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Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall vs. Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)

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

MetricPalo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall

by Palo Alto Networks

Cisco Secure IPS (NGIPS)

by Cisco

Overall rating4.34.1
Review count9217
Ease of use8.58.2
Ease of setup8.48.3
Quality of support8.57.6
Meets requirements9.08.6
NPS51.08695753.846154
Small Business26.4%11.8%
Mid-Market29.7%23.5%
Enterprise44.0%64.7%
Total page views339157
Total LLM citations1,21598

Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall

Palo Alto Networks' VM-Series Virtual Firewall is the industry’s leading cloud security software, delivering the world’s most effective network security to any cloud or virtualized environment. It is a virtualized form factor of Palo Alto Networks' next-generation firewalls, built to protect your applications from zero-day threats, providing consistent security and easy deployment across all clouds and virtualized environments, including technologies from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, VMware, Cisco, KVM, Nutanix, OpenStack, and more.

Pros

  • Threat Protection
  • Features
  • Security
  • Protection
  • Deployment Ease
  • Ease of Use

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