Palo Alto Networks PA-Series Reviews

Our customers use the solution for multiple purposes. Some users use it as a core firewall to protect their servers. Some users use it as a parameter edge to terminate the VPN connection and to connect with their remote site.

The way Palo Alto Networks PA-Series works is completely different compared to other firewalls. The solution is very efficient when it comes to resource usage. We can use multiple processes at a single time. The solution is easy to manage. The most important feature of the solution I like is the reporting. If you want to check your data or traffic usage, you can export it in multiple formats.

Compared to other vendors, the solution's community should be strong enough to solve the problems engineers face. If I face any issue, I should be able to Google it and find the solution to rectify it. If one customer has no premium support, he cannot open a case with the portal. He should at least find some help or support from the community.

I work as a system integrator and have provided Palo Alto Networks PA-Series to customers for three to four years.

I rate the solution a nine out of ten for stability.

Multiple customers from the banking and corporate sectors use Palo Alto Networks PA-Series.

I rate the solution ten out of ten for scalability.

If you have a proper plan to start the solution's implementation, it's very easy. Since Palo Alto has a free-of-cost converter tool, for which you don't have to buy a license or subscription, it's easy to convert the configuration from other vendors to Palo Alto.

The solution's deployment time depends on the customer's environment, infrastructure, and requirements. A migration takes approximately one month.

Licenses for the malware and the URLs are not free, but converting the configuration is free. You have to purchase the licenses for Palo Alto Networks PA-Series. Compared to other vendors, Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is expensive.

If budget is not a concern, I would highly recommend users use Palo Alto Networks PA-Series.

Overall, I rate Palo Alto Networks PA-Series a seven to eight out of ten.

The product is used for perimeter defense when two networks are connected.

Our customer wanted to connect their network to a central location. So, they use the solution at the central location as an aggregation firewall.

The solution is robust. It is one of the best firewalls in the industry. It has a good track record. It is user-friendly.

The product must provide multiple threat detection features. Additional features must be embedded in the firewall to enhance it.

I have been using the solution for two years.

The tool is much more stable than any other firewall.

The tool is scalable. It is a pay-as-you-go solution.

We have our own engineers who provide our customers with technical support.

Palo Alto installs the tool. We sell only the on-premise version of the tool. We sell the critical infrastructure for it.

Palo Alto’s pricing is way higher than any other solution provider. It is expensive to buy and maintain the product. The renewal prices are higher than the competitors.

Palo Alto is the best firewall because of its features, robustness, and threat detection and prevention. Palo Alto is expensive compared to Fortinet. Considering the cost and performance, I recommend Fortinet to people. Fortinet is cheaper and provides similar features as Palo Alto.

I am selling firewalls. I heard that endpoint security and other additional security solutions can be added to the firewall. The services are expensive. If people have enough budget, they can choose Palo Alto. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

We have a hybrid environment where we use a mixture of self hosted PA-Series. IRROLs and the vendor hosted by raws via the Prisma Access Solution. 

The direct profiles is a valuable feature. 

The pricing of the solution needs improvement. 

I have experience using Palo Alto Networks PA-Series. 

I have used Cisco and Fortinet. 

The initial setup of Palo Alto is a tricky one. 

It is a very expensive solution. 

I would rate the overall solution an eight out of ten. 

The tool's most valuable feature is WildFire. 

Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is expensive. We would like to see additional threat hunting features. 

I have been working with the product for more than five years. 

The product is stable. 

My company has 1000 users for Palo Alto Networks PA-Series. 

Palo Alto Networks PA-Series' support is very quick. 

Positive

We used Cisco before the Palo Alto Networks PA-Series. We chose the product because of its community. 

Palo Alto Networks PA-Series' deployment was easy and took one to two days to complete. My company has two to three administrators to manage the product. 

The tool's pricing was reasonable when we bought the product. We pay around 60,000 dollars per year. 

We evaluated Check Point, McAfee, and Fortinet. We chose Palo Alto Networks PA-Series because of its performance, pricing, and technical support. 

You need to do a POC before choosing the product. I rate it ten out of ten.  

Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is the Gartner leader product for the next-generation firewall. The solution's security features and managing issues are very user-friendly. The solution has two panels: one is the management panel, and the other is the data panel. If I have the maintenance on the data panel, the data panel will not be impacted. The management panel has different modules. The solution provides all the security features in a competitive world.

The solution provides good customer support.

The solution’s pricing could be improved because it is an expensive solution.

I have been using Palo Alto Networks PA-Series for two years.

Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is a stable solution.

The solution’s technical support is good.

