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Palo Alto Panorama

Overview

What is Palo Alto Panorama?

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…

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Panorama by Palo Alto Networks is widely used by organizations to manage and monitor their firewalls efficiently. With Panorama, users can …
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Panorama delivers

9 out of 10
July 26, 2021
Incentivized
We currently utilize [two virtual Palo Alto] Panorama's in an HA pair. It is an excellent tool to manage multiple Firewalls across our …
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Popular Features

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  • Policy planning and rule management (12)
    9.8
    98%
  • Policy Compliance Auditing (11)
    9.4
    94%
  • Anomalous Event or Behavior Deviation (11)
    9.3
    93%
  • Automated Policy Orchestration (11)
    9.0
    90%
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Pricing

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25 Devices

$9,500.00

Cloud

100 Devices

$23,750.00

Cloud

1000 Devices

$71,250.00

Cloud

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

Omnis Cyber Intelligence in der Praxis (4/4) - Demo einer log4j Analyse

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Installation and Demo of Palo Alto Panorama Management Server Version 10

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Features

Firewall Security Management

Firewall Security Management Software supports monitoring and configuration of firewalls from a central dashboard

9.4
Avg 8.1
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Product Details

What is Palo Alto Panorama?

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 security tools while maintaining consistent firewall rules across their networks. While no specific industries or professions are mentioned as target users, Panorama has potential benefits for any organization seeking to fortify its network security measures.

Centralized Visibility

The product aims to provide users with the ability to visualize network activity, threat activity, and blocked activity in a user-friendly manner. It also offers customization options for creating personalized views of current and historical data. The product claims to manage network security efficiently by utilizing a single security rule base that covers various firewall functions such as threat prevention, URL filtering, application awareness, user identification, sandboxing, file blocking, access control, and data filtering. The vendor states that Panorama simplifies administration through dynamic updates and configuration management using device groups and other Panorama features. Additionally, it enables organizations to organize firewall management effectively through hierarchical device groups, dynamic address and user groups, role-based access control, policy tags, and preconfigured templates for new rule sets. Panorama is designed to scale easily alongside growing firewall deployment by managing up to 5,000 virtual, containerized, and physical Palo Alto Networks firewalls with a single pair of high-available appliances. Promising centralized visibility into traffic flows across the entire Palo Alto Networks platform while offering simplified configuration options and leveraging PAN-OS® security innovations are additional aspects highlighted by the product's vendor. However, it should be noted that these assertions lack independent evidence or verification.

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Panorama - Streamlined, powerful management with actionable visibility

Palo Alto Panorama Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
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Reviews and Ratings

(59)

Community Insights

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Panorama by Palo Alto Networks is widely used by organizations to manage and monitor their firewalls efficiently. With Panorama, users can centrally manage firewalls internally, allowing IT staff to handle device management effectively. Additionally, Panorama's Device Grouping feature enables users to manage different types of firewalls and common security requirements within the organization. The ability to control access to restricted sites and the VPN service for end-users is another key use case of Panorama. It simplifies firewall management by providing a centralized tool that saves time and effort in configuration and updates. Furthermore, Panorama offers a vast set of features, including building new rules, creating address objects, and setting up User-ID, which are greatly beneficial for users. Many customers consider Panorama an indispensable tool as it serves as a one-point solution for their security needs. Overall, Panorama's ability to streamline firewall management, provide auditing capabilities, and offer extensive features makes it highly recommended for large environments with multiple Palo Alto firewalls.

Easy Management of Multiple Firewalls: Several users have praised the ability to create common rules that can be maintained on multiple firewalls, making it easier to manage different functional needs. This feature has been appreciated by many reviewers for simplifying firewall management.

Efficient Delivery of Changes: The use of templates to manage regional requirements and the ability to stack templates have been highlighted by multiple users as valuable features. These functionalities allow for easy delivery of necessary changes across multiple firewalls, making network updates more efficient.

Intuitive User Interface: Reviewers have consistently mentioned the ease of use and intuitive nature of Panorama's user interface. They appreciate how quick and easy it is to navigate through menus, find desired settings, and configure options. This positive feedback indicates a high level of satisfaction with the user experience.

Unintuitive User Interface: Many users have expressed frustration with the user interface of Panorama, describing it as difficult to navigate and not user-friendly. This has made it challenging for them to efficiently push out OS updates and schedule jobs.

Difficulty in Finding Features: Some users have reported difficulties in locating specific features and functions within Panorama. This lack of intuitiveness has resulted in usability issues and navigation struggles, causing frustration for users.

Slow Performance: Users have experienced delays in performance when using Panorama. Changes made within the system take a significant amount of time to be replicated to individual sites, leading to delays in overall system performance. Additionally, the web interface has been described as slow on certain browsers, taking longer than expected to commit changes and impacting workflow efficiency.

