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- Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued) is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Recommend

9.0
Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued)
90%
2 Ratings
7.9
Palo Alto Networks Threat Protection
79%
4 Ratings
Support Rating

9.0
Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued)
90%
2 Ratings
Palo Alto Networks Threat Protection
N/A
0 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued)
IPS sensors are more suited for companies that do not have visibility into their network with third-party analyzing tools. Scenarios would be to place IPS sensors at the perimeter firewalls mainly. IPS sensors are less appropriate for companies that have third-party analyzing tools that will mitigate vulnerabilities and malicious traffic and activities already.
AVP Network Security Team Lead
East West BankFinancial Services, 1001-5000 employees
Palo Alto Networks Threat Protection
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!
Infrastructure , Network Administrator
Dynamic AviationAviation & Aerospace, 501-1000 employees
Pros
Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued)
- Detects threats
- Included in other Cisco tools
- Feeds for automatic actualization

Verified User
Consultant in Engineering
Computer & Network Security Company, 501-1000 employeesPalo Alto Networks Threat Protection
- Anti virus
- Vulnerability protection
- Anti spyware
Presales
Network TechlabInformation Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees
Cons
Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued)
- The web GUI is somewhat slow.
- Sometimes difficult to adjust policies.
- Fail open feature may not work properly all the time.
AVP Network Security Team Lead
East West BankFinancial Services, 1001-5000 employees
Palo Alto Networks Threat Protection
- 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.

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 1001-5000 employeesPricing Details
Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued)
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Palo Alto Networks Threat Protection
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Support Rating
Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued)
Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued) 9.0
Based on 2 answers
Cisco TAC has been great at helping with configurations and issues that may arise
AVP Network Security Team Lead
East West BankFinancial Services, 1001-5000 employees
Palo Alto Networks Threat Protection
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued)
HP and Fortinet were in the PoC, too, but we decided to use Cisco IPS because it integrated with the rest of our Cisco equipment better. It was well integrated in the ACI datacenter, too. Performance and actual integration work with Cisco. Most of the workers at our company are familiar with Cisco.

Verified User
Consultant in Engineering
Computer & Network Security Company, 501-1000 employeesPalo Alto Networks Threat Protection
It is comparable but not as robust as other stand alone IPS/IDS.
Security Architect
Securicon, LLCComputer & Network Security, 11-50 employees
Return on Investment
Cisco IPS Sensor (Discontinued)
- Recognize virus outbreaks.
- Find unauthorized administrative traffic.
- Customization needs to be done to reach your objective.

Verified User
Consultant in Engineering
Computer & Network Security Company, 501-1000 employeesPalo Alto Networks Threat Protection
- 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)
Infrastructure , Network Administrator
Dynamic AviationAviation & Aerospace, 501-1000 employees