We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Palo Alto Networks WildFire based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."You already can scale it if you put it in Auto Scaling groups. If you put it in a load balancer, it should already be able to scale."
"The Palo Alto VM-Series is nice because I can move the firewalls easily."
"In the newer version, there are 3850s, all of them are scalable. They fit better into the medium or small businesses."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series's most valuable feature is the visibility of the environment."
"The main advantage of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series stems from the fact that you can access it with the help of cloud services."
"The most valuable feature is that you can control your traffic flowing out and coming it, allowing you to apply malware and threat protection, as well as vulnerability checks."
"We have reduced the number of configuration lines by 90%. We need fewer number of admins right now because of it."
"The most valuable features are security and support."
"For example, if a security Intel threat talks about an IOC. We can then go to our MSP and say, "Is there a signature for this particular type of malware that just came out?" And if they'll say yes, then we'll say, "Okay. Does it apply to these firewalls? And have we seen any hits on it?" There's absolutely value in it."
"It is stable and pretty much scalable."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"The way that the solution quickly updates to adjust to threats is the solution's most valuable aspect. When there's a security attack, within five minutes, all Wildfire subscribers have access to updates so that all systems will be safe. Its threat prevention is way better than other vendor products."
"The most effective feature of WildFire for threat analysis is its collaboration with other security profiles on our Palo Alto firewall."
"The solution is completely integrated with all the other Palo Alto products. I think that it is the best part for endpoint protection. The firewall features include URL and DNS filtering, threat protection, and antivirus."
"Remote access is excellent."
"They have many different options with Palo Alto WildFire and the set-up is quick. If you have all the details in hand, it does not take more than 15 minutes to deploy a firewall."
"All areas need improvement: manufacturing, education, financial, etc."
"We feel that the setup was complex. So, we asked the tech team about the setup process. They explained how to deploy it in the right way, which made it very simple."
"At the beginning of the implementation, we had some difficulties with the scripts, but Palo Alto Networks support together with a local partner finally fixed it."
"In the next release, I would like to see better integration between the endpoints and the firewalls."
"They made only a halfhearted attempt to put in DLP (Data Loss Prevention)."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is a complex product to work with."
"The product could provide protection above Layer 3, which gets into the application layer and provides better visibility into those aspects of application security."
"The current licensing model can be a sore point as we're paying for features we're not fully utilizing."
"As a firewall and 360 degrees of security, there needs to be more maturity."
"There are more specialized solutions that compete with Wildfire. Therefore, they need to work on their machine learning and AI to be more competitive."
"The initial setup was a little bit complex, mainly due to the GUI console and management challenges."
"It's not really their problem, it's a problem across the board. There will always be problems with interrupted traffic. We have to set it up where we're playing a middle man game where we're stripping it out, looking at it, and then putting it back together and sending it on its way. That requires CPU cycles. And there's some overhead with that."
"The data analytical system for deployment needs to improve."
"They provide a medium level of technical support."
"The deployment model could be better."
"I would give this product a rating of 9 out of 10 due to some slight issues of performance."
Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 53 reviews while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6, while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks WildFire writes "Good technical support and provides automatic analysis that saves us time in filtering email". Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Fortinet FortiGate, Cisco Secure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Proofpoint Email Protection and Fortinet FortiSandbox. See our Palo Alto Networks VM-Series vs. Palo Alto Networks WildFire report.
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