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What is Virtualized Next-Generation Firewalls - VM Series?
The VM-Series is a virtualized form of Palo Alto next-generation firewall that can be deployed in a range of cloud environments. The VM-Series natively analyzes all traffic in a single pass to determine the application identity, the content within, and…
Intelligent firewall and VMware NSX support.
Very strong product
Best in class Datacenter Solution
Palo Alto Firewall is The Firewall of the Future.
Awesome Secure Web Gateway
Secure Public Cloud
Demand in the public cloud is …
PAN - Solid Choice!
Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Firewalls: "Virtually" the Greatest
Popular Features
- Content Inspection (6)10.0100%
- Identification Technologies (6)9.797%
- Visualization Tools (6)9.595%
- Policy-based Controls (6)9.595%
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What is Virtualized Next-Generation Firewalls - VM Series?
The VM-Series is a virtualized form of Palo Alto next-generation firewall that can be deployed in a range of cloud environments. The VM-Series natively analyzes all traffic in a single pass to determine the application identity, the content within, and the user identity.
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Features
Firewall
A firewall is a filter that stands between a computer or computer network and the Internet. Each firewall can be programmed to keep specific traffic in or out
- 9.7Identification Technologies(6) Ratings
Policy-based visibility and control over applications, users and content
- 9.5Visualization Tools(6) Ratings
Visualization tools present administrators with data on applications traversing the network, who is using them, and the potential security impact.
- 10Content Inspection(6) Ratings
Inspecting permitted application traffic by means of threat prevention, URL filtering and data filtering
- 9.5Policy-based Controls(6) Ratings
Firewall policy controls enable administrators to create firewall policies controlling what data is allowed to traverse the firewall
- 9.5Active Directory and LDAP(6) Ratings
Integration with Active Directory and LDAP directories
- 9.4Firewall Management Console(6) Ratings
Either command-line or web-based interface for centralized control and management
- 9.3Reporting and Logging(6) Ratings
Custom and summary reports, and log files enabling analysis of security incidents, application usage and traffic patterns
- 9.2VPN(6) Ratings
VPN's implement encryption and anonymize IP addresses
- 8.8High Availability(5) Ratings
Built-in capacity to prevent exposure if primary firewall stops working
- 10Stateful Inspection(6) Ratings
Stateful inspection analyzes packet headers and contents of packets
- 9.4Proxy Server(4) Ratings
A proxy server changes your IP address and masks the origin of your network traffic
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What is Virtualized Next-Generation Firewalls - VM Series?
The VM-Series is a virtualized form factor of Palo Alto next-generation firewall that can be deployed in a range of private and public cloud computing environments based on technologies from VMware®, Amazon® Web Services, Microsoft®, Citrix®, and KVM. The VM-Series natively analyzes all traffic in a single pass to determine the application identity, the content within, and the user identity. These core elements can then be used as integral components of your security policy, improving security efficacy through a positive control model and reducing incident response time through visibility into applications across all ports. |
Virtualized Next-Generation Firewalls - VM Series Technical Details
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The Palo Alto Networks Virtualized Next-Generation Firewall has found a wide range of use cases based on user experiences. Customers have deployed this firewall as a parameter firewall and site-to-site VPN gateway in their datacenters, providing robust security and protection against threats from websites and emails. The firewall logs all attempts to breach the system, sending notifications to administrators for proactive measures.
One key use case for the VM Series is its application in micro-segmentation implementation in the Datacenter. With its performance, scalability, and advanced layer 7 features, the VM Series firewall is well-suited for creating secure network segments within the datacenter environment. Additionally, organizations have chosen the VM-series Palo Alto solution as a cost-effective alternative to physical appliances, leveraging its speed and features for outbound browsing and inbound firewall needs.
Customers have also utilized the AD/Exchange agents provided by the Palo Alto VM series firewalls to simplify management by user. These agents enable monitoring of web traffic and SSL traffic decryption, adding an extra layer of control and visibility over user activities. Particularly during the pandemic, the VM-200 firewall has been implemented in branches to protect internal networks, establish site-to-site VPNs, and enable remote work.
Moreover, organizations have leveraged the Palo Alto VM series firewalls to extend their security measures to public cloud environments while replicating the same level of security as on-premises. By offering full inline threat protection, simplified VPN configuration, and scalable interfaces, these firewalls provide reliable access control in a VMware environment.
Overall, users appreciate the high throughput, reliability, and security offered by Palo Alto's Virtualized Next-Generation Firewall. With its diverse range of use cases across datacenters, branches, and public cloud environments, this product proves to be an essential component in safeguarding networks against modern cyber threats.
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(1-8 of 8)Intelligent firewall and VMware NSX support.
- Virtualized firewall.
- Rack and datacenter space savings.
- Optimized for medium density of concurrently connected users.
- Site to site VPN.
- Remote VPN.
- URL and application control for users.
- It does not support SSL decription for high throughput of connections.
- Guaranteed use of licenses are expensive.
Very strong product
- user identification
- application filtering
- clustering
- dashboards
- GUI
- price
Best in class Datacenter Solution
- L7 Firewall policies
- Virtualized performance
- Credit usage to scaleup o scaledown solution
- SD-WAN implementation
- No compatibility with OpenVPN clients
- Historical logging
Palo Alto Firewall is The Firewall of the Future.
- Sink holing access to command and control threats
- Deep packet inspection
- Secure remote access VPN via Global protect
- High Availability can be improved to allow active-active deployment
- All command line documentation to provide and support automation
- It will be nice to have link aggregation just like in the hardware firewall models.
Awesome Secure Web Gateway
- Decrypt internet traffic
- daily reporting of top internet users
- classify internet traffic in real-time to allow us to understand the organization needs.
- Strong AI capabilities
- needs SD-WAN and cloud security in an integrated solution.
- need stronger state-side support
- requires significant compute resources
Secure Public Cloud
Demand in the public cloud is ever-growing. More companies are now migrating to public cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP). Public cloud environments also need to be equally secured as on-prem environment. Palo Alto VM series firewalls allow you to replicate the same level of security on public cloud as well.
- Securing public cloud on same level as an on-premise environment.
- Ease of migration and management, similar to physical infrastructure.
- Provide same level of security features as physical firewall.
- Pay-per-use and flexibility in licensing.
PAN - Solid Choice!
- Easy deployment.
- Backups, snapshotting, etc. make returning to pre-change state a snap.
- Threat management, data leak protection, etc. can be done in-line with ease.
- I feel like there is not enough of a support community, similar to checkpoint.
- VPN client is not as user-friendly as Anyconnect.
- No root access to device.
- GlobalProtect SSL-VPN/IPsec server and client are top notch.
- The web interface and CLI are both very well documented and easy to use.
- Technical support is knowledgeable and treats tier 1 issues with all due haste.
- Sometimes the configuration gets out of sync between HA peers, it won't sync, and it also won't say why.
- Every time I log in I get warned that the logfile partition is almost full. Yes, I know that, you're deleting the oldest ones, I know: stop telling me about it with a giant pop-up at login.
- I like green, but I wish I could choose mauve as a background color for the web interface.