We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiPortal and Palo Alto Networks Panorama based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewall Security Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It does a little bit better than some of the other products health-wise and updates-wise. It is really clear that a firewall is getting the signature updates in this timeframe. In some of the other products, usually, you have to go a couple of screens in to see that, but not so much in this product."
"I like the tool's controller facility."
"The firewall and site-blocking features are valuable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is application control."
"The documentation has been satisfactory."
"The role-based access controls give us granular control over what features to present to a customer, and the integration into FortiAnalyzer is the most valuable feature."
"The customer likes it for the graphs, the dynamics and the reporting functionality it offers."
"I like the product's asset management which gives clear hardware details."
"It is great that the records go back to 30 days."
"The solution doesn't need a proxy for the Prisma Access Firewall."
"Centralized firewall management and update management are the most valuable features."
"Especially for big, worldwide clients, one of the most valuable features is being able to create some rules to place on the security groups."
"Panorama enables you to provision all your firewalls and other things as a cluster. It is quite useful for that."
"Palo Alto Networks Panorama provides many features, such as alerts, traffic monitoring, and logs."
"The entire ease of use is most valuable. If you're managing firewalls locally with PAN-OS, the look and feel of Panorama is the same. So, you don't have to relearn another product. If you're used to managing firewalls from Palo Alto, you can easily use Panorama to manage them. It looks and feels the same."
"The ability to manage a large number of firewalls from a single point is most valuable."
"The tool should provide a 10-15 days extension for customers when their license expires."
"If you are a very small company or a person on your own, it's harder to get any response from technical support."
"So if it's more than a thousand, there could be some scalability issues. It becomes more complex as you go."
"Fortinet FortiPortal could improve by providing a learning portal and better security."
"It's useful for us but if it had more educational reporting, it would good. It's not necessarily lacking but it's an area that could get better."
"The product must have in-built SD-WAN connectivity."
"I find their logging a little bit trickier to manage. The logging of events is broken up into a lot of different categories. Instead of breaking up my logs into several different places, I personally like to have all the events in one spot and then filter them down. In particular, I find that troubleshooting on Fortinet takes a little bit longer just because of those functional breakups in the logs."
"The solution is more expensive than other products."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"At times we have noticed that we get into issues where Panorama is going too slow or has other little problems. The performance can suffer occasionally."
"Price is probably one of the biggest things that we struggle with, specifically with Palo, and that's across their whole portfolio."
"Sometimes in Palo Alto Networks Panorama, we receive issues where it is overloaded and unresponsive. We have issues with accessing the devices due to a slow response from Panorama."
"Palo Alto Networks Panorama could improve by making the solution less expensive."
"The product does need a bit of configuration. It's not quite ready to go out of the box."
"The alerts in Palo Alto Networks Panorama could improve by integration with other systems, such as a forwarding trigger system. For example, if a customer has their own system it would be helpful to have the alarms integrated."
"Aside from pricing, I don't have any issues with Panorama."
Fortinet FortiPortal is ranked 10th in Firewall Security Management with 10 reviews while Palo Alto Networks Panorama is ranked 3rd in Firewall Security Management with 81 reviews. Fortinet FortiPortal is rated 7.8, while Palo Alto Networks Panorama is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiPortal writes "Suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and offers role-based access controls for granular control ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks Panorama writes "Built-in proxy with the ability to maintain your own policies". Fortinet FortiPortal is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, vCloud Director, VMware Aria Operations and CloudStack, whereas Palo Alto Networks Panorama is most compared with AWS Firewall Manager, AlgoSec, Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Tufin Orchestration Suite and ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer. See our Fortinet FortiPortal vs. Palo Alto Networks Panorama report.
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