We performed a comparison between Check Point IPS and Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The integration is a valuable feature."
"IPS can protect our organization with any old vulnerabilities or if any vulnerability detected minutes ago IPS can protect us as per our configured policy."
"It protects against specific known exploits but also, with SandBlast integration, it is able to protect against unknown or zero-day attacks at the perimeter level."
"IPS logs enable complete visibility and reporting through the smart console."
"The number of the IPS protections is amazing - after the latest update I see more than 11000 in the SmartConsole."
"Check Point is one of the best security brands worldwide."
"User-friendly and easy to implement."
"The most valuable feature of Check Point IPS is the management of devices and policies."
"With the IP address flag, I was able to see that I was being hacked. The moment there was an interaction between somebody on my network and that IP, the solution was able to flag it, and we were able to protect ourselves."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Threat Prevention for our company is the next generation firewall."
"You can scale the product."
"The user interface is a bit more professional than some free products."
"The most valuable features are that it's user-friendly, has interesting features, URL filtering, and threat prevention."
"The stability of Palo Alto Networks Threat Prevention is good."
"One of the most valuable features is the anti-malware protection."
"The most valuable features are the simplicity, transparency, and overall ease of management."
"I hear from my admin that the firmware upgrade process is quite cumbersome."
"The pain point that I have with this solution is contacting technical support."
"Having additional reports available would be helpful."
"We have a lot of false positives and the list of IPs are not up to date in terms of their location."
"The tool's pricing could be better."
"The cost is a bit high but it is worth it."
"Check Point IPS' main problem is it is mostly software based. The performance is dependent on the CPU power, and the limited number of patterns."
"What I would like to improve in IPS would be the capacity of the hardware. I would also like to be able to sort signatures by severity. This would greatly impact how well I can manage my environment."
"The solution needs to improve its local technical support services. There is no premium support offered in our market."
"Palo Alto's maintenance needs to be improved."
"Palo Alto Networks Threat Prevention could improve the commercial offing. Other solutions, such as Fortinet provide better commercial features."
"We are attempting to improve the use of URL filtering beyond threat protection."
"The cost involves the price of the hardware, which is expensive. However, most of the Palo Alto solutions are expensive."
"I think they can use some improvement on FID."
"Generally, to deploy it will take some downtime, about a day."
"The installation was complicated."
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Check Point IPS is ranked 3rd in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 45 reviews while Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is ranked 7th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 24 reviews. Check Point IPS is rated 8.6, while Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Check Point IPS writes "Great for detection and access with the capabilities of defining specific rules". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention writes "A good amount of granularity and advanced URL filtering capabilities". Check Point IPS is most compared with Darktrace, Palo Alto Networks URL Filtering with PAN-DB, Trend Micro TippingPoint Threat Protection System, Cisco NGIPS and Fortinet FortiGate IPS, whereas Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate IPS, Arista NDR, Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall, Trend Micro TippingPoint Threat Protection System and Darktrace. See our Check Point IPS vs. Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention report.
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