We performed a comparison between FireMon Security Manager 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."For the cleanup of firewall rules, it performs really well for us. We utilize it in our regular rule cleanup tasks, several times a year. FireMon is our primary tool when doing that, either by going through its out-of-the-box compliance rules or using it to search for certain things in our rules that we want to prune from our firewalls."
"The most valuable feature is the reporting capability because everything that we do is a result of our being able to query a report, based on our environment and our PCI compliance efforts."
"The most valuable features are Policy Optimizer and Firewall Manager for different brands of firewall."
"Vendor agnostic when it comes to integrating with other product."
"The most valuable feature is that everything is recorded in the historical logs, including the firewall rules, headcounts, object-level usage, and the rule documentation. The rule certification details are also there, which means that someone can be held accountable for a specific firewall rule."
"We also use the solution’s SASE integration capabilities to extend security policy management for cloud firewall management. It helps in creating one consistent rule across multiple platforms and it improves accuracy."
"FireMon is nice and provides 360-degree user views."
"The firewall assessment feature is great."
"The most valuable features of Palo Alto Networks Panorama are centralized management. We can manage all our firewalls."
"The dashboards are very good on Palo Alto. They offer a centralized dashboard for managers as well."
"The most valuable aspect of Palo Alto Networks Panorama for me is the centralized management of multiple firewalls."
"Panorama enables you to provision all your firewalls and other things as a cluster. It is quite useful for that."
"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 most valuable feature is the Threat Intelligence."
"What I like most about this solution is that it allows me to push multiple policies on multiple followers at the same time."
"You don't need an overly experienced workforce to handle Palo Alto. It's very easy to use."
"To my knowledge, there's no cloud component to FireMon whatsoever. We're on the hook for any updates to versioning of the operating system or the application that runs on the operating system. It would be nice if it was a little bit more automated."
"The stability has been fairly decent, but there have been a few issues. My coworker has had some issues in the past where he has had to work with support."
"Some of the core functionality in our environment doesn't seem to work. We will get buggy code releases. They need to work on their Q&A of every code release."
"The current health and monitoring of the devices is atrocious... Imagine you have a list of 200 devices, and you can grade each of those devices as either green, yellow, or red. However, there might be three different reasons for you to go to red, or eight different reasons to go to yellow, and all of those things could be combined... Out of all those categories, I only find one or two of them that are, perhaps, pertinent."
"I don't like that it comes with bugs, constant issues, and limited functionality."
"We have not used the Policy Planner but even so, we have identified areas of improvement with it during our testing. For example, it could be better when it comes to ease of integration or ease of policy automation. Another problem is that there is a console where it has too many options and is not very straightforward. Essentially, controlling it could be made more seamless."
"We're working on implementing FireMon with our ticketing system service now. Having that would be an improvement."
"FireMon could improve its end-user practices. As an end user, I am just trying to catch up on all the alerts. There are so many, and you still have to go through them and document what was found."
"They can improve its cloud integration."
"Clients need to have an alarm and alert system from which they can forward the trigger. The product needs to improve its integration as well."
"I would like more dashboard management."
"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."
"I would like to see remote VPN, like the Cisco client."
"It is very hard to understand the platform. It is not easy and user-friendly. You need a lot of experience to use Panorama. It is very complex, and you must know exactly what to do. I would like to have a more user-friendly product. FortiManager is comparatively very easy to use. It would be good if Panorama improves in terms of user-friendliness. It is also harder to use than Palo Alto Firewalls."
"My pain point is the automation process is not well-documented. There are some things that they could improve on there."
"The price of Palo Alto Networks Panorama could be better."
FireMon Security Manager is ranked 4th in Firewall Security Management with 53 reviews while Palo Alto Networks Panorama is ranked 3rd in Firewall Security Management with 80 reviews. FireMon Security Manager is rated 8.2, while Palo Alto Networks Panorama is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of FireMon Security Manager writes "Makes compliance much easier compared to doing it manually, and automates policy changes across environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks Panorama writes "Built-in proxy with the ability to maintain your own policies". FireMon Security Manager is most compared with Tufin Orchestration Suite, AlgoSec, Skybox Security Suite, ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer and RedSeal, whereas Palo Alto Networks Panorama is most compared with AWS Firewall Manager, AlgoSec, Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Tufin Orchestration Suite and Skybox Security Suite. See our FireMon Security Manager vs. Palo Alto Networks Panorama report.
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