We performed a comparison between NetWitness Platform and Palo Alto Networks WildFire based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Log Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features are its ingestion of logs and raising of alerts based on those logs."
"Setting up NetWitness is straightforward. There are multiple connectors, including standard and specialized connectors. One purpose of the connectors is the enhanced capability integrate the custom applications. NetWitness comes with E6 appliances and application images that we use for the initial configurations and for the OS stack information. From there, you can consider the correlation rules, integrate the different log sources, and easily create correlation rules and backlog reports."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to write rules and triggers for network communication, and then being able to investigate based on that."
"The most valuable features are the threat prediction and network forensics."
"The most valuable features are the packet inspection and the automated incident response."
"NetWitness can be highly beneficial for incident detection and response."
"It's fully scalable. There is no limit. Of course, the license limits per day the number of terabytes. In my opinion, it's very flexible."
"The most valuable feature is the security that it provides."
"High availability with active-active and active-passive modes."
"Using WildFire has reduced the number of viruses and the amount of malware that comes into our system, which means that I don't have to rely on the end-users to identify it."
"The solution is scalable."
"WildFire's application encryption is useful."
"The cloud-based services are a nice feature."
"It has a user-friendly interface."
"They have many different options with Palo Alto WildFire and the set-up is quick. If you have all the details in hand, it does not take more than 15 minutes to deploy a firewall."
"Being an application-based firewall, this is one of the critical focus factors along with the threat prevention services it provides."
"More customizability is required, which is something that they need to improve on."
"It should have a monitoring feature. It would help us analyze the current state of attacks faster from a single platform."
"Nowadays, their support is a little subpar compared to other solutions. I rate RSA support six out of 10."
"The system looks like it is a mix of a bunch of different systems, and nothing looked like it was quite together."
"The initial setup was complex because it takes a lot of time to complete the implementation."
"I believe that integrating the solution with other products such as Oracle would be beneficial."
"Its technical support could be better."
"The solution should have more integration capabilities with different platforms."
"Management and web filtering can be improved. There should also be better reporting, particularly around web filtering."
"In the future, I would like to see more automation in the reporting."
"Our main concern is that everything has to be synced with the WildFire Cloud and has to be checked through the subscription."
"Any enhancements should likely be focused on the firewall appliance to further strengthen overall security capabilities, such as refining app and user identity features."
"When you contact support, there is no guarantee that they will be available to help you tackle the issue that you are facing."
"The size of Palo Alto's cloud is big but it could be easier to use from a product management perspective."
"The only problem with this solution is the cost. It's expensive."
"The initial setup was complex."
NetWitness Platform is ranked 20th in Log Management with 36 reviews while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews. NetWitness Platform is rated 7.4, while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of NetWitness Platform writes "Can find out if there is lateral movement, but integration and workflow need improvement". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks WildFire writes "Good technical support and provides automatic analysis that saves us time in filtering email". NetWitness Platform is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, RSA enVision, IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel and Cisco Secure Network Analytics, whereas Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Proofpoint Email Protection, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Fortinet FortiSandbox. See our NetWitness Platform vs. Palo Alto Networks WildFire report.
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