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."I like Firepower's automation, and the security intelligence is a powerful feature."
"The top features of Cisco NGIPS, which have been working very well, include stateful inspection and the access list-based security configuration. But from my perspective, the best part of Cisco NGIPS is the licensing process, which is very easy and straightforward. It's essentially copy-paste licensing."
"The solution is very stable."
"We like the Cisco product, the concept, and the tech intelligence."
"I configured the system myself and the process was okay."
"We have found the IPS detection to be a very valuable feature of this solution. It is easy to use to stop policy violations."
"The most valuable feature is its IPS ability. You are able to balance security and connectivity."
"The security intelligence in the product is the best feature and give us all the information that we need in our network."
"You can scale the product."
"I find the malware protection very handy."
"It's a monster, it's got so many beautiful features. We do deal with other firewalls and we've got a better idea of what other firewalls' capabilities are, any comparison with the Palo Alto I liked the quality of service on the applications that you can control the amount of bandwidth an application is allowed to consume. The best feature is the quality of the application quality of service."
"It's very easy to use and configure. What is nice about Palo Alto is that even if you don't understand how to use it, you can just click on upload and upload everything that needs to be blocked."
"The stability of Palo Alto Networks Threat Prevention is good."
"Everything has been okay with the solution. We are using all of the features."
"The application control and vulnerability protection are the most valuable features."
"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 onboarding process could be made a little bit better."
"I would like to see Cisco NGIPS to include home office support in one single product."
"The user interface needs some improvement, it is a little rudimentary and not very intuitive."
"The price of Cisco NGIPS could improve."
"They could provide one solution to fit all the use cases."
"More flexibility with the dashboards is needed because some of them are not fully developed."
"Cisco can do better on their documentation because the product is really hard to understand."
"My opinion is that this solution should improve the pricing."
"The price of licenses should be lowered to make it less costly to scale our solution."
"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 documentation needs to be improved. I need better information about how to configure it and what the best practices are."
"The solution needs to improve its local technical support services. There is no premium support offered in our market."
"I think they can use some improvement on FID."
"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 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."
"Generally, to deploy it will take some downtime, about a day."
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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 8.6. 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 Cisco Secure Network Analytics. See our Cisco NGIPS vs. Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention report.
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