Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Primary Use Case

AW
Sr. Networking Engineer at Emerson

Ours is an enterprise environment and some of the services are hosted in our private data centers and some of the servers are hosted on Azure. We have the IPSec tunnels from the firewalls to our own data centers and from the firewall to the cloud as well. It depends on the type of application being hosted.

We are using Panorama for centralized management of all our firewalls around the world, as well as for centralized management of security policies and network settings. We have not completely migrated to the cloud. We are in transit.

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Imrankhan Pathan - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Specialist at YASH Technologies

We use the solution for network protection. Previously, I worked for a physical organization, but last year we moved to a Proof of Concept. Following the POC, we had to deploy the solution in three different geographical locations. We deployed all of the Palo Alto solutions in the hub environment and connected them to another node.

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Charles Salameh - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Cloud Engineer at Netcetera AG

The main concern is VPN. If you're using Azure Firewall, you still need a VPN gateway to terminate your VPN connection. Azure Firewall doesn't remove the need for another VPN gateway, especially for point-to-site VPN. So you have to use another VPN appliance. With Palo Alto and FortiGate, for example, you can have an all-in-one solution. The VPN gateway and all the other features are available.

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April 2024
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RM
Security Consultant at Airpel

We primarily use the solution for cloud firewalling, SASE, ZTNA, and CASB compared to the hardware-based NGFW or cloud firewalls.

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SB
Network Architect at Correla Ltd.

For remote access and securing our perimeter, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series greatly enhances our network security posture. It serves as a primary firewall for enterprise security and ensures secure remote access to our environment. As for traffic handling in our multi-cloud deployment, Palo Alto Networks' solution effectively manages it, delivering on its promises.

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JH
Director of IT at Tavoca Inc

We use this product to secure our entire network, for ZTNA structure, and for VPN purposes, allowing access to our servers behind the firewall.

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Aqeel Junaid - PeerSpot reviewer
Junior Executive - Information Security at sunshine holdings

I use the solution in my company to block threats, detect vulnerabilities, and protect the organization's internal network.

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Deja Srivatjanapong - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Network Engineer at Soiel

We use the solution for inter-VPC traffic segmentation and inspection. I also use it for external interfaces.

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Mitul Rajput - PeerSpot reviewer
GM COE at Anuntatech Management Services Ltd

We are using the solution for IDS, IPS, and security.

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PM
Senior technical specialist at Softcell Technologies Limited

The primary use case for the Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is real-time inspection for vendor security.

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Ahmed MohammedKhan - PeerSpot reviewer
Network secur eng at Qatar Free Zone

We use Palo Alto Networks VM-Series primarily for security purposes. It helps us with URL filtering, domain blocking, threat analysis, and detecting vulnerabilities.

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Muhammad  Zubair Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Information Security-CISO at PricewaterhouseCoopers

All the PwC offices in Pakistan use Palo Alto in their environment. It is a global solution.

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BK
Manager, Information Technology at SWPA Corp

The primary use case of this solution is as a firewall for our servers.

We are running a total of 12 servers. Four of them are hardware servers and the rest are VMware servers. We have about 80 clients running Windows 10.

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Ahmed_Shalaby - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Cyber Security Engineer at Beta Information Technology

The solution is used to protect some servers and access their traffic in a virtualization environment.

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Hendrik-Du Plooy - PeerSpot reviewer
Regional Manager at Saber1

Our corporate clients use the product to secure cloud environments.

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Ricardo S. - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It is deployed on the Azure cloud to inspect the outbound traffic, but in the near future we will be working to inspect inbound and Azure Express Route traffic as well.

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Nasir Akbar - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales Engineer at SAUDI PARAMOUNT COMPUTER SYSTEMS

I have completed ten projects. The solution is used for network security, application control, and enforcement of policies on end-user devices.

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Monica Gorasia - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Information Technology at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

We use the product on our Azure network firewalls. 

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IC
Lead Security at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Azure Firewall is a cloud-native solution. It's only for netting and simple source-destination blocking. The client wanted everything, so they wanted us to implement a third-party solution. Palo Alto was the leading solution. It's easy to install. 

Palo Alto is dynamic regarding protocol rules, and it is classless. The client also wanted a third-party solution between their on-premise environment and Azure, so they went for Palo Alto. Palo Alto VM-Series is deployed on the Azure Cloud.

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OA
Architect Network Security at GTT

I've mainly worked with the VM-Series, and a few features have been really effective for threat prevention in our networks, like McAfee training, Accountant ID, and apps ID. These features integrate well with our existing environments and tools, such as Panorama. 

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JR
Manager, Information Technology at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

We are using it on Azure Cloud for our internal systems, where we have set up our internal workloads. We are using it as a perimeter firewall.

We are using it because our internal workflows are on the cloud. Almost everything in our production and development uses these instances. We are using it extensively for conducting reports of the development environment. It is working fine.

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TM
Network Engineer at Peristent Systems

We use the product to mitigate vulnerabilities for the applications running on particular VMs.

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NK
Senior Manager Network Engineering at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

I am a firewall expert, although my job is not on the management side. I take care of the routing and switching aspects. We have approximately 1,000 firewalls in the company.

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Nick Rama - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at Nexus Technologies,Inc.

I use Palo Alto Networks VM-Series for testing purposes of VMs.

