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Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls vs. Ossec

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

MetricPalo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls

by Palo Alto Networks

Ossec

by Ossec

Overall rating4.54.6
Review count17110
Ease of use8.68.6
Ease of setup8.48.4
Quality of support8.58.6
Meets requirements9.19.2
NPS65.86826390
Small Business18.3%50.0%
Mid-Market45.0%30.0%
Enterprise36.7%20.0%
Total page views86499
Total LLM citations7,427107

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

Ossec

Ossec is an open source host-based intrusion detection system that performs log analysis, file integrity checking, policy monitoring, rootkit detection and process monitoring.

Pros