We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks WildFire and SonicWall TZ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet and others in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)."Using WildFire has reduced the number of viruses and the amount of malware that comes into our system, which means that I don't have to rely on the end-users to identify it."
"I like the analysis they apply to the unknown files, and I think they have good technology to use as a sandboxing tool. I didn't find something similar to WildFire in the marketplace."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is how it keeps up-to-date with viruses."
"Remote access is excellent."
"With this product, we receive the best monitoring and reports."
"The most valuable features of the solution are user-friendliness, price, good security, and cloud-related options."
"The most valuable feature is the improved security that it offers."
"I give the initial setup an eight out of ten."
"Good VPN connection."
"I've found the technical support to be helpful."
"User-friendly firewall solution which scales well, is stable, and has high availability."
"The most valuable feature is the user-friendly navigation."
"Most of the features are useful. It is easy to configure and easy to troubleshoot. I can see the utilization of different networks, and there are also App control features."
"SonicWall TZ is stable."
"The most valuable feature of SonicWall TZ is the double authentication, where it asks for one password and again asks for a four-digit code, which changes every 30 seconds."
"SonicWall TZ is very user-friendly and has network MAC binding. Additionally, the firewall works well."
"There are more specialized solutions that compete with Wildfire. Therefore, they need to work on their machine learning and AI to be more competitive."
"In the future, Palo Alto could reduce the time it takes to process the file."
"In the future, I would like to see more automation in the reporting."
"I don't think it needs to improve anything, except maybe the speed to deploy the changes."
"The product fails to offer protection when dealing with high-severity vulnerabilities, making it an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The data analytical system for deployment needs to improve."
"The cyber security visibility and forensics features to receive more information about incidents could improve in Palo Alto Networks WildFire."
"The only complaint that we receive from our customers is in regards to the price."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"I currently have two of the issues from SonicWall. One issue is that the IP is not the public IP. Sometimes it moves to an alternate source and I have to refresh the new IP then we can go on."
"The reporting analytics could be improved, it is very unstable."
"We would like to improve the rules configuration in SonicWall TZ. Sometimes the rules don't work."
"The solution has lost the trust of its customers because of moving from one company to another."
"In an upcoming release, SonicWall could improve by adding cloud management for all devices for free or at a nominal cost. Currently, they have a cloud management platform but is not free. We have the MySonicWall portal for purchasing from them for software updates and renewals."
"I would like to see lower antivirus pricing."
"Its reporting can be improved. Currently, we cannot directly get the user names. It only shows the IP, which makes it a bit confusing because we need to use the IP to find the user. If we could directly get the name of the user, it would be better."
Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews while SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. Palo Alto Networks WildFire is rated 8.4, while SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0. 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 TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Proofpoint Email Protection and Fortinet FortiSandbox, whereas SonicWall TZ is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX and SonicWall NSa.
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