topic Alternative for Checkpoint capsule in General Topics

Alternative for Checkpoint capsule

TomaszLubas — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 10:30:36 GMT

Hello, as security engineer i'm visiting many potential customers and some of them are Checkpoint oriented ones. The main obstacle to migrate to PaloAlto is in many cases - funcionality called Capsule - where employees can connect choosen service via simple mobile application without full vpn client connection.

I was wondering if we can do similar things with PaloAlto or if there are plans to add such functions to panos.

What do you think ?

Re: Alternative for Checkpoint capsule

BPry — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 14:47:46 GMT

Currently there is no option on the Palo Alto that is similar to Checkpoint's Capsule features. To add to this a small amount I believe that even though Capsule has the option to go directly into Email, Files, and such they don't actually eliminate the VPN in this scenario. The application still makes a connection back to your enviroment and starts a vpn like tunnel to get that information, the advantage is that the device itself never forms the tunnel.