Barracuda Content Shield vs. Palo Alto Networks Advanced URL Filtering

Barracuda Content Shield is well suited to large companies with many employees that are based in many areas and have various aspects of their job that need them to be on the internet at all times and in many cases opening themselves to many threats. It may be less appropriate for small companies that are in individualized clusters

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Because of it's complexity, Palo may not be well suited for a small organization that may not have dedicated networking staff. But for a mid to large-sized enterprise, Palo shines.

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• Easy to use
• Layout of program looks like an email so its easy to read and identify
• Helped many suspicious senders from getting into our system

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• Threat Detection and Prevention (Malwares, Un-Authorized Access)
• Out of the box patterns for threat detection
• Built in and Updated identification patterns
• Unified Dashboard/Alerting on anomaly

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• Increased policy customization
• Filtering policy preferences
• Increased manual settings

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• Steep learning curve
• The top-down URL filtering match can sometimes be tricky and requires some expertise in setting up the desired policy

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I think the program is easy to use, I think there are more functions it can have or better ability to customize the layout so it doesn't look so plain

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I have only had to call twice for access issues but it has been overall a normal experience.

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Palo support is excellent, and I have never had to wait when contacting them for support. One of the best support teams in the business, in my opinion.

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Barracuda Content Shield was compared to this product and in our opinion was more robust and cost effective for our growing firm. Barracuda allowed us to create filtering that worked for our firm and allowed us to make the customization easy so that all employees had access to what they needed and were not shut out.

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Palo Alto is a much much better product. detailed options and controls, more visibility, and usability. Better performance and durability.

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• Increased Reporting Times
• Threat Training time increase
• Policy enforcement increased time

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• We stopped to looking for external content filtering after acquiring PA URL Filtering
• The dynamic updates help us to mitigate security issues caused by BAD URLs
• Palo Alto Networks Advanced URL Filtering is helping us to achieve the high reliability of the Network

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