We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks VM-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 dashboard I have found the most valuable in Fortinet FortiGate."
"Fortinet FortiGate is stable. It's used across all the countries, this is the way most multinationals run their system."
"The most valuable feature is the interface, which is very user friendly. We are utilizing most of the features, like content filtering. The firewall is powerful."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable solution."
"The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good."
"The security features that they have are quite good. On top of that, their licensing model is quite nice where they don't charge you anything for the SD-WAN functionality for the firewall."
"The interface is very good."
"Palo Alto’s Panorama centralized management system simplifies our security posture based on our requirements. Instead of manually pulling logs, then generating them into readable formats, it gives us the console in a readable format to view."
"We can monitor the traffic manually and detect threats. Additionally, we can block different IP addresses and URLs."
"The VM-Series reports how much bandwidth a particular IP is using. You don't need to regularly log into a website, like a Cisco command, to see what kind of ACL it's getting. There isn't an ACL use portal event. You can go there and see how much my ACL has been getting me."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series has everything centralized. You have the VPN solution, firewall, routing, UDR, flexibility, updates, and full visibility of your traffic."
"The tool's cloud version makes application migration easy."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series's most valuable feature is the visibility of the environment."
"I like the UI. Most things are accessible from the user interface and it is quite user-friendly. With respect to both VM-based firewalls and physical firewalls, it's easy to create updates."
"The most valuable feature is the CLI."
"Sophos UTM's most valuable features are profiling and its simple configuration."
"So far, the solution has been problem-free."
"Sophos UTM's best feature is synchronized security."
"I like the web filtering options."
"The scalability is good."
"Installing Sophos UTM is straightforward. The deployment itself doesn't take long, but you have to spend some time planning and waiting for the hardware to be delivered."
"It gives us the ability to manage our firewalls from the cloud and deploy a unified configuration onto them. Other competitors like Meraki have that ability, but they fail to optimize it in the way that Sophos has."
"The solution can scale."
"Its customer service could be better."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"The renewal price and the availability could be improved."
"The solution could be more secure and stable."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"Performance and technical support are the main issues with this solution."
"It is very expensive, and their support is not very good. I hope that their technical support will be better in the future."
"The cloud management and automation capability could be improved."
"Palo Alto should update their documentation to make it more readable and provide easier-to-follow instructions through videos."
"There's room for improvement in terms of integration with the load balancer. It isn't like Fortinet, which has a load balancer built into its firewall. It is effortless to integrate within the load balancer-plus-firewall solution."
"The product could be better in terms of performance than one of its competitors."
"The product's AIOps process needs improvement."
"It would be helpful if we had a direct number for the support manager or the supporting engineer. That would be better than having to email every time because there would be less wait."
"The web interface is very slow, and it needs to be faster."
"There are some delays that I have observed when my company communicates with Palo Alto's support engineers."
"There could be dynamic DNS features similar to Fortinet in the product."
"The management suite is easy and the agent is easy to develop."
"We'd like to see them offer their services on mobile devices like tablets. I'm not sure if that's an option or not."
"In short, the UI and UX are the areas of improvement in Sophos UTM and similar solutions compared to Palo Alto."
"Sophos UTM could be simplified, and they can improve on the many other features, like SD-WAN and load balancing. Sophos UTM is missing a few features that their competitors have. For example, if you have multiple branches you would like to connect, the load balancing features aren't available on multilink. If we create a VPM for multiple LAN links, we cannot load balance the traffic."
"The virus updates will always depend on new viruses that are discovered. Maybe they can send a notification or a reminder for update time."
"Doesn't provide antivirus for individual computers."
"I would like to see Sophos UTM add support for all the new threat-detection technologies and the ability to respond to novel security threats that come along every day."
"Sophos UTM could improve if there was no limitation on users."
Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 13 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 37 reviews. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". 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 VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Check Point NGFW, 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 VM-Series vs. Sophos UTM report.
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