Security News > 2020 > October > Palo Alto Networks threatens to sue security startup for comparison review, says it breaks software EULA

Palo Alto Networks has threatened a startup with legal action after the smaller biz published a comparison review of one of its products.

Israel-based Orca Security received a cease-and-desist letter from a lawyer representing Palo Alto after Orca uploaded a series of online videos reviewing of one of Palo Alto's products and compared it to its own.

Orca sees itself as a competitor of Palo Alto Networks.

The lawyer's letter [PDF] claimed Orca violated PAN's EULA fine-print, something deputy general counsel Melinda Thompson described in her missive as "a clear breach" of terms "Prohibiting an end user from disclosing, publishing or otherwise making publicly available any benchmark, performance or comparison tests run on Palo Alto Networks products, in whole or in part."

Palo Alto networks declined to comment when contacted by The Register.

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