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Over 1 year ago

Answered a question: How do Palo Alto Networks' security features compare to other security vendors like Cisco?

We did a head-to-head comparison and live tested 2 pretty beefy models from each company. Palo absolutely blew Cisco out of the water. There is a major difference in a company focused on firewalls first and then migrating into complementary security technologies to…

Over 5 years ago

Contributed a review of Palo Alto Networks WildFire: The automatic threat determination makes it a perfect complement to a Palo Alto Firewall

Over 5 years ago

Contributed a review of Cisco Secure Firewall: Lots of bug fixes are required and it did not pass our in-house evaluation

Over 5 years ago

Contributed a review of Palo Alto Networks WildFire: The automatic threat determination makes it a perfect complement to a Palo Alto Firewall

Over 5 years ago

Commented on Enables us to have better visibility and protection from threats and is incredibly stable

To add on... Palo Alto just released 9.0, which adds a huge amount of even better functionality. Their Endpoint Security - TRAPS just also released a new version (6.0) and they are incorporating XDR functionality soon, as well as correlation for anomaly detection across the…

Almost 6 years ago

Contributed a review of Palo Alto Networks URL Filtering with PAN-DB: Enables us to have better visibility and protection from threats and is incredibly stable

Over 6 years ago

Answered a question: Which would you recommend to your boss, Fortinet FortiGate or Sophos UTM?

Is Palo an option? Their small firewalls come with the same features as their $100k ones. The UI is amazing with great drill down options and easy to configure and maintain. My experience with Fortigate wouldn't be fair because we have an aged model. However, make sure…

Over 6 years ago

Answered a question: Looking Into Implementing a Web Security Solution.

I am looking at Threat X https://threatx.com/. They have incredible capabilities and are very next gen (AI). They are based in Denver and I’d suggest talking with Aaron Fosdick or Andrew Useckas Fortigate support is horrible because they are divided on the hosted vs an…

Almost 7 years ago

Answered a question: When evaluating Log Management tools and software, what aspect do you think is the most important to look for?

Costs - by device or by amount of log traffic (and can that traffic be trimmed/parsed before counting against your threshold?).