Cisco vs Palo Alto Networks: Top NGFWs Compared>
eSecurity Planet – Jeff Goldman
Cisco’s and Palo Alto Networks’ next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) both appear on eSecurity Planet’s list of the top 10 NGFW vendors, and both are well qualified to meet enterprise security demands. Each solution has distinct strengths and weaknesses, however â what follows is a look at each offering’s key features, as well as the differences between them. Cisco and Palo Alto both get high marks from customers and industry analysts, but there are important differences between the two. Cisco is a particularly good fit for companies seeking a broad range of security services that integrate with the firewall, and customers give the company strong marks for support. Palo Alto is a good fit when performance and advanced features are more heavily weighted than price. Recent NSS Labs testing found that Palo Alto’s PA-5220 firewall was more cost-efficient than Cisco’s, at a total cost of ownership (TCO) per protected Mbps of $7 compared to $28 for the Cisco Firepower 4120. The rating is due largely to the Cisco Firepower’s inability to block three of 190 evasion techniques tested by NSS. Palo Alto also came out on top in performance.
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