Check Point Quantum Smart-1 vs Palo Alto Panorama

• Centralized Database
• Detailed and indexed logging
• Securely connects to each device

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• If you need to push a setting or config to multiple firewalls Panorama can do that flawlessly.
• Panorama has its logging centralized and this makes it easy to locate and reviews logs compared to having to get logs from each device.
• I love how the interface matches the interface on the firewall. This makes the learning curve less steep.
• Adding new firewalls to Panorama is super easy and not complex. Panorama can push a lot of the config and settings so you don't have to manually do it.

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• Not many
• Expensive though comparatively lately these devices have stayed fairly consistent while other vendors have increased greatly and are catching up.
• Support is limited, though this can be an advantage because of the security.

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• The ability to push out OS updates could be improved in Panorama. It has the abilities, but the use is not intuitive, to the point that we generally connect directly to the firewalls to download the OS updates directly.
• Scheduling. It would be nice to be able to schedule jobs to run at certain times. Pushing out updates, like OS updates mentioned above, can require significant bandwidth. So being able to schedule that work for hours that would not directly affect the users would be a welcome addition.
• The list of devices in the Templates tabs should be sorted the same way that he devices are grouped in the Device Group tab, rather than just alphabetical. If there was a way to chose the order of the devices, maybe by tag, that would work as well.

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• Hardware is very solid so time for maintenance is extremely limited.
• Patching is limited due to the strength of the code releases also time for maintenance is extremely limited
• Annually reoccurring costs for licenses can be expensive

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• At a previous company, I deployed Palo Alto firewalls to a data center, and 12 branch locations. This allowed us to replace MPLS links with IPSec tunnels between the sites. This resulted in significantly more throughput and soft savings of increased productivity. However, the estimated net of $220,000 in hard savings over five years is what is most impressive. I could not have effectively managed all those devices without Palo Alto Panorama.

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