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Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall vs. Darktrace / HYBRID NETWORK

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

MetricPalo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall

by Palo Alto Networks

Darktrace / HYBRID NETWORK

by Darktrace

Overall rating4.34.4
Review count9250
Ease of use8.58.2
Ease of setup8.48.8
Quality of support8.59.2
Meets requirements9.09.3
NPS51.08695763.829787
Small Business26.4%8.0%
Mid-Market29.7%62.0%
Enterprise44.0%30.0%
Total page views339706
Total LLM citations1,21586

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

Darktrace / HYBRID NETWORK

Darktrace / HYBRID NETWORK uses Adaptive AI to continuously learn behavior across your infrastructure, combining NDR, CDR, OT security, ITDR, exposure management, attack path modelling and forensic investigations into a single solution. - Unify visibility - Detect and contain known, novel and insider threats - AI-led triage and investigations - Increase resilience Named a Leader in the 2025 and 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for NDR and the only Visionary in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for CPS.

Pros

  • Monitoring
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Threat Detection
  • Cybersecurity
  • User Interface
  • Implementation Ease