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Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention pros and cons

Vendor: Palo Alto Networks

4.2 out of 5

29 reviews
95% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention delivers powerful anti-malware protection and exceptional next-generation firewall capabilities, enhancing application performance via bandwidth control and robust scalability. It rapidly detects threats using machine learning and integrates with the Cyber Threat Alliance. However, improvement is needed in African technical support, mail security solutions, and AI analytics. Licenses are costly, and installation is complex, demanding significant downtime and competitive pricing.

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PROS

Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is highly valued for its application quality of service, allowing control over bandwidth consumption.

The anti-malware protection and use of machine learning to detect unknown threats are highly favored features.

Next-generation firewall capabilities and threat prevention are considered most valuable for comprehensive protection against known and unknown threats.

The ease of management, transparency, and straightforward setup are appreciated, making it user-friendly and easy to configure.

Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is favored for its scalability and robust reporting features, along with excellent integration with Cyber Threat Alliance for swift updates.

CONS

Technical support in Africa is not as strong as in Europe and the USA, leading to an 80% satisfaction rating.

Email filtering and malware protection features require enhancement to improve mail security.

Licensing for testing is limited to 90 days, making it challenging to set up a test environment.

High costs for hardware and licensing need to be reduced for scalability.

Initial setup is complex, with deployment causing downtime.

Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention Pros review quotes

General Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Feb 10, 2019

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.

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Information Security Officer at National Bank of Cambodia

Mar 3, 2019

One of the most valuable features is the anti-malware protection.

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Information Security Specialist at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 11, 2019

The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Threat Prevention for our company is the next generation firewall.

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SA

Head Of Information Security at SAUDI PARAMOUNT COMPUTER SYSTEMS

Apr 11, 2019

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.

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Consultant at a aerospace/defense firm with 501-1,000 employees

Sep 3, 2019

The initial setup was straightforward. It's quite easy. Deployment took one to two weeks.

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Network Security Engineer at Mauritius Telecom

Sep 8, 2019

The application control and vulnerability protection are the most valuable features.

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Maksim Vedernikov

Quality engineer of the 1st category at Modern Expo

Sep 29, 2019

The most valuable features are the simplicity, transparency, and overall ease of management.

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Managing Director at Teceze

Sep 29, 2019

I find the malware protection very handy.

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Consultant at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Oct 6, 2019

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.

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Presales Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 29, 2020

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.

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Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention Cons review quotes

General Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Feb 10, 2019

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%.

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Information Security Officer at National Bank of Cambodia

Mar 3, 2019

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.

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Information Security Specialist at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 11, 2019

The organization mail security solutions could be improved. There is no mail security solution available.

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SA

Head Of Information Security at SAUDI PARAMOUNT COMPUTER SYSTEMS

Apr 11, 2019

Generally, to deploy it will take some downtime, about a day.

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Consultant at a aerospace/defense firm with 501-1,000 employees

Sep 3, 2019

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.

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VG

Network Security Engineer at Mauritius Telecom

Sep 8, 2019

The solution needs to improve its local technical support services. There is no premium support offered in our market.

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Maksim Vedernikov

Quality engineer of the 1st category at Modern Expo

Sep 29, 2019

The price of licenses should be lowered to make it less costly to scale our solution.

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Managing Director at Teceze

Sep 29, 2019

I think they can use some improvement on FID.

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Consultant at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Oct 6, 2019

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.

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Presales Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 29, 2020

The documentation needs to be improved. I need better information about how to configure it and what the best practices are.

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