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Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series
Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series
Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series
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What is Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series?
Palo Alto next-generation firewalls classify all traffic, including encrypted and internal traffic, based on application, application function, user and content. Users can create security policies to enable only authorized users to run sanctioned applications.
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What is Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series?
Palo Alto Network’s Next-Generation Firewalls is a firewall option integrated with other Palo Alto security products. NGFWs classify and monitor all traffic, including encrypted and internal traffic, based on application, function, user, and content. Palo Alto emphasizes the Zero Trust policy, through which users can create security policies to enable only authorized users to run sanctioned applications, reducing the surface area of cyber attacks across the organization. Palo Alto’s NGFW provides in-firewall encryption and decryption, as well as data and application segmentation. It integrates with PA’s WildFire malware prevention service and supports easy adoption with an open-source tool for firewall migration. It encompasses on-premises and cloud environments for full-system security. |
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Palo Alto next-generation firewalls classify all traffic, including encrypted and internal traffic, based on application, application function, user and content. Users can create security policies to enable only authorized users to run sanctioned applications.
Reviewers rate Policy-based Controls and High Availability and Stateful Inspection highest, with a score of 10.
The most common users of Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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April 30, 2022
Powerful and Easy Firewall - For Enterprise Companies
Company wants to create a secured on-premise Datacenter. To do that we implemented 2 PA VM500 in Active-Passive mode and configured them with Layer7 policies and Micro-segmentation. In this way we monitor in\out traffics and also lateral movements between datacenter services
- Easy web management interface
- Search is powerfull and easly
- Many L7 Applications recognize for policies
- SD-WAN feature is quite difficult
- Dedicated logging server missing
- Entry PA Appliance has slowly web interface
- Commit configuration is slower than other competitors
We utilize 5260's at both our Datacenters running in HA Pair mode for redundancy and 3220's running in HA Pair mode at each remote office. All production network traffic is routed via our datacenter firewalls due to our VDI infrastructure, and web traffic uses the local office Palo Alto Networks Next- Generations Firewalls - PA Series for egress. All policies are managed via device groups on Panorama.
- Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series are excellent at utilizing URL filtering to provide us very granular access to individuals or Active directory groups as needed.
- The Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series adds multiple defense layers to include, Anti Spyware, Anti-Malware, File blocking, URL filtering, and we also incorporate the.
- Wildfile malware protection subscription.
- SSL Inspection was very manageable by creating decryption policies by URL category.
- The Global Protect VPN setup could be a little more intuitive.
- Creating IPSec VPN tunnels can be a little challenging. Would be nice if they grouped and forced entries in all the necessary places as a guide.
March 30, 2022
Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls Review
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Palo Alto NGFW helps to protect web and network traffic which up to layer 7. There are many new threats and malware and Palo Alto NGFW is able to prevent and identity any potential threats. Palo Alto NGFW comes with WildFire which able to perform file analysis to detect any zero-day threats which can be very efficient to protect the organization.
- WildFire file analysis.
- Threat prevention.
- DNS security.
- Fasten policy deployment.
- Provide more threat details.
- Visibility over file analysis details.
August 30, 2021
Palo Alto - Networks Next-Generation Firewalls Review
Palo Alto [Networks Next-Generation Firewalls] is being used as a security product on our perimeter. We have different segments and different entities using Palo Alto in a campus as well as data center environments. It is securing external threats to penetrate inside our organization showing application visibility along with the threat intelligence feature to mitigate risk.
- Application visibility
- Single pass architecture
- GUI clarity
- SDWAN without licensing
- URL filtering is basic; should be included in base license
- PA devices should come with secure defaults
August 04, 2021
Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - features of a ML based firewall that you need to know!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We have deployed Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series in our Head office in High availability mode. This Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series is deployed on the internet gateway/perimeter to filter only good traffic and around 300 users and 30-35 servers are connected behind this firewall. Also, this firewall is responsible to prevent intruders, do gateway level Antivirus inspection, Malware filtering, URL filtering, anti-spyware, and file filtering for users to upload or download. We have also procured DNS security and Wildfire Sandbox along with the firewall.
- Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series gives predictive performance, as per our sizing and requirements
- It is integrated very well with internal features it is providing, like, Wildfire Sandbox integrated with gateway AV and URL filtering engine
- Seamlessly integrates with 3rd party tools and systems, like integration with ClearPass from HPE Aruba for user auth, syslog integration, etc
- Enhanced security features like EDL, Credential theft prevention, DNS Security, ML based firewall, which we cannot find in another solutions
- Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series provides platform for network security but lacks features for additional features like built-in MFA, cloud based management, etc
- In file filtering and AV module, there could be a few optional features of white listing a specific file by its name or hash value or some other detail.
