Trustworthiness seems to be one of the most important properties of a firewall company.
But this news of a reviewer getting cease&desist nastygram from PANW erodes some of the trust that PANW started with by default in my mind.
They're not the only company to try to prevent independent benchmarking and reviews, but I've never liked that from any company.
Perhaps this could be a learning moment for PANW, and they decide to change some policies?
(I actually have one of those big old Palo Alto Networks blue rackmount firewalls right here, purchased with the intention of playing with it, either for ideas for OpenWrt features, or to decide whether to buy a new little one for interim use until I have more time for open source. I'm not getting much warm-fuzzies from the big blue metal box at the moment, but maybe that will improve.)
But this news of a reviewer getting cease&desist nastygram from PANW erodes some of the trust that PANW started with by default in my mind.
They're not the only company to try to prevent independent benchmarking and reviews, but I've never liked that from any company.
Perhaps this could be a learning moment for PANW, and they decide to change some policies?
(I actually have one of those big old Palo Alto Networks blue rackmount firewalls right here, purchased with the intention of playing with it, either for ideas for OpenWrt features, or to decide whether to buy a new little one for interim use until I have more time for open source. I'm not getting much warm-fuzzies from the big blue metal box at the moment, but maybe that will improve.)