We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks WildFire and Sophos Cyberoam UTM 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 feature of this solution is how it keeps up-to-date with viruses."
"The solution is easy to use and the Panorama feature is good. The software management or the malware blocking and some authentication management system are good."
"Remote access is excellent."
"High availability with active-active and active-passive modes."
"It catches modified signatures of known viruses."
"The solution is completely integrated with all the other Palo Alto products. I think that it is the best part for endpoint protection. The firewall features include URL and DNS filtering, threat protection, and antivirus."
"What I like about Palo Alto is that it is a complete product, with everything in it."
"It is the best device in comparison to other network products in the marketplace."
"Our customers find it economical and offers good security. These two features are key. Ease of installation and implementation are also key factors."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"The security capabilities are okay."
"I believe it's the advanced security software that offers SMPP protection for the agent."
"The product is a simple and user-friendly UTM that can handle accounting, reporting, firewall, IPS, and antivirus for industries."
"The performance has been good overall."
"Content filtering, as this enables me to control that which employees can view at different time quotas."
"User and network policies to be managed on a single screen with powerful filtering and search options."
"The initial setup was complex."
"The size of Palo Alto's cloud is big but it could be easier to use from a product management perspective."
"I don't think it needs to improve anything, except maybe the speed to deploy the changes."
"I think it would be nice for Palo Alto to work without the connection to the cloud. It is 100% powerful when connected to the cloud. But, if you disconnect from the cloud, you only get 40-50% power."
"The support is good but they could be faster."
"In the future, I would like to see more automation in the reporting."
"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 technical support response needs improvement."
"The blocking needs to be improved."
"The product is at its end-of-life. There is nothing to improve as it will be discontinued."
"The reporting should be improved as well as the backup."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could have a more advanced reporting function."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"The solution's pricing could be a problem for some small businesses."
"It should have a better VPN client. We decided to find something different than Cyberoam because of the VPN client software. It would be nice to have a user interface not only in English but also in different languages."
"Smaller CR15 units don’t have a hard disc or built in IView software. These units could do with that feature."
Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews. Palo Alto Networks WildFire is rated 8.4, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM 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 Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Proofpoint Email Protection, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Fortinet FortiSandbox, whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Netgate pfSense, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos UTM and Juniper SRX Series Firewall.
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