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Palo Alto Panorama to manage multiple firewalls at multiple locations. We have approximately 25 locations and at some locations we have multiple firewalls. We are also using the firewalls to implement SDWan. We are able to use multiple internet connections to do load balancing at a branch which saves money on higher priced internet connections.
  • Manages multiple devices
  • SDWan
  • Reporting
  • Setup was somewhat difficult
  • Price is a little bit of a shock
I like the fact that I can pretty much use the same configuration on multiple sites. If I want to block a specific address I can add it to all sites at once not one at a time.
Firewall Security Management (8)
66.25%
6.6
Policy planning and rule management
90%
9.0
Automated Policy Orchestration
90%
9.0
Device Discovery
80%
8.0
Policy Compliance Auditing
80%
8.0
Attack Path Simulation Testing
N/A
N/A
Anomalous Event or Behavior Deviation
90%
9.0
Vulnerability Scans
N/A
N/A
Firewall Rule Cleanup
100%
10.0
  • Less time managing devices
  • Less cost on Internet connections
We liked PAs ability to decrypt and inspect traffic better than Cisco's.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Palo Alto Panorama as the main system for any firewall changes, so all of them are sync with similar setup. We have firewalls which are managed by Palo Alto Panorama in cloud and on prem and all is working fine. We have noticed couple problems with verification while some by accident misconfigured end firewall and panorama and panorama didn't catch it up. But otherwise company is happy about using it.
  • Managing firewalls
  • Upgrades
  • Making configuration easier
  • Verification of what configuration is being pushed
  • Better information about errors if they will show up during push
Pushing configuration to firewalls in the cloud is quite easy, as you can build them and then push all configurations, if you need to add one or few or just do replacement it also easy with Palo Alto Panorama. Similar situation is with firewall onsite but you can't remove them and easy replace.
Firewall Security Management (8)
38.75%
3.9
Policy planning and rule management
80%
8.0
Automated Policy Orchestration
80%
8.0
Device Discovery
N/A
N/A
Policy Compliance Auditing
70%
7.0
Attack Path Simulation Testing
N/A
N/A
Anomalous Event or Behavior Deviation
N/A
N/A
Vulnerability Scans
N/A
N/A
Firewall Rule Cleanup
80%
8.0
  • If you have more then 40 firewalls you can easy manage them from one place
  • Time for checking logs from one place
In the past, we have used Cisco firewalls with Firepower and Palo Alto Panorama is easier to manage and more user-friendly. Also the performance of end firewalls/devices is much better than Cisco if you enable all features on them.
July 26, 2021

Panorama delivers

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We currently utilize [two virtual Palo Alto] Panorama's in an HA pair. It is an excellent tool to manage multiple Firewalls across our Organization.
We have over a dozen locations with multiple Palo's, so having Panorama is critical to save time having to configure\update each Firewall.
[Palo Alto] Panorama allows for ultimate management scalability from 2 to 1000's of Firewalls.
  • The wildfire threat detection utilizes the combined power of all customers that have the service greatly improving your organizations detections
  • Utilizing Device Group and creating shared rules is very helpful
  • Having the same user interface as a Palo Alto Firewall was very beneficial for quick adoption
  • Unexpected log outs outside the normal timeout window seem to happen often
  • Better reporting, really a downside to the product
  • Scheduling would be a great feature
[Palo Alto Panorama is well suited for the following:]
- Great for managing multiple firewalls
- Great for viewing any template or device group you have created from a single pane
- Central point of logging review
Firewall Security Management (8)
35%
3.5
Policy planning and rule management
20%
2.0
Automated Policy Orchestration
80%
8.0
Device Discovery
80%
8.0
Policy Compliance Auditing
10%
1.0
Attack Path Simulation Testing
N/A
N/A
Anomalous Event or Behavior Deviation
80%
8.0
Vulnerability Scans
N/A
N/A
Firewall Rule Cleanup
10%
1.0
  • Reduced Time for managing multiple Firewalls
  • Ability to group sites into device groups is extremely helpful to ensure compliance
  • Central pane of glass to view all logs
  • Running them Virtually saved money
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
It is used across the whole organization. Panorama can help in managing the administration of a large number of Palo Alto firewalls. It is a centralized interface for Palo alto firewalls, Global protect, cloud services, and logging service instead of logging into each device. There are device groups and templates that can ease administrative efforts.

