All the PwC offices in Pakistan use Palo Alto in their environment. It is a global solution.
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Next Generation Product with greath innovations
What do you like best about the product?
i really like their next generaton features like URL filtering, Application ID, Threat content, Vulnerability profile creation, Global protect, Wildfire, Antivirus.
What do you dislike about the product?
i don't like support model. They attach me to sirius third party which isn't really helpful.
Also cloud integration specially with HA is very challenging
Also cloud integration specially with HA is very challenging
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
its solving remote user connectivity securely. We use global protect VPN for it
I also used wildfire for their threat feed analysis
I also used wildfire for their threat feed analysis
A Genuine Review on Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW
What do you like best about the product?
I love the capabilities of securing the customer data in multiple clouds. Its very helpful in multi-cloud deployment.Infrastructure as a code(IAC) support (exclusively Terraform) on these platforms enhances the configuration management and useful to swiftly deploy the implementations easier. The extensive rule set and L4 and L7 filtering helps to stop the attacks in a proactive manner. The extensive documents and easy to use UI capabilities helps in flexibility. Integration support with the different infrastructure components including cortex stack provides comprehensive protection. Furthermore, i appreciate the swift customer support from the expert teams (including customer experience and engineering). I guess easy to terminate improves the frequency of usage of these devices.
What do you dislike about the product?
It can be further enhanced by maintaing a single central manager between different clouds, I would love to see the dockerized containers to be deloyed for production.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Easy of implementation. A secure software in cloud that helps thwaring the attack. Enhancing the protecting on the attack surface. Easy administration are the benefits
Provides excellent filtering and blocking features and enables users to examine reports easily
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
Palo Alto is a good product. The features are up to the mark. No other product can compete with Palo Alto’s features. The filtering feature is good. We can block the traffic and examine the report easily. The blocking functionality works very well compared to other firewalls. I rate the ability of the tool to keep up with the trends in firewalls an eight out of ten.
What needs improvement?
The product must create some awareness in Pakistan. People are less aware of Palo Alto. Everyone knows about Fortinet and Cisco. Very few vendors are promoting the tool.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for four to five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability is fine. I rate the stability a seven out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I rate the product’s scalability an eight out of ten. We have 2500 users. We use the tool daily. All our traffic passes through it.
How was the initial setup?
I rate the ease of setup a seven out of ten. The setup is moderately easy. The product is deployed on the cloud. The deployment takes two to three days since it has global rules.
What about the implementation team?
The tool was deployed in-house.
What was our ROI?
We have seen an ROI of 60% to 70%.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Companies in Pakistan have limited budgets. Palo Alto is more expensive than other products. So, people are reluctant to put Palo Alto in their environment. It's too costly compared to other tools. I rate the pricing a nine out of ten.
What other advice do I have?
We had deployed the solution in 2018. We used a different product before, but my organization switched to Palo Alto. It was the management’s decision. Overall, I rate the tool an eight out of ten.
Excellent Firewall for a cloud-native service
What do you like best about the product?
What I like about this tool is its good protection for the cloud, not having to worry about cloud maintenance and, most importantly, good technical support. With a very good support community.
What do you dislike about the product?
the cost of the license. It is comparatively higher. This should be improved to make it more accessible to a wider audience.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The solutions that this product can provide you are: Improve the results of business processes by improving perimeter security, Improve compliance and risk management by simplifying security.
Best firewall solution for Enterprises
What do you like best about the product?
Well there are many things which I really like about this next gen firewall, we have been using PALO ALTO Global Protect VPN for our enterprise and this has made our integration even better, there's a lot that goes in the back end. Securing Company's network and that to adding a firewall layering along with the use of VPN is something it does the best.
What do you dislike about the product?
There isn't much to dislike only if thw pricing could've been better and discounts for retaining customers
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were earlier facing issue with the integration of firewall with the VPN but after the introduction of this firewall , we integrated into IT Infrastructure the process was smooth and to be honest it, it was easy and the support team helped us at every stage.
URL filtering
What do you like best about the product?
URL web filtering is working seamlessly & got proper logs as well.we can generate reports as well to showcase to management.
What do you dislike about the product?
Price is higher than other vendor and TAC support needs to improve
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
URL filtering and antivirs ans spyware is working awesome.
Palo Alto cloud NGFW: The Global leader in cybersecurity
What do you like best about the product?
With the help of the cloud NGFW firewall, the risk level is reduced it only allows the desired application and website, with the help of the security policy we can prevent known vulnerability attacks. one of the best things I like is user authentication, a secure to connect to the network a captive portal method is the best method that we are using in our setup
What do you dislike about the product?
