Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention vs. Symantec Cloud Secure Web Gateway

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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Symantec Web Security Service monitors and filters network traffic to protect web servers from cyberattacks. Its single dashboard view, excellent UI/UX, and easy DLP integration make it a market leader. Excellent sandboxing for safe browsing in restricted IT networks. Threat categorization and stateful SSL description of web traffic to identify dynamic threat vectors. However, alerts and notifications only work quickly when large-scale DDoS attacks happen.

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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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• Complete web protection.
• Easy to setup.
• Great reputation and credibility.

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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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• Advanced and targeted attacks
• Policy granularity
• better support

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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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The support has become average ever since broadcom acquisition and they moving to GCP. There is no focus of existing customers as the presale do not exist

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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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Symantec Web Security Service is a powerful tool for moderating website traffic and protecting user data. Easy DLP integration makes it a market leader, and it works with Symantec DLP and EDR to protect remote users' browsing activity. Threat categorization and stateful SSL description of web traffic to identify dynamic threat vectors. Unified threat dashboard with seamless alerting. So compared to other solutions, it is standout.

Incentivized

• 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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• Slightly on the costlier side.
• Less risk of security lapse.
• Extensive protection against web attacks.

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