We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks K2-Series and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls 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."LinkGreat firewall capabilities"
"The response is very quick and they can visually resolve our problems in a short period."
"Layer-3 firewall and routing are the most valuable features."
"The solution is very easy to understand. It's not overly complex."
"The dashboard I have found the most valuable in Fortinet FortiGate."
"FortiGate is flexible and easy to use."
"The solution is highly scalable because they have devices that can handle a large amount of traffic."
"The technical support in our region is excellent."
"The solution is reliable and scales well."
"Everything I could possibly want has already been implanted in the new version."
"As long as the solution is kept updated, it's pretty stable."
"I like the tool's WildFire feature."
"This firewall is very good for our customers because they don't have to write their own rules for adding an application."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is the performance which is above their competitors. The throughput they have delivered is good. When we used other solutions they failed the deployment when we were using different rules. They have a theory perform performance light and performance degradation. However, Palo Alto Networks K2-Series never fails in that scenario."
"The most valuable feature is availability."
"Palo Alto has a unique solution for DNS security, which is very good."
"I like all the functions and features."
"They have a good system operator in the firewalls and it provides many tools that they can use to protect their networks."
"With App-ID, we can identify exact traffic. Even if someone tries to fool the firewall with a different port number, or with the correct port number, Palo Alto is able to identify what kind of traffic it is."
"The trackability is most valuable. When a port is open for a protocol, such as port 443 for HTTPS, it can look inside the traffic and identify or verify the applications that are using the port, which was previously not possible with traditional firewalls."
"The structure is much faster and more sophisticated than Cisco."
"The machine learning in the core of the firewalls, for inline, real-time attack prevention, is very important to us. With the malware and ransomware threats that are out there, to keep abreast of and ahead of those types of attacks, it's important for our devices to be able to use AI to distinguish when there is malicious traffic or abnormal traffic within our environment, and then notify us."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is pre-sales and post-sales because of the support and relationship building."
"We like the fact that this product can provide multiple layers of protection depending on our clients requirements, and can be configured to whatever level of protection and the specific protocols that they want."
"Fortinet should focus on enhancing the capabilities of FortiGate by consolidating its various products, such as FortiGate Cloud, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer."
"FortiOS is not simple."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"The pricing could be a bit better, especially when you consider how they have the most basic offering priced."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve to be on par with its competitors, such as Palo Alto and Sophos. They are the market leaders. Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve its capabilities. However, we are happy with Fortinet FortiGate."
"I use the FortiGate 60D model and realized the 300Mbps bandwidth limitation. Because it is a product that offers many services, I think it could have greater bandwidth capacity."
"The technical support, and how they provide it to the client, needs to be improved."
"I would like to see the threat intelligence capability integrated with other vendors such as Cisco and Forcepoint."
"When it comes to renewing the solution, they tend to try to jack up the pricing."
"The licensing cost is a typical complaint with many clients. The solution is expensive."
"The URL Filtering module needs to have more categories added to it."
"The ease of management and configuration should be improved."
"They should implement the features that the other firewalls have."
"We had some issues with upgrading in the past. They could make the process easier."
"Personally, I feel that their dashboards for reporting and things like that need some improvement."
"I would like to see it provide us with intelligent information from the data that it captures, within the same cost."
"Palo Alto has introduced new features in their next-generation firewall, such as SD-WAN. However, the technique of SD-WAN implementation is not easy to understand. It is not easy to deploy at this moment. Maybe, in the future, they can improve the process and how the administrators, partners, or support team can easily deploy this SD-WAN solution on their next-generation firewall. The SD-WAN solution from Fortinet is easy to do. It does not take more than five or 10 minutes. When we talk about Palo Alto, it takes extra effort to implement SD-WAN."
"This solution cannot be implemented on-premises; it's only a cloud solution. The price is high as well."
"The analysis of the ITS ID by Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls could be improved."
"Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls work slowly for vulnerability management. Its performance could be faster."
"Its price can be better. They should also provide some more examples of configurations online."
"The stability, scalability for enterprise-level organizations, and technical documentation have room for improvement."
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Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 29 reviews while Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is ranked 6th in Firewalls with 164 reviews. Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is rated 8.4, while Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks K2-Series writes "Easy to implement and manage, and the documentation is good". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls writes "We get reports back from WildFire on a minute-by-minute basis". Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is most compared with , whereas Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is most compared with Check Point NGFW, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Netgate pfSense. See our Palo Alto Networks K2-Series vs. Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls 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