Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls vs. Armor Agent

Our next-generation firewall classifies all traffic, including encrypted traffic, based on application, application function, user and content. You can create comprehensive, precise security policies, resulting in safe enablement of applications. This lets only authorized users run sanctioned applications, greatly reducing the surgace area of cyber attacks across the organization.

Armor Agent protects Windows and Linux servers wherever they run, in public cloud, private cloud, or on-premises environments, with a single, lightweight agent that installs with one line of code. The agent combines malware protection, intrusion prevention (IDS/IPS), file integrity monitoring, vulnerability scanning, patch monitoring, and behavioral threat detection into one deployment. Rather than stitching together multiple point tools, Armor Agent consolidates core workload security into a unified agent managed through the Armor platform. Armor Agent is available in two tiers.