We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series 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."The technical support is great."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and there are several operating systems that can include the hardware capacities. In the newer releases, the resources were more useful because they were included in the operating system."
"Their proxy-based inspection is responsive and secure."
"The initial installation is very straightforward."
"It's very fast and easy to configure."
"The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good."
"Fortinet offers the latest versions to cater to the needs of enterprises."
"The most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control."
"Its flexibility is the most valuable."
"I love the Policy Optimizer feature. I am also completely happy with its stability."
"The App-ID, Content-ID, User-ID, and encryption and decryption are valuable features."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is pre-sales and post-sales because of the support and relationship building."
"The sandboxing is valuable and they are frequently updating their signature database. We get new updates every five minutes. That makes it easy to detect new and unknown attacks."
"Innovative, advanced threat protection is the most valuable feature."
"The solution allows us to set parameters on where our users can go. We can block certain sites or ads if we want to."
"It's very important that Palo Alto NG Firewalls embed machine learning into the core of the firewall to provide inline, real-time attack prevention. That increases our security posture... The firewall is able to capture it and flag it and it is easy to mitigate as soon as we see something like that happening, to secure the environment more, in real time."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The VM series has an advantage over the physical version because we are able to change the sources that the machine has, such as the amount of available RAM."
"It is an easy-to-scale product."
"Embedding it into my application development lifecycle prevents data loss and business disruption, allowing the adoption to operate at the speed of my AWS Cloud."
"It ensures that every interaction, pre and post-loan processing, undergoes a thorough inspection, leveraging VPN features and comprehensive security protocols."
"They now know the details about their network traffic that they did not know before: Applications that they are using and some application they did not know they were using."
"We now know a lot more detail about what our users are doing on the network."
"It is very stable. It is fairly easy to use."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"The solution is very expensive."
"There can be more security in hybrid implementations. When a customer has a hybrid environment where some parts are in the cloud, we need a consistent security solution for such scenarios."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the logging and reporting. Additionally, the next-generation application's policies should be improved. When they were released they had bugs."
"The solution could have licensing fees reduced in the future."
"One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"We had some issues in the beginning while setting it up, but after doing the firmware update, it is working fine."
"Its price can be better. They should also provide some more examples of configurations online."
"I would like more reporting and metrics in the solution."
"The cost has room for improvement."
"I would like to see some Machine Learning because I have observed new types of attacks that are able to bypass existing security rules."
"I would like to see it provide us with intelligent information from the data that it captures, within the same cost."
"The price could be more friendly, which would be good for Palo Alto and us. If the price were a little lower, then it would be a viable option for mid-level businesses, who may not be able to deploy at the current price point."
"I would like integration with Evident.io and RedLock."
"Technical support is an area that could be improved."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is a complex product to work with."
"The product could be better in terms of performance than one of its competitors."
"The solution needs to improve its visibility. It's not straightforward to use. Understanding the policies, authorizations, and initializing features requires careful review. The product needs to offer proper training."
"Palo Alto is that it is really bad when it comes to technical support."
"The utilization monitoring and GUI have room for improvement."
"On the cloud side, they need to come up with more HA solutions to support the multi-region."
"I would like to have automatic daily reporting, such as how many users have connected via SSL VPN."
"It is not very easy to scale up the solution."
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Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is ranked 6th in Firewalls with 164 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 53 reviews. Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is rated 8.6, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls writes "We get reports back from WildFire on a minute-by-minute basis". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is most compared with Check Point NGFW, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX and Sophos XG, whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Huawei NGFW. See our Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series 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