Palo Alto Networks sends cease-and-desist letter to take down review videos
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#2Our firewall guy thinks Palo Alto firewalls are really good and I don't dispute that they are. But I may just show him this tomorrow morning as, another perspective never hurts.
Re: Palo Alto Networks sends cease-and-desist letter to take down review videos
#3Lawyers 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 basis for them.
Do take the letters seriously... determine whether there are valid legal claims presented. But if there are not, it is a scare tactic, so don't stress over it.
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#4Lawyers 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…
This. Many lawyers threaten and posture for a living. Don't let their empty threats bully you into submission if you've done nothing wrong.
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#5With NSS Labs shutting down today the need for objectivity and visibility into testing has never been greater.
Re: Palo Alto Networks sends cease-and-desist letter to take down review videos
#6Our firewall guy thinks Palo Alto firewalls are really good and I don't dispute that they are. But I may just show him this tomorrow morning as, another perspective never hurts.
I've used Palo Alto, Fortinet, and Cisco firewalls.
Cisco is the worst by far, the Fortinet are not fun to use but have an incredible $/performance ratio, and the Palo Alto ones are by far the most expensive but also the most enjoyable to use.
They're certainly not without their faults, and we've had issues with them that took time to remedy, but I wouldn't trade them for anything else I've seen so far from competitors.
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#7I 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!
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#8Lawyers 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…
This. Many lawyers threaten and posture for a living. Don't let their empty threats bully you into submission if you've done nothing wrong.
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.
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#9The letter is about using Palo Alto Networks trademarks on their website. I think Orca should just change their review to say "Palo Crapo Networks" .... issue solved
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#10With NSS Labs shutting down today the need for objectivity and visibility into testing has never been greater.
I know no one cares about NSS Labs but as an employee of a NSS-tested company I'd like to say RIP. No one does testing as rigorously as you, and thanks for all the headaches you've caused my teams.
(Gartner is a joke. There, I said it.)