- Compared to other vendors, this is costly, but again, feature-rich and hence cannot be with other firewalls.
We started our Palo Alto journey by securing our organization's data center resources and it didn't fail us. It matched up to our expectations in terms of security and control, which we are able to achieve with Palo Alto Next-Generation Firewalls. We are using Palo Alto's advanced threat prevention technologies to protect our DC.
- App filtering
- Sandboxing
- Wildfire
- Firewall throughput
- CLI configuration is tough
- Cost is too high.
- TAC support response.
Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series is one of the best firewall it fulfills all the security parameters. In simple word if I say it's a powerful device against any type of bad actors, attacks, phishing, malware attacks. I [have] used it for [the] past 2 years and [I] still don't see any other firewalls who stand against Palo Alto.
- Application Level filtering is the best feature which is known as AppID.
- Content filtering also the best function which is known as ContentID.
- Data Encryption is very strong.
- Sandboxing also very good function.
- Heavy budget small level company can't afford.
- Only pro level security engineer can handle or work on it.
- To remember CLI based command is very difficult.
May 29, 2021
Most powerful firewall - Palo Alto
Palo Alto is really the most powerful and advanced feature-loaded firewall. I have been working on this product from 2 years. In this time I've explored the various advanced features like app controls, advanced IPs and content filtering. This firewall is always a favorite for every security consultant. The advanced features makes this firewall more secure and more powerful.
- Anti-spyware.
- Anti virus capabilities.
- Anti malware protection.
- Application based control.
- User identification.
- Advanced security features.
- Palo Alto is really expensive firewall.
- Complicated command line.
May 28, 2021
Palo Alto for Deep Scanning
We are using Palo Alto Firewall because of the advance features they have & we are using content filtering & application filtering features for preventing malicious traffic & unauthorize access. The IDS/IPS & Advance malware protection feature provides a deep scanning feature & also provides sandboxing for advance level deep filtering of packets.
- Application filtering
- Content filtering
- Advance malware protection
- Deep Scanning
- Sandboxing
- Easy to Configure through GUI
- Anti-Spoofing & Anti-Spam
- It's complicated to implement it into existing network
- Packet flow is not easy to understand for the beginners
- Expensive as compare to other available solutions
- Less documentation available
Palo Alto Networks Next- Generation Firewall is one of the best-loaded security weapons against any type of security threats. This is one of the best and top of every other companies firewall. If you have a large organization that wants to spend lots of money on deep security then this firewall is best for you. I am working and reading about this firewall for the last two years. I don't think this is weak from any security features.
- Application control.
- Content filtering.
- Advanced IPS.
- Advanced routing.
- Deep packet inspection.
- Malware protection.
- Sand boxing.
- Hard to configure through CLI.
- Very expensive.
May 12, 2021
Why you should go with Palo Alto
We started using Palo Alto to achieve network security including the URL filtering/ application control. And we were able to achieve the app control with Palo Alto NFGW. We used IPS to prevent the known attacks and also used it's advanced sandboxing to prevent the zero-day attacks.
- Anti-malware
- Sandboxing
- App control
- URL filtering
- User-friendly GUI
- Difficult to configure via CLI.
- Documentation insufficient.
- Migration from other vendor to PA in existing network.
December 28, 2020
Best NGFW product I have ever worked with
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Palo
Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series is really a very good product in the category of NGFW firewalls--they have all the advance features that can help you tighten your perimeter gateway security layer. Their hold on and understanding about security threats and their deep understanding about the application helps us deal with a dynamically changing threat landscape. We are using Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series as a network firewall as well as a first layer of defense to deal with external threats. Configuration and administration of all the advance features is very easy and can be done via GUI, wo there's no need to remember so many CLI commands.
Very easy and robust up-gradation process.
- Firewall performance during threat analysis
- Wildfire support to protect from zero-day threats
- Huge database of applications and behavior knowledge
- Virtual wire inline deployment mode
- In the field of GP VPN
- Cloud segment
- Third-party integration support
February 29, 2020
Palo Alto PA Series firewalls deliver tons of features and straightforward management
We are using two Palo Alto PA-5220 firewalls in a high availability configuration as our data center/HQ head-end firewalls as well as our Global Protect VPN portal and gateway. They are used agency-wide for both data center and user traffic, and have allowed us to combine features from our past firewall, VPN and content/URL filtering solutions into one.
- It does an excellent job of securing by applications rather than relying on ports.
