Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center vs Palo Alto Networks Panorama comparison

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center 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.

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Cisco Secure Firewall Manag...

Ranking in Firewall Security Management

7th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Palo Alto Networks Panorama

Ranking in Firewall Security Management

3rd

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

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Market share comparison

As of June 2024, in the Firewall Security Management category, the market share of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is 0.9% and it increased by 63.3% compared to the previous year. The market share of Palo Alto Networks Panorama is 8.5% and it decreased by 19.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Fakhar Mahmood

Sr. Network Administrator at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Feb 20, 2023

Easy to deploy, but the performance is lacking

There is a performance issue with the STDs. There are full limitations on the site where we installed IPS and IDS, which is a prevention system. This is affecting the mentioned performance, which is not up to the standard required for the books. Furthermore, if we have to failover, we will have to do an RMA, and then rebuild it, since there is no solution. If the file is RMA, it will not be in the cluster. This means we have to build a new cluster, which will result in downtime. The performance of the Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center could be improved. It is very slow and difficult to manage the group. Previously, it was based on the CLI, but the group performance did not meet the market standards. When comparing Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center with Palo Alto, the SMPS of Palo Alto is much better.

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Prasanth Kailasam

Senior Client Manager at GBM

May 15, 2024

Enables organizations to easily manage a large number of firewalls in multiple locations through a centralized management console

Palo Alto has one of the best portfolios in the market if we need a very stable environment to manage the information security space for our organization or our client's organization in firewalling, application-level firewalling, and contextual-based firewalling. We can also look at Check Point as an option. The vendor has AI incorporated into their new offerings. Generally, behavior analysis has to be more automated rather than manual. With AI incorporated, the back-end OS can understand and easily detect certain vectors, like the zero-day attack. It's in a very early stage. It'll take quite some time for Palo Alto to scale AI to the level where the entire thing can be automated. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The product's user interface is very easy to use and convenient."

"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."

"The most valuable features are the Virtual Private Network and the Electronic Control Lists."

"One of the most valuable features of Cisco Secure Firewalls is their seamless integration with other Cisco products."

"Scalability is not an issue as long as you are able to buy additional licenses. Ten percent of our customers use Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center, and we have large accounts with 50% of their end users behind this firewall."

"The most valuable aspects are the antivirus and URL filtering."

"The solution has a great UI and a policy deployment mechanism, and all the configuration is easily manageable for the firewalls."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the intrusion prevention system."

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"Threat prevention and traffic monitoring are the most valuable features for us."

"The most valuable feature is WildFire."

"This solution is user-friendly. It is centrally managed and provides role optimization, without the need for additional tools."

"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks Panorama is the simplicity of rule management. Both this device group and template management are very easy to use."

"The interface is very easy to use. You can do most jobs from one single console."

"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 firewall rules and policies are the most valuable aspects of the solution."

"Everything about the reporting and everything about Palo Alto Networks Panorama is good."

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Cons

"It takes five to seven minutes to push one policy."

"I had a challenging time trying to size the firewall on the cloud. Maybe the information is there, but I couldn't find it easily. Usually, it depends on the cloud provider itself, whether you use AWS or Azure. These guys give you the information, so this part is not as detailed."

"Cisco Firepower has been effective in solving various problems, but it could be improved by making it simpler and more user-friendly like Fortinet."

"Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center needs to reduce its price."

"The initial setup is a bit complex."

"Due to the lack of enough tutorials available online, I face problems with Cisco."

"Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center could improve by being less expensive."

"The solution should improve the user interface."

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"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."

"Sometimes in Palo Alto Networks Panorama, we receive issues where it is overloaded and unresponsive. We have issues with accessing the devices due to a slow response from Panorama."

"We had some challenges with the initial setup, but it was more on a learning curve basis."

"We have had some issues in the past because integrating a new device is not intuitive."

"The general customer feedback is when saving the configuration, it takes a long time. That needs to be fixed. The troubleshooting, the debugging part is also a little bit of a pain. It's not user-friendly on the interface to do our debugging when comparing it with other firewalls, like Forcepoint."

"The initial setup can be complex."

"It could be more secure."

"It can take a few minutes to test to see if any changes are successful or not. This needs to be improved. A commit change should take a second, not a minute or more."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate the tool's pricing a four out of ten. The licensing costs are yearly."

"Technical support is an additional annual cost and is not included with the license."

"I use the free version of the product."

"The platform is costly."

"The solution is expensive. We have a multi-license, and we pay extra for support."

"The price of the solution is expensive. We do not have to pay more than the standard licensing fees."

"It is rather expensive."

"I rate Secure Firewall Management Center eight out of 10 for pricing."

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"The licensing is not cheap. There are always hidden costs. You have support costs, or maybe you need to buy more optics on how the solution fits into the rest of your environment. It is possible some of the rest of your environment will need to change too."

"Sometimes the company prefers to give a license to test the product in our environment before we go to the customer. But the customer should buy his own license, and that's the system here. The system is different between one country and another. Some countries say that the IT solutions provider should provide the license."

"With the URL filtering, we probably went down from around four hours in response time to about five minutes."

"You only pay for the license and there are no additional costs."

"It has freed up staff time, which is where we are seeing ROI."

"Cost-wise, it's very expensive."

"The pricing is considered a little bit expensive, but depending on the client, it's worth it."

"Its cost is quite high."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

21%

Government

17%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Engineering Company

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center?

The platform has significantly enhanced our organization's operations by providing secure communication channels between different office locations.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center?

The platform is costly.

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What needs improvement with Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center?

Improving the product by incorporating SD-WAN functionality would be highly beneficial, especially for remote offices with limited server and Internet availability.

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What do you like most about Palo Alto Networks Panorama?

The most valuable aspect of Palo Alto Networks Panorama for me is the centralized management of multiple firewalls.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Palo Alto Networks Panorama?

Palo Alto is costly compared to Fortinet and Sophos. However, the vendor is working on cost-effective models. They are working on the back end to make it more attractive for SMBs.

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What needs improvement with Palo Alto Networks Panorama?

If we implement Cisco or Fortinet's firewall for the first time, anybody with a basic knowledge of firewalls can set the policies and rules. The implementation is not that easy. Though Palo Alto is...

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Overview

The Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is the administrative nerve center for select Cisco security products running on multiple platforms. It provides unified management of Cisco Secure Firewalls with Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) software for port and protocol control, application control, IPS, URL filtering, and malware protection functions. Firewall Management Center is the centralized event and policy manager for:

● Cisco Secure Firewall with the Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) OS

● Cisco ASA with FirePOWER Services

● Cisco Secure IPS (Firepower Next-Gen IPS / NGIPS)

● Cisco FirePOWER Threat Defense for ISR

● Cisco Malware Defense (AMP)

Panorama network security management provides static rules and dynamic security updates in an ever-changing threat landscape. Reduce administrator workload and improve your overall security posture with a single rule base for firewall, threat prevention, URL filtering, application awareness, user identification, file blocking and data filtering.

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University of Arkansas, JBG SMITH, Temple University, Telkom Indonesia

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