Panorama helps to manage many Palo Alto firewalls in one interface. You will find device groups and templates that reduce administrative efforts. Policies are easily configured and deployed with a great web filtering module. Furthermore, you can have either a hardware or a software VM to choose from.
  • Very good user interface and user experience which helps apply the configuration easily.
  • The portal is helps you apply configuration easily, by applying your configuration and settings smoothly.
  • Addition of several firewalls with easy steps.
  • Great support and response from the vendor
  • The dual WAN functionality doesn't exist in it.
  • Better coding in order to make the portal faster
  • Hard to apply the templates, too many steps
  • It is very slow applying changes once you have committed the changes on its web interface. It could take a nearly 30 seconds until the change has been actually applied on the device, needs some software enhancements. It sometimes crashes for unknown reasons due to bugs.
It offers many advanced features to configure. This is a solution that we implement for our customers. It helps to manage several firewalls from a central location whether from the internet edge side , data centers, in the data centers. It can be deployed to be used either on-premise devices or on the cloud which has great scalability.
Firewall Security Management (8)
81.25%
8.1
Policy planning and rule management
80%
8.0
Automated Policy Orchestration
80%
8.0
Device Discovery
70%
7.0
Policy Compliance Auditing
70%
7.0
Attack Path Simulation Testing
80%
8.0
Anomalous Event or Behavior Deviation
80%
8.0
Vulnerability Scans
90%
9.0
Firewall Rule Cleanup
100%
10.0
  • According to its high performance with all security features enabled, its price is the best in the market, so it is a good bargain for the customer
  • Best pricing for all security features to be enabled on it.
  • Support and Account Managers are very responsive to critical issues that could lead customer losses
  • I don't see any negative impacts on this solution, but there is always room for improvement
Compared to other vendors, this is the most accurate next-generation firewall. Their sizing values in their data sheets is very accurate compared to other vendors, so little re-testing and validation is done on our side.

With all their security features enabled, the performance is great.
You can do anything via the GUI without going to the CLI. High real time security as every five minutes, it updates the list of phishing websites. High protection as the firewall communicates with the cloud, a machine running artificial intelligence helps to detect malware or other threats.
The support team has great communication skills. They respond to your request with courtesy and they never break their promises in their next update. They also follow up with you on a timely basis.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
PaloAlto Panorama is the firewall that we use in our organization. The firewall protects all the departments of the University for malicious actors. However, defining the rules, and managing them is done by our team. This next-gen firewall has a lot of potentials to surpass the other giants in this field like Cisco and Juniper. There are different functionalities of this firewall that include integrated Intrusion Detection System (IDS), next-gen packet filter, IP and domain filter based on reputation and threat hunt based on signatures. With time it became an indispensable tool for our team acting as a one-point solution for all our needs. Its signature-based detection system is the best I have ever seen, much better than Cisco FirePower. They keep their database updated all the time, thereby reducing false positives and false negatives. It has a feature called "Wildfire" that detects malware that has been downloaded in our network. This reduced our dependency on McAfee. Other than fulfilling our security needs at a good price, it also helped in saving money by reducing the need for Cisco's Firepower which we are about to discontinue soon.
  • First, it has a very good signature-based Intrusion Detection System (IDS) that shows malicious inbound or outbound network packets. The classification for the critical threats is flawless.
  • It has a feature called "Wildfire" which act like an anti-virus and it reports any malware or malicious attachment that have been downloaded or sent through the network.
  • It needs improvement for the threats categorized as "high" severity. There are lot of false positives. Therefore finding real ones is hard in "high" category.
  • The threat/traffic view needs improvement. It needs at least a feature to sort based on columns. Downloading and parsing using Excel takes a lot of time.
Palo Alto Panorama is well suited for any scale industry. We use it to manage several units of our organization. Some units have low data flow and some like our medicine and media departments have high data flow. Thus it is highly scalable. It has a very easy interface for regular users. It doesn't require programming skills or sound technical background to use. It has a GUI that supports all kinds of operations through the interface. It also has text-based data fields that can be used by people having networking and programming background to reduce clicks. Therefore it is suited for organizations having both technical and non-technical staff. It is hard to find scenarios where it is not well suited. But yes, since it has all the functionalities integrated into it, buying Panorama for a small organization solely for the sake of firewall (if all other defense tools are already there like IDS, screening firewall) could be an expensive and redundant purchase.
Firewall Security Management (6)
78.33333333333333%
7.8
Policy planning and rule management
100%
10.0
Automated Policy Orchestration
100%
10.0
Device Discovery
80%
8.0
Policy Compliance Auditing
90%
9.0
Anomalous Event or Behavior Deviation
100%
10.0
Firewall Rule Cleanup
N/A
N/A
  • Reduced a lot of threats by blocking poorly reputed domains automatically, saving us a lot of time, which we would have otherwise spent on putting it on the manual blacklist.
  • Helped us in almost discontinuing with the Cisco Firepower, saving a lot of money, with its powerful IDS feature.
  • Cisco Firepower NGFW (formerly Sourcefire)
Palo Alto Networks Panorama is far superior to Cisco FirePower in terms of threat detection. Other than that it is very fast and easy to use. When it comes to deep packet inspection, Panorama shows all the relevant details needed, while Sourcefire pulls up a lot of details that are often not useful. In addition, the Wildfire feature helps us in detecting malicious files very easily and I have never seen any false positive in it. It also has the manual blacklist tool over Sourcefire which gives us the flexibility to add custom domains and IPs.
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.
Cisco IronPort Web Security Appliance, McAfee Endpoint Security, Tenable.sc (formerly SecurityCenter), Atlassian Confluence, Cisco Firepower NGFW (formerly Sourcefire)
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