CLI commands documentation needs to be improved, existing documentation its not helping more.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The best feature I found in the Palo Alto firewall is the monitor feature where I can get all logging details, to monitor my premises traffic so I can take action on the log and make decisions to protect my network. On the other hand, if we see any changes we made in the Palo Alto firewall then we have to commit the changes, if any misconfiguration is there we can get the prompt message to make the proper correction, however, I haven't seen this kind of best feature in the other firewall vendor.
Automating the Security of organization with Next Gen Firewall in an easy way
What do you like best about the product?
I really like their URL filtering feature which helps user inside the network to safely browse and get protected from malicious link
What do you dislike about the product?
i think its documentation should be improved initially i found it diffficult to understand but that i think happens in every products documentation apart from that the cost and the customer support are the keye areas they should focus for improvement.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The advanced URL filtering feature protects our network against advanced web-based attacks by performing real-time web traffic inspection. Additionally, because of its principle of treating each network packet equally, it prevents both known and unknown advanced social engineering, as well as web-based attacks, including targeted phishing, malware, exploits, and other types of web attacks.
Offers threat prevention and WildFire features with outstanding stability
What is our primary use case?
Our company sometimes uses a data center edge firewall from Cisco, Fortinet, Forcepoint, or any other vendor, and the solution is used to cover apps and data.
What is most valuable?
The threat prevention and WildFire features are the most valuable features. DNS is another good feature of the product.
What needs improvement?
The flexible throughput in Palo Alto Networks VM-Series can be improved. The customers of our organization demand 500 meg throughput and the payment also depends on it. The basic firewall from Palo Alto has the size of one gig, and it isn't logical for a customer to buy for one gig when just 500 meg is required. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series should become a more flexible firewall.
VM management in an environment is difficult with Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, but it can be smoothly managed through Panorama. The vendor can work on enhancing and processing that will not affect the server itself or the VM firewall protection. In our company, we have multiple VMs implemented on the same server, and the Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is used to protect these VMs completely. The tools being used should not affect the operations between VMs.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Palo Alto Networks VM-Series for almost four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would rate the stability of the product a nine out of ten. I am facing multiple stability issues with other competitor tools in our company.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I would rate the scalability a seven out of ten. I would've rated Palo Alto Networks VM-Series more if the flexible throughput was better. I would rate the scalability of other competitor tools a four out of ten. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is suitable for businesses of every size or scale.
How are customer service and support?
The vendor provides two support modules: backline and premium support. If you need to open a case directly with Palo Alto to solve a problem, you must purchase premium support.
Premium support is highly expensive—almost five times the cost of availing backline support. Local distributors of the product manage the backline support and have extended response time, and the team might not have mature knowledge to solve issues.
How was the initial setup?
The solution's initial setup process is very easy. A hybrid deployment model is available for Palo Alto Networks VM-Series. Panorama can manage the solution's VM, physical, and cloud versions, making it an impressive monitoring tool.
A more mature and enhanced tool can be used in integration to migrate from other competitor solutions to Palo Alto Networks VM-Series. For instance, if a customer has a legacy firewall from Cisco or Fortinet and there is a need to migrate to Palo Alto, I will require a mature migration tool that will make the process easier for engineers to migrate the rules, policies, and application IDs.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The licensing model should be improved. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is the most expensive tool among competitors.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and the competitor products provide multiple series of bandwidth, features, implementation models and capable management tools. But Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is the most stable compared to all other competitor tools. The signature or behavior of the database is more mature in Palo Alto Networks VM-Series than others.
Palo Alto Networks VM-Series allows you to analyze the behavior of any traffic or probable attack.
What other advice do I have?
The solution easily integrates with the client's cloud security architecture. If in our company, we get a customer who's depending on the container, then security is required for the container from OpenShift or any other vendor, I use Prisma to secure the environment instead of traditional firewalls.
The solution's sizing and architecture are highly expensive. It's an effective and stable firewall that detects all attacks. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series can adapt quickly to an organization's changing security or policy needs. Overall, I would rate the product an eight out of ten. I will definitely recommend Palo Alto Networks VM-Series to other users.
Amazing Firewall, security, sdwan all in one appliance.
What do you like best about the product?
This is one of most powerfull firewall, it really is up to date latest security vulnerabilties, give real time hotfixes to any new threat. Further managing the policies is really easy. Very friendly GUI and amazing support. Also they are up to date to the market demand using the latest key exhange methods for their IPSec connectivities.
What do you dislike about the product?
Mostly Palo Alto is up to date, however Prisma Access can be integrated with PaloAlto Firewall as well.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Securing the cloud environment, protectecting the virtual workload.
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