CheckPoint vs. Palo Alto Panorama

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CheckPoint
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
CheckPoint is a digital access management and engagement system for venues. It automates and digitizes the registration, ticketing, and check-in process while enabling venues, vendors, and exhibitors to engage with guests directly to their phone's lock screen. CheckPoint is an event management tool for events, conferences, festivals, clubs, and more. The venue management solution boasts users among both the Oscars and Nasdaq.N/A
Palo Alto Panorama
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
According to the information provided by the vendor, Palo Alto Panorama is a network security management solution that intends to simplify and enhance cybersecurity processes for businesses. The product's primary objective is to offer various features, including unified policy management, centralized visibility, automated threat response, simplified configuration, unrivaled scalability, and rapid security adoption. It claims to assist organizations in efficiently managing their firewalls and…
$9,500
Pricing
CheckPointPalo Alto Panorama
Editions & Modules
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25 Devices
$9,500.00
100 Devices
$23,750.00
1000 Devices
$71,250.00
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CheckPointPalo Alto Panorama
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Features
CheckPointPalo Alto Panorama
Firewall Security Management
Comparison of Firewall Security Management features of Product A and Product B
CheckPoint
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Ratings
Palo Alto Panorama
8.0
14 Ratings
1% above category average
Policy planning and rule management00 Ratings9.014 Ratings
Automated Policy Orchestration00 Ratings8.013 Ratings
Device Discovery00 Ratings8.011 Ratings
Policy Compliance Auditing00 Ratings8.013 Ratings
Attack Path Simulation Testing00 Ratings8.96 Ratings
Anomalous Event or Behavior Deviation00 Ratings6.013 Ratings
Vulnerability Scans00 Ratings7.06 Ratings
Firewall Rule Cleanup00 Ratings9.513 Ratings
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User Ratings
CheckPointPalo Alto Panorama
Likelihood to Recommend
1.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(15 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
1.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
4.7
(2 ratings)
8.5
(4 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
CheckPointPalo Alto Panorama
Likelihood to Recommend
Fobi AI
CheckPoint performs well as an internal firewall between network zones, providing policy control and deep inspection of internal traffic. It works well for a multi network setup like ours across multiple sites. It is however not a fast changing interface and time needs to be taken to perform changes. It's not a quick as other vendors
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Palo Alto Networks
I think Palo Alto Panorama is suited for administrators of all levels because certain things can be locked down to certain permission levels. But there are executive dashboards all the way down to the weeds for the highest of administrators. This truly is a single pane of glass tool because you never have to go into the individual firewalls for anything.
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Pros
Fobi AI
  • Threat Prevention better than Fortinet
  • Granularity of security policy can be customized to the maximum
  • hardware performance is really good
  • Bugs are less as compared to other vendors
  • support is excellent
  • modules work as expected
  • Features can achieve out of box requirements
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Palo Alto Networks
  • 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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Cons
Fobi AI
  • In my experience, notifications are completely broken and non-functional
  • In my opinion, confusing UX for the cloud portal
  • Don't try and import 100's of endpoints when onboarding because it will create a mess
  • When installing the CP client you have to remove Microsoft Defender and if that fails, CheckPoint technical support goes, "Not my problem, sucks to be you!"
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Palo Alto Networks
  • 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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Likelihood to Renew
Fobi AI
Every dollar to CheckPoint is a wasted dollar.
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Palo Alto Networks
Panorama has given us much more than we expected and the support for the product, by Palo Alto Networks has been great. We would like to see some improvements that I mentioned in another review, like scheduling changes, but overall Panorama has provided a very capable product and we are very happy with it.
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Usability
Fobi AI
the solution offer the most improvement about the usability by management more firewall in the same context or multicontext instead. The shared database allow to use one object for more than a package target of a cluster or more of gateways firewall. The management remain isolated from traffic pass through the firewall so the disruption is limited at minimum.
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Palo Alto Networks
It is a solid product, it allows me to connect multiple devices and to manage my cloud, on prem and vmware firewalling devices. I can assign roles with the required visibility depending on the users. I can also consolidate all my logs into it to have a single pane of visibility.
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Support Rating
Fobi AI
No answers on this topic
Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto has a very nice customer support. People are very nice and were quick to reply, whenever we had an issue with the subscription or the blacklist tool. There is also a great deal of information on their website that covers each and every detail about the uses and the threat signatures. The community keeps on updating their information very frequently. Small issues are easily solved from the documentation, and for other issues, the customer support service is always present. However, on Fridays it becomes a little delayed as per my observation.
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Alternatives Considered
Fobi AI
The CheckPoint Firewall and Cisco ISR router serve different purposes. Our organisation uses both devices, but in different areas of the topology. The Cisco ISR is a remote device and its function is to relay information to our edge firewall, which then passes to our internal firewall (CheckPoint) to securely control traffic requests.
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Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Panorama and Junos Space Security Director have many similar features but Palo Alto Panorama excels in almost all of them. The monitoring tools in Palo Alto Panorama are easy to use and give more in-depth insight into what is going on in your network. Palo Alto's security is ranked much higher and the Web Application Security is also superior to that of the Junos counterpart.
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Return on Investment
Fobi AI
  • Smart console with lower operational overhead
  • Compliance with Hipaa, PCISSS and saving on compliance plenties
  • Less compatibility issues
  • licensing model is costlier at the beginning
  • Some modules require special training
  • False positives may occur
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Palo Alto Networks
  • 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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ScreenShots

CheckPoint Screenshots

Screenshot of CheckPoint ecosystem includes the digital ticket using the wallet pass technology, a near-field communication tap device used for registration and check-in, and an admin portal used to provide real-time updates and analytics to make data-driven decisions.Screenshot of CheckPoint gives exhibitors, vendors and sponsors access to your guests' lock screen to send personalized notifications. Send urgent messages in real-time to increase security around your venue.Screenshot of Modernize your venue with CheckPoint's digital ticketing system that lives in your guests' mobile wallets. By using CheckPoint, improve your user experience by enabling a 100% contactless and automated system that gets your guests into your venues faster and smarter.Screenshot of Increase security around check-in with CheckPoint's automated and contactless system. CheckPoint is a sleek digital solution that condensed a multi-step process into one simple tap to speed up check-ins.