Cybersecurity Comparison
Sophos
PaloAlto
Darktrace
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Used in other New England municipalities
Single user interface for all of their products
Agent based, meaning it will only detect activity on machines that have the agent installed
No email protection
No Artificial Intelligence - only relies on known database
Interface is cloud based
Familiar interface and subscription model - similar to City owned firewall product
Interface is local - on premise
Some Artificial Intelligence
No New England municipal customers provided
Agent based, meaning it will only detect activity on machines that have the agent installed
No email integration
Network based - does not rely on an agent - sees all devices in the network
Uses Artificial Intelligence to learn good/bad network behavior
Used in other New England municipalities
Interface is local - on premise
Email scanning module complements existing spam filter application - second layer of protection
UK based company
