We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks WildFire and SonicWall NSa based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, ESET and others in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)."The most valuable features of the solution are user-friendliness, price, good security, and cloud-related options."
"Installing this product as a datacenter firewall for segregation and segmentation, and also configuring policies between zones has improved my organization."
"We have found that Palo Alto Networks WildFire is scalable. We currently have six thousand users for the product."
"The analysis is very fast."
"The technical support is good."
"It has a user-friendly interface."
"Whole team can use the firewall and understand it."
"The most valuable feature is the Automatic Verdict, to recognize whether something is a threat, or not."
"The prices are similar to other vendors and the support is good."
"Content Filtering and sandboxing are valuable features."
"We can do the hosting and security all under one box. The UTM is a good feature."
"SonicWall has USCS and anti-virus at the gateway level. Everything is filtered, and if it detects an intruder, it drops the line."
"SonicWall NSa's most valuable features are the ease of configuration and the GUI."
"Setup is easy. Anyone with basic firewall experience can do it."
"We have utilized all the features. The most valuable are the URL filtering by category, DMZ zoning, load balancing and site-to-site VPN."
"The functionality is the same whether it is on hardware or a virtual appliance. The interface is the same. It's nice that it's standardized."
"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."
"It's not really their problem, it's a problem across the board. There will always be problems with interrupted traffic. We have to set it up where we're playing a middle man game where we're stripping it out, looking at it, and then putting it back together and sending it on its way. That requires CPU cycles. And there's some overhead with that."
"The threat intelligence that we receiving in the reporting was not as expected. We were expecting more. Additionally, we should be able to whitelist a specific file based on a variety of attributes."
"There are certain changes that I was expecting in the previous version, and I hope that they are soon fixed. All of the problems that I have faced so far have been resolved."
"I would give this product a rating of 9 out of 10 due to some slight issues of performance."
"They can keep on doing more updates. As new malware and viruses are coming out, they can make sure that WildFire is up to date."
"The price could be better."
"The free version does not have real-time updates. It is slow."
"It would be useful to have an application firewall that prevents the outside world from seeing your private IPs. You don't need to publicize your private IPs to the outside world, and you can create a barrier, like a proxy server."
"The features I would like to see improve are the dashboard and the UI."
"The thing main thing is that there's no user admin and in other firewalls, we can enable the scalable features, but SonicWall doesn't have that feature."
"The cloud services may be in need of some improvement."
"The solution can be a bit expensive."
"Competitors provide SSL encryption licenses for free, whereas SonicWall only provides two licenses by default, but you have to pay for the rest of the licenses."
"Some of the configurations could be better."
"We have used other solutions such as pfSense and Linux native firewalls. I prefer SonicWall NSa but if you are going to use something for an enterprise you need another solution."
Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 20th in Firewalls with 77 reviews. Palo Alto Networks WildFire is rated 8.4, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks WildFire writes "Good technical support and provides automatic analysis that saves us time in filtering email". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Proofpoint Email Protection, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Fortinet FortiSandbox, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Cisco Secure Firewall.
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