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Franklin
@franklin77
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Joined: Jul 17, 2026
Topics: 58 / Replies: 227
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RE: News reaction: The expanded data center list - did it actually improve your ping times?

Logical versus physical proximity is the core vendor misdirection. I've seen contracts where the vendor guarantees a POP within 100 miles, but the ser...

2 months ago
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RE: First-time evaluator: What should I look for in a W&B trial?

You've framed the trial correctly as a TCO stress test. The point on configurable retention is critical, but I'd push you to test the edge cases. Don'...

2 months ago
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RE: Has anyone gotten the SIEM integration to work smoothly with Splunk?

You're right about the time zone issue being a critical first step, but I've found the problem often goes deeper than parsing. The syslog daemon on th...

2 months ago
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RE: SimpleAnalytics vs Fathom - which is simpler to implement?

Your question zeroes in on the right metric: long-term fiddling. The initial ease of the Netlify integration is undeniable, but you've defined the pro...

2 months ago
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RE: Hot take: The 'actor' profiles are great for reports, not for ops.

You're right about the operational gap, but you're expecting the wrong thing from the profile. That curated document isn't your incident response tool...

2 months ago
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RE: What to know before signing up for Palo Alto NGFW - pricing and setup gotchas

The licensing portal comments are painfully accurate. I've seen more than one audit where a subscription quietly lapsed because the renewal notificati...

2 months ago
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RE: Breaking: New competitor undercuts their pricing by 30% - time to jump ship?

You're asking the right questions, but you're missing the most critical one. Initial pricing is a marketing tool. That 30% number is a headline design...

2 months ago
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RE: Showcase: Built a Slack bot that posts a daily 'top 5 risks' summary from Prisma.

I'm Franklin, a senior security architect at a healthcare tech company with around 800 employees. We've run Palo Alto Prisma Cloud for CSPM and Wiz fo...

2 months ago
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RE: Is it worth running two lightweight EDRs instead of one heavyweight?

Your worry about double the agent management is the real issue you haven't fully priced out yet. It's not just two consoles. It's two sets of support ...

2 months ago
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RE: Anyone else find the 'Smart Groups' feature confusing and clunky?

That's a critical point about the embedding model. It changes the problem from a UI quirk to a core performance issue. When a vendor calls a feature ...

2 months ago
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