Palo Alto Panorama Product Pros & Cons !!
October 31, 2022

Palo Alto Panorama Product Pros & Cons !!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Palo Alto Panorama

Palo Alto Panorama gives the centralized tool for managing all the Palo Alto firewall gateways across regions, DCs etc.
It gives easy way to manage firewalls, avoids duplication of works in case you need similar policy sets / configurations on multiple firewalls and also gives centralized logs across all the firewalls behind it.

In shorts, you can manage multiple Palo Alto firewalls from single console without login into the actual firewall. So it is highly recommended when you have large environments and you have multiple single or HA pairs of Palo Alto firewalls in it.
  • Centralized Console for Palo Alto Firewalls management
  • Avoids duplicate task Policy, Profiles etc. configuration on multiple firewalls
  • Easy to deploy, manage, operate and configure
  • Centralized logs management for all the firewalls
  • Palo Alto Panorama VM series requires large resources like CPU, Memory etc
  • Palo Alto Panorama v10 is quite slow due to heavy processes running behind. This causes web interface sluggish at times
  • Licensing Cost can be improve
  • Helpful in compliance and auding to extract all the logs across all firewalls
  • Centralized login so no need for giving access to all individual firewalls to all admins ( Compliance requirement )
  • Less administration work
With below advantages, I went for Palo Alto Panorama -
1. Easy to deploy, manage, configure multiple Palo Alto firewalls
2. Centralized console for firewall configuration and logging
3. Easy to handle common configurations like certain policies, security profiles etc on all firewalls
4. From administration point of view, it is easy to manage and operate
5. Gives ability to have appropriate administrative control of access on device level or policy set level.

Do you think Palo Alto Panorama delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Palo Alto Panorama's feature set?

Yes

Did Palo Alto Panorama live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Palo Alto Panorama go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Palo Alto Panorama again?

Yes

Palo Alto Panorama is well suited when you have multiple standalone and/or HA pairs of Palo Alto firewalls in your environments. So it will very much ideal for you to have Palo Alto Panorama server to manage all those firewalls from single console. If you do not have Palo Alto Panorama server and you have multiple firewalls, then it becomes quite challenging to manage all those firewalls individually.

If you have very few Palo Alto firewalls eg. 4-5 firewalls, and those are not going to increase in future then you can avoid it. Because Palo Alto Panorama comes with minimum 25 licenses.

Palo Alto Panorama Feature Ratings

Policy planning and rule management
10
Automated Policy Orchestration
9
Device Discovery
10
Policy Compliance Auditing
10
Attack Path Simulation Testing
10
Anomalous Event or Behavior Deviation
9
Vulnerability Scans
10
Firewall Rule Cleanup
10