We performed a comparison between Aruba Remote Access Points and Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Infrastructure VPN solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's an ideal gateway solution for small and medium businesses, i.e., around 300 devices can be easily handled."
"The solution has good performance."
"What I like best about Aruba Remote Access Points is that it's pretty easy to set up."
"It is a very stable tool."
"Aruba Remote Access Points provide a level of protection for our IPs."
"Aruba works well in large spaces, especially for manufacturing. That's when you start seeing the effectiveness of Aruba."
"It provides good Spectrum Analysis and troubleshooting."
"Once configured and operational, they tend to function reliably, with few reported issues from clients or customers."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is experienced by those working at home since they get a secure Wi-Fi connection."
"The authentication features are valuable."
"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."
"The always-on feature is fantastic for the users. They don't have to think about it. When they go to a coffee shop to do work, there's no need to remember to toggle the VPN on. We'll protect them. URL filtering is the same at home as it is in the office."
"Its frontend is user-friendly. It is easy to use for us."
"It's great that we can make sure a machine meets the minimum requirements before users are allowed to log in."
"The most valuable feature is the zero-trust part of this solution."
"It's much faster and more secure than legacy solutions. It is also quite stable and scalable as well. We are able to see all the traffic in one place."
"The solution has all its capabilities in a single cloud delivery platform which is great and it provides overall good protection."
"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."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"Its scalability capabilities should be improved."
"The solution's technical support has some shortcomings that need improvement."
"It would help if the remote APs had some kind of SoHo environment with built-in firewall features. That way it could connect directly in a client-to-site type of environment, or a site-to-site VPN environment. That way users could have a complete office setup without coming to the private cloud."
"The remote access point coverage should be bigger than it is now."
"Our difficulty with Aruba is that the product and the license are two different items. So, if we are adding an access point, we have to pay for two items. We have to pay to add the access point in the controller and we have to pay for the license."
"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing. If they can be more competitive."
"The product needs an increased level of security for the end user."
"I use the controller when using Aruba Remote Access Points, particularly during configuration. Hence, room for improvement in Aruba Remote Access Points is for its web UI to be easier to control."
"Dependencies of applications sometimes is a bit confusing."
"When it comes to the VPN, it uses the global protect VPN functionality to connect remotely, but it has a feature limitation for assigning multiple IP sub-links to different user groups. It would be much better if we are able to assign the current IP blocks for the sub-links based on the user groups."
"While Palo Alto has understood the essence of building capabilities around cloud technology and have come up with a CASB offering, that is a very new product. There are other companies that have better offerings for understanding cloud applications and have more graceful controls. That's something that Palo Alto needs to work on."
"There should be a dedicated portal or SASE-based solution. They're trying to add a plugin but it needs a dedicated portal because it is now an enterprise solution for multiple organizations. People should be able to directly log in to a dedicated page for Prisma Access, rather than going into a Panorama plugin, and always having to update the plugin."
"Better integration with the MDM solution would be useful."
"When it comes to integration mechanisms, Prisma SaaS does not support reverse proxy type of integrations."
"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."
"The cloud setup is straightforward, and the onboarding process is much better, but the on-premises initial setup is slightly complex."
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Aruba Remote Access Points is ranked 13th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 12 reviews while Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks is ranked 5th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 55 reviews. Aruba Remote Access Points is rated 7.8, while Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Aruba Remote Access Points writes "The solution can be used from home or any remote office to access office resources like printers and servers". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks writes "Integration with Palo Alto platforms such as Cortex Data Lake and Autofocus gives us visibility into our attack surface". Aruba Remote Access Points is most compared with Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, Fortinet FortiClient, OpenVPN Access Server, Check Point Remote Access VPN and Zyxel VPN Client, whereas Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks is most compared with Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, Netskope , Cisco Umbrella, Zscaler Internet Access and Prisma SD-WAN. See our Aruba Remote Access Points vs. Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks report.
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