We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention and Palo Alto Networks URL Filtering with PAN-DB 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 most valuable features are that it's user-friendly, has interesting features, URL filtering, and threat prevention."
"The user interface is a bit more professional than some free products."
"The application control and vulnerability protection are the most valuable features."
"One of the most valuable features is the anti-malware protection."
"The sandboxing tools offer great prevention for cloud feeds."
"The most valuable features are the simplicity, transparency, and overall ease of management."
"We are currently using the URL filtering feature, which is the most popular."
"The stability of Palo Alto Networks Threat Prevention is good."
"The tool blocks URLs."
"The Palo Alto solution has improved our organization by providing threat protection across a variety of internet connections. Our company also gets valuable insights regarding threat analysis."
"It's allowed us to have better visibility and protection from threats."
"The most valuable feature is that the product can do everything in a single device, including the firewall, rules, and the PBL. It also has good routing and switching."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Being able to manage blacklists and whitelists easily is very useful, especially for internal access and limiting outbound access."
"Palo Alto Networks URL Filtering with PAN-DB is easy to use, easy to operate, and easy to edit."
"Prohibited URLs can be listed by category."
"The installation was complicated."
"Generally, to deploy it will take some downtime, about a day."
"It's not so easy to set up a test environment, because it's not so easy to get the test license. The vendor only gives you 90 days for a test license; it's a tough license to get."
"The pricing has improved with the newer generation of their Firewalls, but the price could always be lower. In comparison with other solutions, I believe they're quite competitive."
"In Africa, the technical support is probably not as good as in Europe and the USA because it's a specific premium support, partner-enabled premium support and all of that. But it's really good, I don't really have any complaints, it's fairly good. I'll give them 80%."
"The solution needs to improve its local technical support services. There is no premium support offered in our market."
"Sometimes when you want to group a set of ports, and communicate with Palo Alto, you cannot group TCP and UDP ports together. This needs to be adjusted."
"Mission learning techniques should continue to expand and detect unknown threats on the fly."
"Support needs to be enhanced."
"For hosting sites like Blogspot, they host sites that should be in different categories, but get lumped together in general. There needs to be more granularity or multiple categorizations."
"One way Palo Alto can improve is by offering sandboxing. I don't know if they currently offer a sandboxing feature together with the firewall or not. They should provide secure sandboxing with the firewalls."
"Performance monitoring could use improvement."
"We have had some challenges with making Palo Alto Networks URL Filtering with PAN-DB work with ELK stack."
"The solution is a bit expensive."
"It is an expensive solution and not everyone has the budget for it."
"An area for improvement would be the technical support, which can be slow."
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Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is ranked 7th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 24 reviews while Palo Alto Networks URL Filtering with PAN-DB is ranked 17th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 8 reviews. Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is rated 8.8, while Palo Alto Networks URL Filtering with PAN-DB is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention writes "A good amount of granularity and advanced URL filtering capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks URL Filtering with PAN-DB writes "Provides regular updates with an auto download option; prohibited URLs can be listed by category ". Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is most compared with Check Point IPS, Fortinet FortiGate IPS, Arista NDR, Trend Micro TippingPoint Threat Protection System and Splunk User Behavior Analytics, whereas Palo Alto Networks URL Filtering with PAN-DB is most compared with Check Point IPS, Fortinet FortiGate IPS, Zscaler Cloud IPS, Trend Micro Deep Discovery and Splunk User Behavior Analytics. See our Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention vs. Palo Alto Networks URL Filtering with PAN-DB report.
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