Menlo Secure vs Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks comparison

iboss Zero Trust Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)

Overview: iboss is a leading cloud security provider offering a comprehensive Zero Trust Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) platform designed to protect organizations from breaches and data loss. Delivered through a single policy and reporting console, iboss provides unparalleled network visibility and an enhanced end-user experience. Our patented containerized cloud architecture ensures that users, devices, and applications are securely connected to the internet and private applications from any location, on any device, without compromising performance or security.

Key Differentiators:

• True Zero Trust Architecture: Unlike traditional security models that rely on perimeter defenses, iboss reduces the attack surface to zero by making applications, data, and services completely invisible to attackers. Access is granted strictly to trusted users based on continuous, adaptive access decisions, ensuring protection even when user sessions are compromised.
• Unified SASE Platform: iboss combines Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Proxy, Browser Isolation, ZT SD-WAN, DLP and advanced threat defense into a single, unified cloud-native service. This consolidation simplifies security management, reduces costs, and improves operational efficiency.
• Performance at Scale: With a global network of data centers and a cloud-native architecture, iboss delivers ultra-fast, reliable connectivity with low latency, making it ideal for remote workforces and cloud-based applications.
• Seamless Integration: The iboss platform offers unmatched flexibility, including options for hybrid and on-premises deployments. It integrates seamlessly with existing workflows and identity providers like Microsoft Azure Active Directory, enabling a smooth and efficient adoption of Zero Trust principles across the enterprise. This flexibility ensures that organizations can strengthen their security posture without disrupting productivity or requiring significant changes to their current infrastructure.

Use Cases:

• Remote Workforce Security: Provides secure, direct access to cloud and on-premises applications for remote workers without the need for VPNs, enhancing security and user experience.
• Branch Office Connectivity: The iboss Zero Trust SD-WAN solution optimizes network performance, reduces latency, and simplifies management by combining networking and security functions into a single solution.
• Data Protection: Advanced data loss prevention (DLP) and CASB capabilities ensure that sensitive data remains secure across all applications and devices, whether users are on-site or remote.

Why Choose iboss? iboss stands out in the market with its mature, award-winning SASE platform that offers unmatched scalability, flexibility, and security. Whether you’re a mid-sized enterprise or a large organization in a highly regulated industry, iboss provides the tools you need to implement a Zero Trust strategy and protect your digital assets effectively.

For organizations looking to future-proof their security strategy, iboss offers a proven, cloud-first solution that not only addresses today’s challenges but also scales to meet the demands of tomorrow’s distributed and dynamic work environments.

Menlo Security Secure Application Access

Menlo Security Secure Application Access makes zero trust access easy, giving users secure connectivity to private applications, including web and legacy applications. At the core of Secure Application Access is the Menlo Secure Cloud Browser, which fetches, secures and delivers the content for users.

In addition to providing simple-to-deploy, clientless ZTA, Secure Application Access and the Menlo Secure Cloud Browser protect applications from attacks such as session hijacking, cookie manipulation, and other tactics that employ protocol manipulation.

Secure Application Access protects applications from Internet threats and provides granular controls for added protection of the application and associated data. These security controls include Read-only/Read-write, Upload/download, Copy/paste, AV scanning, Sandboxing, and Data Loss Prevention.

Last Mile Data Protection

Menlo Last-Mile Data Protection identifies and prevents sensitive data from leaving your company by meticulously inspecting all file uploads and user input across browsing sessions. Leveraging the Secure Cloud Browser, users are protected from the internet and you can protect your organization from data loss with comprehensive traffic monitoring and controls. This approach addresses the growing concerns surrounding data leakage in the age of AI tools like ChatGPT.

By identifying sensitive data through file types, regular expressions, or predefined libraries, Menlo Last-Mile Data Protection empowers security teams to regulate data input into AI platforms and prevent unauthorized uploads. This capability provides crucial protection for intellectual property, PII, and other confidential information.

The solution leverages the Menlo Cloud Security Platform's visibility and control over traffic to reliably detect and prevent data leaks originating from both browser submission forms and non-browser traffic. With the ability to inspect encrypted web traffic, Menlo Last-Mile Data Protection enforces DLP policies consistently across all users and devices, ensuring comprehensive data protection.

Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks provides consistent security for all users and applications across your remote networks. Prisma Access grants users safe access to the cloud and data center applications and the internet as well. In addition, the solution combines all of your security and networking capabilities into a single cloud-delivered platform, enabling flexible hybrid workforces.

Prisma Access can be managed two ways:

1. Cloud Managed
2. Panorama Managed

Prisma Access delivers both networking and security services, including:

• SD-WAN
• VPN
• Zero Trust network access (ZTNA)
• Quality of service (QoS)
• Clean Pipe
• Firewall as a service (FWaaS)
• DNS Security
• Threat Prevention
• Cloud secure web gateway (SWG)
• Data loss prevention (DLP)
• Cloud access security broker (CASB)

Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks Features

Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks has many valuable key features including: App-ID, User-ID, Device-ID, SSL Decryption, Dynamic User Group (DUG) Monitoring, AI/ML-Based Detection, IoT Security, Reporting, URL Filtering, Enterprise Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)*, Logging, Policy Automation, Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), and many more.

Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks Benefits

Some of the benefits of using Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks include:

• Security: Prisma Access gives you consistent security to protect against cyberattacks, with enforcement of policy at every location. By implementing Prisma Access, you also gain protection that works to prevent known and unknown malware, exploits, credential theft, command and control, and many other attack vectors across all ports and protocols.
  
  
• Global connectivity: Prisma Access provides global coverage through use of its connectivity layer.
  
  
• Scalability: With Prisma Access, scaling is automatically managed and is scalable, flexible, and agile.
  
  
• Instant deployment: Deployment is fast, eliminating wasted time that may otherwise be associated with setting up a solution, operating it, or shipping hardware in order to get started.

Reviews from Real Users

Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

users who are currently using the solution.

PeerSpot user Partha D., Global Network Tech Lead at a computer software company, speaks about his experience using the product, saying, "It protects all app traffic so that users can gain access to all apps. Unlike other solutions that only work from ports 80 and 443, which are predominantly for web traffic, Prisma Access covers all protocols and works on all traffic patterns... The most sophisticated attacks can arise from sources that are not behind 80/443."

Tejas J., a Sr. Cloud Security Architect at a computer software company, mentions that "it is geographically dispersed, and it sits on top of Google and AWS platforms. Therefore, you don't face the standard issues, such as latency or bandwidth issues, that you usually face in the case of on-prem data centers.”

Another PeerSpot reviewer, Max I., Associate Director at Cognizant, comments that "Security is absolutely spot-on, really top-notch. It's the result of all the components that come together, such as the HIP [Host Information Profile] and components like Forcepoint, providing end-user content inspection, and antivirus. It incorporates DLP features and that's fantastic because Prisma Access makes sure that all of the essential prerequisites are in place before a user can log in or can be tunneled into."