We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), OpenVPN Access Server, and Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."The solution could improve the ease of use, the management could be simplified. Other solutions are easier to use."
"We like is how they integrate nicely with the Oracle PeopleSoft application."
"The setup is pretty easy."
"The capability is at a seven or eight out of ten."
"The support from F5 BIG-IP LTM is good."
"We are using Application Security Manager (ASM) as a web application firewall, where there is a security signature to avoid a web level breach."
"Where we are finding the AWS version helpful is when we are trying to scale up new environments. AWS Marketplace helps here a lot."
"It is a very good, flexible solution. It helps us to catch up on flaws in our partner solutions on top of its load balancing feature."
"It is open-source and free to use."
"The initial setup phase of OpenVPN Access Server was fine, and it was easy."
"The solution is secure and user-friendly."
"It can scale well."
"OpenVPN Access Server is cheap, and we get to use it ourselves. It is also a stable solution."
"OpenVPN Access Server is very stable."
"It was very easy to set up users."
"The product has strong encryption and scalability features. It provides security for private network connections."
"There are plenty of features this solution provides and the most valuable would be the complete security protection we are receiving. We are provided with similar security that the Palo Alto AWS solution has. This includes features such as a firewall and machine learning AI."
"To quarantine and clean a malware file provides a lot of security."
"Being able to use the user ID or Active Directory Group is one of the great features for control and providing more flexibility without worrying about IP addresses."
"It is geographically dispersed, and it sits on top of Google and AWS platforms. Therefore, you don't face the standard issues, such as latency or bandwidth issues, that you usually face in the case of on-prem data centers."
"The most valuable feature is the zero-trust part of this solution."
"The most valuable features of the solution are in the areas of the secure remote access it provides while also being user-friendly."
"The protection for web-based applications was helpful for my colleagues who didn't want a particular application on their devices. And the non-web access protection was more for our developers because they were writing and building code on their computers. Prisma Access was able to protect them."
"The tool's consolidation is pretty quick."
"We need best-practice information. They have something called DevCentral and a blog. But we want something from F5 itself regarding how to tackle the false-positive configurations. If you go into detail with so many configurations it will find so many false positives from the moment it is enabled that it will quickly impact your applications, and it will not work."
"Technical support could be faster. It's something I'd like to see them work on in the future."
"The analytics should provide insight into latency across various traffic routes and virtual servers."
"Not everything is intuitive."
"I would like them to expand load balancing, being able to go across multiple regions to on-premise and into the cloud. This could use improvement, as it is sometimes a little cumbersome."
"One area for improvement with F5 BIG-IP LTM could be its pricing, which some may find on the higher side."
"We would like to see load balancing between the cloud and the on-premise, a straightforward deployment feature."
"The user interface could be improved in F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager."
"The connections could be faster and more stable."
"There is always room for more security features."
"It would be nice with all these features, if they could send some examples of each one; just small sample scripts to look at and say, "Oh okay, I could expand on this." That would help us a lot."
"OpenVPN does not have the ability to selectively terminate connections."
"The server configuration file needs to be improved, it's the biggest problem in the configuration process."
"There was one annoying feature where we had to disable and enable the user. I cannot remember what it was exactly, but I think it was for a password lockout. It would be nice if there was a checkbox, or something, in the web interface to allow you to unlock a user whose password was locked."
"There are certain shortcomings in the product's stability that need improvement."
"When there are too many concurrent users trying to connect at the same time, there may be a bit of a bottleneck."
"It is a managed firewall. When you run into issues and have to troubleshoot, there is a fair amount of restriction. You run into a couple of restrictions where you don't have any visibility on what is happening on the Palo Alto managed infrastructure, and you need to get on a call to get technical assistance from Palo Alto's technical support. You have to get them to work with you to fix the problem. I would definitely like them to work on the visibility into what happens inside Palo Alto's infrastructure. It is not about getting our hands onto their infrastructure to do troubleshooting or fixing problems; it is just about getting more visibility. This will help us in guiding technical support folks to the area where they need to work."
"We would like to see improvements in the licensing; currently, Palo Alto provides 500 to 1000 licenses for users, and we want to see 1500 to 2000 licenses for one version."
"Sometimes, you have these notifications sent out about changes in App-IDs, modifications in App-IDs, or even the introduction of entirely new App-IDs to replace. Sometimes, the recommendations are followed, but even then, when the package is installed on the firewall, it gets messed up. I remember a particular one was with Tableau, and suddenly, people weren't able to use Tableau, which is an analytics tool for business."
"The user interface could be better. They need to work a little bit on the console. It is similar to their firewalls but not exactly. They need to clean it up a bit."
"If you compare Prisma SaaS against other products, such as Cloud Log, it's a little bit tricky to understand, but it offers different functionality that other products don't have. From a user usability point of view, you need some training for this product, as an admin, you need a couple of demos."
"Palo Alto Prisma 10 came out over a year ago. Palo Alto added this identity management feature. The legacy way Palo Alto selected which user is sitting on an IP address it passes through has been clunky."
"The solution needs to be more compatible with other solutions. This is specifically a problem for us when it comes to healthcare applications. They have proprietary connection types and things of that nature that make compatibility a challenge sometimes."
"Lacks a hybrid model which has API plus in-line security."
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