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| Dimension | Akamai Enterprise Application Access | Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access |
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Enterprise Application Access is retained as one quote-based core offer. The cited official sources do not publish a numeric price, currency, priced unit, minimum purchase, payment timing, commitment term, renewal condition, implementation amount, or public tier matrix. EAA Client, connectors, the trial, the Microsoft Marketplace connector listing, adjacent Akamai products, and services are not additional plans. Full profile |
Palo Alto Networks publishes three current Prisma Access license editions but no public numeric amounts. Edition pricing, currency, billing cadence, payment timing, commitment duration, minimum purchase, and add-on pricing require sales confirmation. Mobile-user units represent users; remote-network units represent 1 Mbps, but those unit definitions do not establish a public rate. Full profile |
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| Source check | 88/100 | 95/100 |
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| Category buying score | 77 | 78Higher category-fit score |
| Rank | #6 | #5 |
| Context | Security & Privacy / Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) Software | Security & Privacy / Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) Software |
| Least-privilege access | 90The service is built around least-privilege per-application access and outbound-only connectors that avoid granting users broad network reach to private environments. | 89Application- and sub-application-level App-ID policy with continuous verification delivers least-privilege private access instead of broad network reach, which is the core control model buyers evaluate on the ZTNA and Enterprise editions. |
| Identity and device trust | 82Supports identity- and device-posture-aware trust policies, though adjacent security solutions like Akamai MFA are not confirmed as included. | 81Provides continuous, post-access trust verification, which relies on configuring external identity platforms and endpoint agents for context monitoring. |
| Application coverage | 72The service is positioned for private applications across on-premises and multicloud environments, but the supplied facts require buyers to validate exact application and protocol coverage during scoping. | 79Private-application coverage includes client-initiated traffic on all ports and protocols, multi-cloud and data-center reach, and agentless private HTTP/HTTPS on ZTNA and Enterprise, while Secure Web Gateway stays internet-focused and dynamic-port apps still need service connections. |
| User experience and performance | 73Uses a global edge transport network to optimize distributed traffic, but stability and connection timeout issues are occasionally reported. | 74Nearest-location discovery and automated tunnel management support user connectivity design, but the facts do not provide measured latency, throughput, or guaranteed performance outcomes for end users. |
| Security and resilience | 79Maintains a resilient cloud-delivered architecture with outbound-only connectors, but advanced protection like DDoS and WAAP require separate products. | 84Least-privilege admission combined with continuous trust verification and ongoing security inspection keeps inspection active after access is granted, supporting resilient private-app and broader traffic control on the applicable editions. |
| Administration and integrations | 77Offers APIs and SIEM integration for centralized administration, but lacks public details on out-of-the-box third-party connectors. | 74Features unified administration within the Palo Alto Networks platform, but mandates licensing Strata Cloud Manager or Panorama to manage the environment. |
| Support and total cost | 49The offer is quote-based with no public numeric price, and the facts also flag separate commercial scope and operational expertise needs, which makes support burden and total cost hard to predict upfront. | 55Involves complex deployment architecture and lacks transparent pricing, requiring custom sales quotes and multiple mandatory software add-ons to operate. |
| Full profile | Full profile | Full profile |
Comparison summary
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Cisco Secure Access Zero Trust Network Access is the private-application access capability sold through Cisco Secure Private Access Essentials and Advantage, with client-based and clientless access, continuous posture checks, contextual least-privilege policy, and cloud or local enforcement.
Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access is a cloud-delivered secure access service edge platform that applies least-privilege access, continuous trust verification, and ongoing security inspection to private, internet, and SaaS application traffic.
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Netskope One Private Access is Netskope's current ZTNA product for direct, policy-controlled access to private applications across data centers, private clouds, public clouds, remote users, campuses, and selected OT and IoT environments. It supports managed-device access through Netskope One Client and clientless browser access, with Publishers connecting application environments to Netskope's cloud service.
Zscaler Private Access is a cloud-delivered ZTNA service that brokers direct connections between authorized users and named private applications without placing users on the network. Current standalone packages cover managed-device access through Client Connector and browser-based access for unmanaged and third-party users, with advanced segmentation, inspection, isolation, resilience, and data controls packaged separately.
Fortinet FortiSASE provides agent-based and agentless zero trust access to private applications through its Secure Private Access capabilities, with identity, device context, application policy, and continuous posture checks.
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