Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is a paid network-security product for cloud-supported deployments. It provides inline blocking, encrypted-traffic inspection, cloud-workload support and threat intelligence, with multi-scope network coverage and a hybrid deployment model. The listed usage-hour options—Base, Standard and Premium—are add-ons for Cloud NGFW for AWS, with no prices shown here. Traffic-secured billing is split into a first 15 TB/month tier, a next 15 TB/month tier and a tier above 30 TB/month. The next 15 TB/month and above 30 TB/month options are each listed at 0.01 USD per month, while the first tier has no price stated. There is no free plan. Palo Alto Networks was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, United States. The supported platform listed is cloud.
Who it is for
It suits organizations seeking hybrid, cloud-supported network security with inline blocking, encrypted-traffic inspection and cloud-workload coverage. Buyers can assess the AWS add-on options and traffic-volume tiers against their deployment scope.
What is good
- Inline threat blocking
- Encrypted traffic inspection
- Cloud workload support
- Threat intelligence included
- Hybrid deployment model
What to know first
- No free plan
- Several usage-hour prices not listed
- First 15 TB/month price not stated
- Cloud platform support only
Verdict
Advanced Threat Prevention combines several listed inspection and blocking capabilities with hybrid deployment and cloud support. Its tiered traffic billing and AWS Cloud NGFW add-on structure should be reviewed before purchase.
Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention plans and pricing
All plansCompared on intrusion detection and prevention software
- Free plan
- No
- Deployment model
- hybrid
- Network scope
- multi-scope
- Inline blocking
- Yes
- Encrypted traffic inspection
- Yes
- Cloud workload support
- Yes
- Threat intelligence
- Yes
- Supported platforms
- cloud
