We had an external pen test a couple of years ago. They found a number of findings for the areas of our network that hadn't yet moved behind the firewall and no findings at all for the ones that had. This was just because of the way that we wrote the rules and because of the firewalls, which prevented an external source from being able to view and enumerate our systems. If something wasn't behind the firewall, they were able to get a response back in many cases, even when they weren't supposed to be outward-facing.

I have information that Palo Alto NGFW has blocked malicious activity. We use the Palo Alto High Confidence block lists. 

The return on investment doesn't necessarily show right away. However, if a company gets hacked and taken down, they are out of business. So, was your return on investment strong if you put these firewalls in and it prevented that? Absolutely. However, if you put them in and you never get attacked, then you might ask, "Would you have gotten attacked before?

We do have other tools that we are phasing into the Palo Alto unified platform environment, bringing in Cortex XDR as well as looking at SIEM products. So, we definitely see the benefit of the unified platform. We have been able to cut down on some of our other hardware. So, it is definitely saving us costs as far as combining different hardware into one hardware device.

We have not had to replace hardware routers nor purchase additional hardware. So, that has provided a little bit of an ROI.

Our service is incredibly profitable. We don't feel we can offer an alternative that will give us the same return on investment.

My firewall is used to protect my internet servers. This means that the servers provide services to our broadband customers. After taking the revenue from broadband customers, Palo Alto is almost covered. However, there is no direct ROI for Palo Alto in my setup.

While all next-generation firewall platforms have some degree of these different components built into them, Palo Alto has rock-solid antivirus, anti-spyware, threat prevention, data leakage prevention, and file blocking, plus all of the typical functions that a firewall does. It does all of these functions exceptionally well in addition to regular firewall aspects like blocking DDoS attacks and generic types of attacks. It tends to be more expensive than most competing platforms, but the return on investment is huge. I'm almost to the point of saying that I won't support any other firewall platforms out there.

There are several new firewall models that have come along, but I tell people that Palo Alto will provide all the protection you could need. There's no reason to look at anything else out there because most other platforms don't provide the same level of protection. The value proposition to customers is the peace of knowing they've got the best protection at the edge they can buy.

We offer security services, so it's difficult to calculate ROI. But since we're an organization where we cannot compromise on security, I would say the ROI is very good. We don't have any plans to change the product since we moved from Cisco.

With this highly secure environment, we are able to maintain our production-level servers on-premises. We were planning to move them to the cloud for security, but with the implementation of Palo Alto, we were able to maintain them on-premises. We could create a considerable amount of production service, and thereby, we had a great return on investment through this.

It is a good investment with the five-year extended support. You don't have to pay any additional costs for five years. You also save on costs because you don't need to purchase other products or technology to manage attacks. That can all be done from Palo Alto. We have seen a 20% to 30% return on investment.

We have seen a return on investment in general. Our company is moving to the cloud and toward digital transformation in the financial sector. Palo Alto plays a key role in this return on investment.

We have seen a return on investment. By centralizing our monitoring of systems, we have been able to make our lives easier.

We see a return on our investment every day. We have threat hunters who go through the data and tell other state agencies where the problems are or what we were able to stop.

In terms of ROI, protecting our customers is obviously number one. The implementation of our previous solution required agents to be installed on all our endpoints. That was a little more difficult because we have a large number of endpoints globally. The administrative overhead to manage the updates for those agents was not favorable.

Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls allowed us to rely more on the existing infrastructure, Active Directory, to help us with identity management and security groups. It has made it simpler to manage.

The organization has seen a return on investment with Palo Alto firewalls as we haven't experienced any significant breaches.

We have seen ROI. There is more visibility in the environment in terms of security. There was a time when we suspected a security breach, and this firewall was able to give us all the logs that we expected. 

Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls have prevented a number of things from happening. We would not have been able to prevent those things from happening had we had other firewalls.

We have seen a return on our investment.

As previously mentioned, the firewall is easy to use and has helped us save a significant amount of time, approximately thirty to forty percent.

The solution is worth the money for organizations operating in critical environments with lots of sensitive data and information. Data leaks can lead to broken trust with clients and a suffering reputation in the business community, including brand damage.

We utilize GlobalProtect and have seen a better return on investment with regard to security and peace of mind.

Our ROI is that the firewalls have been used quite a few times for investigations. We've gathered the evidence we needed to act upon an issue.

