Norton Small Business vs. Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Norton Small Business
Score 6.9 out of 10
N/A
Cybercriminals increasingly target small businesses because they expect it to be easy. Norton Small Business is an antivirus service available as a subscription for protecting a multitude of endpoints, from NortonLifeLock (formerly Symantec).
$99.99
per year
Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Traps replaces traditional antivirus with multi-method prevention, a proprietary combination of malware and exploit prevention methods that protect users and endpoints from known and unknown threats.N/A
Pricing
Norton Small BusinessPalo Alto Networks Cortex XDR
Editions & Modules
5 Devices
$99.99
per year
10 Devices
$149.99
per year
20 Devices
$249.99
per year
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Norton Small BusinessPalo Alto Networks Cortex XDR
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Norton Small BusinessPalo Alto Networks Cortex XDR
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Small Businesses
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Score 9.1 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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InsightIDR
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Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.2 out of 10
InsightIDR
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
Norton Small BusinessPalo Alto Networks Cortex XDR
Likelihood to Recommend
7.1
(3 ratings)
9.0
(13 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
6.3
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
Norton Small BusinessPalo Alto Networks Cortex XDR
Likelihood to Recommend
Gen (NortonLifeLock, Avast, Avira, AVG)
We are a small company; Norton Small Business gives us the freedom for our remote employees to work securely using their personal laptop /smartphone. Less appropriate: Someone with a few separate locations that require separate cybersecurity environment but would still benefit from centralized management.
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Palo Alto Networks
Malware that doesn’t leave files behind has become widely available. Anyone who can afford to reverse this trend should purchase technology. Application whitelisting isn’t for everyone, and Palo Alto Networks Traps can help. Enterprises looking for a low-affected, next-generation solution with high protection should consider it. PAN Traps is a great product at a reasonable price, and I highly recommend it.
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Pros
Gen (NortonLifeLock, Avast, Avira, AVG)
  • Effective Outcomes
  • Transparent & Customised Pricing
  • Ease of Use
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Palo Alto Networks
  • Direct Access to devices via Live Terminal which provides operations with scripting, triage, and preservation of artifacts.
  • Behavioral Indicators of Compromise which provides alerts on events regarding groups of hosts and their signatures.
  • Querying complex data sets involving a variety of devices for network connections, hashes, DNS, etc.
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Cons
Gen (NortonLifeLock, Avast, Avira, AVG)
  • perfectly works for us, nothing as of now
  • works as expected, found reasonable for us
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Palo Alto Networks
  • Traps doesn't seem to function as a traditional A/V very well, so it's better as another layer to your endpoint protection
  • Traps can cause issues with some legacy or custom programs, so exceptions may have to be made
  • Traps falsely identifies things as malicious at times, this is not often though
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Usability
Gen (NortonLifeLock, Avast, Avira, AVG)
It's good for a small business that needs cybersecurity without needing to spend a lot of money. Besides being affordable it seems to be extremely, reliable, and easy to use.
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Palo Alto Networks
Cortex XDR does a very good job of blocking suspicious and threatening items. However, as with all software of this nature, it will sometimes block known-good items. The difficulty is in manually whitelisting these known-good items. The interface to whitelist is confusing even for a seasoned IT professional and has been the single most frustrating experience of using Cortex XDR
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Support Rating
Gen (NortonLifeLock, Avast, Avira, AVG)
No answers on this topic
Palo Alto Networks
The support we receive from Palo Alto is one of the best aspects of Traps. It is very easy to recommend their support. It seems much easier to connect directly with someone with a deep understanding of the product rather than other companies where you basically have to make an airtight case that it is some kind of non-standard issue that can't be solved with existing documentation. Palo Alto digs deep and helps with advanced troubleshooting to get things working.
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Alternatives Considered
Gen (NortonLifeLock, Avast, Avira, AVG)
We did not actively consider any other software. Overall we did do a basic understanding of a pricing & features and found that the offerings from Symantec were better than others even prima facie. At the current time for an organisation such as ours we do not believe that there is any other option worth active consideration
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Palo Alto Networks
Traps is the slickest interface, easy to use and intuitive rule making, and the rest just didn't quite stack up to the performance level of Traps. McAfee and Kaspersky just hog processor and RAM power. I didn't like the interface and functionality of SentinelOne as much as Traps. Palo Alto really put a lot of time into the development of this software, and had some of the founding fathers of IT Security heading the development process. Can't beat that.
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Return on Investment
Gen (NortonLifeLock, Avast, Avira, AVG)
  • Money saved on cybersecurity products
  • Time saved: ease of use
  • Reliable
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Palo Alto Networks
  • After putting Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR on a user's system, users came back with a positive response that there are no performance issues now.
  • We are able to track and control granular suspicious and malicious activities.
  • Web controls are missing, which if they would have been there would have been very helpful.
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