We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks PA-Series and Sophos XGS 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."It has improved our organization with control data."
"It's very fast and easy to configure."
"FortiGate is very simple to manage and easy to use."
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"The most valuable feature of FortiGate is FortiView which provides proactive monitoring."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the rules and quality of service."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"The next-generation firewall is great."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The solution is robust."
"Palo Alto blocks the new threats better than other tools."
"It is stable when you set up something and put it into production. Once it works, you don't have other tasks or actions to perform."
"It offers application-based policy enforcement. Palo Alto Networks firewalls help us recognize protocol anomalies, contrasting with other vendors that may require policies based on port numbers. With Palo Alto Networks, the port number isn't a constraint because their devices handle protocol traffic at Layer 7, allowing for accurate identification of protocol usage and port numbers. They can identify which protocol actually uses which port."
"The solution is used for security and IoT security."
"It has its own logging system. You can go to monitoring and check the logs to see if a connection is getting blocked. You can use multiple types of logs to check if a file or a port is getting blocked or if there are any TCP resets from the source or destination. It's easy to troubleshoot with the monitoring and logging it provides."
"Comprehensive logging is essential for monitoring and analysis purposes. For remote users, the firewall can be configured as a VPN concentrator, with VPN policies defined within the firewall settings."
"It's very easy to manage this solution."
"The initial setup is very user-friendly because they have graphical user interface options and command line interface options. I would give the initial setup a rating of five out of five."
"The threat management system and VPN are most valuable."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The initial setup is very simple."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos XGS is its ease of use."
"Web filtering and intrusion detection are essential features. As system integrators, we also like the dashboard because it's easier to configure all the features."
"Setup was straightforward. One person is enough for deployment."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"There are some complex administration tasks in their administration portal. That needs to be improved."
"The support costs and licensing are sometimes so expensive."
"The reports are very basic."
"When we cluster the two Fortinet FortiGate boxes together we have some issues."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"They need to improve their technical support."
"With Palo Alto Networks PA-Series, I find that the support team takes a long time to resolve the issues that a user may face during the use of the product."
"Currently, they are not protected with any data security when they work from home or outside the network. They surf the Internet directly and should implement a proxy or firewall to monitor the data between the endpoint and the internet."
"Palo Alto should integrate artificial intelligence for security purposes in the background for well-known threats and new risks coming to the market."
"Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is expensive. We would like to see additional threat hunting features."
"The interface is complex."
"Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is complicated to configure compared to one of its competitors."
"Utilizing these features as a unified solution can require additional setup, particularly when incorporating Panorama for centralized management, which may involve extra costs."
"The solution's licensing price could be improved."
"It has recently started to suddenly block and crash."
"There can be lag time when updating an operating policy."
"Support is great, however, it can always be improved."
"They need intelligent reporting, not just your simple, standard reports."
"There are some bugs relating to the product that allow VPN users to bypass the firewall."
"Sophos XGS could improve by having better integration with Active Directory."
"The VPN capability needs some improvement in Sophos XGS."
"The SD-WAN feature isn't very good. It's there, but it doesn't work properly."
Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 28 reviews while Sophos XGS is ranked 17th in Firewalls with 58 reviews. Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is rated 8.6, while Sophos XGS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks PA-Series writes "Offers trained customer support, stability and ease of use ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos XGS writes "Easy to use, simple to learn, and offers great reporting". Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is most compared with OPNsense, SonicWall NSa, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Sophos XG, whereas Sophos XGS is most compared with Sophos XG, OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, WatchGuard Firebox and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Palo Alto Networks PA-Series vs. Sophos XGS report.
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