- With the separate management and data planes we've never experience performance issues.
- Content updates (apps, URLs, threats) are seamless and automatic.
- It is very flexible and powerful on the network configuration side.
- When web managing, you cannot sort by columns by clicking on a column.
- Palo Alto does not officially bless specific versions as recommended.
- The Global Protect client upgrade process does not provide feedback on progress.
- Logging queries sometimes take a while to complete.
January 13, 2020
Palo Alto PA Series Review
Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls is used as our routing, security, and network core at the resort. All traffic that flows from one network to another must go through our Palo Alto. When I came aboard at Pearl River Resort and Casino the Palo Alto was already the core router and firewall. I was a little hesitant about this design. However, after using the system and seeing the performance and benefits of the Palo Alto I am very impressed with the security it can provide and still meet our needed levels of performance.
- Security Enforcement and Review - The Palo Alto firewall provides all the advanced features you would expect from a modern firewall. Zones based rules, Layer 4 and down rules, and application firewall rules.
- User Definition - The Palo Alto firewall has direct AD integration. This allows rules to be based not just on source an destination information, but also on which security group in the AD that user belong. For example you can limit access to out of band networks to only the users that need it.
- Line Rate Traffic Analysis - When doing my home work I found that Palo Alto firewalls provide high speed analysis to traffic with additional processors to allow line speed results.
- No cloud analytics - I believe industry as a whole is moving to a management suite powered by ML. Palo has a great product, but currently there is no ML backed platform.
- SD WAN - Palo has just announced the addition of SDWAN in its upcoming 9.1 release. I feel they are a bit late to the game compared to others like Fortinet.
- Web based interface can still seem slow at time when compared to more modern HTML 5 interfaces.
December 06, 2019
Palo Alto - Security in a box
Palo Alto serves as our perimeter defense product, from threat assessment on the internal network, to ingressing connectivity from the internet. Provides inline web proxy and ssl inspection without the need of other machines/hardware. A few problems it solves are: 1) perimeter defenses, 2) sanity and 3) DFARs.
- Inline rule threat assessment
- Good information dataplane and graphics
- GlobalProtect VPN needs a user launchable option from pre-logon. This has been a challenge for government customers for years. Their competitor Cisco AnyConnect has SBL.
- Quality of upgrades/updates has been getting worse throughout the years. As of recent things they supposedly fixed have been making it back into the newer updates causing more headache for administrators to roll back. Especially if the update addresses a CVE.
- Some of the lower end units do not perform to the spec on paper - 220/800.
October 14, 2019
Palo Alto NGFW
We use Palo Alto NGFW as our main on-site firewall. There are several units (5000-series) for failover purposes. Firewalls are needed for CIPA compliance and for general Internet Security. We also use the GlobalProtect SSL VPN to provide access to LAN for remote users. We use web-filtering, application filtering (App-ID), etc.
- Web filtering by category is done better than competing solutions (FortiGate, for example). There is a significantly smaller number of false negatives, at least in my experience, on Palo Alto firewalls than on competing solutions.
- Logging. Firewall logs on the Palo Alto are very comprehensive. Firewall stores a lot of information about client connections and log filtering options are incredible.
- Reliable. Palo Alto firewalls we are using were trouble-free so far both software and hardware-wise.
- Very good VPN solution. GlobalProtect VPN works very well - stable and high performance. As it is hard to troubleshoot issues with remote clients, good performance by SSL VPN client is an important point.
- Can be complicated to use. Both the Web interface and the CLI of the Palo Alto firewall are quite sophisticated. It is much harder to perform the configuration of the Palo Alto firewall than a Fortinet one.
- Subscriptions. To properly use the firewall, subscription packages are needed, and licensing can be confusing and/or expensive.
October 14, 2019
TOP GUNS of Next-Generation Firewalls
Our NextGen Firewalls are being used to protect north and south traffics and also monitor the east and west traffics as well.
- Easy policies deployment
- Great at zero day protection
- Very intuitive admin console
- Great for HA environments and real-time protections
- Price
- License
October 09, 2019
Palo Alto NGFWs a success story waiting for you
As with any organization, ours org needed to replace existing infrastructure. At the time we were strictly a Cisco shop top down, but we were open for other bids as well. After a demo, we purchased Palo Alto 5220 based firewalls, with the intent to use it as the central point of authority for all network traffic for our campus. The Palo Alto (PA) firewall is used as the gateway device for all traffic within our organization.
- 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.
- Documentation that is available for solutions from Palo Alto is great. If you find yourself in a situation where something has not been previously documented or implemented, you will have to find out solutions yourself.
