Cisco Firepower 9300 Series vs. Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cisco Firepower 9300 Series
Score 9.2 out of 10
N/A
The Cisco Firepower 9300 series is presented by the vendor as a carrier-grade next-generation firewall (NGFW) ideal for data centers and high-performance settings that require low latency and high throughput. With it, the vendor providdes, users can deliver scalable, consistent security to workloads and data flows across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.N/A
Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is an intrusion prevention system (IPS) used to stop zero-day attacks inline in real-time. In addition to the prevention of known threats, the solution helps to stop never-before-seen exploit attempts and command and control with its inline deep learning engines that aims to provide prevention of zero-day injection attacks and evasive command and control.N/A
Pricing
Cisco Firepower 9300 SeriesPalo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention
Editions & Modules
Firepower 93000
17,000-30,000
per appliance
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Cisco Firepower 9300 SeriesPalo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Features
Cisco Firepower 9300 SeriesPalo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention
Firewall
Comparison of Firewall features of Product A and Product B
Cisco Firepower 9300 Series
9.4
1 Ratings
10% above category average
Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention
-
Ratings
Identification Technologies9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Visualization Tools9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Content Inspection9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Policy-based Controls10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Active Directory and LDAP9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Firewall Management Console10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting and Logging10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
VPN9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
High Availability9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Stateful Inspection10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Proxy Server9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Cisco Firepower 9300 SeriesPalo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
6.8
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
Cisco Firepower 9300 SeriesPalo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention
Likelihood to Recommend
Cisco
While Cisco Firepower 9300 Series is an enterprise-grade Firewall solution, it might be less suited for businesses with restricted IT budgets. Still, Cisco Firepower 9300 Series meet all cybersecurity and compliance requirements and is the best option available at this moment in my opinion.
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Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto NTP is an appropriate suite of protection for any enterprise environment or anyone that truly needs some serious perimeter protection in a one-stop, all-in-one unit. There are no modules or add-ons or clunky interfaces to deal with it; everything works out of one management plane, licensing, implementation, monitoring. updating, etc. As a network admin, that is immensely valuable to me. Additionally, I get real-time reporting on all the stuff NTP is catching, and it is nothing to shirk at. The real value in NTP comes in only after you begin doing SSL-decryption, however, to truly inspect the traffic. Short of that, you are just seeing a bunch of encrypted data and the NTP suite of tools isn't going to avail you. NTP plus decryption, though, is invaluable!
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Pros
Cisco
  • Tracking and containing of malwares and potential threats
  • Monitoring over network, users, and appliances
  • All-in-one centralized security dashboard
  • Threat control
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Palo Alto Networks
  • Anti virus
  • Vulnerability protection
  • Anti spyware
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Cons
Cisco
  • Frequent video tutorials about Firepower 9300 Series
  • Flexible subscription licenses
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Palo Alto Networks
  • Sometimes I struggle to find the deny or specific traffic log for file blocking profile under Unified logs.
  • Reporting around Threat Prevention suite could be much better.
  • Possibly a specific threat prevention search function that spans across of threat features.
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Alternatives Considered
Cisco
N/A
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Palo Alto Networks
It is comparable but not as robust as other stand alone IPS/IDS.
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Return on Investment
Cisco
  • Met yearly compliance requirements
  • Boosted trust in investors
  • Secured IT environment
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Palo Alto Networks
  • We have various compliance standards we have to meet and the Palo Alto with its Networks Threat Protection suite has checked off pretty much all the boxes we needed and at a price point that couldn't be easily beat for comparable features, throughput, etc.
  • IT/Network staff has saved a A LOT of time using this platform for protection (coming from an ASA)
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