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    Palo Alto Panorama

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AAccording to the information provided by the vendor, Palo Alto Panorama is a network security management solution that intends to simplify and enhance cybersecurity processes for businesses. The product's primary objective is to offer various features, including unified policy management, centralized visibility, automated threat response, simplified configuration, unrivaled scalability, and rapid security adoption. It claims to assist organizations in efficiently managing their firewalls and…

    $9,500

    Pricing
    Palo Alto Panorama
    Editions & Modules
    25 Devices
    $9,500.00
    100 Devices
    $23,750.00
    1000 Devices
    $71,250.00
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Palo Alto Panorama
    Free Trial
    No
    Free/Freemium Version
    No
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    No
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Palo Alto Panorama
    Considered Both Products
    Palo Alto Networks
    Chose Palo Alto Panorama
    With below advantages, I went for Palo Alto Panorama -
    1. Easy to deploy, manage, configure multiple Palo Alto firewalls
    2. Centralized console for firewall configuration and logging
    Incentivized
    Chose Palo Alto Panorama
    We liked PAs ability to decrypt and inspect traffic better than Cisco's.
    Incentivized
    Chose Palo Alto Panorama
    Palo Alto Panorama and Junos Space Security Director have many similar features but Palo Alto Panorama excels in almost all of them. The monitoring tools in Palo Alto Panorama are easy to use and give more in-depth insight into what is going on in your network. Palo Alto's …
    Incentivized
    Chose Palo Alto Panorama
    In the past, we have used Cisco firewalls with Firepower and Palo Alto Panorama is easier to manage and more user-friendly. Also the performance of end firewalls/devices is much better than Cisco if you enable all features on them.
    Incentivized
    Chose Palo Alto Panorama
    [Palo Alto] Panorama stacks up really good against Defense Orchestrator. The interface of the Panorama makes it much easier to navigate through and allows for easier management of the Palo Alto Devices. The Cisco Orchestrator lacks in that department while Palo Alto Panorama is …
    Incentivized
    Chose Palo Alto Panorama
    Compared to other vendors, this is the most accurate next-generation firewall. Their sizing values in their data sheets is very accurate compared to other vendors, so little re-testing and validation is done on our side.

    Incentivized
    Chose Palo Alto Panorama
    Palo Alto Panorama offered much more advanced features when we made the switch from Check Point. Panorama takes an application-based approach, while still supporting older port-based methods. For Check Point, at least at the time, we switched from them, application-based …
    Incentivized
    Chose Palo Alto Panorama
    Palo Alto Networks Panorama is far superior to Cisco FirePower in terms of threat detection. Other than that it is very fast and easy to use. When it comes to deep packet inspection, Panorama shows all the relevant details needed, while Sourcefire pulls up a lot of details that …
    Incentivized
    Chose Palo Alto Panorama
    Prior to the installation of Palo Alto firewalls, we were using Cisco CSM to manage Cisco ASA firewalls. In my review I mention some limitaitons that we saw with CSM compared to Panorama. The biggest things were the management of common requirements; network, policy, objects, …
    Incentivized
    Chose Palo Alto Panorama
    Panorama is single pane of glass for both firewall logging and management in compare to Fortinet which requires two different tools to manage firewalls : FortiAnalyzer for logging and FortiManager for firewall management.
    Incentivized
    Chose Palo Alto Panorama
    Palo Alto Panorama is more complete and allowed me to better monitor my firewall. The other application is limited on certain aspects, Palo Alto Panorama gives me high in-depth view of my firewalls as well as with my IoT licensing it gives me suggestions on potential policies …
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Palo Alto Panorama
    Firewall Security Management
    Comparison of Firewall Security Management features of Palo Alto Panorama
    Feature
    Palo Alto Panorama
    9.4
    12 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Policy planning and rule management9.912 Ratings
    Automated Policy Orchestration9.011 Ratings
    Device Discovery9.59 Ratings
    Policy Compliance Auditing9.411 Ratings
    Attack Path Simulation Testing8.96 Ratings
    Anomalous Event or Behavior Deviation9.411 Ratings
    Vulnerability Scans9.75 Ratings
    Firewall Rule Cleanup9.911 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Palo Alto Panorama
    Small Businesses
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center
    Score8.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Palo Alto Panorama
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (13 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Palo Alto Panorama
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Palo Alto Networks
    I think Palo Alto Panorama is suited for administrators of all levels because certain things can be locked down to certain permission levels. But there are executive dashboards all the way down to the weeds for the highest of administrators. This truly is a single pane of glass tool because you never have to go into the individual firewalls for anything.
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    Pros
    Palo Alto Networks
    • If you need to push a setting or config to multiple firewalls Panorama can do that flawlessly.
    • Panorama has its logging centralized and this makes it easy to locate and reviews logs compared to having to get logs from each device.
    • I love how the interface matches the interface on the firewall. This makes the learning curve less steep.
    • Adding new firewalls to Panorama is super easy and not complex. Panorama can push a lot of the config and settings so you don't have to manually do it.
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    Cons
    Palo Alto Networks
    • The ability to push out OS updates could be improved in Panorama. It has the abilities, but the use is not intuitive, to the point that we generally connect directly to the firewalls to download the OS updates directly.
    • Scheduling. It would be nice to be able to schedule jobs to run at certain times. Pushing out updates, like OS updates mentioned above, can require significant bandwidth. So being able to schedule that work for hours that would not directly affect the users would be a welcome addition.
    • The list of devices in the Templates tabs should be sorted the same way that he devices are grouped in the Device Group tab, rather than just alphabetical. If there was a way to chose the order of the devices, maybe by tag, that would work as well.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Palo Alto Networks
    Panorama has given us much more than we expected and the support for the product, by Palo Alto Networks has been great. We would like to see some improvements that I mentioned in another review, like scheduling changes, but overall Panorama has provided a very capable product and we are very happy with it.
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    Usability
    Palo Alto Networks
    It is a solid product, it allows me to connect multiple devices and to manage my cloud, on prem and vmware firewalling devices. I can assign roles with the required visibility depending on the users. I can also consolidate all my logs into it to have a single pane of visibility.
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    Support Rating
    Palo Alto Networks
    Palo Alto has a very nice customer support. People are very nice and were quick to reply, whenever we had an issue with the subscription or the blacklist tool. There is also a great deal of information on their website that covers each and every detail about the uses and the threat signatures. The community keeps on updating their information very frequently. Small issues are easily solved from the documentation, and for other issues, the customer support service is always present. However, on Fridays it becomes a little delayed as per my observation.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Palo Alto Networks
    Palo Alto Panorama and Junos Space Security Director have many similar features but Palo Alto Panorama excels in almost all of them. The monitoring tools in Palo Alto Panorama are easy to use and give more in-depth insight into what is going on in your network. Palo Alto's security is ranked much higher and the Web Application Security is also superior to that of the Junos counterpart.
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    Return on Investment
    Palo Alto Networks
    • At a previous company, I deployed Palo Alto firewalls to a data center, and 12 branch locations. This allowed us to replace MPLS links with IPSec tunnels between the sites. This resulted in significantly more throughput and soft savings of increased productivity. However, the estimated net of $220,000 in hard savings over five years is what is most impressive. I could not have effectively managed all those devices without Palo Alto Panorama.
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