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Lumu vs Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
5.9
Lumu saves engineers 10-20 hours weekly by blocking malicious sites, with quick ROI and validation from Albert service.
Sentiment score
5.7
Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention offers financial benefits and high user satisfaction despite its cost, boosting revenues, especially in Italy.
It self-reports as saving 10 to 20 hours a week of engineer time.
Director, Information Technology at a educational organization with 201-500 employees
It offers insights into security threats, despite the inability to quantify its impact in numbers.
Principle Cloud Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.5
Lumu's customer service is highly praised for speedy and effective support, especially during setup, with notable Colombian excellence.
Sentiment score
5.9
Palo Alto Networks' support is praised for expertise but faces inconsistent response times and communication challenges with third-party facilitation.
It picks up on borderline issues that matter.
Director, Information Technology at a educational organization with 201-500 employees
Overall, I find the technical support from Palo Alto Networks quite good, although getting a hold of the TAC can be challenging and sometimes requires long phone calls.
Global Network Tech Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
I have proof of this rating - when I escalate a case, I receive a reply from TAC support after two days.
Presales Engineer at SAUDI PARAMOUNT COMPUTER SYSTEMS
I rate technical support from Palo Alto as eight out of ten.
Principle Cloud Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.0
Lumu offers robust scalability across environments, with easy deployment and a flexible licensing structure, despite network-size-dependent variability.
Sentiment score
7.7
Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is scalable, adaptable, and efficient, though cost may constrain its broad deployment.
Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is scalable and works well wherever enforcement points exist.
Principle Cloud Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.9
Lumu is praised for its stability, reliable performance, and minimal impact during maintenance, earning high user satisfaction ratings.
Sentiment score
7.7
Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is praised for its superior stability and performance, though requires careful version selection.
Stability has been excellent.
Director, Information Technology at a educational organization with 201-500 employees
Proper sizing of the firewall models ensures that the system does not experience crippling performance issues.
Principle Cloud Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
 

Room For Improvement

Lumu users seek improved integration, reporting, community support, and refined threat discovery, anticipating these enhancements in future updates.
Palo Alto Networks needs improvements in email filtering, setup ease, user experience, support services, and enhanced security features.
Having some sort of certification or training, along with more periodic webinars might be helpful.
Director, Information Technology at a educational organization with 201-500 employees
Palo Alto needs to focus on how to bring that technology to end users and how easy it is to use, especially in a hybrid environment where users work from various locations.
Global Network Tech Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The behavioral detection capabilities could be expanded to address all threats at the perimeter, reducing the reliance on endpoint detection and response systems.
Principle Cloud Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
 

Setup Cost

Lumu is an affordable, cloud-native tool with straightforward pricing based on network traffic, offering competitive value compared to alternatives.
Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is costly but valued for strong threat detection, with pricing challenging for smaller businesses.
In our environment, it costs approximately 1200 a month.
Director, Information Technology at a educational organization with 201-500 employees
Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention requires an add-on license and is considered expensive compared to competitors like Cisco AMP and FortiGate firewalls.
Principle Cloud Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
 

Valuable Features

Lumu provides real-time threat detection and integration, enhancing response times and simplifying data analysis with minimal false positives.
Palo Alto Networks excels in threat prevention with features like sandboxing, machine learning, and user-friendly design, enhancing efficiency.
It provides peace of mind knowing that any device on our network, whether it is our own, BYOD device, or an unauthorized device, is being tracked and analyzed at multiple levels.
Director, Information Technology at a educational organization with 201-500 employees
As traditional signature-based mechanisms become less effective due to the evolving nature of attacks, this solution's focus on behavioral analysis is crucial.
Principle Cloud Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We are satisfied with the analytic capabilities of Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, especially the reporting features available in the Palo Alto portal in terms of their application visibility interface, which is very good for us to get visibility on all critical applications and the associated users, as well as the risks associated with every category of traffic.
Global Network Tech Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Lumu
Ranking in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS)
10th
Average Rating
9.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
Network Detection and Response (NDR) (6th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (15th)
Palo Alto Networks Advanced...
Ranking in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS)
9th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
29
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) category, the mindshare of Lumu is 2.0%, down from 2.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is 4.5%, down from 5.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention4.5%
Lumu2.0%
Other93.5%
Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS)
 

Featured Reviews

JJ
Director, Information Technology at a educational organization with 201-500 employees
Constant monitoring and analysis boosts network security
There is always room for improvement. I am not giving it a perfect score because I am sure there is something that could be enhanced.Having some sort of certification or training, along with more periodic webinars might be helpful. Having a larger support network would be beneficial. Nobody I know has heard of Lumu, so they are in the same space as Darktrace or CrowdStrike, but people give blank stares. As the community grows for Lumu then that will improve, but that is not really a criticism of Lumu, they simply have not been around that long.
Partha Dash - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Network Tech Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Advanced protection enables us to confidently secure against evolving threats
Palo Alto Networks can improve Advanced Threat Prevention by catering to the growing adoption of AI and agentic tooling. The Threat Protection modules should have the necessary intelligence to protect against those types of threats, as AI will be there to do a human job; this is an evolving area. From an Advanced Threat Protection perspective, the technology associated with Palo Alto Networks, such as their sandboxing environment, is quite good. However, Palo Alto needs to focus on how to bring that technology to end users and how easy it is to use, especially in a hybrid environment where users work from various locations. While Palo Alto excels in certain setups, they need to improve the user experience in distributed working conditions.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Government
6%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Construction Company
8%
Performing Arts
7%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise4
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business10
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise14
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Lumu?
There is always room for improvement. I am not giving it a perfect score because I am sure there is something that could be enhanced.Having some sort of certification or training, along with more p...
What is your primary use case for Lumu?
We use it as our managed SOC instead of contracting with an MSP. It coordinates endpoint and gives us a single pane of glass for our security events.It fulfills the role of a SIEM, serving as our d...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Lumu?
In our environment, it costs approximately 1200 a month.
Which is the best DDoS protection solution for a big ISP for monitoring and mitigating?
Arbor would be the best bid, apart from Arbor, Palo Alto and Fortinet have good solutions. As this is an ISP, I would prefer Arbor.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Palo Alto Networks Threat Prevention?
Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention requires an add-on license and is considered expensive compared to competitors like Cisco AMP and FortiGate ( /products/fortinet-fortigate-reviews ) fi...
What needs improvement with Palo Alto Networks Threat Prevention?
Palo Alto Networks can improve Advanced Threat Prevention by catering to the growing adoption of AI and agentic tooling. The Threat Protection modules should have the necessary intelligence to prot...
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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University of Arkansas, JBG SMITH, SkiStar AB, TRI-AD, Temple University, Telkom Indonesia
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