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."The tool can proactively detect potential incidents."
"The tool is managed from the cloud, because of which the maintenance is very low."
"The product is useful when the end user downloads malware files."
"You can use it to monitor third parties and ensure they are not under threat attacks. It is beneficial in the GRC model."
"The product's anti-spam and malware-scanning features are useful. We scan email attachments, documents, and malicious codes."
"They have a very transparent roadmap for the product."
"I rate the tool's stability a ten out of ten."
"The product's initial setup phase was straightforward."
"It scales linearly with load and no issues."
"With the improved visibility we now have, the traffic is being properly monitored, which means that we are better able to manage it. These are improvements that we saw very quickly."
"Embedding it into my application development lifecycle prevents data loss and business disruption, allowing the adoption to operate at the speed of my AWS Cloud."
"The filtering feature is good."
"In AWS, Palo Alto provides us a better view than flow logs for network traffic."
"The most valuable feature is that you can launch it in a very short time. You don't have to wait for the hardware to arrive and get it staged and installed. From that perspective, it is easy to launch. It is also scalable."
"It provides complete security posture from end-to-end. This has given us better visibility into what our security aspects are."
"App-ID and User-ID have repeatedly shown value in securing business critical systems."
"The price point is something they can improve slightly for those who don't have an M 365 E5."
"The software is expensive."
"I would like for there to be extra confirmation that there aren't viruses. Even if the virus detection software is always running there could be hidden applications that are using the computer."
"We encounter problems connecting the product deployed on the user endpoints with the servers."
"It's a bit complicated to manage because you have many dependencies of servers, many dependencies in queue, and so on. Entries or different endpoints, and you make different configuration topics for each one. So that's a major problem."
"Microsoft itself is a major target for attacks and threats due to its size and popularity. That could be considered Microsoft's Achilles heel."
"It would be beneficial to enhance the pricing structure and make it more affordable."
"It takes time for the support team to understand the issue, and they then respond with a delay at times, which causes a lot of trouble."
"It would be good if the common features work consistently in physical and virtual environments. There was an integration issue in the virtual deployment where it didn't report the interface counters, and we had to upgrade to the latest version, whereas the same thing has been working in the physical deployment for ages now. It seems that it was because of Azure. We were using VMware before, and we didn't have any such issues. We do see such small issues where we expect things to work, but they don't because of some incompatibilities. There also seems to be a limitation on how to do high availability in a virtualized environment. All features should be consistently available in physical and virtual environments. It is not always easy to integrate Palo Alto in the network management system. We would like to be able to compare two network management systems. They can maybe allow monitoring an interface through the GUI to create a reference or do a baseline check about whether your network monitoring system is actually giving you the correct traffic figures. You need traffic figures to be able to recognize the trends and plan the capacity."
"It can definitely improve on the performance."
"Its web interface is a bit outdated, and it needs to be updated. They can also improve the NAT functionality. We have had issues with the NAT setup."
"There should be an option for direct integration with the Azure platform."
"The product could provide protection above Layer 3, which gets into the application layer and provides better visibility into those aspects of application security."
"From time to time, they have released some content updates that have some issues, maybe twice a year."
"At the beginning of the implementation, we had some difficulties with the scripts, but Palo Alto Networks support together with a local partner finally fixed it."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is a complex product to work with."
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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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