We performed a comparison between FireMon Security Manager 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."The most valuable feature is that everything is recorded in the historical logs, including the firewall rules, headcounts, object-level usage, and the rule documentation. The rule certification details are also there, which means that someone can be held accountable for a specific firewall rule."
"The unused objects is another nice feature, where it digs a little bit deeper into comparing the logs that it sees versus the configurations that it sees... The unused objects feature will go through in a pretty detailed way and show us which ones aren't being used. Or, if they are used, it will show us how often they're used."
"It gives us the ability to go to one place to look for potential firewall rules that are inappropriate, or which don't meet compliance. Instead of manually searching hundreds of firewalls for a policy, we can go to this one location and find the rules which are now out of compliance."
"When it comes to real-time compliance management, it is very good because it is able to compare changes in the configuration as well as giving us a timestamp. It also sends email alerts to our environment so we know if someone has made a change on the network. It gives us the whole picture of that change. Whether it is a configuration change or just a small comment, it gives us the before and after snapshot."
"The most valuable features are Policy Optimizer and Firewall Manager for different brands of firewall."
"The most valuable features are the security assessments and the ability to identify unused rules or objects."
"Policy test, access path analysis, and change reports."
"FireMon is nice and provides 360-degree user views."
"I like the quality of this product, and it performs. It's the best solution in the IT business."
"From a configuration point of view, when we are implementing it for large organizations where the customer owns a hundred firewalls, it's just easy to manage them all at one central location."
"It's easy to deploy any software or policies."
"This solution is user-friendly. It is centrally managed and provides role optimization, without the need for additional tools."
"The dashboards are very good on Palo Alto. They offer a centralized dashboard for managers as well."
"The most valuable item is centralization and we can get all of the router bases in a single window."
"On the one or two occasions that I had to make use of technical support, I felt it to be pretty good."
"The solution, especially the latest versions, is very stable."
"FireMon could improve its end-user practices. As an end user, I am just trying to catch up on all the alerts. There are so many, and you still have to go through them and document what was found."
"The stability has been fairly decent, but there have been a few issues. My coworker has had some issues in the past where he has had to work with support."
"We've had recurring issues managing FireMon's internal backups. Sometimes, the space allocated for the backup is full, and there is no process where it deletes files that are older than I certain date. It's just waiting for the storage to get full and then it's cleaned up. It isn't something that creates serious issues for us."
"A phone app would be nice. This is the reason why it is not perfect yet."
"The current health and monitoring of the devices is atrocious... Imagine you have a list of 200 devices, and you can grade each of those devices as either green, yellow, or red. However, there might be three different reasons for you to go to red, or eight different reasons to go to yellow, and all of those things could be combined... Out of all those categories, I only find one or two of them that are, perhaps, pertinent."
"Some of the core functionality in our environment doesn't seem to work. We will get buggy code releases. They need to work on their Q&A of every code release."
"The cost of the solution is pretty expensive. It would be ideal if they could work on their pricing."
"While I like the reporting, I think that has the biggest room for improvement. Right now, as a user of FireMon, if I create a report, I am the only one who can see it inside FireMon. If someone on my team creates a report, they are the only person who can see that report on FireMon. It doesn't matter if you're admin in FireMon or not. The way we have to do it now is that we have created a service account user and that service account user runs all the reports. This way, all the reports, which are running, are just run under a single user so we can always access them. This definitely needs to change so users can see other users' reports or we can share reports within FireMon."
"Panorama needs to work on its configuration issues."
"I am observing that whenever pushing our configurations sometimes the configuration will not push properly and then we have to go to the individual firewall and save it again."
"The dual WAN functionality is missing in this solution."
"The product does need a bit of configuration. It's not quite ready to go out of the box."
"Clients need to have an alarm and alert system from which they can forward the trigger. The product needs to improve its integration as well."
"Sometimes technical support is slow to respond."
"The ability to add scheduled jobs would be a significant improvement. Panorama has the ability to push out OS updates, but it would be nice to be able to schedule those updates so not to affect the site during normal business hours."
"The notification and alerting system could be improved."
FireMon Security Manager is ranked 4th in Firewall Security Management with 53 reviews while Palo Alto Networks Panorama is ranked 3rd in Firewall Security Management with 80 reviews. FireMon Security Manager is rated 8.2, while Palo Alto Networks Panorama is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of FireMon Security Manager writes "Makes compliance much easier compared to doing it manually, and automates policy changes across environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks Panorama writes "Built-in proxy with the ability to maintain your own policies". FireMon Security Manager is most compared with Tufin Orchestration Suite, AlgoSec, Skybox Security Suite, ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer and RedSeal, whereas Palo Alto Networks Panorama is most compared with AWS Firewall Manager, AlgoSec, Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Tufin Orchestration Suite and Skybox Security Suite. See our FireMon Security Manager vs. Palo Alto Networks Panorama report.
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