Has supported urgent deployments and enabled inline threat protection but pricing and features could be more flexible
What is our primary use case?
I am not working on a NAC solution. I am working on Palo Alto Networks VM-Series firewall, and I am mainly working with firewalls.
I am totally working with Palo Alto Networks VM-Series products. I am working with VMs, including 400 series, 1400 series, and 3400 series firewalls, which are next-generation firewalls and fourth-generation firewalls of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series.
I am also working with VMs for Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, and for POCs sometimes. Mostly, I provide solutions for some of our customers who need urgent solutions with Palo Alto Networks VM-Series. I provide them VMs and activate the licenses from Palo Alto as a partner. We are working as innovator partners with Palo Alto. Sometimes for POCs and for urgent solutions, if the customer or some organization needs it, we provide them Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and it works fine.
We are working with Dynamic Address Groups in Palo Alto Networks VM-Series. Mostly, we use them for securing our network and for blocking malicious traffic from specific sources around the globe. We block them through Dynamic Address Groups as a source and create another policy for that. We block any dynamic addresses coming with malicious traffic using specific policies. We use Dynamic Address Groups and after tagging those malicious IPs, when they come to our firewall from outside or from inside, including some of our local computers, if we detect something concerning such as bots or similar traffic, we block them using Dynamic Address Groups.
Advanced Threat Protection is working in Palo Alto Networks VM-Series. In Advanced Threat Protection, we use inline protection features, including anti-malware solutions and vulnerability protection. We mostly use Advanced Threat Protection because Palo Alto provides the core subscription and core security bundle, which is cheaper than the other bundle. We propose the same bundle to customers because it is cheaper and includes DNS security, SD-WAN, vulnerability protection, URL filtering, anti-spyware, and antivirus subscriptions bundled in the same core bundle. If I buy only threat protection separately, it is more expensive than this bundle. We create security profiles for spyware and antivirus and provide inline protection to customers.
What is most valuable?
App-IDs in Palo Alto Networks VM-Series are very important and working fine. We mostly use App-IDs due to which we are securing customers who are vulnerable and who need security solutions.
There are Dynamic Address Groups, EDLs, and integration with other solutions such as Forescout for Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, which we did two years ago. There are API integrations as well. We mostly automate the security structure for the organization using SIEM solutions, integration with SIEM solutions, and XDR solutions. This is very interesting.
What needs improvement?
I am not using Palo Alto Networks VM-Series mostly, but based on my experience, there are some deficiencies in Palo Alto Networks VM-Series. Having those features missing, we are not proposing Palo Alto Networks VM-Series to all customers. However, for urgency and for some solutions that customers need for some of their other sites and subdivisions, we are providing the same.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with Palo Alto Networks VM-Series since 2020, which is approximately six to seven years back.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is very stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Scalability for Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is eight out of ten.
How are customer service and support?
Technical support for Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is provided through premium partner support. We are working with StarLink, and they are providing the best solution and best support. We have advanced partnership and advanced support for some of our customers. They are good with technical solutions.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is better than Fortinet, mainly in its SP3 structure, flexibility, and reliability, and based on feedback from customers. Most of our customers have shifted from Fortinet to Palo Alto Networks VM-Series. Their feedback indicated concerns about slowness, subscription renewals, and other aspects they were not happy with.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Fortinet is the main competitor for Palo Alto Networks VM-Series on the market.
What other advice do I have?
Prices of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series are higher than other firewalls and other solutions. However, we are using its security features and proposing them, mostly winning tenders with this product. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is a very best solution if you have subscription and extra support, and I would rate this solution seven to eight out of ten. I would give this review an overall rating of eight.
It's stable
What do you like best about the product?
Stability of the palo alto and reliability of the palo series also the GUI is more easy to use .
Also the palo Alto give us more functions that can be use.
What do you dislike about the product?
That the virtual PaloAlto firewall isn't on premises so it can be attacked by hacker more than the Hardware PaloAlto firewall. Also the OS need to be more smoothly to upgrade.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It can be functional easily to user and can use the user id . And easy to improve without needing to upgrade the hardware chase or the box all we need is the certificate.
