We performed a comparison between Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is very scalable. There are approximately 2,000 endpoints and up to 200 servers in our company."
"The tool can proactively detect potential incidents."
"The product’s most valuable feature is the ability to provide threat detection and protection simultaneously."
"The solution is well integrated with other Microsoft security products."
"Offers easy integration with a cloud-based infrastructure"
"Microsoft's integration into the security stack works quite well."
"The technical support services are excellent."
"The product is useful when the end user downloads malware files."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is easy to maintain...From a security point of view, I find Palo Alto Networks VM-Series to be a better product compared to the other solutions in the market."
"You already can scale it if you put it in Auto Scaling groups. If you put it in a load balancer, it should already be able to scale."
"The most valuable feature is that you can control your traffic flowing out and coming it, allowing you to apply malware and threat protection, as well as vulnerability checks."
"In Palo Alto the most important feature is the App-ID."
"I have not actually called their support line, because we have a direct contact to a senior engineer in the company for any issues that we handle with them. I will say they are very responsive, and they do give you the information you need when you need it."
"In AWS, Palo Alto provides us a better view than flow logs for network traffic."
"A solid operating system with all the necessary data center security features."
"The VM-Series reports how much bandwidth a particular IP is using. You don't need to regularly log into a website, like a Cisco command, to see what kind of ACL it's getting. There isn't an ACL use portal event. You can go there and see how much my ACL has been getting me."
"The price of the solution is an area of concern where improvements are required. In general, the solution's price needs to be reduced."
"It would be beneficial to enhance the pricing structure and make it more affordable."
"Microsoft itself is a major target for attacks and threats due to its size and popularity. That could be considered Microsoft's Achilles heel."
"The stability of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The tool's onboarding of users that use on-premise or hybrid environments needs to be improved."
"Technical support could be a bit better."
"I would like to see more integration with other solutions. For example, integration well with Microsoft but not with other solutions."
"The software is expensive."
"It is not very easy to scale up the solution."
"In the next release, I would like to see better integration between the endpoints and the firewalls."
"The tool is very costly."
"AWS doesn't integrate well with third-party firewalls."
"There are some delays that I have observed when my company communicates with Palo Alto's support engineers."
"The only minor issue we've faced is with the app's ID configuration, which requires specific matching for application filtering."
"Palo Alto should update their documentation to make it more readable and provide easier-to-follow instructions through videos."
"The utilization monitoring and GUI have room for improvement."
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Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence is ranked 14th in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 27 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 11th in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 53 reviews. Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence is rated 8.4, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence writes "A tool that offers endpoint protection with low maintenance costs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence is most compared with Microsoft Sentinel, STAXX, Cisco Threat Grid, VirusTotal and ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP), whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Fortinet FortiGate, Cisco Secure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series report.
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