Why Palo Alto Firewall is better than Cisco ASA Firewall (2024)

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Why Palo Alto Firewall is better than Cisco ASA Firewall? ›

The Palo Alto firewall is next-generation with advanced features like application visibility and control, user-based policies, and advanced threat prevention. The Cisco ASA is a more traditional stateful firewall with basic security capabilities.

Ease of Management: Some users find Palo Alto's user interface and policy management more intuitive and user-friendly compared to Cisco ASA's ASDM (Adaptive Security Device Manager). Scalability: Palo Alto firewalls are often seen as more scalable, especially for larger and complex network environments.

With Palo Alto firewalls integrated into your network, you can rest easy knowing that your confidential data and the network is safe from malicious attacks. The company claims to detect and prevent over 40% more DNS attacks than other firewall providers.

The Palo Alto firewall is next-generation with advanced features like application visibility and control, user-based policies, and advanced threat prevention. The Cisco ASA is a more traditional stateful firewall with basic security capabilities.

A vulnerability in the Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) restore functionality that is available in Cisco ASA Software and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system with root-level privileges.

Palo Alto Networks offers superior architecture with superior benefits: Complete visibility and precise control: Our next-generation firewalls provide complete visibility into all network traffic based on applications, users, content and devices.

Intrusion Prevention System (IPS): Palo Alto includes an IPS which helps in monitor and blocks the network traffic that show unsure or evil actions. Advanced Threat Intelligence: The Firewall merges with WildFire to keep up the speed on threats and prevents cyber-attacks.

We offer you real innovation in the firewall, enabling the unprecedented enablement of applications and control over content – by user, not just IP address – at up to 20Gbps with no performance degradation.

What are the 3 pillars of Palo Alto Networks strategy? ›

As a best practice, choose the strongest authentication and encryption algorithms the peer can support. For the authentication algorithm, use SHA-256 or higher (SHA-384 or higher preferred for long-lived transactions). Don't use SHA-1, MD5, or none. For the encryption algorithm, use AES; 3DES is weak and vulnerable.

The security giant offers three platforms that include networks security/zero trust platform across its appliance, software and secure access service edge (SASE) form factors, cloud security/code-to-cloud platform under the brand Prisma Cloud and continuous security operations platform, dubbed Cortex.

Content-ID melds a uniform threat signature format, stream-based scanning and a comprehensive URL database with elements of application visibility to detect and block a wide range of threats, control non-work related web surfing, and limit unauthorized file and data transfers.

SASE combines multiple networking and security capabilities and functions in a unified cloud-delivered solution, thereby eliminating the need for complex integrations between multiple point networking and security products from different vendors.

Security for Data in Transit

A VPN encrypts data traffic, ensuring that confidential business information remains secure when transmitted across networks. This is especially crucial for employees accessing company resources remotely, as it prevents potential eavesdropping or data interception by malicious actors.