Compare Alert Logic vs. Palo Alto Networks Threat Prevention
Alert Logic is ranked 9th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software with 5 reviews while Palo Alto Networks Threat Prevention is ranked 7th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software with 11 reviews. Alert Logic is rated 7.4, while Palo Alto Networks Threat Prevention is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Alert Logic writes "We don't want to be bombarded with unnecessary issues and have the real ones slip through. The product is very stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks Threat Prevention writes "Enables us to control the amount of bandwidth an application is allowed to consume and is extremely scalable". Alert Logic is most compared with Splunk User Behavior Analytics, Arctic Wolf AWN CyberSOC and Armor Complete, whereas Palo Alto Networks Threat Prevention is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Stealthwatch and Trend Micro TippingPoint NGIPS. See our Alert Logic vs. Palo Alto Networks Threat Prevention report.
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The installation and configuration were slick. We receive infrastructure security warnings from it. So, we know what is going on and what needs to be addressed. It has the ability to install agents. It is pretty straightforward. You can automate the process pretty easily. It is a very stable product. The quicker implementation of changes to our infrastructure from Alert Logic tell us if there are any problems. It improves our security. Before, we didn't have anything scanning our containers. We had software scanning all the physical servers, but we had nothing to scan our containers. With Alert Logic, we can do that. | The most valuable features are that it's user-friendly, has interesting features, URL filtering, and threat prevention. For those who want a next-gen firewall that's easy to configure and easy to operate, I think you should go for Palo Alto. 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 features are the simplicity, transparency, and overall ease of management. I find the malware protection very handy. The application control and vulnerability protection are the most valuable features. The initial setup was straightforward. It's quite easy. Deployment took one to two weeks. The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Threat Prevention for our company is the next generation firewall. |
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This product needs to mature more. While it is a good product, there are some areas where it needs work. They have ideas and email you whatever they find, but they don't have a dedicated security team who will work on an attack or a specific security instance. I would like to see it do initial scans and start capturing data, which it will truly analyze, not just be a reporting system saying, "Here is an email. Here is an email. Here is an email." The product needs to mature. We don't want to be bombarded with unnecessary issues and have the real ones slip through. The documentation, especially with the initial setup, needs improvement. I would like more data on the alert payload. It would be good to have the ability to customize the alert payload to add whatever data that we want on there. Right now, it is a bit limited. | Palo Alto's maintenance needs to be improved. The documentation needs to be improved. I need better information about how to configure it and what the best practices are. 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. The price of licenses should be lowered to make it less costly to scale our solution. I think they can use some improvement on FID. The solution needs to improve its local technical support services. There is no premium support offered in our market. 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 organization mail security solutions could be improved. There is no mail security solution available. |
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Alert Logic has better competitive pricing than some of its competitors. Almost any product that is on the AWS Marketplace is super easy to subscribe to. Our ROI would probably be zero. We don't even use it. It sits in there. We get emails and just delete them. Around the world, we don't even use it. | If you want to have all of the good features then you have to pay extra for licensing. It is an expensive solution and I would like to see a drop in price. It's not too expensive. The pricing and the licensing are pretty competitive at this stage. As a reseller, I would like to see the price come down a little bit so I can compete better against other firewalls because we do that all the time. |
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Also Known As | |
| Alert Logic Threat Manager, Alert Logic Cloud Defender | |
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| Alert Logic | Palo Alto Networks |
Overview | |
Alert Logic Cloud Defender is a fully managed cloud-based suite of security and compliance solutions for cloud, on-premises, and hybrid infrastructures to make
| Threats do not discriminate between application delivery vectors, requiring an approach that has full visibility into all application traffic, including SSL encrypted content, with full user context. Threat Prevention leverages the visibility of our next-generation firewall to inspect all traffic, automatically preventing known threats, regardless of port, protocol or SSL encryption. |
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Sample Customers | |
| TIME, Genome Next, Rentalcargroup.com, Travel Tripper, C&J Energy Services, Investis, Retail Insights | University of Arkansas, JBG SMITH, SkiStar AB, TRI-AD, Temple University, Telkom Indonesia |
Top Industries | |
Software R&D Company31% Media Company16% Healthcare Company10% Retailer7% | Software R&D Company30% Comms Service Provider14% Manufacturing Company11% Media Company10% |
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