We performed a comparison between Cisco Defense Orchestrator and Palo Alto Networks Panorama based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about AlgoSec, Tufin, Palo Alto Networks and others in Firewall Security Management."We have quite a few Active Stone by pairs. If they fail over... I'll see that there's a change on it and I'll have a look. The only change on it is that now this one is the standby, it took over the active role. I can go into that firewall and find out what happened... and troubleshoot based on that. That's pretty cool too."
"If we have a firewall go down, I can hop into CDO, pull the latest configuration off and apply it. That's really good. It helps save time."
"We use a lot of image upgrades. We take some 20 devices and then we update everything at once, including the policies. We apply policies for groups. For certain groups, like anti-viruses, we send out policies and apply them to every single device. It's really easy and simple."
"The most valuable feature is being able to do centralized upgrades on the ASAs. We can select all of those ASAs, and say, "Upgrade these ASAs at this scheduled time." It will copy down the ASA image, ASDM image, and then do the upgrade and failovers, and then put it all back into service as required at a scheduled time. It automates that process for us."
"This product provides excellent centralized device controls and reporting."
"The initial setup was straightforward. We spun up the VM onsite. We generated the key that it needed to talk to the Cloud Orchestrator. After that, as I started adding devices, it was relatively quick and easy."
"The ability to see the uptimes on the different VPNs that we have configured for site-to-site."
"For this product, they are very uncharacteristically interested in resolving whatever issue the customer reports. They're really attentive, and they address whatever we bring up as quickly as they can. That's been a very positive aspect of the product."
"The application ID or App-ID feature is a good feature for us. We are also using IPS and content inspection features. The firewall can inspect the packages that are passing through my network."
"What I like most about this solution is that it allows me to push multiple policies on multiple followers at the same time."
"We use the solution for centralized monitoring."
"Technical support is quite helpful."
"Centralized firewall management and update management are the most valuable features."
"Centralized management is a valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks Panorama is its ease of use."
"Panorama enables you to provision all your firewalls and other things as a cluster. It is quite useful for that."
"They can centralize all products and provide a correlation about an incident and the response. They can also provide an on-premises solution. Currently, Cisco Defense Orchestrator is just for cloud deployments, not for on-premises deployments. Customers have to manage it on the cloud. We are based in Vietnam, and most of the customers here prefer to have on-premises deployments. Customers, especially from banking and government sectors, do not prefer to do anything on the cloud. Some of the small enterprises use the cloud."
"When logging into the device, we sort of had problems with it staying in sync. If somebody made a change onsite, it wouldn't do an automatic sync. It would have to wait, as you would have to do a manual sync up."
"It should have more features to manage FirePOWER appliances."
"It would be a better product if it incorporated device control for third-party products easily."
"They need to work on the user interface. It needs to be improved to make it more user-friendly."
"We had some MX devices that were blocking Windows Update from happening. We found out it was a Meraki issue, but it would have been nice if it had been flagged for us: "Hey, these updates are failing because the MX is blocking it." It wasn't a huge problem, but there was a loss of our time as well as the fact that the updates didn't get pushed out... It would have been nice if CDO had let us know that that was an issue."
"The main thing that would useful for us would the logging and monitoring. I have to check it out, to get the beta, because I don't have access to them... I wanted CDO to be a central place so where I could do everything but right now I don't think that's possible. I really don't want to go back and forth between this and FMC. Maybe the logging portion, when I look at it, will give me some similarities."
"There could be some slight improvements to navigation. In some of the navigation you've got to go back to be able to get into where you need to be once you've made a change. If I make a change, I've then got to go back to submit and send the change."
"There is room for improvement in response time for tech support."
"There is always room for improvement in anything."
"My pain point is the automation process is not well-documented. There are some things that they could improve on there."
"In our version, there is no feature to transfer or upload a database of third-party vulnerabilities or signatures so that Panorama can convert them into its own database. This kind of feature might already have come in version 10."
"The solution can improve by providing unique reports in relation to the function of which you choose the firewall to do."
"A potential improvement for Palo Alto Networks Panorama could be a more competitive pricing structure."
"It should have more connection with Threat Intelligence Cloud. They can also include features related to SecOps and automation API."
"The solution's utilization of network ports makes things as complex as possible."
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Cisco Defense Orchestrator is ranked 14th in Firewall Security Management while Palo Alto Networks Panorama is ranked 3rd in Firewall Security Management with 80 reviews. Cisco Defense Orchestrator is rated 8.2, while Palo Alto Networks Panorama is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco Defense Orchestrator writes "Provides visibility into entire infrastructure and bulk changes save time and resources". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks Panorama writes "Built-in proxy with the ability to maintain your own policies". Cisco Defense Orchestrator is most compared with AlgoSec, Tufin Orchestration Suite, Azure Firewall Manager and Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center, whereas Palo Alto Networks Panorama is most compared with AWS Firewall Manager, AlgoSec, Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Tufin Orchestration Suite and Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center.
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