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PK
Cloud Practice Engineer at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees

We use Palo Alto for the VPN, firewalls, and the hybrid site-to-site.

We have purchased Palo Alto VM for one of our customers. It has been a year since we have been using this product.

We use Palo Alto's on-premise version for a different purpose. We are using the cloud version for our contractors to VPN to the AWS environment.

For Palo Alto on-premise, we use it more for security firewalls. On the cloud side, we use it for customer contractors to get into the AWS environment for VPN. we use native routing and native security tools that they developed already in AWS. 

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SS
C.T.O at Sastra Network Solution Inc. Pvt. Ltd.

This is our core firewall for the data center network.

We have two on-premises appliances set up in a high availability configuration.

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DR
Director of Infrastructure at Arcadia.io

We use Palo Alto as a perimeter security device.

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JL
Executive Cyber Security Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Palo Alto VM-Series is something we recommend as a firewall solution in certain situations for clients with particular requirements who have the budget leeway.  

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MR
Infrastructure Team Lead at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use this as our primary security barrier between trusted and untrusted zones.

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SS
Director of Cloud Security at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Primary use case is network protection, next-generation IDS, and IPS protection.

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CA
Support Engineer & IT Professional at SISAP

For this VM in particular, it is microsegmentation which is used for implementing the firewall inside the data center.

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it_user848262 - PeerSpot reviewer
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Solution Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We use it to protect applications and data on AWS.

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CB
System Administrator at DeepMap
  • To do a lot of intrusion detection.
  • Threat prevention.
  • As an application firewall, to be able to securely deliver apps to the public.
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GK
Infrastructure Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We use Palo Alto Networks VM-Series for our company's customers, especially those who use Azure Firewall to secure their environment but still want a third-party firewall from companies like Fortinet FortiGate and Palo Alto in their environment. Whenever our company's customers want to opt for a third-party firewall, we suggest firewall products from companies like Fortinet FortiGate and Palo Alto. There have been cases where our company's customer who already uses firewall products from Fortinet FortiGate and Palo Alto deployed on an on-premises model want to shift the same product to the cloud, going on the good experience they have had with the products. If our company's customers are not interested in purchasing a third-party firewall, my company suggests the cloud-native firewall provided by Azure, specifically for their landing zone environment.

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PT
Solution Architect at JM Family Enterprises

We use it for firewall purposes.

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VG
IT Security Head with 1,001-5,000 employees

Palo Alto VM Series is a firewall that makes up part of our security solution, handing IPS, IDS, and other security measures.

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KO
ICT Infrastructure Specialist (E-Transform Project) at Ministry of Communications and Information

The Palo Alto VM-Series is a firewall that is part of our security solution.

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DS
Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We use the solution for hands-on testing purposes and also for activating firewall re-entries, which is easy to accomplish. We only need to turn up the VM to the firewall. This serves users who are working at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We also utilize the solution in respect to several servers which are behind the firewall.

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KS
Senior Network Architect at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The VM-Series firewall is part of our overall security solution.

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AS
Assistant Professor at Facultatea de Economie și Administrarea Afacerilor din Iași

I am the guy they call up first for the central infrastructure and configuration of the malware, firewall, and main applications, and I use Palo Alto Networks VM-Series for that.

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GA
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We are a service provider and I work on both shared firewall and dedicated firewall solutions for our customers. The primary focus is firewall threat protection. The rest of the features are used, albeit not too much. At this moment, it is not an overly complicated or advanced solution. 

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GA
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We mostly use it for threat protection. Currently, I'm working on virtual solutions, and it is deployed on the cloud. We have three people who work with this solution.

I have previously worked on the shared firewall as well as dedicated firewall solutions, where we deployed it on-premises as well as on the cloud. 

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TD
Security Operations Specialist at a logistics company with 201-500 employees

We use it for all next-gen firewall features such as ACLS, application monitoring, security, virtual networking, etc.

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RO
System Engineer at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

I have some financial experience with the program. We use it with Cisco and Fortinet technology, and have integrated it with NSXi.  

It has had good performance.

As an integrator, we need to understand the business case:

  1. The customer's needs. 
  2. The implementation phase. 
  3. Provide clarity and clarify details with the customer.
  4. Relate to their business's needs more than the technology system. 
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AP
Director at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use it to secure all traffic leaving and entering AWS.

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it_user798924 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead Infrastructure at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees

We use it to monitor all traffic, so we can do URL filtering with it. We can also use the VPN features, which we have not set up yet, but we know the functionalities are there. In addition, we use it to monitor all our trusted and non-trusted traffic, then block it as appropriate. 

It does a lot of threat management as well. It is like a threat management gateway and it does some virus scanning. From that perspective, it is really good.

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it_user1386156 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Specialist at Accretive Technologies Pvt Ltd

We primarily use the solution for IT. I am from the Palo Alto Partner end, so I am not using it deliberately. I usually deploy to clients in various industries, including the payment gateway industry. 

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RS
Network Security Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

We are a solution provider and the Palo Alto VM-Series is one of the products that we implement for our customers. Our customers use this virtualized next-generation firewall as part of their security solution.

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Buyer's Guide
Palo Alto Networks VM-Series
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Palo Alto Networks VM-Series. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
770,292 professionals have used our research since 2012.