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 most valuable feature of this solution is how it keeps up-to-date with viruses."
"With this product, we receive the best monitoring and reports."
"The reporting feature helps our performance."
"Detailed reporting on analysis of content. The inspections are easily applied to security policy profiles and profile groups, and may be assigned on a per-rule basis."
"The graphic user interface of Palo Alto is good and it's easy to configure."
"Stability is never a concern."
"It catches modified signatures of known viruses."
"Intuitive threat prevention and analysis solution, with a machine learning feature. Scalable, stable, and protects against zero-day threats."
"The stability has been excellent."
"The simplicity and timely updates."
"Dashboard is easy to use and the reporting offers a lot of detail."
"The interface is very user-friendly and it's easy to manage."
"We find it easy to use. Its internal configuration is very easy. It is not complicated in terms of use and configuration. It has been fairly stable, and it is also scalable."
"The most valuable feature I have found to be the reporting function."
"As a security solution, it's a very good security solution."
"Web filtering is easy enough to deploy, manage, or make exceptions to."
"The global product feature needs improvement, the VPN, and we need some enhanced features."
"Other vendors have some sort of bandwidth management built into the firewall itself and Palo Alto is missing that."
"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 size of Palo Alto's cloud is big but it could be easier to use from a product management perspective."
"The solution can improve its traffic management."
"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 VPN and decryption need improvement."
"The cost of the solution is excessively high."
"It would be beneficial if the platform provided more flexible support for a variety of devices."
"The installation could be faster and is longer than that of other solutions, lasting more than a month instead of five minutes."
"The solution should have the ability to be up to date with the most recent threats."
"Sophos needs improvements made to the console, such as host entry or defining rules directly from it."
"The cloud support needs to be improved."
"One area where Sophos XG could improve is in its patch management system."
"Its price should be improved. It should be cheaper."
"While it is a secure solution, I believe it could be improved."
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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