We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks Panorama and Skybox Security Suite 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 initial setup isn't very complex, it's user-friendly."
"The solution is suitable for all sized businesses."
"Palo Alto Networks Panorama is stable."
"Our team has the option to make configuration changes at any given time."
"The reporting is great."
"It allows administrators to manage all firewalls from a single interface, reducing the time and effort required for configuration."
"The solution doesn't need a proxy for the Prisma Access Firewall."
"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."
"It's given us more visibility in terms of what are the kinds of configurations that are on these devices, and how many of these are stale rules. So it's helped greatly in terms of cleaning up of rules, for sure. And it has definitely given us a more secure way of backing up the configuration on these devices."
"We are currently working on rule review and compliance. The logging features are good."
"It's very supportive and very user-friendly."
"The most valuable features are Firewall Assurance and Vulnerability Control."
"Correlates logs and threats and prioritizes; provides network maps;p provides change result context and resulting vulnerability."
"This type of tool does a great job of reaching into those other devices producing risk recommendations, compliance recommendations, and a single plane of glass to do your queries, so you can find where these rules might exist."
"Key features for us include the firewall change audit every week. Also, being able to track firewall ACL usage, so that we can produce semiannual reports on ACL usage and shadowed and redundant rules on the firewall."
"The solution's simplicity of use is its most valuable feature."
"Price is probably one of the biggest things that we struggle with, specifically with Palo, and that's across their whole portfolio."
"The dual WAN functionality is missing in this solution."
"The solution is extremely expensive. You can integrate it with other Palo Alto products, however, it ends up being too much."
"I would like more dashboard management."
"Storage in Palo Alto Networks Panorama needs improvement. My company also experienced deployment issues when the product was first installed, particularly when binding with the firewall. It's not as user-friendly because not everyone can deploy it without some knowledge."
"My company's getting whatever it needs from Palo Alto Networks Panorama, but in the cloud, there's an issue with CPU management, and that's an area for improvement. Though the normal data traffic doesn't go through the management interface, whenever there's an increase in the throughput, CPU management becomes high. If you increase the load, CPU management spikes, and it's what needs to be taken care of in Palo Alto Networks Panorama."
"Palo Alto Networks Panorama currently lacks the capability of integrating with other software, such as AlgoSec to simplify rule management and schedule management. However, this feature has been requested by the company and it is uncertain if Palo Alto will implement it in the future. Additionally, the UI needs improvement, it is too slow."
"Its UI and usability could be improved. The way the UI looks could be improved to make it a little bit more intuitive. Other than that, it is a pretty simple product."
"It's expensive."
"The tool does not offer options for customization."
"The solution needs to move improve its interface to a full web browser version that is more accessible and doesn't require installation for use."
"The most recent update was not tested with all of the vendors before it was released, so some of the features are misbehaving."
"There are multiple dashboards but no custom dashboard. It would be good to include a custom dashboard so that we can actually choose which field and what kinds of things we want to look at."
"The only place where Skybox has room for improvement, and they're working on releasing this, it's just a slow-go, is the UI. The user interface has historically been via a locally installed thick client. They are moving to a web-based console and it's slowly coming out."
"Skybox Security Suite's attack surface management feature needs improvement."
"Reporting. A lot of the reports, out of the box, are limited to a certain number of either configuration violations or access rule violations. So when you first set up a new firewall to be monitored by Skybox, you don't get a real full report. You have to really tweak it to get everything."
Palo Alto Networks Panorama is ranked 3rd in Firewall Security Management with 80 reviews while Skybox Security Suite is ranked 6th in Firewall Security Management with 34 reviews. Palo Alto Networks Panorama is rated 8.4, while Skybox Security Suite is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks Panorama writes "Built-in proxy with the ability to maintain your own policies". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Skybox Security Suite writes "Efficient in vulnerability management, stable and easy to use ". Palo Alto Networks Panorama is most compared with AWS Firewall Manager, AlgoSec, Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Tufin Orchestration Suite and Azure Firewall Manager, whereas Skybox Security Suite is most compared with AlgoSec, Tufin Orchestration Suite, FireMon Security Manager, RedSeal and Qualys VMDR. See our Palo Alto Networks Panorama vs. Skybox Security Suite report.
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