We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks WildFire and Sophos XG 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)."The solution has plenty of features."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten since we never faced any issues."
"We have found that Palo Alto Networks WildFire is scalable. We currently have six thousand users for the product."
"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."
"It is the best device in comparison to other network products in the marketplace."
"The most valuable features of this solution are sandbox capabilities."
"The most valuable feature is the improved security that it offers."
"The most valuable feature for us is the VPN."
"We get good usage out of the features. It has enabled us to gain popularity. It has great features."
"The solution seems to be very easy to use."
"I particularly like the visibility it provides into network traffic, allowing us to identify and address issues efficiently."
"The initial setup is pretty simple."
"What we found valuable is the way they deal with emails, as well as the way the bandwidth usage is shown."
"The initial setup is very straightforward and the solution is extremely user-friendly."
"The product is very easy to explore. It has a very good layout."
"The stability has been excellent."
"Other vendors have some sort of bandwidth management built into the firewall itself and Palo Alto is missing that."
"The product fails to offer protection when dealing with high-severity vulnerabilities, making it an area of concern where improvements are required."
"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."
"There are more specialized solutions that compete with Wildfire. Therefore, they need to work on their machine learning and AI to be more competitive."
"The initial setup was a little bit complex, mainly due to the GUI console and management challenges."
"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."
"The cost of this solution could still be improved, in particular, giving product discounts for charitable causes."
"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."
"Content filtering could be more effective and efficient."
"The solution could improve by making the graphical interface better and increasing the performance."
"Scalability could be improved. It could be better."
"Their technical support needs improvement. I've been on hold with them for hours waiting for their support."
"I wish to see an antivirus feature added to the solution."
"The product's user interface has certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The GUI and support could be better. I think there are other products that we are going to deploy instead of Sophos. We have already upgraded a month ago because the interfaces and support for Sophos are really weak. But other products like Juniper, Cisco, or FortiGate are better than Sophos. It's also complicated, and the end-user or client does not understand it."
"The two main areas where this product needs improvement are routing and reporting."
Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. Palo Alto Networks WildFire is rated 8.4, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. 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 XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Proofpoint Email Protection and Fortinet FortiSandbox, whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS and SonicWall TZ.
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