Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention vs. Proofpoint Advanced 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!

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It is great out of the box and uses AI and machine learning to identify threats with minimal input. It does need to be configured and tuned to meet the needs of the organisation. Industry specific software that sends or receives emails may be affected by this product.

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• The threat engine has constant updates for important threats.
• Wildfire helps supplement the Threat engine to help protect against 0 day threats.
• The way the threat engine can be added at different levels to different zones and policies helps to ensure business essential traffic can have policies that are tuned to ensure traffic will flow.

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• Spam filtering.
• Automatic retrieval of malicious emails that have gotten through the filter but were later detected using sample data across all the organizations Proofpoint has as customers.

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• Cost is high, but it is a premium product
• Endpoints are still vulnerable.
• TAC engineers aren't always equipped with ATP knowledge

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• With our current setup we need to add new users manually.
• Reports aren't that intuitive.
• Mailboxes have to be removed manually.

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The reason to give ATP this rating is it specialises in detecting command control traffic whose primary role is to identify unusual outbound traffic patterns which blocks the command control communication and notifies to different security team to take necessary actions. ATP Global protect holds the responsibility of inspecting all the inbound and outbound traffic going to and from corporate system regardless of the network they are on. ATP plays a major role to identify the threats that blocks threats that could lead to data breach also it identifies any malicious file enter the system will be blocked proactively

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Proofpoint offers a lot of products, but they are not particularly well integrated. They all look different, and there is no central location to access them all from, which is disappointing. However, I do know they have a big push for upgrading the UI and usability, so this should improve in the coming months I hope.

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Even though the product is good, the support can be lacking at times. The support needs to know their product inside and out, but there are times in which we figure out things before their support does. I feel as if we should not be able to fix issues that their support cant fix, hence the main reason for support.

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Having used Palo Alto Firewalls for years, implementing threat protection was the next step in perimeter security. Works much better than the few competitors I have personally used. Frequent content updates occur which may impact some policy rules, but that is normal across most vendors.

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Proofpoint's Advanced Threat Protection, in the past, has identified threats whereby Microsoft's Advanced Threat Protection did not.

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• After adding PA Threat Protection, we are now getting our network traffic completely inspected.
• We are now applying security checks and scans like AV scan and Anti Spyware checks.
• This is also giving visibility into threat and attack vectors that are using vulnerabilities and exploits to enter our environment.

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• PP blocks 5-10 emails per day which are spam or malicious
• I only get a small number of emails per week which are spam
• The only malicious emails I receive are from our internal security team which bypasses the PP threat protection

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