Your firewall enforces rules. OneFirewall decides which rules.
Palo Alto, Fortinet, Check Point, Cisco — they're excellent at enforcing what they know. OneFirewall is the real-time intelligence layer that tells them what to block before the first packet arrives. It doesn't replace your firewall. It makes it act on live, crowd-sourced attack data automatically.
Where OneFirewall beats a SIEM or XDR, and where it doesn't
A SIEM and an XDR detect and investigate what happens inside your environment. OneFirewall stops attackers that other organisations have already seen, before they reach you. They do different jobs. These are the areas where OneFirewall does better.
| Capability | SIEM | XDR | OneFirewall |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where the intelligence comes from | Your own logs, plus any threat feeds you subscribe to | Your own endpoints and sensors, plus the vendor's research | Live attack observations from 290+ independent organisations across sectors and vendors |
| When the attacker is stopped | After their traffic is logged and a correlation rule fires | After activity on a monitored endpoint or sensor is flagged | At the first request, if any Alliance member has already seen the source. In the PHP2Shell burst, 92.6% of attacking IPs were already known |
| From detection to blocking | Raises an alert. Blocking needs an analyst or a SOAR playbook | Automated response, mainly on its own agents and stack | Native block rules pushed to your existing firewall, IPS and WAF in under 30 seconds |
| Multi-vendor enforcement | Ingests from any vendor, but doesn't enforce | Works best within one vendor's ecosystem | 166+ integrations: Check Point, Fortinet, Palo Alto, Cisco, cloud, WAF and more |
| Perimeter noise | Every scan and brute-force attempt is ingested and can trigger alerts | Network-edge blocking usually depends on the vendor's own firewall | Known-bad sources are dropped at the edge, so fewer events reach your SOC to triage |
| Pricing model | Usually priced on ingest volume (GB/day or EPS) | Usually priced per endpoint | Scoped per deployment. Cost does not grow with your log volume |
| Time to value | Weeks to months onboarding log sources and tuning use cases | Requires agent rollout to every endpoint | One agent alongside your firewall, outbound TCP 443 only. A free Proof of Value runs on your own traffic |
| Your data | Cloud SIEMs require shipping your logs to the provider | Endpoint telemetry is sent to the vendor's cloud | Pulls intelligence in. Sharing back is optional, and on-prem or air-gapped deployment is available |
- Insider threats and unusual user behaviour inside your network
- Endpoint visibility and containment: processes, files, memory, host isolation
- Long-term log retention, compliance reporting and forensic investigation
- New attacks from infrastructure that no Alliance member has seen yet
OneFirewall works alongside them. It sends STIX 2.1/TAXII 2.1 intelligence and CEF events to your SIEM, and it blocks known attackers before they become alerts.
Most organisations have layer one. The best add all three.
Here's what each layer does — and what it cannot do alone.
Firewall / IPS — your existing firewall
Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet FortiGate, Check Point, Cisco Firepower, Sophos XG, Juniper SRX. Fast, reliable, essential — it controls traffic based on rules, policies, and signatures. But it only blocks what it has explicitly been told to block. If an attacker's IP isn't on a rule or blocklist, traffic passes freely.
CTI Platform — traditional threat intelligence
CrowdStrike Falcon Intelligence, Recorded Future, Anomali, MISP, ThreatConnect, IBM X-Force aggregate and contextualise threat indicators. They tell you what's dangerous. But applying that intelligence to your firewall still requires a human analyst, a SOAR playbook, or a custom integration — and that takes time attackers don't give you.
OneFirewall — real-time collective enforcement
OneFirewall connects 290+ security centres into a single collective intelligence network. When one member detects an attack, the indicator is validated, scored, and pushed to every connected firewall automatically — in under 30 seconds. No playbook. No analyst. No window for the attacker.
Both layers are excellent at what they do. Here's what they can't do alone.
No single vendor — however good its engineering — can see across a heterogeneous network of independent organisations. Palo Alto sees Palo Alto's customers. Fortinet sees Fortinet's. Each is fighting the same attackers blind to what every other deployment already knows. OneFirewall was built to close that gap: a genuine SOC-to-SOC alliance, not another single-vendor feed.
Palo Alto · Fortinet · Check Point · Cisco
- Only blocks IPs and domains it has been explicitly told about
- Vendor threat feeds update every 4–24 hours — attackers rotate in minutes
- Zero visibility into what the attacker did yesterday at another organisation
- New C2 infrastructure goes unblocked until a signature is written
- Rule management is manual — every new blocklist entry needs an engineer
- Sees only its own deployment base — a single vendor, however large, is not a heterogeneous alliance
CrowdStrike · Recorded Future · Anomali · MISP
- Delivers intelligence reports but doesn't enforce anything automatically
- Requires SOC analysts or SOAR tools to translate intel into firewall rules
- That translation adds hours of latency — attackers are already inside
- High false-positive volume creates alert fatigue; rules get skipped
- Expensive enterprise licensing leaves smaller teams behind
OneFirewall sits between your threat intelligence and your firewall. It aggregates crowd-sourced attack data from 290+ security centres, validates and scores every indicator, then automatically pushes enforcement rules to your existing firewall or IPS — all in under 30 seconds. No analyst needed. No SOAR integration required. No rip-and-replace. Your Palo Alto, Fortinet, or Check Point stays in place. It just becomes dramatically smarter.