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Palo Alto Networks WildFire vs RiskIQ Illuminate comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Palo Alto Networks WildFire
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
72
Ranking in other categories
Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) (1st)
RiskIQ Illuminate
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Attack Surface Management (ASM) (33rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

Palo Alto Networks WildFire and RiskIQ Illuminate aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Palo Alto Networks WildFire is designed for Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) and holds a mindshare of 7.5%, down 11.7% compared to last year.
RiskIQ Illuminate, on the other hand, focuses on Attack Surface Management (ASM), holds 0.9% mindshare, up 0.2% since last year.
Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Palo Alto Networks WildFire7.5%
Microsoft Defender for Office 3656.9%
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint5.4%
Other80.2%
Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)
Attack Surface Management (ASM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
RiskIQ Illuminate0.9%
CrowdStrike Falcon6.3%
Darktrace4.4%
Other88.4%
Attack Surface Management (ASM)
 

Featured Reviews

RK
Engineer at Taalumgroup
Achieve effective threat prevention and seamless integration with powerful technical support
Integration with third-party products is possible. For example, connecting a mail gateway with Palo Alto Networks WildFire allows them to handle prevention. Palo Alto Networks WildFire is a cloud-based sandboxing solution. The firewall is connected to WildFire, and XDR performs sandboxing from the cloud. WildFire conducts malware scanning and emulation, then informs the firewall to block threats based on the response. It also generates reports regarding malware and other issues. The sandboxing process involves sending sample files to the cloud for scanning, checking file authenticity, certificates, and detecting malicious code. WildFire performs multiple checks and informs the XDR agent about file status. This automatic process occurs within minutes or seconds. For unknown or suspicious files, immediate blocking occurs while samples are sent to WildFire for identification. I rate Palo Alto Networks WildFire a 9 out of 10.
SimonClark - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Advisor - Director at Fort Net UK
Able to discover unpatched servers, offers good stability, and scales very well
A low-cost service to evaluate the risk score of a supply chain would be very helpful. This could be useful for insurance companies offering cyber insurance to enterprise customers, providing the insurer with a valuable way to unobtrusively, quickly, and frequently assess their customers and apply appropriate premiums for the level of risk. This would also be useful for enterprises. They could, for example, assess companies prior to a merger or acquisition. What would also be useful for any enterprise would be if their supply chain has some kind of direct digital access to parts of their network.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"You have better control because you define apps, and the apps are monitored in the traffic, making it more specific than the Cisco firewall when it comes to our needs."
"This is a very good solution and from a technical perspective and it does a fantastic job."
"The technical support is good; they provide good service."
"The analysis is very fast."
"It catches modified signatures of known viruses."
"The solution handles DSD segregation and monitors the gateways"
"What I like about Palo Alto is that it is a complete product, with everything in it."
"If you're running Palo Alto firewalls there is no reason not to use it at the free level."
"The solution is stable with 12 years of established historical data."
"Attack Surface Management provided our customers with visibility on everything in their network and domains - anything publicly-facing on the internet - and shows where they have potential vulnerabilities."
 

Cons

"There will always be problems with encrypted traffic because we have to set it up where we're playing a middle man game, stripping it out, looking at it, and then putting it back together and sending it on its way, which requires CPU cycles and adds overhead."
"The support is good but they could be faster."
"Other vendors have some sort of bandwidth management built into the firewall itself and Palo Alto is missing that."
"When comparing this solution to others it is not as good overall."
"The solution is a bit expensive. You pay for security."
"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."
"As a firewall and 360 degrees of security, there needs to be more maturity."
"The free version does not have real-time updates. It is slow."
"A low-cost service to evaluate the risk score of a supply chain would be very helpful."
"The product scales from small to enormous, however, the pricing is not suitable for very small companies."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is worth its price"
"The price is expensive but is reasonable considering overall functionality."
"The price could be better."
"Palo Alto Networks WildFire is a product with a high price."
"It's comparable to what the competition is. It is probably a little lesser than what the competition is because, as a state government, we go for whatever the lowest cost is."
"​More expensive than other firewalls.​"
"I rate the pricing an eight out of ten since it can be pretty expensive."
"The solution is a bit expensive. You pay for security."
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Comparison Review

it_user206346 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Consultant at Webernetz.net - Network Security Consulting
Mar 11, 2015
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business37
Midsize Enterprise16
Large Enterprise29
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Questions from the Community

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Sample Customers

Novamedia, Nexon Asia Pacific, Lenovo, Samsonite, IOOF, Sinogrid, SanDisk Corporation
DocuSign, Outbrain, The Economist Group, Rackspace, The Citizen Lab
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