We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"The notable features that I have found most valuable are that it includes the antivirus, and also IPS, and even SD-WAN."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"Using this product makes the VPN seamless and almost invisible to me in the sense that I don't have to think about it."
"The most valuable features are that it is very simple to configure and to manage."
"The solution has very good threat and content filtering switches."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and there are several operating systems that can include the hardware capacities. In the newer releases, the resources were more useful because they were included in the operating system."
"It's a firewall that secures our internal network. I have been using it since 2013, and I find that most of the features are advanced, and very user friendly."
"I like the architecture because it separates the management plan process and the data plan process."
"I can enable the features I want and configure the policies based on the user and not all users and network traffic, making firewall management much easier."
"They are regularly releasing new versions that include more integration with third-party services."
"Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls enable efficient application search, viewing, and configuration access across various services for different user groups within our company."
"You can easily integrate it with Active Directory, and you can use the GlobalProtect VPN for internal and external purposes. The URL Filtering is also clear and the application filtering is a plus. The application filtering is much better when you compare it to FortiGate or other firewall vendors."
"It is an extremely powerful solution as it provides visibility into all the network traffic, and offers a range of actions such as blocking websites or graphics, as well as load balancing. It's a great tool."
"I like the navigation of the general Panorama solution. I can easily navigate around and get to the thing I need. I'm not wasting time trying to find something."
"It is very scalable."
"It is nice to have a rock solid security platform that we can count on."
"The main advantage of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series stems from the fact that you can access it with the help of cloud services."
"Palo Alto’s Panorama centralized management system simplifies our security posture based on our requirements. Instead of manually pulling logs, then generating them into readable formats, it gives us the console in a readable format to view."
"It is an easy-to-scale product."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series has everything centralized. You have the VPN solution, firewall, routing, UDR, flexibility, updates, and full visibility of your traffic."
"The solution enables organizations to enforce policies."
"The most valuable feature is that you can launch it in a very short time. You don't have to wait for the hardware to arrive and get it staged and installed. From that perspective, it is easy to launch. It is also scalable."
"App-ID and User-ID have repeatedly shown value in securing business critical systems."
"There is room for improvement related to the logging and reporting aspect."
"There are some license issues. Not every feature must have a separate license. There must be some of kind synergy between the license so we don't have to pay for every individual license that we would like to have."
"The user interface could be improved."
"Lacks training for new features."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a firewall solution and once it's deployed, you can rest assured that your system is secure."
"Its software updates can be improved. It sometimes becomes very slow with the software updates for different features. It should have an External Dynamic List of data. The malicious IP is not frequently getting updated in Palo Alto, and this should be done."
"The only area I can see for improvement is that Palo Alto should do more marketing."
"The solution doesn't support routing in virtual firewall creation, and we want that to be enabled."
"In the cloud, the HA could be a lot better. Its price could also be better. It is very expensive."
"The analysis of the ITS ID by Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls could be improved."
"Palo Alto's various products need better integration to ensure they work harmoniously."
"The advanced manual protection needs to be improved a little bit because they used to make a cloud manual analysis for the cloud."
"The customer-facing side needs to be improved in terms of the engagement and involvement of support staff."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series needs to improve its order process."
"The web interface is very slow, and it needs to be faster."
"The implementation should be simplified."
"In the next release, I would like to see better integration between the endpoints and the firewalls."
"I would like to have automatic daily reporting, such as how many users have connected via SSL VPN."
"On the cloud side, they need to come up with more HA solutions to support the multi-region."
"I would like a way to do everything programmatically, or be able to copy the configs from different prices at different levels."
"The utilization monitoring and GUI have room for improvement."
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Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 164 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 53 reviews. Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is rated 8.6, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls writes "We get reports back from WildFire on a minute-by-minute basis". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is most compared with Check Point NGFW, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Huawei NGFW. See our Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series report.
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In the best tradition of these questions, Feature-wise both are quite similar, but each has things it's better at, it kind of depends what you value most.
PA is good at app control, web filtering and such like, they have always been top of the pile there. The GUI is very good, and their product is very user-focused.
Fortinet is good for scalability and predictable high throughput (ASICs in the hardware), and useful things like authentication flexibility, CLI config (if you have any networking/Cisco people, they always seem to prefer CLI over GUI) and have better OT features, maybe relevant to your manufacturing use?
Fortinet seem to have a broader integration offering with their security fabric than PA do, plus they can do Fortinet-based wifi, switching, etc. Depends if you are prepared to go all-in with a single vendor.
Hi,
Both FT and PA have compelling features for large Enterprises. I would like to add a few good points about Fortinetwhich might be helpful ( from my 13 years of engagement with them as Distributor and Partner)
Fortinet:
Have higher throughput; which comes with competitive rates
Wide range of models to select to meet your requirement, without spending heavliy
Outstanding customer support and very active customer care team
Easly available skilled resources from the channel for deployment and post-implementation support
Regards
Abhilash
Hello. The question is what you are going to have as a result of application