We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Sophos XG based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The initial setup is straightforward."
"UTM/NGFW features and FortiCloud for logs and backups are awesome."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"The user interface (UI) is very, very good."
"We can use our devices to check all of the perimeters. It secures email websites."
"All of the features of Fortinet FortiGate are useful and the security protection is good."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"We use the filtering feature the most. It has filtering and inbuilt securities. We can create customized rules to define which users can access a particular type of site. We can create policies inside the firewall."
"The filtering feature is good."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the zero-trust security architecture."
"You already can scale it if you put it in Auto Scaling groups. If you put it in a load balancer, it should already be able to scale."
"In AWS, Palo Alto provides us a better view than flow logs for network traffic."
"It is very stable. It is fairly easy to use."
"In the newer version, there are 3850s, all of them are scalable. They fit better into the medium or small businesses."
"The tool's cloud version makes application migration easy."
"They now know the details about their network traffic that they did not know before: Applications that they are using and some application they did not know they were using."
"The product offers many great features."
"The solution is very easy to use and straightforward."
"Sophos offers great disk encryption, anti protection, and the interface is very user-friendly."
"Overall the solution works well."
"The solution is a next generation firewall and we have gotten good customer feedback."
"The VPN features and its capabilities are great."
"Technical support is responsive."
"The solution has good performance and is easy to use."
"Its reporting capabilities can be improved. It should have some out-of-the-box reporting capabilities and some degree of customization. The basic reporting that it currently has is not sufficient to create more usable reports. It needs some sort of out-of-the-box reporting. They try to make customers purchase FortiAnalyzer for this kind of reporting, which is an additional cost. Other firewall vendors, such as SonicWall and Sophos, provide this sort of reporting without any additional cost."
"One issue that I have had is that sometimes I need to monitor the traffic, so I need to filter it according to the user and which user is using it the most. I experience a bottleneck most of the time, particularly at the peak time when the number of contracts and users are at maximum."
"The cloud management and automation capability could be improved."
"It would be nice if backups could more easily migrate between different models."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"There are a lot of bugs I have found in the solution and it is difficult to upgrade. These areas need improvement."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having a frequent ask questions(FAQ) area for people to receive quick answers to popular questions. Additionally, it would be beneficial to have an SMS notification feature. For example, if you cannot access your email you could receive an SMS message."
"All areas need improvement: manufacturing, education, financial, etc."
"In the next release, I would like to see better integration of multi-factor authentication vendors."
"It would be helpful if we had a direct number for the support manager or the supporting engineer. That would be better than having to email every time because there would be less wait."
"Just sometimes it can be a bit sluggish navigating through pages. That is just purely because of Java."
"AWS doesn't integrate well with third-party firewalls."
"It'll help if Palo Alto Networks provided better documentation."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series needs to improve its order process."
"The current licensing model can be a sore point as we're paying for features we're not fully utilizing."
"The response time could stand improvement."
"Sophos can definitely improve with the interoperability between solutions."
"They can lower its price. It is very expensive. We are looking for a less expensive solution depending on our budget. They can also improve it in terms of firewall protection."
"The pricing can be high unless you choose a longer contract."
"Sophos needs improvements made to the console, such as host entry or defining rules directly from it."
"Sophos XG could improve the policies, they are a bit confusing when creating them. There are many options that make it confusing and it could be simplified."
"Sophos XG's web server protection and log viewer could improve. They should also introduce sandboxing."
"I would like to see in future releases a tool to scan for malicious packets and give the location of where they are coming from."
Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 53 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". 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 VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Juniper SRX Series Firewall, whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS, SonicWall TZ and Sophos UTM. See our Palo Alto Networks VM-Series vs. Sophos XG report.
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