Trellix vs. Palo Alto Networks

Broadest Security Platform

Platform

Comprehensive, open, and integrated platform
Comprehensive and open with a broad set of security controls—device, email, network, data, and XDR.

Fragmented
Instead of a single platform, customers must stitch together multiple platforms that are the result of mergers and acquisition.

Deployment

Security where you need it
Meets everyone where they are: on-premises, industrial, air-gapped, hybrid, cloud.

Cloud focused
Cloud-only model limits flexibility and legacy systems support.

Management

Simple, scalable effective management
Consistent UI for management. Consolidated management and reporting across products.
Highly scalable management architecture with common policies across OSes and devices. Extensive, customizable reporting shortens responses, and reduces risk.
Coverage for legacy and end of life OSes and broadest device estate, along with critical infrastructures such as OT and SCADA.

Complex and fragmented
Cumbersome UI and skill-intensive management overwhelm SOC teams and amplify skill gaps, leaving analysts frustrated at having to stitch together forensic workflows.

Industry Leading Detection and Response

Business-critical Protection

End-to-end, multi-layered protection
Digital productivity transformation (email, productivity, collaboration).
We detect, respond, and act on threats from initial access to exfiltration.

Critical coverage gaps
Palo Alto cannot protect productivity apps in the cloud. Lacks visibility into critical attack phases—coverage starts after an attacker has accessed your environment.

Threat Intel

Global and open perspective
Industry-leading intelligence from hundreds of millions of sensors, Public Private sector Partnerships, as well as our Advanced Research Center empowers Trellix customers to confidently understand and face threats through integrated operational intelligence—because understanding, not fear, is key to effective protection.

Fragmented approach
Built from acquisitions, Palo Alto’s threat intelligence offering takes a piecemeal approach with separate management consoles and related cost inefficiencies. Instead of connecting the dots, threat intelligence capabilities offer a collection of parts that must be configured separately, adding to the customer’s management burden.

Detection

Complete detection
100% accuracy in third-party evaluation.¹

Incomplete
Allowed threats to run in third party tests, leaving systems vulnerable with the risk that attackers maintain access even when payloads are blocked.¹

Remediation

Rapid response and recovery
Enhanced rollback and remediation with complete SOAR platform, AI guided playbooks and manual option to ensure fastest response and recovery.

No ransomware rollback
Requires OS-level backups and can’t roll back ransomware as it attempts to encrypt, leading to complex, lengthy recovery.

Forensics

Deep insights where you need them
Scalable cloud and on-premises endpoint and network forensics, powering bulk investigation, bulk forensics, and bulk remediation. Works even when endpoints are offline. Advanced, custom capabilities through HX.

Limited and one-size-fits-all
Online-only and offers a one-size-fits-all forensic acquisition, unlike Trellix’s scalable tiered options. Requires a separate license.

Purpose Built Artificial Intelligence

100% Alert Triage

No alert left behind
GenAI powered alert triage for 100% of alerts that dynamically crafts investigations and prioritizes them to tell a human when there's a critical incident.

Can’t connect the dots
SOC analysts grapple with disjointed workflows, missing key threat connections. Security gaps widen with blindspots.

AI Automation

Advanced cognitive AI
AI coverage across the entire platform. Removes requirement for prompt engineering. AI makes decisions for escalation, and uses a broad set of data sources across endpoint, email, network, data security and cloud.

Too many “copilots”
Fragmented approach with Prisma, Strata, and Cortex copilots. Multiple consoles with no clear end-to-end workflows.

GenAI That Understands Intent

Human-level situational awareness
Trellix Wise is better than humans at decoding and understanding what is happening in customer environments, such as what embedded commands are suspicious for which job roles.
Trellix performs work with AI behind the scenes to flag important alerts and help with the interactive work for important investigations by making complex tasks a single click.

Needs significant human attention and input
Focus is primarily on AI-generated playbooks, which require a lot of human attention and typing.

Resilient by Design Architecture

Product Design

Designed as a platform
Layered, efficient security provides additional risk mitigation and provides better security posture.
Meets customers where they are. Able to protect customers’ entire diverse device estate.
Consolidated management plane with data plane.

Decentralized
Lacks consolidated management for the limited control points covered.

Resource Overhead

Industry-proven low impact
Validated by third parties to be resource efficient. Demonstrated low impact on devices in real-world tests.²

Big performance impacts
Resource intensive.2 Does not participate when real-world performance is measured.

Ecosystem Risk

Protects entire environment
With Trellix, customers can protect against both threat and data risk, both on-premises and in the cloud. Trellix Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for email and network protects against data risk and extends scope to compliance.

Notable blind spots
Focused on cloud DevOps, with network as only on-premises solution. Blind spots on data security means you are not protected against threat plus data risk.