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    Cloudflare

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ACloudflare’s connectivity cloud is a unified platform of cloud-native services designed to help enterprises regain control over their IT environments. Powered by an intelligent, programmable global cloud network, it is built to offer security, performance, visibility, and reliability.

    $20

    per month

    Palo Alto Panorama

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AAccording 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
    CloudflarePalo Alto Panorama
    Editions & Modules
    Pro
    $20
    per month
    Business
    $200
    per month
    Free
    Free
    Enterprise
    Contact sales team
    25 Devices
    $9,500.00
    100 Devices
    $23,750.00
    1000 Devices
    $71,250.00
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CloudflarePalo Alto Panorama
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    CloudflarePalo Alto Panorama
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    Cloudflare
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    Palo Alto Networks
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    171 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    13 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    165 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    171 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    144 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    154 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
    Features
    CloudflarePalo Alto Panorama
    DDoS Protection
    Comparison of DDoS Protection features of Cloudflare and Palo Alto Panorama
    Feature
    Cloudflare
    8.4
    6 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Palo Alto Panorama
    -
    Ratings
    Automatic Scalability9.47 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mitigation SLA8.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security policy management8.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    WAF capabilities8.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Request rate limiting7.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Traffic filtering7.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bot detection8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Global threat intelligence8.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Real-time analytics and reporting7.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Firewall Security Management
    Comparison of Firewall Security Management features of Cloudflare and Palo Alto Panorama
    Feature
    Cloudflare
    -
    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
    Best Alternatives
    CloudflarePalo Alto Panorama
    Small Businesses
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    Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    No answers on this topic
    Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CloudflarePalo Alto Panorama
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (192 ratings)
    9.0
    (15 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (8 ratings)
    8.5
    (4 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.6
    (154 ratings)
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CloudflarePalo Alto Panorama
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cloudflare
    Cloudflare has features as a CDN/Gateway/Reverse Proxy that simply don't exist in other solutions. Having so many capabilities under a single platform, with solid support and high uptime, has been essential. I would recommend it for hobby projects all the way to enterprise scale. There's a lot of push around AI and workers. Some feel like Cloudflare is following the hype. But after reading a lot about the new features, a decent amount of them has real value.
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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
    Cloudflare
    • The best part is the content delivery network. Cloudflare has a large network of data centres around the world that helps cache and delivers content quickly to our customers.
    • Cloudflare offers us with a fast and reliable DNS service and with the world class features such as Cloudflare workers, SSL verification, certificate management and web application firewall. When all of these are combined together, it provides very strict security for our organization.
    • One of the most important feature that we use is the analytics and threat detection. It provides us with the real time insights of all the threats originating from multiple locations and landing on our websites.
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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
    Cloudflare
    • In some cases, using Cloudflare can actually lead to slower website speeds if the network is congested or if the website's traffic is particularly heavy.
    • Some website owners may find that the level of customization offered by Cloudflare is limited, especially in comparison to other solutions.
    • While Cloudflare is easy to set up and manage, it may be too complex for users who are not familiar with web technologies.
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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
    Cloudflare
    lower cost
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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
    Cloudflare
    Everything is extremely concise and all settings apply immediately and take effect globally. There is no reason to explicitly plan/think in terms of individual regions as one would have to traditional cloud offerings (AWS, OCI, Azure). All Cloudflare products integrate seamless as part of a single pipeline that executes from request to response.
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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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    Reliability and Availability
    Cloudflare
    In 6+ years of relying on Cloudflare, I think we experienced one or two brief outages that were Cloudflare's fault.
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    Palo Alto Networks
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    Performance
    Cloudflare
    Their Argo for the global network is the core feature we love.
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    Palo Alto Networks
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    Support Rating
    Cloudflare
    While I have had good support in the past from Cloudflare's technical support team, I have had some terrible experiences with billing support. I have had multiple tickets sent to their billing support that I will never receive a reply to for over a month. When I finally do get a reply, it has been an automated email that never gives me an answer to my question.
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    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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    Implementation Rating
    Cloudflare
    Very well executed implementation where our team was able to handle the implementation with guidance.
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    Palo Alto Networks
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cloudflare
    Nothing like it. Organizations can utilize these Cloudflare products to enhance their online presence by improving security, performance, reliability, and developer efficiency. Cloudflare is an American company that delivers services such as DNS, a content delivery network (CDN), and various other additional services to make websites faster and more secure. Cloudflare is used by over 26 million sites, resulting in the processing of more than 1 billion IP addresses each day.
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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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    Scalability
    Cloudflare
    They are built for scale and have the capacity to handle all the traffic we could ever expect to get.
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    Palo Alto Networks
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Cloudflare
    • Immediate ROI on Registrar and DNS hosting while giving a single plane of glass to managing both with domain registrations at cost, and no cost DNS hosting
    • WAF helped us move at risk servers/applications into a protected state allowing us to perform remediations at a measured pace and get them done right instead of band aide solutions.
    • CDN proxying increase the speed of our website while simultaneously reducing server load.
    • DMARC management and report interpretation allow use to identify weak points in our email systems, remediate and move to stricter policies without significantly increasing staff time spent managing it.
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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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