We compared Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform and Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks across several parameters based on our user reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Initial Setup: The duration required to establish Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform varies, with some users reporting longer timeframes for deployment and setup. Users of Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks reported similar timeframes for both phases.
Valuable Features: Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform is known for its robust security measures, efficient network connectivity, advanced analytics capabilities, and reliable customer support. Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks stands out for its advanced threat prevention capabilities, secure remote office and mobile user connectivity, ease of use, scalability, and flexibility.
Room For Improvement: Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform could improve in terms of performance, reliability, user interface, navigation, documentation, and integration options. Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks needs enhancements in speed, connectivity, compatibility, integration, and customer support.
Setup Cost: Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform is deemed affordable and reasonable, with transparent and flexible licensing terms. Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks is also regarded as reasonably priced, with a straightforward and user-friendly licensing process.
ROI: Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform offers increased network security, simplified management, improved performance, and cost savings. Users praise its integrative features and flexibility. Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks also provides positive results and a significant ROI.
Customer Service: Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform stands out for its highly praised customer service and support. Users commend the top-notch assistance and guidance provided by the platform's support team. Palo Alto Networks received positive feedback for its prompt, effective customer service.
Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform is preferred over Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks. The Versa SASE Platform is praised for its robust security measures, seamless integration, advanced analytics, simplicity of use, and reliable customer support. Users also highlight the positive ROI, reasonable pricing, and flexibility of the Versa SASE Platform. User feedback suggests that Prisma Access could benefit from improvements in speed, performance, seamless integration, and support responsiveness.
"The protection offered by the product is the most valuable feature. It detects vulnerabilities or traps on our users' phones and then prompts them to clean up their devices. Tools we used previously would only discover, which required us to gather information on the backend, so Lookout is a welcome upgrade."
"The most valuable features are the antivirus as a whole, the anti-malware, and all of the protection features that scan our enterprise devices."
"On the outside, the main differentiation is because Lookout ingest. They have ingested basically all of the apps for the last ten years and all the versions of all the apps, and we have that in a corporate database that allows us to do very large-scale machine learning and analysis on that data set. That's not something that any of the competitors really have the capability to do because they don't have access to the data set. A lot of the apps you can no longer get them because that version of the app is five or six years old, and it just doesn't exist anywhere anymore, except within our infrastructure. So, the ability to have that very rich dataset and learn from that dataset is a real differentiator."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to join your network and provide access through the VPN."
"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."
"I like it because it's very easy to use. You install the client and you have to know your gateway, but that's something we give to our users. Beyond that, it takes about three seconds to train them on how to use it. And it just works well. That's great for us because it means less administrative time."
"It supports auto-scaling for mobile users. It auto-scales depending on the mobile user traffic. For example, if 1,000 people are working from home today, and tomorrow, the number increases to 2,000, it is not going to be an issue."
"The remediation process is easy compared to other platforms."
"The visibility perspective is pretty cool. If I want to know how much data is being used for a specific project, I can look at how much data has been used, from which region, and which users have been connected. That visibility is very good so that I can see how many licenses we have and how many are used."
"You have the ability to create your own expressions for your data. Palo Alto understands that DLP is not the same for all consumers. You might have a particular need to fulfill, and they give you the opportunity to create a custom expression to match the specific format that you have. For a confidential file property that you have in your files, you can add a metadata field. It gives you that opportunity to create that."
"The users can securely access any cloud data centers or cloud platforms. In terms of the features, it has all the features that Palo Alto Next-Generation Firewall has. It is also very stable and scalable."
"The flexibility is a great feature."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The division of Control Plane and Data Plane is most valuable. It can be deployed anywhere, and you can control it and configure it from anywhere. This is one of the good features of this solution."
"The solution is stable and suitable."
"The necessary enhancement pertains to the controller segment, specifically addressing the issue of frequent flapping when a link is left. In the case of Versa Unified, if a link experiences frequent flapping within an entire branch, it triggers instability. Hence, it is imperative that the overall routing system is not contingent solely upon the active dial branches."
"The most valuable features are the main steering and the firewall. The security features and SD-WAN features are also quite good."
"Overall, it's nice and very user friendly. That's what makes it so successful. They give you complicated features but with a very simple user interface, and that's been a big success for them."
"The granularity when it comes to configuration and security features are valuable."
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"The stability depends on the service from where you access it. Because sometimes, the place you are in, you have Gateway. You don't have Gateway. The gateway is overutilized. At the end, you need to go through their gateways. And this is the key point here. You have a tracking point. If it's not well orchestrated, and it scales up as you add more to the existing team, you will suffer"
"We just submitted an enhancement request reflecting the main area we want to see improvement in; the APIs. Currently, we're able to build dashboards, but it's somewhat backward because we use our MDM API to create them. Lookout should provide API to customers so we can query our data and use it in our cloud, and this is the only outstanding area for improvement with the product right now."
"Lookout was moving into the SSE space. And so their work on SecureWeb Gateway and SD-WAN is still sort of evolving."
"From the analysis that we've done, they do seem to be maybe a step behind in trying to enter the market with a new solution. But when they do pick up, they do come out with some good products."
"Better integration with the MDM solution would be useful."
"The Cloud Management application has room for improvement. There are a lot of things on the roadmap for that application; things are going to happen soon."
"The product's current price is an area of shortcoming where improvements are required."
"Its integration with non-Palo Alto products can be improved. Currently, it is easy to integrate it with other Palo Alto products such as Cortex XDR. It integrates well with other Palo Alto products. A major part of our network is based on Palo Alto products, but for those companies that use multi-vendor products in their infrastructure, Palo Alto should optimize the integration of Prisma Access with the network devices from other vendors."
"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."
"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."
"We've run into some challenges, having hit a lot of bugs over the past year in the deployment of GlobalProtect. We've had our fair share of issues that I haven't been happy with. We're working with the support organization to remediate them and waiting for updated releases. The response on getting the bugs fixed has not been what I would consider adequate for a product like this."
"It's not really Prisma's fault, but when you try to create exceptions you don't really have those abilities. You cannot say, on the management platform, "Hey, for these users I want to create these exceptions." That is one thing that I have gotten some complaints about, and we have faced some challenges there."
"The stability of FlexVNF's controller and devices could be improved."
"The solution lacks a mobile version where small, manageable platforms can be developed."
"Another thing that should be improved in Versa are their firewall features."
"I heard about them for the first time just before I started working on Versa. They do have blogs for information, but they could publicize more about the documentation and architecture. It doesn't seem to have that much exposure, and they should work on their customer base more."
"The web interface can be improved."
"With the pandemic and changing work models, it would be ideal if the product more accessibility options or more diversity within the solution itself."
"The VPN feature is relatively new. It came out two releases ago, and they're still fixing that up."
"The smaller units lack a lot of functionality."
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Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks is ranked 1st in Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) with 56 reviews while Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform is ranked 13th in Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) with 20 reviews. Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks is rated 8.4, while Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform is rated 8.0. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform writes "A flexible, stable and scalable solution ". Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks is most compared with Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, Netskope , Cisco Umbrella, Zscaler Internet Access and Prisma SD-WAN, whereas Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, Fortinet FortiGate, VMware SD-WAN, Cato SASE Cloud Platform and Peplink SpeedFusion. See our Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks vs. Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform report.
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