The solution can be deployed within three working days.

They have the management console and management code. I put the management IP on the firewall and logged in to the GUI console. After that, I connect the management code in our management network from my office network. Then, I connect to the insight port, outside port, and other zones. We have created eight zones on that part.

I have finished the initial configuration and installation part within three working days. After that, there are many issues with fine-tuning and policymaking, and it goes through step by step in the operational part.

Since Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is a very expensive solution, rich customers like banks, financial organizations, and telecom companies prefer the solution.

Overall, I rate Palo Alto Networks PA-Series nine and a half out of ten.

I use the solution to secure infrastructure boundaries. I use the product as a backend firewall for applications with traffic.

App-ID is a really good feature. The product’s URL filtering features are amazing. The security controls are also very good.

The support provided by the solution is not that good.

I am using the product currently.

The solution is stable. However, I observed some issues I did not expect from a well-known solution like Palo Alto. I rate the stability a nine out of ten.

The product has different models, and its high-end models can be scaled easily. I rate the scalability a ten out of ten.

The support is good, but not that good.

Positive

The initial setup is a little tricky. It is not simple and straight.

Except for support, everything else in the product is perfect. If someone is looking for a perfect firewall, they should choose Palo Alto. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

It is a standard firewall implemented in the company to protect the corporate network from outside networks. We have a VPN for our clients who work from home, protecting all traffic between their network and our network by filtering DNS ordering and all mechanisms to protect us.

It is stable when you set up something and put it into production. Once it works, you don't have other tasks or actions to perform. You shouldn't touch anything after you finish the setup correctly. When setup is done properly, it remains stable.

There should be an improvement in the protection of endpoint computers when working outside the office. Currently, they are not protected with any data security when they work from home or outside the network. They surf the Internet directly and should implement a proxy or firewall to monitor the data between the endpoint and the Internet.

In future releases, there may be better monitoring and reporting. In the past, there were some situations with vendor utilization where it was sometimes challenging to catch in real-time which user or device was generating excessive traffic, leading to increased utilization. There were some situations where it was easy to catch the source of high utilization through the device. There may be better monitoring or reporting capabilities.

I have been working with Palo Alto PA Series for about seven years. It is not new to me; we have a lot of experience with this solution.

We have the Palo Alto model 820, which is an appliance device. 

The solution's stability is great. We do not have any issues in the seven years of implementation in production.

I rate the solution's stability a ten out of ten.

I rate the solution's scalability an eight out of ten. 

For a setup, you must have extensive knowledge of the other services. We have an active directory on-premise, which we like to have as user authentication. It is not just a few clicks and a few steps to configure. You need to put more effort into configuring everything needed for that operation.

There are around 200 people using this solution in our organization.

I have contacted technical support for CentOS two or three times in the last five years.

Positive

We set up the firewall here in three different locations. It's not difficult once you learn what to do during the initial configuration. It is pretty simple.

Moreover, only two-person required for the maintenance of the solution.

I have done most of it myself. On one of the first configurations, I worked with a colleague from college who works for an ISP and has a lot of experience. I work with him on some configurations. After that, I took all the other setups to myself. 

There are good guidelines and knowledge available on the web. It just takes time to reach the knowledge base and find what we need. It's not so tough to configure and test any functionality.

FortiGate has a better price than Palo Alto Networks in the same area. Both have the same set of functions and characteristics, but FortiGate is slightly less expensive. It's better for a small company that doesn't have a big budget for security solutions.

I rate the solution's pricing a one out of ten. The solution is expensive compared to other vendors.

I have been searching and researching for endpoint computer solutions for my customers. We already use Palo Alto firewall, but it's no longer sufficient to protect the endpoint computers in our company. Nowadays, most people are traveling and working remotely, so we need a solution that can protect computers regardless of their location.

Whether the computers are at home, on-site, or anywhere else, we need a reliable solution to safeguard them.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

The solution is used for security and IoT security.

The solution's licensing price could be improved. The solution's GUI should be user-friendly and easily configurable.

I have been using Palo Alto Networks PA-Series for the last three years.

I rate Palo Alto Networks PA-Series a seven out of ten for stability.

The solution's scalability is not very good. Around 300 users use the solution in our organization, and we have plans to increase the usage.

The solution's technical support is good.

I have also worked with Fortinet and SonicWall.

The solution's initial setup is a little complex compared to other solutions.

It takes two to three hours to deploy the solution.

We have to pay a yearly licensing fee for the solution.

I would recommend Palo Alto Networks PA-Series to other users.

Overall, I rate Palo Alto Networks PA-Series a seven out of ten.