- The ability to use the API for push/pull information with the firewall was a major selling point. However, some items a person would expect to be readily available through the API do not exist, so either you have to go without or do extensive amount of work to put together, sort, and clean the data from multiple sources (I am looking at you dhcp logs).
October 09, 2019
Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls
The Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series firewalls are being used to protect the internal assets to our organization as well as being sold to other customers to help provide them threat protection. The customer use case varies greatly and this product allows all of our customers to be provided a level of protection to fit their needs. The GUI driven interface has allow our support staff to develop their skill set rapidly with this product.
- Security performance
- Implementation
- Managment
- Cloud features
- Value
- Support
August 07, 2019
Palo Alto Security Gateways are Simply Secure
Our network uses the Palo Alto PA-Series firewall as an internet edge facing security gateway, focusing on traditional firewalling, SSL decryption, URL-filtering, and threat mitigation. There are two departments that use the firewall, which are the Security team and the Network Engineering team. Our main goal is to ensure that access to internal networks is secured and access to external networks is limited to appropriate sites.
- Simple Policy Management
- Easy-to-read Documentation
- On-Board Troubleshooting Tools
- URL-Filtering rules are complex
- Some Cryptic Error Messages
- Undocumented software bugs
July 04, 2019
Implimentation is easy with unique SP3 Architecture.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are using Palo Alto firewalls in our remote branches. We have five offices and each one is connected via VPN tunnel through the internet with a firewall. We are using this for the whole organization and we created a required policy to filter the traffic. It has the best feature like APP ID, content ID and wildfire to keep it updated.
- Deployment is easy and its function is understandable.
- Due to its advanced SP3 architecture it runs data plain and management plain separately.
- Technical support is good and fast
- The product is already perfect
Palo Alto NGFW is top of the line next gen firewalls with application layer visibility. We use Palo Alto firewalls heavily in our network for fulfilling our security needs. It addresses all the firewall functionalities, routing, and protection of not only our physical infrastructure but also our public cloud.
- It provides application layer visibility and deep packet inspection capabilities.
- Only VM based firewalls to provide security on the public cloud.
- It supports advanced features like threat protections, URL filtering, and wildfire.
- Supports advanced routing OSPF/BGP/RIP.
- Palo Alto is still new on VM and protection of the public cloud. Features like high availability and encryption/decryption can also be introduced just like in the physical firewall.
- Throughput capacities over IPSEC VPN can be improved on lower model firewalls including PA-220 , PA-3000 series.
- Interaction with multi-factor applications like duo can enhance access security.
March 16, 2019
Palo Alto Networks Next Generation.
The PA is used for the entire company. It has been used as a stand-alone for the one building as well as site to site VPN with a second building and mandatory VPN access for remote employees.
- The URL filtering is awesome.
- Wildfire is an amazing feature.
- Traffic reporting is very useful.
- Expandability is easy, you can easily add additional services.
- Configure ability is not as simple for someone who isn’t an expert.
- Support goes overseas and while they have been very helpful, there are often issues communicating.
March 11, 2019
A huge improvement over traditional layer 2/3 firewalls.
We started implementing Palo Alto a year or two ago to increase our security posture and increase segmentation between our infrastructure services, shared services, and client networks. By utilizing the Palo Next-Generation Firewalls and WildFire we're able to much more quickly identify and isolate new security threats. They played an integral part in keeping WannaCry from becoming a major problem for us.
- Ease of use.
- Fast response to new security threats (WildFire).
- Application aware firewall (App-ID).
- Logging is fantastic and easy to see what's being blocked/allowed basically in real time.
- Durability/reliability is surprisingly good, only issue we've had is a couple issues with faulty power supplies, but all our units have redundant power supplies so it was a non-issue.
- Support is surprisingly good.
- Cost, these firewalls are awesome, but not cheap.
March 09, 2019
PAN: It costs a lot, but it's worth it!
Palo Alto (PAN) is used by a division of ours who did not have a full-time network person. We found the product easy and intuitive to work with, which is why our team truly enjoys using the PAN products. The wildfire product addressed and dealt with threats in real time, without a major performance hit like Cisco Sourcefire embedded modules within the 55xx-x series.
- Easy to learn and use the web-based console. Learn the platform and be able to manage any Palo Alto device.
- No separate management for control/data plane like the checkpoint.
- VPN is VERY easy to set up, even double/twice NAT VPN, and can use VTI for route-based VPN setups.
- Units are far more expensive than competitors. It's worth it, but the price point can scare potential clients off.