Our customers certainly see ROI from Palo Alto firewalls. For example, if a bank doesn't have Palo Alto firewalls, or any technology from Palo Alto, they will face many attacks, which would be resolved by Palo Alto. These attacks could compromise some of their customers and result in taking their money. What will the bank do then? The ROI comes from protecting customers.

I am a technical guy, and I would say that you will not get a return on your investment. Even FortiGate and WatchGuard will offer next-generation solutions that perform better than Palo Alto Networks.

I believe we have seen a return on investment.

The time we used to spend on various tasks previously has significantly reduced with the implementation of Palo Alto Networks. 

The system is very reliable with no downtime, providing us with a sense of security that is important in cybersecurity.

We are monitoring the metrics. We have certain metrics to find ROI, e.g., it could be zero-days, the number of inclusions that this solution has blocked successfully, or the amount of malware that it has stopped. We identify this information via the sandboxing feature, which determines what other normal firewalls would have let in. We consider the amount of data that we process and the regulatory fines that would have arisen, if not for this solution. That is how our return of investment is calculated.

While Palo Alto is expensive, it's still the better option compared to the other two vendors that were evaluated since they didn't provide the necessary performance and benefits.

Overall, the expenses for Palo Alto are manageable, and it's worth the investment.

Palo Alto firewalls are expensive, but they're worth what we pay. 

By having a customer operate on a unified platform, they can do the application control, traffic control, threat protection, and URL filtering on a single platform. This effectively reduces the workload on all their networks and security tools.

Cheap and faster are the opposite sides of security. Security inspections have some technical and money costs. If you just purchase some cheap, fast firewalls, then you will lose a lot of the security features and fraud protection capabilities.

Our clients have seen a return on investment with the solution.

We have seen a slight ROI, enough to justify the cost of the solution.

It's difficult to determine. When looking at the ten to fifteen hours a year, it's unclear whether or not I would consider that as part of the return on investment. It's a bit challenging to assess from an IT perspective.

7 years

We have seen a return on investment in the two years that we have been using the solution.

There is typically no return on investment for firewalls because it's an IT cost, and we don't make money because we don't resell them.

If you are looking for a great firewall that helps you stop attacks as well as giving you visibility with the administration, this firewall is the best choice. You should not look at the price the first time. Instead, you should look into the solution's productivity and return on investment.

We have seen a good return on investment.

Overall, it provides a wide range of features for securing an environment.

We have absolutely seen an ROI in the fact that we haven't ended up in the news. We can look at any time and see all the threats that have been stopped by Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls.

Having one manager/system with a common interface and commands, rather than three or four, is more efficient.

The solution is worth the money. However, there are other tools that provide features similar to Palo Alto but are less expensive.

It has decreased the time of technicians in researching the vulnerabilities. We also do web filtering, so that helps. Web filtering has changed things because we used to use Websense, and it's night and day.

It's hard to tell. It's preventing attacks, but I don't have any specific case where I can say whether a particular attack would not have been blocked by another vendor.

I have experienced a return on investment with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. One benefit is that there are fewer man-hours required for deployment and maintenance.

We have seen an ROI with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls because it saves us time. We haven't worried about any security issues and feel very protected with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls.

We have observed a positive return on investment because if a DDoS attack were to occur, it would result in a loss of business and other adverse effects.

By using Palo Alto to protect our data, we can prevent such attacks and ensure that our business runs smoothly.

We have seen ROI as a result of the visibility and reporting. These are two things we didn't have, and now that we have the visibility, we can ensure  that our network is secure.

I am able to gather some of the evidence and things that I need. Our NetOps team uses it heavily, and they love it.

If you buy Palo Alto Next-Generation Firewalls, everything is in a single platform. You don't need to go and buy the Wildfire analysis to track zero-day attacks and lots of other things. Therefore, cost is cut down by 50% to 60% if you go for Palo Alto Next-Generation Firewalls.

We have seen a return on investment. 

I don't have data points, but some of the use cases that we have already delivered to the organization have shown that a lot of threats have been identified and has been blocked. I don't know how you can quantify that. At the same time, the effort was significantly reduced on the deployment of new routes based on this.

Our customers definitely see ROI with Palo Alto NG Firewalls, although I don't have metrics.

The technical support is satisfactory.