Comodo cWatch vs. Palo Alto Networks Advanced URL Filtering

If you are well versed with servers and server security and just need a scanning tool but can do malware mitigation yourself, then you'd probably be ok with this. If you are not, there are a lot of steps to even connect your server and get it to scan correctly, and no mitigation steps are made immediately obvious should there be a threat, so it's a lot for an unfamiliar or beginner user.

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Palo Alto Networks Advanced URL Filtering protects computers and workloads from malware and viruses and
also monitors endpoints and web activity for other advanced, persistent
threats.Advanced URL Filtering protects can allow a company to improve the productivity of the workforce. Employees will always slack off from time to time, but web filters can help to reduce the number of lost hours. Palo Alto Networks Advanced URL Filtering is well suited If your company want to improve your security posture, reduce the potential for
productivity losses, and reduce legal liability.

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• It provides a web application firewall (WAF) that helps to protect websites and web applications from cyber-attacks. The WAF uses advanced security rules and machine learning algorithms to identify and block malicious traffic.
• Comodo cWatch helps us to comply with various security regulations and standards, such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, and SOC 2.
• Incident response services of Comodo cWatch helps us to quickly respond to security incidents. This includes a team of security experts who are available 24/7 to provide assistance in the event of a security breach.

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• Threat Detection and Prevention (Malwares, Un-Authorized Access)
• Out of the box patterns for threat detection
• Built in and Updated identification patterns
• Unified Dashboard/Alerting on anomaly

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• How updates are managed
• Support - timing and back and forth with question/answers

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• The top down URL filtering match can sometimes be tricky as the user may match something higher in the list and not receive all the permissions you intended.
• The reporting feature for specific URL's could be more easily configured.
• There is an additional cost for the URL filtering license.

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It is very easy to use and setup. It integrates well within all of Palo's products such as NGFWs and Prisma Access. There is a dedicated log inside of Palo products for URL filtering to aid in troubleshooting. It integrates with AD/Azure so that different users can have different URL filtering rules. Filtering can be adjusted in real-time

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Support is chat only and was not very easy to deal with. I had to spend hours on chat with them just to get my server connected properly. I was getting cookie cutter answers for a while before they were able to get someone more higher up to me. Didn't seem US based either.

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Palo support is excellent, and I have never had to wait when contacting them for support. One of the best support teams in the business, in my opinion.

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Comodo cWatch competes with Barracuda Web security that we also used and stand out with its amazing features and solutions such as application monitoring, real time web traffic analyzing, security and policy management, early threat and detection and identifying the risk for prevention. With all these reason being handy to us we choose Comodo cWatch.

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Barracuda was a good product but couldn't keep up with our needs as we grew bigger. Forcepoint had the worst technical support I've ever seen. Palo outshines them all.

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• Less downtime in web applications which improved overall productivity.
• Pricing is neat and money-back guarantee ensures trust.
• Support from support team is bit late, this will impact on our daily productivity.

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• We have reduced Internet traffic by blocking ad-related URLs
• We have reduced the support required to clean machines from malware
• We have greatly reduced our risk for data loss and exfiltration

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