We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiPortal 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 customer likes it for the graphs, the dynamics and the reporting functionality it offers."
"I like the product's asset management which gives clear hardware details."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is application control."
"The documentation has been satisfactory."
"It does a little bit better than some of the other products health-wise and updates-wise. It is really clear that a firewall is getting the signature updates in this timeframe. In some of the other products, usually, you have to go a couple of screens in to see that, but not so much in this product."
"The role-based access controls give us granular control over what features to present to a customer, and the integration into FortiAnalyzer is the most valuable feature."
"From a scalability perspective, I found the solution to be completely fine...The solution's technical support is absolutely fine."
"I like the tool's controller facility."
"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."
"The reporting is great."
"Especially for big, worldwide clients, one of the most valuable features is being able to create some rules to place on the security groups."
"The most valuable aspect of Palo Alto Networks Panorama for me is the centralized management of multiple firewalls."
"A valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks Panorama is reporting because it gives you different reports on data, logs, and threats. I also like the centralized firewall management feature of the product."
"The product was great, and whenever there was a bug or issue, they released updates quickly. Additionally, their support was very good."
"All of the reports and events from different locations can be managed centrally."
"The interface is very easy to use. You can do most jobs from one single console."
"The tool should provide a 10-15 days extension for customers when their license expires."
"Fingerprint access security would improve this solution."
"The product must have in-built SD-WAN connectivity."
"It's useful for us but if it had more educational reporting, it would good. It's not necessarily lacking but it's an area that could get better."
"The solution is more expensive than other products."
"So if it's more than a thousand, there could be some scalability issues. It becomes more complex as you go."
"I find their logging a little bit trickier to manage. The logging of events is broken up into a lot of different categories. Instead of breaking up my logs into several different places, I personally like to have all the events in one spot and then filter them down. In particular, I find that troubleshooting on Fortinet takes a little bit longer just because of those functional breakups in the logs."
"There can be defects in Fortinet FortiPortal when functioning at high temperatures."
"It could be easier to manage. In the future, it should be much easier because it's not very easy to manage. So in the next release, I think it should be much easier to manage, especially in the first configuration. It could also be more stable."
"There could be more integrations with third parties."
"We have had some issues in the past because integrating a new device is not intuitive."
"Price is probably one of the biggest things that we struggle with, specifically with Palo, and that's across their whole portfolio."
"The product does need a bit of configuration. It's not quite ready to go out of the box."
"The dual WAN functionality is missing in this solution."
"We had some challenges with the initial setup, but it was more on a learning curve basis."
"We found a vulnerability where when we have a low flow, like 2.7K, it is not getting fired by the threat prevention. That's something important to improve on. They should have a proxy or some solution to solve the issue. We also found some issues around decrypting the flow. When we have more flow than expected to decrypt, the performance goes down."
Fortinet FortiPortal is ranked 10th in Firewall Security Management with 10 reviews while Palo Alto Networks Panorama is ranked 3rd in Firewall Security Management with 80 reviews. Fortinet FortiPortal is rated 7.8, while Palo Alto Networks Panorama is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiPortal writes "Suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and offers role-based access controls for granular control ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks Panorama writes "Built-in proxy with the ability to maintain your own policies". Fortinet FortiPortal is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, VMware Aria Operations, vCloud Director, CloudStack and Fortinet FortiManager, whereas Palo Alto Networks Panorama is most compared with AWS Firewall Manager, AlgoSec, Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Tufin Orchestration Suite and Cisco Defense Orchestrator. See our Fortinet FortiPortal vs. Palo Alto Networks Panorama report.
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