We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks K2-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."Using this product makes the VPN seamless and almost invisible to me in the sense that I don't have to think about it."
"Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"I really like the captive portal feature for our guest network. It has nice VLAN features in terms of separating our network. The anti-virus is also good."
"The CLI and GUI do a good job of putting a lot at your fingertips."
"The wireless control is helpful."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"Easy to use support and licensing portal as well as activation process."
"It's a firewall that secures our internal network. I have been using it since 2013, and I find that most of the features are advanced, and very user friendly."
"K2-Series' best features include its scalability, which is the best on the market."
"Palo Alto has a unique solution for DNS security, which is very good."
"It caters to typical use cases across various technologies. MDR and XDR, for example, focus on user and endpoint protection. It's pretty straightforward."
"I have found that Palo Alto Networks K2-Series has the best security. They are more user-friendly, older firewalls used to have to be configured using the command-line interface, but in this solution, it can be done in the GUI."
"As long as the solution is kept updated, it's pretty stable."
"The scalability of the product is quite high."
"The most valuable feature is availability."
"The most valuable features are the virtualization of the firewall and the antivirus."
"The most significant aspect is the protection it offers."
"Sophos firewalls are scalable. They are pretty strong in security. So, when they provide any kind of firewall, they provide all the features such as anti-spam, antivirus, etc."
"Everything is consolidated into a single box, offering comprehensive functionality, including Wi-Fi access and other features."
"The stability of Sophos XG is good, it has good performance."
"Sophos XG has cybersecurity. It integrates with the antivirus software."
"Great reporting feature and great customer support."
"The web application firewall reverse proxy is very good."
"The performance is good."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve the integration with Active Directory. Additionally, I would like to have a Cloud Controller, such as they do in the Cisco Meraki solution."
"It is very expensive, and their support is not very good. I hope that their technical support will be better in the future."
"I think that the infrastructure for the VPN could be improved. The way that it is bundled also made it difficult to use and sell as it is too expensive."
"A lack of integration between our data centers."
"I need user-behavior analytics, to find threat scenarios from inside the organization, insider attacks. That would be very helpful for us. In addition, I would like next-generation features for small and medium businesses. These businesses require UTM, all in one product. Fortinet must include it."
"Quality control on their firmware versions needs improvement. When they introduce new firmware, there tend to be bugs."
"The UI could be improved."
"There are a lot of bugs in this solution."
"The ease of management and configuration should be improved."
"The scalability of Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is good. It is good for larger environments over smaller ones."
"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 password function of the solution could be improved. Additionally, some of the processes take too long to complete."
"Higher levels of support are excellent but new users may need additional options."
"The technical support, and how they provide it to the client, needs to be improved."
"We had some issues with upgrading in the past. They could make the process easier."
"The initial setup, specifically when activating the license, is a nightmare and is quite difficult."
"While it is a secure solution, I believe it could be improved."
"Recently, I've had a problem with updating things."
"It is already secure but it could be better in terms of other breaches that may occur."
"It is complicated to get the reports if you are not experienced with Sophos."
"The solution should have the ability to be up to date with the most recent threats."
"We recently did an upgrade on the Sophos XG firmware and we were surprised that after the upgrade, the automatic switch actually we were using did not work anymore."
"We are facing some technical issues with Sophos XG right now. We have already escalated this issue with the Sophos technical support. They seem to be working on it. We are satisfied with the technical support. They reply quickly to our queries, but sometimes take time upgrading their systems."
Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is ranked 27th in Firewalls with 29 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is rated 8.4, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. 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 XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and SonicWall TZ. See our Palo Alto Networks K2-Series vs. Sophos XG report.
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