We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks Panorama and Skybox Security Suite 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."Centralized firewall management and update management are the most valuable features."
"Centralized management is a valuable feature."
"Our team has the option to make configuration changes at any given time."
"The compliance features are very effective at identifying things that need to be properly hardened."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks Panorama is its ease of use."
"Palo Alto Networks Panorama has a lot of features."
"In Panorama, installing the policy, and pushing the policy, it's quite seamless."
"The threat prevention and layer seven security features were the most used and important for us. All operations are quite good in this solution."
"The product's most valuable feature is vulnerability management."
"The solution offers very nice dashboards and they've recently added a very good Java-based web interface."
"The most valuable features are Firewall Assurance and Vulnerability Control."
"The most impressive feature is optimization and clean-up."
"The performance could be good because we chose it at the time, but it is too complex for us to appreciate its performance because we lack the necessary skills."
"It's very supportive and very user-friendly."
"The solution's most valuable and unique assets are the vulnerability management and change management solutions because they identify mistakes in the network before implementation which reduces risks."
"It can be integrated with a vulnerability management solution. When a client comes, apart from pitching network and firewall change management, we are recommending having vulnerability management. So, rather than just having the audit of the firewall, they can integrate it with their vulnerability management solution, which could be Rapid7, Qualys, or any other solution. This provides them the most value out of the platform. That is the way we are approaching our customer base."
"The solution is extremely expensive. You can integrate it with other Palo Alto products, however, it ends up being too much."
"It could be more secure."
"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."
"There were a few bugs a couple of years into it. There was a big bug where it had trouble communicating with the two main boxes."
"There is always room for improvement in anything."
"Palo Alto Networks Panorama has some bugs that could be fixed."
"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 solution should improve the speed at which they make changes on the system. Historically, they've been a bit slow in that respect. They should apply changes to the box quicker and more often."
"The cloud site could be better. They should provide some use cases to help users."
"The tool does not offer options for customization."
"The setup documentation needs a lot of improvement."
"There is room for improvement in the technical support."
"The most recent update was not tested with all of the vendors before it was released, so some of the features are misbehaving."
"The stability is something that is questionable. I don't know whether it is because of the kind of infrastructure we have or because of the product in itself. We're running it on a virtual machine right now. Maybe once a month, or once in every 45 days, it requires a restart because the application fails to connect. So I have to restart the whole Skybox Manager itself, the Skybox server itself, and then connect to it from our Skybox Manager."
"I've had issues with licensing where, when they were expiring and I asked for the updated licenses, I would the wrong ones. I think their process needs to be straightened out a little bit - I don't know if they fixed it already, it has been awhile. It wasn't as straightforward as it could have been."
"They are not satisfied with the complexity of the solution and the price."
Palo Alto Networks Panorama is ranked 3rd in Firewall Security Management with 80 reviews while Skybox Security Suite is ranked 6th in Firewall Security Management with 34 reviews. Palo Alto Networks Panorama is rated 8.4, while Skybox Security Suite is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks Panorama writes "Built-in proxy with the ability to maintain your own policies". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Skybox Security Suite writes "Efficient in vulnerability management, stable and easy to use ". Palo Alto Networks Panorama is most compared with AWS Firewall Manager, AlgoSec, Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Tufin Orchestration Suite and Azure Firewall Manager, whereas Skybox Security Suite is most compared with AlgoSec, Tufin Orchestration Suite, FireMon Security Manager, RedSeal and Balbix BreachControl. See our Palo Alto Networks Panorama vs. Skybox Security Suite report.
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