Does anyone know of a competitive appliance? mamobrasco is right, many other appliances have integrated LDAP. This is exciting to me because the application analyzation scheme, the all-in-one factor, granular administration and keyword tagging. The only thing I haven't seen is protection for laptop users who bring in virtually all malware when taken home. Barracuda Networks has been doing great things with web-filtering solutions to protect such computers. Also, post on support experiences...
@mamobrasco Other UTM uses IPS module to identify the applications, PAN does it in the Firewall. This increase performance and make device able to apply Safe Enablement concept, impossiblo to do with traditional UTM that uses IPS: IPS can find and kill an app (if it can) but can't apply QoS or scan for malware an application! That's, with the SP3 inspection, is the real difference! ;-)
