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[...] In a note on its website, Orca lamented at length the "outrageous" behavior of PAN, as well as posting a copy of the lawyer's letter for world-plus-dog to read. That letter claimed Orca infringed PAN's trademarks by using its name and logo in the review as well as breaching non-review clauses in the End-User License Agreement (EULA) of PAN's product.
[...] "It's outrageous that the world's largest cybersecurity vendor, its products being used by over 65,000 organizations according to its website, believes that its users aren't entitled to share any benchmark or performance comparison of its products," said Orca.
[...] Orca's boss believes a law in PAN's home state of California makes it impossible to prohibit the publishing of reviews, and also cited a case in New York where prosecutors sued McAfee, under its short-lived corporate name of Network Associates Inc, for banning reviews in its EULAs.
When asked what he thought the outcome of this latest battle would be, (Orca chief exec Avi) Shua said he hoped PAN would "simply remove these clauses from the EULA," insisting "so many people from the industry" don't support bans on reviews. He also added, in another shot across PAN's bows, that if formal legal action ensues, "it'll cost us a lot of money but it won't break Orca. I'm not going to be bullied into not doing something because someone else has deeper pockets."
Palo Alto's cease and desist letter (pdf).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 26 2020, @08:30PM
They could be spying, but if they want to provide anything more than a blacklist of sites and basic allowed outbound/inbound ports and IP addresses/DNS names, then they have to do this.
Years ago, I used to be "the firewall guy" (ie the one who reviewed and approved the policies) for a large company. My opinion was "if you use company equipment on our business network, then we should have the right to make sure the traffic is inspected." This is/was my personal opinion and the law (esp in EU) doesn't often agree with this stance anymore, but it really should. For big companies, it is VERY hard to protect all your systems from the legions of well-funded and informed cyber criminals out there (for goodness sake, they have had HELPDESKS for some of the malware tool vendors for years now!!!) and you need all the tools you can get.
If you really want privacy, why don't you just use your cell phone or bring your own laptop and use a hotspot? For large companies that can have billions of dollars in assets and IP, you need a different set of rules for their internal operations networks vs the rules aimed at allowing your employees to conduct their personal business and entertaignment.