Alternatives to Palo Alto Networks
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If you're comparing Palo Alto Networks with other companies in Security, start here. These are the 18 other active companies Techarda tracks in the same categories, ordered by their activity score: recent stories, follows and discussion on Techarda. It shows where attention is, not which company is better or right for you.
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Security: Palo Alto Networks's main category
18 companies sit alongside Palo Alto Networks here, busiest first.
- Cloudflare#10 leader in SecurityCompare with Palo Alto Networks
Cloudflare is a US connectivity cloud company founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco. It operates a global network providing CDN, DNS, DDoS protection, web application…
- 85 stories in the last 90 days
- Cisco#6 leader in SecurityCompare with Palo Alto Networks
Cisco is a US networking and security company founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, California. It sells enterprise, data centre and service provider networking…
- 50 stories in the last 90 days
- Rapid7#14 leader in SecurityCompare with Palo Alto Networks
Rapid7 is a US cybersecurity company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 2000. It sells the Command Platform for exposure management and threat detection and…
- 42 stories in the last 90 days
- Check Point Software#7 leader in SecurityCompare with Palo Alto Networks
Check Point Software Technologies is an Israeli cybersecurity company founded in 1993 and headquartered in Tel Aviv. It sells network firewalls and the Quantum security gateway…
- 25 stories in the last 90 days
- Microsoft#3 leader in SecurityCompare with Palo Alto Networks
Microsoft is a global technology company whose enterprise portfolio spans the Azure cloud platform, Microsoft 365 productivity software, Dynamics 365 business applications…
- 20 stories in the last 90 days
- Sophos#19 leader in SecurityCompare with Palo Alto Networks
Sophos is a British cybersecurity company founded in 1985 and headquartered in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. It sells endpoint protection (Intercept X), firewalls, managed detection and…
- 25 stories in the last 90 days
- CrowdStrike#2 leader in SecurityCompare with Palo Alto Networks
CrowdStrike is an American cybersecurity company founded in 2011 by George Kurtz, Dmitri Alperovitch and Gregg Marston, and headquartered in Austin, Texas. Its cloud-native Falcon…
- 22 stories in the last 90 days
- Proofpoint#13 leader in SecurityCompare with Palo Alto Networks
Proofpoint is a cybersecurity company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, founded in 2002. It focuses on human-centric security, with products for email security, security…
- 23 stories in the last 90 days
- Wiz#11 leader in SecurityCompare with Palo Alto Networks
Wiz is a cloud security company founded in 2020 by Assaf Rappaport, Ami Luttwak, Yinon Costica and Roy Reznik, headquartered in New York City with research and development in…
- 30 stories in the last 90 days
- TrendAI#18 leader in SecurityCompare with Palo Alto Networks
TrendAI is the enterprise cybersecurity business of Japan's Trend Micro Incorporated, which renamed the business from Trend Micro to TrendAI in March 2026. It sells the TrendAI…
- 19 stories in the last 90 days
- Zscaler#5 leader in SecurityCompare with Palo Alto Networks
Zscaler is a US cloud security company founded in 2007 by Jay Chaudhry and K. Kailash and headquartered in San Jose, California. Its Zero Trust Exchange platform delivers secure…
- 18 stories in the last 90 days
- Qualys#16 leader in SecurityCompare with Palo Alto Networks
Qualys is a cloud-based cybersecurity and compliance company headquartered in Foster City, California, founded in 1999. Its Qualys Cloud Platform provides vulnerability management…
- 17 stories in the last 90 days
- Tenable#15 leader in SecurityCompare with Palo Alto Networks
Tenable is a US cybersecurity company founded in 2002 and headquartered in Columbia, Maryland. It is known for the Nessus vulnerability scanner and sells exposure management…
- 15 stories in the last 90 days
- Darktrace#20 leader in SecurityCompare with Palo Alto Networks
Darktrace is a British cybersecurity company founded in 2013 and headquartered in Cambridge, England. It uses self-learning AI that models normal behaviour in each organisation to…
- 11 stories in the last 90 days
- Fortinet#4 leader in SecurityCompare with Palo Alto Networks
Fortinet is a US cybersecurity company known for its FortiGate next-generation firewalls, built on its FortiOS operating system and custom security processors. Its Fortinet…
Evidence is still building for Fortinet.
- Netskope#12 leader in SecurityCompare with Palo Alto Networks
Netskope is a cybersecurity company that provides cloud-delivered Security Service Edge (SSE) and SASE through its Netskope One platform, combining secure web gateway, CASB, zero…
Evidence is still building for Netskope.
- Okta#8 leader in SecurityCompare with Palo Alto Networks
Okta is an identity and access management company that provides cloud-based single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, lifecycle management and identity governance for…
Evidence is still building for Okta.
- SentinelOne#9 leader in SecurityCompare with Palo Alto Networks
SentinelOne is a US cybersecurity company headquartered in Mountain View, California, founded in 2013. Its Singularity Platform provides AI-driven endpoint protection, extended…
Evidence is still building for SentinelOne.
How this list is put together
Every company here shares at least one category with Palo Alto Networks. Each one appears once, under the first shared category, with Palo Alto Networks's main category first. The counts are published, moderated material anyone can read on Techarda: published solutions, stories from the last 90 days, community threads that name the company and published reviews. A count of zero is left out rather than shown.
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