We performed a comparison between Cisco NGIPS 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.
"Cisco is number one in the technical support. It's good technical support and this is actually a problem when we do the recruitment for some other products. Other products you are on hold forever and the support might be not the best compared to Cisco."
"The Malware Detection, threat defense, sandboxing, VPN and mail security have all been valuable features of Cisco NGIPS."
"The technical support is impressive."
"We primarily use this solution as an application filter and for IPS."
"The solution gives us a lot of visibility into our security."
"Good IPS and VirtualBox features."
"We are satisfied with the technical support."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco NGIPS is the centralized user interface. You have the ability to quickly push out configurations across your environment using the Cisco UI. It's a powerful capability of that solution."
"Palo Alto Networks Threat Prevention is the market leader as far as security gateways and endpoint protection. Additionally, the threat database that is used is one of the best."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It's quite easy. Deployment took one to two weeks."
"One of the most valuable features is the anti-malware protection."
"The stability of Palo Alto Networks Threat Prevention is good."
"I like the solution's interface."
"The most valuable features are the simplicity, transparency, and overall ease of management."
"Most of the features of Palo Alto Threat Prevention are alright. I recommend features like content filtering, IP address, & intelligent firewalls. The reporting feature is very good."
"The sandboxing tools offer great prevention for cloud feeds."
"More flexibility with the dashboards is needed because some of them are not fully developed."
"I think that some initiation scripts might be helpful because they would make the configuration easier and more user-friendly for customers."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly interface."
"There are some features not found in Firepower, like data loss prevention, and SSO, to have a connection between Cisco and Active Directory which was introduced on other products."
"They could provide one solution to fit all the use cases."
"The SSL decrypt could be improved, but it's normal. All the devices in our platform need a lot of memory or CPU to do the SSL decrypt. This is an issue to improve in all platforms, not only in Cisco."
"NGIPS' GUI interface could be improved and made more user-friendly."
"It has room for improvement when it comes to integrating machine learning and AI into it where even if you don't have a baseline that is of length for anomaly detection, it could do more like an AI style machine learning. It learns on its own."
"Generally, to deploy it will take some downtime, about a day."
"Right now we are focusing on email. If Palo Alto can increase the features related to email filtering and the new malware, it would help us protect our systems."
"I think they can use some improvement on FID."
"We are attempting to improve the use of URL filtering beyond threat protection."
"The installation was complicated."
"The organization mail security solutions could be improved. There is no mail security solution available."
"The price of licenses should be lowered to make it less costly to scale our solution."
"The technology firewall anomaly network could stand improvement."
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Cisco NGIPS is ranked 5th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 62 reviews while Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is ranked 6th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 24 reviews. Cisco NGIPS is rated 8.2, while Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Cisco NGIPS writes "Very effective for malware and signature-based anomalies but stability needs improvement". 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". Cisco NGIPS is most compared with Check Point IPS, Fortinet FortiGate IPS, Trend Micro TippingPoint Threat Protection System, Cisco Sourcefire SNORT and Trellix Intrusion Prevention System, whereas Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is most compared with Check Point IPS, Fortinet FortiGate IPS, Arista NDR, Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall and Vectra AI. See our Cisco NGIPS vs. Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention report.
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