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Palo Alto Networks WildFire pros and cons

Vendor: Palo Alto Networks

4.2 out of 5

72 reviews
91% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Palo Alto Networks WildFire combines advanced AI and ML technologies to block threats preemptively. It excels in high availability with active-active and active-passive modes. Sandboxing capabilities and quick updates enhance security, but it requires improvements in VPN, decryption, setup complexity, and third-party integration. Enhanced automation, real-time intelligence, and support services are essential. While it offers robust reporting, better non-Windows support is needed.

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PROS

Palo Alto Networks WildFire is instrumental in blocking new threats before common antivirus tools can detect them.

High availability is achieved with both active-active and active-passive modes.

WildFire offers detailed reporting and quick updates that adjust to threats, which enhance security measures significantly.

The platform's sandboxing capability effectively examines suspicious files or locations.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies play a crucial role in WildFire's threat prevention and detection capabilities.

CONS

Palo Alto Networks WildFire requires improvements in VPN and decryption capabilities.

The process of initial setup is complex and could be simplified.

There is a need for better automation in reporting and more real-time threat intelligence updates.

The integration with third-party systems needs enhancement, along with improved support for non-Windows formats.

Support services, including technical support response time and SLA adherence, need significant improvement.

Palo Alto Networks WildFire Pros review quotes

Chief Information Security Officer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Mar 31, 2015

If you're running Palo Alto firewalls there is no reason not to use it at the free level.

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Network Systems Manager with 51-200 employees

Apr 13, 2015

The integration of the Applipedia with the application identification at layer seven makes it a very comprehensive and secure firewall.

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GV

Architect - Cloud Serviced at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

Nov 21, 2016

From a technical perspective this has given us a new high as this is how a technology solution should function.

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IT Security Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Aug 18, 2015

Palo Alto Networks WildFire can detect many types of attacks that are using malware embedded on files/URLs with minimum time, and it can increase the effectiveness of resources (time and people) to prevent the malware.

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Presales Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Mar 27, 2016

It has one of the best WebUIs that I have used, because at a glance it looks simple, but offers us a lot of options to secure all the traffic that is passing through the device (or all traffic that the user decides to pass through).

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Senior Systems Administrator/Network Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 15, 2017

Whole team can use the firewall and understand it.

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AS

Deputy Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Jul 10, 2017

High availability with active-active and active-passive modes.

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BE

Network Security Engineer at Data Consult

Jan 10, 2018

Installing this product as a datacenter firewall for segregation and segmentation, and also configuring policies between zones has improved my organization.

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EB

Network System Administrator at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 22, 2018

Their technical support is outstanding and top-notch.

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Security Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Oct 29, 2018

The cloud-based services are a nice feature.

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Palo Alto Networks WildFire Cons review quotes

Chief Information Security Officer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Mar 31, 2015

Customer Service: Great when I was at a large company but average or less than average at a small company.

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Network Systems Manager with 51-200 employees

Apr 13, 2015

We also found that several websites do not function well with the SSL Decryption feature.

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GV

Architect - Cloud Serviced at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

Nov 21, 2016

If it is Arrow support, it's pathetic.

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IT Security Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Aug 18, 2015

In my opinion, it could be developed to be dependent not only on signatures, but also on patterns and behavior of malware.

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Presales Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Mar 27, 2016

I'd like to see a wizard to create IPSec VPNs.

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Senior Systems Administrator/Network Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 15, 2017

The GUI is better in 8.0, but I still feel it lacks the fast response most of us desire. Logs are much quicker.

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AS

Deputy Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Jul 10, 2017

The data analytical system for deployment needs to improve.

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BE

Network Security Engineer at Data Consult

Jan 10, 2018

The VPN and decryption need improvement.

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EB

Network System Administrator at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Aug 22, 2018

They should make their user interface a little more user-friendly.

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Security Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Oct 29, 2018

I think it would be nice for Palo Alto to work without the connection to the cloud. It is 100% powerful when connected to the cloud. But, if you disconnect from the cloud, you only get 40-50% power.

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