G2 Vendor Directory

Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls vs. Snort

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

MetricPalo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls

by Palo Alto Networks

Snort

by Snort

Overall rating4.54.0
Review count17118
Ease of use8.69.0
Ease of setup8.48.6
Quality of support8.58.4
Meets requirements9.17.0
NPS65.86826322.222222
Small Business18.3%22.2%
Mid-Market45.0%72.2%
Enterprise36.7%5.6%
Total page views864170
Total LLM citations7,427245

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

Snort

SNORT(r), The standard in IDS and IPS.

Pros