Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	Palo Alto Network’s Next-Generation Firewalls is a firewall option integrated with other Palo Alto security products. Released in late 2023, the PA-7500 ML-Powered NextGeneration Firewall (NGFW) enables enterprise-scale organizations and service providers to deploy security in high-performance environments.	$1.50 per hour per available zone

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Users may also choose to pay per gigabyte of data used starting at .065/GB. Note that prices listed here reflect installations via Amazon Web Services. Pricing may differ if other service providers are used.

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	Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series
Considered Both Products	Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series MR Matt Rathbun Network Admin Chose Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series The Palo platform is MUCH more stable than the Cisco ASA. The Cisco ASA platform has been assembled from many different software/security components and they don't work together seamlessly. Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series are stable because everything … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series was selected because it offered the best combination of visibility, threat prevention, scalability, and centralized management. Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series has :Best-in-Class Application and … Incentivized Helpful? Vinayak Mishra Senior MS Security Engineer Chose Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series Palo Alto Networks firewall is compatible with Panorama and Prisma Access solutions. Together they work like a great package. Incentivized Helpful? Branden Beachy Network Administrator Chose Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series I cannot speak to the current version of this product. Still, when we reviewed it several years ago, it was a complicated hodgepodge of interfaces that made the Palo Alto look positively basic in comparison. It was easy to choose the Palo Alto device over it at the time, and I … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series The Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series equaled or outperformed the competitors we compared it with. Palo Alto Networks has a good reputation in the router/firewall and network security realm, and we have not been disappointed. Subscription costs have not … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series Fortinet's IAM connector did not work well resulting in difficulty creating identity based access rules. Check Point updates and management was very painful. In one instance, Check Point depricated a rule set entirely which caused the appliances to fail. I have not had any … Incentivized Helpful? Diego Carmignani IT Infrastructure Coordinator Chose Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series Watchguard is recommended in Midsize Companies. It hasn't a real L7 feature for policies pfSense is powerful and open-source but L7 feature missing so it's impossible to goal our objectives Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series The Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series are much easier to configure than both Checkpoint and Cisco, in my opinion. From Security policy management and traffic inspection standpoints, there is no comparison. Incentivized Helpful? Kelvin Goh Security Consultant Chose Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series Palo Alto NGFW is quite stable and able to perform most of the security features. It is also have real-time updates for the latest signatures which helps to identify and prevent threats efficiently. The overall deployment is straight forward and easy to implement. User … Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series Fortinet - faster than Palo Alto, but features are less. Cisco ASA Palo Alto Single Pass gathering all [of] the data in a series of logs is the best among other firewalls. It is very clear in inspection and providing you insight [into] data [that] is passing through the network. Incentivized Helpful? Binita Kharbanda Shift Supervisor Chose Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series On other firewalls creating the policy is a bit complex, but with the Palo Alto Next-Generation Firewalls, it can be done with ease as it provides the best user-friendly GUI. It provides complete protection from both signature-based and signature-less attacks both. With its … Incentivized Helpful? Chirag Deol Chief Marketing Officer Chose Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series Cisco Firepower only has basic functionality, URL filtering always create problems also GUI is very bad that's why most organization [are] using Palo Alto rather than Cisco Firepower. Incentivized Helpful? rahul Verma Network Consultant Chose Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series I don't think we can compare other firewalls with this powerful firewall device. All have less features as compared to this device. Incentivized Helpful? Vinit Sharma Network Administrator Chose Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series We are using Cisco ASA before in our environment but when it comes to deep scanning & layer 7 security it doesn't have that capability. After using Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall we are using sandboxing & advance malware protection that provides high-level end-user … Incentivized Helpful? Basant Gupta Executive System Admin Chose Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series No one can say any other companies in this time is better than Palo Alto Networks Next-Generatoin Firewalls. Palo Alto offers very advanced features which protect you[r] organization. Advanced malware protection, anti spam, lots of other threats. Incentivized Helpful? Chandan Singh Rathore Senior Technical Consultant Chose Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series Palo Alto has a user-friendly GUI and it comes with a single console from where you can manage all the policies and routing. It has advanced capabilities to prevent APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) attacks. Cisco Firepower lacks in capabilities with Palo Alto if we compare it. Incentivized Helpful? SK Sunil Kumar Subject Matter Expert Chose Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series Biggest reason to select Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series over these products is for the performance during traffic inspection via various engines like UID, AppID, and ContentID. Another factor was both the other products were not very capable of … Helpful? PL Paul Luchini Network Engineer Chose Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series At first we continued using Check Point as our port-based firewall while using Palo Alto for content/URL filtering and threat prevention. However, we soon realized the Palo Alto did everything the Check Point did, plus quite a bit more. Hence, it made sense to consolidate all … Incentivized Helpful? Adam Morrison Director of IT Engineering Chose Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series I did not originally choose Palo Alto as our core firewall appliance. It has already been purchased when I came on board. However, I did recently choose to purchase new Palo Alto firewalls to replaced our older models. I have had experience working with Cisco ASAs and … Incentivized Helpful? Jeremy Cejka Principal System Administrator Chose Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series I've been using NGFW since 2014. When it really was the main player in the new term "Next Gen Firewall". I'm sure the bar is pretty matched across the board with Fireeye and other niche players and even Juniper/Cisco etc. Eventually there will be equilibrium. I chose Palo … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series The main competitor I can compare Palo Alto to is the FortiGate series of devices by Fortinet. FortiGates are capable UMTs and also less expensive than Palo Altos. That being said, category filtering on FortiGates is less effective, and they are not as feature-rich as Palo … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls outperform and better security model for HQ and remote offices. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series We previously used Cisco 5585 ASAs with firepower. We wanted a more holistic solution than what the Cisco ASA was providing for us. In this situation, we needed to have consistency in how rules were applied across multiple types of traffic, while also knowing what kind of … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series We put Palo Alto in place over Cisco ASA as a product set. Until a few years ago, Cisco didn’t have a next-generation firewall, primarily meaning their appliances didn’t have application identification or control. Since their acquisition of Sourcefire, however, they’ve … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series

