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Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls vs. Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricPalo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls

by Palo Alto Networks

Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)

by Cisco

Overall rating4.54.1
Review count17117
Ease of use8.68.2
Ease of setup8.48.3
Quality of support8.57.6
Meets requirements9.18.6
NPS65.86826353.846154
Small Business18.3%11.8%
Mid-Market45.0%23.5%
Enterprise36.7%64.7%
Total page views864157
Total LLM citations7,42798

Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls

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.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Features
  • Threat Protection
  • Firewall Efficiency
  • Protection
  • Threat Detection

Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)

High performance. Resiliency. Security operations empowerment. NGIPS receives new policy rules and signatures every two hours, so your security is always up to date.

Pros