Fortinet Vs Palo Alto - High Level View

in this video we're going to cover which is better for the net or paloalto stay tuned [Music] hey guys Mike here from Porter net guru now I know what you're saying with a name like Ford in that guru obviously I'm going to be pro Ford in it but you'd be surprised I have experienced for both firewalls I do a lot of work in both I actually helped the Air Force convert over from Cisco FWS em to Palo Alto 50 60 s way back when so I have a strong familiarity in grounding in Palo Alto z-- capabilities as well as the firewalls overall I in fact learned next-gen firewall manipulation specifically on their product before I jumped in the Ford Annette so don't let the name for you you know there's a lot to go both ways on each device and we're going to cover them first things first from a security perspective for Danette and NSS Labs reports edges out the Palo Alto and it's by a very small margin the Ford Annette comes in at 99.3% security rating whereas the Palo Alto comes in at 98.7 now that difference is pretty pretty negligible between the two of them not enough to make you go one way or the other but when you look at things like the fact that the Ford Annette is substantially cheaper for the same type of performance and security that's what really grabs most people in that regard [Music] the Ford Annette from a security speed and cost perspective it's going to be you know way ahead of the pack the average cost per protected megabit of bandwidth on a Ford Annette device is only two dollars major paying two dollars per Meg 200 400 mm per gigabit and that's a huge you know bang for buck rating whereas the Palo Alto side of things you're looking at more around seven dollars per megabit which puts you around to you know seven hundred for a hundred and seven thousand for a gigabit obviously those numbers kind of scale as you go higher up but it's something worth looking at if you're looking at lowest cost technically acceptable product for DES that's going to win in that regard now with that being said Palo Alto in my opinion has better application control and visibility the app control tab within the device actually gives you significantly better understanding and it's a lot more intuitive as well with regards to application control and the threats that it presents for Donets come a long way in that regard but the Palo Alto does have an edge in it in that area not to mention the Wildfire sandboxing that palo provides us is a better product overall as well when you're looking at things like support Palo Alto comes ahead they're now users satisfaction ratings rate both vendors at a 4.5 4.6 roughly depending on which actual reporting you're looking at it's identical for both so they come out even there but people tend to have a better quality of support from Palo Alto when they're calling in as far as ease of configurability ease of deployment things of that nature for Dannette is very very easy and intuitive you can get it in line and running in no time so most people tend to have a higher success rate there and a higher satisfaction rate in general the Palo Alto for its benefits does have somatic complexity that causes people to get a little bit frustrated during an initial configuration and deployment deployment wise both fenders offer hardware versions of their firewalls as well as cloud driven and virtual machine variants so it doesn't matter if you go with Palo Alto or Ford Annette in this regard you're going to have the capability of hardware appliances on-site you can buy licensing and load it in ESXi or hyper-v KVM you know the various hypervisors that exist out there or you could throw them in Azure or AWS and whatever other cloud services exist so you have a lot of flexibility there finally it comes down to pricing if you're looking for your best bang for the buck for tonight it's gonna win I mean it's less than a third of the price per protected megabit of the Palo fording that comes in at $2 Palo Alto it comes in at 7 so there's a pretty glaring difference there but then when you look at things like panorama and the management capability that Apollo has and the quality of support that they have the price per megabit starts making a little bit more sense their panorama and floor to manager are the two competing products from these vendors as far as managing a fleet of devices out in the wild and panorama does it better it's more intuitive it's more clean it's more polished feeling I'm perfectly capable and afford a manager I spend more time in one of those but I can see where that particular product could use some advancements to catch up or pass when you're looking at things and you realize that you can get an entry level for the gate that can do six point five or six point seven gigabits of firewall throughput for five hundred dollars and the closest palo item is a thousand it starts to make sense that maybe if you're going for mayor buggy you just need to stick to the four Dannette either way you're not going to suffer with either device they're both really good both devices work well you're not going to be in a pickle if you pick either one I like for the net for the cost factor I have a really hard time as a businessman and entrepreneur spending more money for the same type of protection especially when you consider the Fortin that comes in ahead on security but Palo Alto is a cool device so I guess it depends on where your head's at well that being said you're not going to go wrong with either one so pick the one you feel the most comfortable with and enjoy improving your security substantially because of that until next time see you later hey guys do you like videos like this if you do and you'd like to continue seeing them do me a favor hit the like button on this video and then hit the subscribe button as well the subscribe button is for you the white buttons for me I asked this because you need to get notifications when new videos come out and I need to know if the content 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Channel: Fortinet Guru

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Length: 6min 57sec (417 seconds)

Published: Mon May 11 2020