Firewall

Comparison of Firewall features of Product A and Product B
	Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series 8.7 27 Ratings 1% above category average
Identification Technologies	9.227 Ratings
Visualization Tools	7.626 Ratings
Content Inspection	9.527 Ratings
Policy-based Controls	9.727 Ratings
Active Directory and LDAP	9.026 Ratings
Firewall Management Console	8.827 Ratings
Reporting and Logging	8.327 Ratings
VPN	8.727 Ratings
High Availability	8.826 Ratings
Stateful Inspection	9.026 Ratings
Proxy Server	7.413 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (43 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	8.5 (8 ratings)
Support Rating	8.4 (9 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series
Likelihood to Recommend	Palo Alto Networks It is well-suited for a company needing strong edge security with ease of administration. It comes standard with many features such as VPN, Application ID and "Day-1 Config" that make the networks it protects secure from the very start. Palo is definitely a premium product and is much more expensive than other firewalls, but the value is realized immediately. The robust options for firewall rules/policies allow the administrator to apply security in new and creative ways to hit the sweet spot between security and usability. Incentivized MR Matt Rathbun Network Admin Read full review
Pros	Palo Alto Networks The PA handles VPN connectivity without missing a beat. We have multiple VPN tunnels in use for redundancy to cloud-based services. The PA has great functionality in supporting failover internet connections, again with the ability to have multiple paths out to our cloud-based services. The PA is updated on the regular with various security updates, we are not concerned with the firewall's ability to see what packets are really flowing across the network. Being able to see beyond just IP and port requests lets you know things are locked down better than traditional firewalls. It is a great overall kit, with URL filtering and other services that fill in the gaps between other solutions without breaking the bank. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Palo Alto Networks Setting up certain things can be somewhat complicated due to the numerous options and abstractions involved. It would be nice to have somewhere to get simple canned reports easily. It would be nice to be able to remove options we never use from various setup dialogs. Incentivized Branden Beachy Network Administrator Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Palo Alto Networks The PA5220s have far exceeded what we have expected out of them. It was a bit of a learning curve coming from another vendor, but everything falls into place now with ease. The capabilities of the solution still surprise us, allowing us to remove other costly hardware and providing a single point of management needed Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Palo Alto Networks It can be a little tricky at first if you have never used the product or a firewall before. If you have experience with firewalls in general, it does not take long to learn the Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series interface. They offer great training resources and knowledge base articles to help get up to speed. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Palo Alto Networks We've run into a couple undocumented bugs, but that seems to happen with every brand and technology. Any time we've had to engage Palo Alto support they've always been professional, knowledgeable and prompt. In almost all cases we've been able to resolve our issues without having to escalate our tickets. Incentivized PL Paul Luchini Network Engineer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Palo Alto Networks We are using Cisco ASA before in our environment but when it comes to deep scanning & layer 7 security it doesn't have that capability. After using Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewall we are using sandboxing & advance malware protection that provides high-level end-user security. Also after implementing it we can easily monitor user-level traffic. Incentivized Vinit Sharma Network Administrator Read full review
Return on Investment	Palo Alto Networks We used to outsource our Firewall and it's management. Not only did we find their SLA's to be lacking, in general, but communication between us was horrible. Many times we could not understand them and that resulted in less than desirable rule creation or troubleshooting. Since we no longer have to pay a company for 24/7 management (and SLOW SLA's) we are saving a ton of money each year. Also our fellow employee's are much happier that things can be resolved in a timely manner. Incentivized Christopher St.Amand Senior Network Security Engineer Read full review
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