We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks WildFire and SonicWall NSa 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's application encryption is useful."
"Intuitive threat prevention and analysis solution, with a machine learning feature. Scalable, stable, and protects against zero-day threats."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is how it keeps up-to-date with viruses."
"The most valuable feature is the Automatic Verdict, to recognize whether something is a threat, or not."
"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."
"With this product, we receive the best monitoring and reports."
"A good tool for file scanning and email threat detection, especially when it comes to attachments and communications."
"The most valuable features are all of the security features in terms of protection and SSL and VPN."
"The solution has many useful features, such as content management, user management, user filtering, and domain controller connectivity mapping."
"SD-WAN is a good feature."
"For me, the most valuable feature of SonicWall NSa is the UTM."
"The stability is better than other products."
"This product is user-friendly and easy to configure."
"SonicWall NSa's most valuable features are the ease of configuration and the GUI."
"They offer good antivirus solutions."
"It has excellent stability."
"Our main concern is that everything has to be synced with the WildFire Cloud and has to be checked through the subscription."
"The only problem with this solution is the cost. It's expensive."
"In terms of what I'd like to see in the next release of Palo Alto Networks WildFire, each release is based on malware that has been identified. The key problem is an average of six months from the time malware is written to the time it's discovered and a signature is created for it. The only advice that I can give is for them to shorten that timeframe. I don't know how they would do it, but if they shorten that, for example, cut it in half, they'll make themselves more famous."
"As a firewall and 360 degrees of security, there needs to be more maturity."
"Management and web filtering can be improved. There should also be better reporting, particularly around web filtering."
"I would like to see them continue on their developmental roadmap for the product."
"High availability features are lacking."
"It's not really their problem, it's a problem across the board. There will always be problems with interrupted traffic. We have to set it up where we're playing a middle man game where we're stripping it out, looking at it, and then putting it back together and sending it on its way. That requires CPU cycles. And there's some overhead with that."
"They should consider upgrading the capabilities within the GUI."
"We have security as a service, and they make recommendations about adding to the denylist and other things. That part could be more accessible and more user-friendly. I'd like to see SonicWall add a user-friendly interface where our internal team can drag and drop everything."
"They are not ready for managed security services. Their Cloud GMS product is weak, barely out of beta (buggy)."
"SonicWall needs to work on SD-WAN."
"The solution can be a bit expensive."
"One area for improvement in SonicWall NSa is the GUI. It isn't easy to understand. The support for SonicWall NSa is mediocre, which is another area for improvement."
"The thing main thing is that there's no user admin and in other firewalls, we can enable the scalable features, but SonicWall doesn't have that feature."
"We still get phishing emails that manage to come through from time to time."
Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 reviews. Palo Alto Networks WildFire is rated 8.4, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. 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 SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Proofpoint Email Protection and Fortinet FortiSandbox, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Cisco Secure Firewall.
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