Sorry, I don’t have experience with VM-Series Palo Alto Firewalls. From a comparison perspective based on DEMO’s I have seen of physical Firewall implementations. I would rate Palo Alto equivalent to Checkpoint. Palo Alto is probably not quite as expensive.

I am most familiar with Checkpoint and if you have the budget I would recommend you give it serious consideration. In our organization, Checkpoint IPS is a vital part of our security strategy and provides very current protection against threats ie.. it can see into the…