VM-Series: The next-generation of firewall
What do you like best about the product?
I like the fact that the firewall has a relatively low false-positive rates. Also, you can get all the PAN-OS features without waiting for the vendor to port them. This was kind of time-consuming part. The single-pass classification with the flow is also easy to use without much complication. I didn't need much support, which was also a good thing when using the product. The logging is incredible and very well organized with rich metadata.
What do you dislike about the product?
When we have people new to the product, they need kind of training because they don't know how to work with the PAN-OS. So onboarding these guys is quiete heavy in terms of training. Also, the frequency of PAN-OS upgrades is relatively high, which I need all the time to restart the service. We have also noticed more recently that when using a high traffic (e.g., PPS) or even large number of IPS signatures, the hypervisor is getting stressed. Some colleagues from different companies also noticed the same issue.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The business problems I am working with are the detection of malicious traffic before they reach the infrastructure, as we need better visibility and high quality of logging and metadata. This is very important in our process.
Complex and slow but works fine
What do you like best about the product?
It does what most firewall do so there is no such area that I can see it does it the best. I guess it works and provide a lot of details. it has all the tools that order vendor has
What do you dislike about the product?
Slow device in general. It takes too long to push a simple policy. Also, takes longer to stag a new device vs fortinet. The GUI is old and need to be update. Integrate AI and cloud solutions.Troubleshooting via CLI can be easier, especially in real-time. Please refer to Fortinet CLI troubleshooting commands
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
. It does the key features such as application and threat protection. We use tagging to control policies but I am not sure what was the driving motivate behind choosing Palo over other vendors.
Good experience with Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall
What do you like best about the product?
I love the consistency of the firewall, it generally works well. It works well enough that most of the time I don't realize that it's doing anything at all.
What do you dislike about the product?
I enjoy Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall, however there are times when there are outages with it that are quite inconvenient at times. Generally I don't have issues.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It solves the issue of preventing bad actors from accessing the same network that I use on a daily basis at my place of business. It also solves the problem of creating an in-house firewall.
Great performance with complex setup
What do you like best about the product?
It offers strong security and a extensive list of features for our network. It connects with our existing systems virtually easily and includes detailed reporting tools that have made network traffic tracking and management easier. It brings a robust protection to our operations.
What do you dislike about the product?
Setup can be very complex. Some advanced features are not as easy to use. The pricing is not flexible, at times, problems with a general throughput of our security setup.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our company is concerned with cyberattacks and trying to protect all our customers' data. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall protects hackers from accessing our data in the database.
I have had a great experience with VM. Setting it up in AWS was straightforward and not complicated.
What do you like best about the product?
VM-series improved our network security and it ran smoothly. Really good against malware and threats. I also liked the Cloud Integration, it works across public and private cloud environments (AWS, VMware)
What do you dislike about the product?
Probably the price range. It is a little bit overpriced. The security features are impressive, but i do dislike the high cost. The annual fees can be quite expense which can be tough for smaller businesses.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
For me Palo Alto Networks VM-Series helped with prevent attacks like malmware and other real time threat analysis. VM-series made it also easier to automate deployments with other security systems.
Limited, but interesting.
What do you like best about the product?
I like how it integrates smoothly with other Palo Alto products
What do you dislike about the product?
I find the cost to be prohibiotve to my organization
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It served as an IDS
Review Palto Alto
What do you like best about the product?
I like that Palto Alto VM-Series is simple to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
I am not a fan of the high pricing of the Palo Alto VM Series.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is helping by detecting potential malware by investigesting the signatures.
recommended for security purposes for cloud environments.
What do you like best about the product?
It is very helpful especially for the organizations using cloud environments. It simplifies usage by providing various tools.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is difficult to set up and time taking. Also price is high which makes it difficult to afford for individual usage.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps in building firewall integrating with google cloud. And also helps in providing security.
