VM-Series Next-Gen Virtual Firewall w/ Advanced Security Subs (PAYG)
Palo Alto Networks | PAN-OS 11.2.0Linux/Unix, Other PAN-OS 11.2.0 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Next Gen firewall, super easy to spin and use from CICD pipeline, no messing with licensing, vendor arch templates available and up to date.
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Super Sonic nextgen FW
What do you like best about the product?
User friendly GUI along with fast processing of packeta
What do you dislike about the product?
So far not experienced any major issue during operation
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Being a nextgen FW it's eleminiating so many layered devices and providing infra security under one roof
Best virtual firewall product solution
What do you like best about the product?
It is beneficial for our cloud production environment, especially when isolating our DMZ and Core environment.
What do you dislike about the product?
None, as of now. We fully utilize our Palo Alto VM firewall on our environment, especially on our AWS Cloud infrastructure.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We used Palo Alto VM-Series firewall when securing the connection between our DMZ and Core VPC.
No. #1 Secured solution for VM's
What do you like best about the product?
It's the best and most secure solution for protecting my virtual environment. I, till last month, was using a different product; due to a security breach, we moved to Palo Alto.
What do you dislike about the product?
It has no flaws, so there is no dislike at all.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It protects the virtual environment; in my case, I have integrated it with my Gateway load balancer on AWS. It is indeed a cost-saver and the most secured solution.
Review of Palo Alto VM-Series: Pros and Cons for Secure Virtualized Environments
What do you like best about the product?
Palo Alto VM-Series apart is its ability to provide advanced security capabilities such as threat prevention, application visibility, and user identification in virtualized environments. Its granular visibility and control over application traffic and the ability to apply security policies consistently across physical and virtual networks are particularly valuable in multi-cloud environments.
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost: The VM-Series can be more expensive than other virtualized firewall solutions, and organizations may need to invest in additional licenses and hardware resources to fully utilize the product's capabilities.
Resource-intensive: Running Palo Alto VM-Series requires significant CPU and memory resources, which may not be available on smaller virtualization hosts or cloud instances. This can result in performance issues and increased infrastructure costs.
Learning curve: As with any advanced security solution, there is a learning curve associated with deploying and managing Palo Alto VM-Series. Administrators will need to familiarize themselves with the product's user interface, policies, and configurations, which can take time and effort.
Vendor lock-in: Because Palo Alto VM-Series is a proprietary solution, organizations may be locked into using it for their virtualized firewall needs. This can limit their flexibility and ability to adopt other security solutions that may be a better fit for their needs.
Limited integrations: While Palo Alto VM-Series integrates well with other Palo Alto Networks products and a variety of third-party solutions, there may be some integrations that are not available or require custom development work
Resource-intensive: Running Palo Alto VM-Series requires significant CPU and memory resources, which may not be available on smaller virtualization hosts or cloud instances. This can result in performance issues and increased infrastructure costs.
Learning curve: As with any advanced security solution, there is a learning curve associated with deploying and managing Palo Alto VM-Series. Administrators will need to familiarize themselves with the product's user interface, policies, and configurations, which can take time and effort.
Vendor lock-in: Because Palo Alto VM-Series is a proprietary solution, organizations may be locked into using it for their virtualized firewall needs. This can limit their flexibility and ability to adopt other security solutions that may be a better fit for their needs.
Limited integrations: While Palo Alto VM-Series integrates well with other Palo Alto Networks products and a variety of third-party solutions, there may be some integrations that are not available or require custom development work
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Advanced Threat Prevention: One of the biggest challenges in securing virtualized environments is detecting and preventing advanced threats, such as malware and zero-day attacks. Palo Alto VM-Series offers advanced threat prevention capabilities, including network-based malware detection, behavioral analysis, and sandboxing, which can help organizations detect and prevent advanced threats before they can cause damage.
Application Visibility and Control: Another challenge in securing virtualized environments is gaining visibility and control over application traffic. Palo Alto VM-Series provides granular visibility and control over application traffic, enabling organizations to create policies that enforce application usage and protect against data exfiltration.
Application Visibility and Control: Another challenge in securing virtualized environments is gaining visibility and control over application traffic. Palo Alto VM-Series provides granular visibility and control over application traffic, enabling organizations to create policies that enforce application usage and protect against data exfiltration.
Palo Alto VM-Series Firewalls
What do you like best about the product?
Palo Alto VM-Series Firewalls is a widely used firewall, especially in the public cloud environment. I have done multiple deployments for various customers in Qatar with high customer satisfaction
What do you dislike about the product?
They can improve their XFF feature compatibility with HA deployment scenarios. Apart from this, this is one of the best in the market now.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
public Cloud services protection, various use cases for clients as I work for a systems integrator. They have realized many different benefits, including consolidation of services, the greater granularity of inspection at the edge and in the data center, etc.
Cost saving and best in performance
What do you like best about the product?
We did not find any difference between hardware product and VM series appliance of PAN in terms of functionality and performance. We are getting same level of performance and also able to use all the PAN OS feature that we can use on Hardware appliance. VM product always have great advantages as compare to hardware product e.g. easy installation and deployment, no physical wiring, easy backup, easy recovery are some examples. We also like its support to various hypervisors as well as cloud integration.
What do you dislike about the product?
I personally do not find any technical dislike, but yes PAN should work on their VM licensing and make it easy, currently it is so complicated and hard to understand. Apart from them I do not have any dislike from the product as we are using it from last 5 years are very happy with the performance of product.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In some scenarios Hardware products can not be deployed or not suited best e.g. cloud and areas where we do not have much space to have many hardware devices. So it helps alot to deploy at our cloud network as well as in some plants where we have very limited IT infra due to space issues.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Well no doubt PAN products are very expensive products because of their best in class technology so first evaluate your business need and conduct POC, work on the ROI then decide you should go for PAN or not. Without working on all such factors it maybe a case where you will not get any ROI from PAN product.
One of the most professional security system
What do you like best about the product?
It has a very good documentation.
This vendor are used by the most professional IT industries.
This vendor are used by the most professional IT industries.
What do you dislike about the product?
No open source release for this software.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Understanding the way of working for the future implementation.
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