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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…
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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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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. |
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| Mobile Application | No |
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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.
Reviewers rate Content Inspection and Stateful Inspection highest, with a score of 10.
The most common users of Virtualized Next-Generation Firewalls - VM Series are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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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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June 16, 2022
Intelligent firewall and VMware NSX support.
We implemented the VM-200 firewall in some branches during the pandemic in 2020 to protect the internal network, interconnect some sites with site-to-site vpn and mainly create an environment for mobility and remote work using the remote vpn. The virtual firewall was implemented in VMware environment on existing servers. The PaloAlto VM-200 offers high throughput, reliability, security and access control of devices, web and applications with a layer 7 firewall. Most of the problems were solved with this solution integrated with other tools to make remote work more flexible and improve the internal network protection from external threats and data theft.
- 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.
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9.7
- The solution improved the security system and protection of the internal network.
- It allowed remote work with vpn access and site interconnection.
- Easy and remote management.
June 03, 2022
Very strong product
Palo Alto Networks Virtualized Next-Generation Firewalls VM series are next generation firewalls that could be deployed on-premises or in cloud. They are used especially in urgent needs to establish new firewall instance with high capacities. and could be easily duplicated and saved in case of failures. I already installed many Vm series in many network environments.
- user identification
- application filtering
- clustering
- dashboards
- GUI
- price
90%
9.0
- reduce risk of intrusion
- increase sec-ops efficiency
- maximise investment
palo alto firewalls are application-oriented systems. They can beat other product which are based on layer 3/4 inspection. Vm series are also quickly available and could be useful in urgent deployment needs . other vendors like Fortinet and cisco could take much more time to provide the VM and in some cases installation and license validation are complicated
October 21, 2021
Awesome Secure Web Gateway
The solution is used across the entire enterprise. We monitor web traffic and decrypt SSL traffic with these units. The decision to decrypt traffic was a difficult decision but the correct one for the organization. This provides more visibility into what is traversing the network and helps IT determine what has actually occurred should there be any kind of incident.
- 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
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7.8
- It has help us determine the necessary spend for internet bandwidth
- Has helped us easily monitor policy compliance
- Provided tools that increase understanding of security for non-IT staff
- FireEye Network Security and Cisco ASA
Palo has great AI, easy to configure and understand reporting, SSL decryption and visual dashboards. All of these capabilities are better than what we have experienced with other products. Palo continues to evolve their products and provide feature sets that are useful and help us improve our security posture. This product would be difficult for our organization to replace.
December 06, 2018
PAN - Solid Choice!
PAN has been a fantastic boon to our users by doing full inline threat protection, Easy VPN configuration, including a uniform interface that scales from small devices to large devices.
- 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.
- ROI has been achieved quickly through lack of security incidents.
- Inline filtering happens at line rate, unline Sourcefire from Cisco.
- Great incentives from PAN to switch made a difference in the choice to change.
PAN was a much more solid choice, with less infrastructure needs required than Checkpoint. Cost was also a factor, with PAN being cheaper, even without the discounts given by our rep. VPN's are much easier to configure with non-heterogeneous products where the checkpoint is an absolute mess to configure a VPN with.
We've been using the VM-series Palo Alto solution in a two-unit HA configuration running on our hardware as an affordable alternative to the PA-series hardware firewalls, without sacrificing speed or features. It services both outbound browsing (NAT, URL-based and deep inspection security) and inbound firewall (signature-based attack mitigation) needs. The AD/Exchange agents make it simple to manage by user, not by 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.
- Reduced firewall management tasks by an order of magnitude
- Reduced needed VPN client support to nearly zero
- Allowed reporting/monitoring of bandwidth usage, increasing overall productivity (big brother is watching you.....)
- Cisco ASA Firepower, SonicWall and Fortinet FortiGate
We did a shootout between the SonicWall / Fortinet / Barracuda / Cisco ASA + Firepower / Palo Alto, both hardware and (when applicable) VM appliances.
The Barracuda / Sonicwall / Fortinet technology is interesting, but nowhere near as robust as the PA technology. Using the money we saved by switching to Palo Alto instead of Cisco, we purchased a small island in the Caribbean.
The Barracuda / Sonicwall / Fortinet technology is interesting, but nowhere near as robust as the PA technology. Using the money we saved by switching to Palo Alto instead of Cisco, we purchased a small island in the Caribbean.