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Advanced and Effective URL Filtering Solution
January 13, 2023

Advanced and Effective URL Filtering Solution

Rekha Yadav | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Palo Alto Networks Advanced URL Filtering

Palo Alto Networks Advanced URL Filtering is being used in one of the customer environment for preventing threats from web based actors to their critical business applications with the help of out of the box prevention policies, built in patterns and policies enablement to prevent un-authorized traffic and malwares. Palo Alto is one of the critical security enablement solution.

  • 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
  • Integration with common known software's such as Service Now, Network Monitoring Solution
  • API Operations
  • Documentation and Customer Enablement Sessions
  • Automatic Policies deployment
  • Automatic prevention policies execution
  • Dashboards and Reporting/Alerting features
  • API based operations
  • Real Time Detection
  • Out of the Box Policies, Patterns to detect new threats
  • Improved Rules/Logics for Threats Detection
  • Real Time detection and hence less time for MTTR
  • Integrating with other solutions for IT Operations
  • Improved security for critical business applications
Palo Alto Networks Advanced URL filtering has similar features set as compared to the other products such as from Broadcom, Check Point etc. however it stands out from other products easily due to few distinctions as mentioned below -

1. Real Time Threat Detection.
2. Out of the box policies/Patterns to identify threats.
3. Automatic Prevention policy prevention.
4. Dashboards, Reports, Alerts availability.
5. API Operations
6. Integration with process related solutions such as Service Now.

However Palo Alto still needs to work out for more cross vendor collaboration to enable easy integrations, More robust API based operations, Pricing etc.

Do you think Palo Alto Networks Advanced URL Filtering delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Palo Alto Networks Advanced URL Filtering's feature set?

Yes

Did Palo Alto Networks Advanced URL Filtering live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Palo Alto Networks Advanced URL Filtering go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Palo Alto Networks Advanced URL Filtering again?

Yes

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Palo Alto Networks Advanced URL filtering solution is well suited for those who are looking for High-Available, Scalable technology solution to prevent web based threats such as Malwares, Un-trusted web traffic, DDoS attack etc. Also this is ideal solution for automatic and semi-automatic policy deployment, AI/ML based threat detection.