We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks WildFire and Symantec Web Isolation 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)."WildFire has been instrumental in blocking a number of new threats, before common desktop anti-virus tools were able to detect them."
"The analysis is very fast."
"Scalable ATP solution that's quick to set up. It demonstrates good performance and stability."
"A good tool for file scanning and email threat detection, especially when it comes to attachments and communications."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten since we never faced any issues."
"The solution is scalable."
"They have many different options with Palo Alto WildFire and the set-up is quick. If you have all the details in hand, it does not take more than 15 minutes to deploy a firewall."
"What I like about Palo Alto is that it is a complete product, with everything in it."
"The most valuable feature of Symantec Web Isolation is the user-friendliness of the solution."
"As a firewall and 360 degrees of security, there needs to be more maturity."
"The size of Palo Alto's cloud is big but it could be easier to use from a product management perspective."
"I would give this product a rating of 9 out of 10 due to some slight issues of performance."
"The deployment model could be better."
"The price could be better."
"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."
"The GUI is better in 8.0, but I still feel it lacks the fast response most of us desire. Logs are much quicker."
"Palo Alto Networks WildFire could improve by adding support for manual submission of suspicious files and URLs. Additionally, it would be an advantage to add rule-based analysis. Currently, it uses only static and AI. We need to be able to analyze archive files."
"Symantec Web Isolation could improve by reducing licensing costs."
Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews while Symantec Web Isolation is ranked 23rd in Anti-Malware Tools with 1 review. Palo Alto Networks WildFire is rated 8.4, while Symantec Web Isolation is rated 9.0. 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 Symantec Web Isolation writes "User-friendly, reliable, and good support". Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Proofpoint Email Protection, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Fortinet FortiSandbox, whereas Symantec Web Isolation is most compared with Menlo Security Secure Web Gateway.
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