We performed a comparison between AlgoSec 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 most valuable feature is that the tool is capable of simplifying firewall management and configuration in an automated fashion."
"AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer can detect misconfigurations and unused or permissive rules, as well as rules without logging. Through a single dashboard, I can see all the problematic rules from all the firewalls. It's very simple, with AlgoSec, to get an analysis of all the rules, and that helps with visibility."
"I think finding the firewall's rules with the highest risk is valuable."
"We can easily and quickly identify all of the rules on the firewall and avoid the individual review and analysis of each rule."
"AlgoSec contributes more in the security space for our company, especially in automatically finding the high risk and medium risk rules instead of manually reviewing over a few thousand rules."
"I found that for policy optimization it does a great job."
"We were able to improve the security ratings of our firewalls."
"Breaking down a rule to specify used objects within groups and protocols has proven invaluable for us because we are able to narrow exposure to potential threats, and more generally, areas in which we are exposed."
"The reporting is great."
"The most valuable feature is the Threat Intelligence."
"I would improve the management. I need to view charts and traffic statistics, but the management console doesn't share that information with me."
"What I like most about this solution is that it allows me to push multiple policies on multiple followers at the same time."
"Templates and the possibility to apply a configuration to many devices at the same time are the most valuable features. We are able to create templates, and we don't need to go to each firewall to make changes. We can make changes in Panorama, and it automatically applies those changes to all those firewalls on which we want to apply the changes. It provides centralized management."
"You don't need an overly experienced workforce to handle Palo Alto. It's very easy to use."
"The solution doesn't need a proxy for the Prisma Access Firewall."
"Palo Alto technical support is excellent."
"Needs better technical support and quicker response times."
"Automate the change documentation in MS Word format. Therefore, we can customize it, if needed."
"Our experience with support has been inconsistent. Sometimes, support is fast and clean; other times, not so much. Occasionally, they have taken a while to respond or provided an inadequate workaround instead of a solution."
"It would be nice if it was more variable when checking virtual domain baseline in the same way as Fortigate's firewalls do."
"There could be certain improvements such as supporting secure email."
"The process to replace a decommissioned device with a new device is not straightforward."
"A simple tutorial about the initial configuration on Youtube could provide a lot of help."
"I like the training available as it is very informative, but, I wish it was just available from YouTube and I could easily play it from my cell phone without additional logins."
"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."
"I am observing that whenever pushing our configurations sometimes the configuration will not push properly and then we have to go to the individual firewall and save it again."
"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."
"The current documentation is not detailed enough."
"The dual WAN functionality is missing in this solution."
"The ability to add scheduled jobs would be a significant improvement. Panorama has the ability to push out OS updates, but it would be nice to be able to schedule those updates so not to affect the site during normal business hours."
"There is always room for improvement in anything."
"The solution's utilization of network ports makes things as complex as possible."
AlgoSec is ranked 1st in Firewall Security Management with 173 reviews while Palo Alto Networks Panorama is ranked 3rd in Firewall Security Management with 80 reviews. AlgoSec is rated 9.0, while Palo Alto Networks Panorama is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of AlgoSec writes "Gives us the ability to dig down into details and work at a level above the skills that we already have". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks Panorama writes "Built-in proxy with the ability to maintain your own policies". AlgoSec is most compared with Tufin Orchestration Suite, FireMon Security Manager, Skybox Security Suite, ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer and Fortinet FortiManager, whereas Palo Alto Networks Panorama is most compared with AWS Firewall Manager, Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Tufin Orchestration Suite, FireMon Security Manager and Skybox Security Suite. See our AlgoSec vs. Palo Alto Networks Panorama report.
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