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Have you ever worked with Check Point's firewall?
Check out https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/ and search for the firewall/company names, sorted by Newest. (I don't subscribe to the sub nor have I posted anything in it. I do read it from time to time and find the comments alright from an end-user (ie. sysadmin) point of view.)
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I'll say this again, I said it elsewhere. And to clarify, I own no stock in PANW, I don't work for them, though I have years of experience managing PAN firewalls in a large deployment (and some experience with their competitors). My coworkers don't know my HN name so I'm saying this from the heart, not for kudos from meatspace. As part of a team choosing a new technology for something, you really need to take a lot o…
The CTO and I agreed we value honesty and integrity in the companies we work with. On top of that, this is not behavior we want go support. If they pull BS on others, they may pull BS on us one day. It does not give good expectations for how they would handle disclosure surrounding some embarrassing security incident, for one thing. "Business is business" may have different connotation for different people.
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Nope, I read the manufacturers published specifications for their equipment and looked up the pricing on publicly accessible websites. https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/products/product-selection https://www.fortinet.com/products/product-compare?cat=ngfw And you can get pricing from any VARs website such as CDW.com Good try though.
That is a performance comparison test; it's just not one that requires access to the hardware.
Lawyers sending letters to discourage actions they do not like are fairly standard. I've had attorneys tell me that if you are not getting letters like this, you aren't making enough of an impact. And to be clear, this is just a letter - tossing one of these out just to see if it works is an easy tactic because many smaller organizations are terrified of litigation, and will cave to demands even if there is no legal…
Most likely than not, they have legal basis for what they are asking for. Check with your lawyers and if they agree, you should just accept and move on. The distraction (and cost) of having to fight a legal battle to have a comparison page on your website is just not worth it for most startups. We are a tiny company building an open-source alternative to an existing SaaS app and we have received two such letters in t…
This is not reasonable advice. 95% of lawyer's letters that we receive are without legal merit and do not lead to any legal action if ignored. You can generally tell which ones have merit. If you're not certain, sure you can ask a lawyer - but even asking a lawyer costs money, so don't bother for letters that are obviously attempts at intimidation.
Palo Alto networks also makes bossware so intrusive that it's basically malware. Their VPN software on MacOS, for example, collects tons of system data and starts itself persistently on reboot + cannot be quit unless the user happens to have much-more-technical-than-most-users levels of knowledge about things like sudo and the various plist files work. My own experience, in a couple Twitter threads: https://mobile.tw…
It also uses High-Performance graphics for whatever reason when connected and can completely drain a full MacBook Pro battery in under an hour. Disconnecting does not free the GPU. On a positive note, I now have a reason to use to MacBook touchbar. Setup an Automator action to kill the PIDs to release the GPU when I no longer need to use VPN.
Which is ultimately a bug, or a missing feature, in MacOS -- it shouldn't be possible for a random broken app to make your 10h battery only last 1h -- change my mind.
Coincidentally, even though MacBook Pro 16" has a much larger battery than MacBook Air -- ~100Wh vs. ~50Wh -- MBP is also capable of consuming said battery at a much faster rate -- 100W vs. 30W. So, if you need an average web-browsing machine with the best battery runtime in the presence of silly apps that consume all available resources, it's actually a much better choice to get MBA vs. MBP.
Why Apple doesn't introduce a setting to optimise the runtime for battery, or a lap-use mode, is beyond me. I had to install Turbo Boost Switcher to make my 2020 MBP16" usable as a laptop -- it runs out of battery, and is too hot to use on a lap, otherwise. Sadly, there's not even any tool to reliable turn off the graphics card, either -- I had to find a setting to switch it off in Firefox manually.
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Palo Alto can easily cause us to put 500K USD into legal fees, and I guess they thought that we'll bail out due to this empty threat. We chose not to.
Why/how would they cause you to put that much into legal fees? You don't need to hire an attorney, and probably you can hire anyone (with a legal bar license), right? Just hire the cheapest one. Sure that might not be the brightest tactic, but claiming that they can "cause" this is very strange. (You might even get someone to file motions for you pro bono.)
Do you know what they call the person who graduated at the bottom of their law school class? "Counselor."
Do not hire the cheapest lawyer you can find. The amount of work required to analyze this situation is a few hours at most; and the hourly-rate difference between a good lawyer and a bad lawyer is going to be far less than what it will cost you if you get bad advice.
> You might even get someone to file motions for you pro bono
No attorney worth a damn is going to provide a commercial entity pro bono representation.
Lawyers sending letters to discourage actions they do not like are fairly standard. I've had attorneys tell me that if you are not getting letters like this, you aren't making enough of an impact. And to be clear, this is just a letter - tossing one of these out just to see if it works is an easy tactic because many smaller organizations are terrified of litigation, and will cave to demands even if there is no legal…
As a serial entrepreneur that is the brains in building the entire hardware and software of several acquired systems I have been the recipient of multiple such certified delivery cease and desists. While my case does not match that of this topics point mine was threating to inform me to stay out of the industry which clearly I did not, just a scare tactic without grounds because they knew of my talents. My most recent exit I secured a legally binding document with the new owner that states I cannot be pursued for anything by either the parent company or any future subsidiary. It has been crickets.
As others say your best option is to read and understand your situation since you lived it as no one will care more about it than you, not even a lawyer you are paying but they will gladly take your money, again from experience.
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> Apple should expose services in Control Center instead of making you use the terminal. Especially given how obtuse launchctl is to work with compared to it’s Windows and Linux counterparts.
Hmm. I don't know about Windows, but when I've used Linux in the last few years, my impression of systemd is that somebody looked over at Apple's launchd and inexplicably said "yes, that's a great idea, let's do that," then did it just a little bit worse.
It's kind of funny because launchd and especially launchctl made a lot more sense to me after I learned systemd. In both good and bad ways.
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Check out https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/ and search for the firewall/company names, sorted by Newest. (I don't subscribe to the sub nor have I posted anything in it. I do read it from time to time and find the comments alright from an end-user (ie. sysadmin) point of view.)
Thanks.
There is another guy in this thread who gives a good review saying Checkpoint got good in response to competition. Forti is the value option. And, FTD is looked down upon while ASA has some niches. So, PAN, Checkpoint, and Fortinet appears to be the leaders.
I applaud Orca security to expose the bs that Palo Alto Networks is trying to feed the enterprise security industry - as other comments have said, these are fairly standard, but you could have just not said anything and moved on...instead you come out and explain the situation. I love this transparency!