Palo Alto Networks Advanced URL Filtering vs. Proofpoint Advanced Threat Protection

Because of it's complexity, Palo may not be well suited for a small organization that may not have dedicated networking staff. But for a mid to large-sized enterprise, Palo shines.

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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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• Threat Detection and Prevention (Malwares, Un-Authorized Access)
• Out of the box patterns for threat detection
• Built in and Updated identification patterns
• Unified Dashboard/Alerting on anomaly

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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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• Steep learning curve
• The top-down URL filtering match can sometimes be tricky and requires some expertise in setting up the desired policy

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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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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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Palo support is excellent, and I have never had to wait when contacting them for support. One of the best support teams in the business, in my opinion.

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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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Palo Alto is a much much better product. detailed options and controls, more visibility, and usability. Better performance and durability.

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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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• We stopped to looking for external content filtering after acquiring PA URL Filtering
• The dynamic updates help us to mitigate security issues caused by BAD URLs
• Palo Alto Networks Advanced URL Filtering is helping us to achieve the high reliability of the Network

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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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