many. It will also be good to know how many hashing files have been reported. It would also be nice to have easy access to this information. Otherwise, it's a painful, manual task."
"The scalability of Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is good. It is good for larger environments over smaller ones."
"I would like to see the threat intelligence capability integrated with other vendors such as Cisco and Forcepoint."
"Palo Alto has many other products. It would be nice for these products to be centralized under one tool"
"The technical support, and how they provide it to the client, needs to be improved."
"It's stable, but the reaction time of the GUI is terrible."
"There is absolutely no support when using AWS. If you buy the on-premise Sophos solution, you get support."
"Sophos UTM sometimes falls short in high-availability environments. They used to launch firmware that didn't work very well in a high-availability environment."
"Doesn't provide antivirus for individual computers."
"It does have built-in policies, which enable you to disable USB devices, etc. It would be nice if they had more policies because there are not that many of them."
"The UI can be cumbersome and, sometimes, features are not where you think they should be."
"Anti-phishing functionality should be improved."
"Sophos should improve its ability to check something like bandwidth consumption for users or something more real-time."
Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 29 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is rated 8.4, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks K2-Series writes "Easy to implement and manage, and the documentation is good". 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 K2-Series is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Palo Alto Networks K2-Series vs. Sophos UTM report.
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