We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks K2-Series and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is very user-friendly."
"The license management is very valuable. You can get a new license each year, or you can enroll every two to four years. You can get the logs, and you will get the information on the risk in your network and the entire organization. With this information, you can take action on your actives, computers, or devices. You can bring your own device as an SSE."
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"We purchased Fortinet because of the pricing, its functionality, because it met our requirements, and the total cost of ownership over five years was quite reasonable. In the market, Fortinet is rated quite well."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"It has improved our security capabilities."
"FortiGate is flexible and easy to use."
"There are lots of features and most of them are deployed for internet security. Users are protected if they accidentally go to some malicious sites."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is the configuration, it is very clear."
"I have found the threat profile feature valuable."
"This firewall is very good for our customers because they don't have to write their own rules for adding an application."
"Palo Alto has a unique solution for DNS security, which is very good."
"Everything I could possibly want has already been implanted in the new version."
"The most valuable features are the virtualization of the firewall and the antivirus."
"Overall, this is a very simple and very effective firewall, and I am satisfied with it."
"Palo Alto's App-ID is what differentiates it from other competitors."
"The technology's very good. We have had a lot of good experience with this solution."
"It is very scalable."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to deeply analyze the connection or connection type."
"The product's most valuable features are the ease of deployment, regularly updated security information, and robust hardware."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is pre-sales and post-sales because of the support and relationship building."
"The App-ID feature is the coolest feature because you don't need to open a new port. Apps are directly linked to the port. It provides one of the best ways to lock down the additional port switch."
"I like that they are more stable than the previous ones, and they allow a lot of other features."
"The management options are good."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"A lack of integration between our data centers."
"The solution needs to improve its integration with cybersecurity."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"There are some tiny bugs that sometimes affect the operations. In the past revision of it, there was a bug. Because of the bug, we had to downgrade the version. It happened only with the last revision."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"When it comes to renewing the solution, they tend to try to jack up the pricing."
"Palo Alto has many other products. It would be nice for these products to be centralized under one tool"
"We had some issues with upgrading in the past. They could make the process easier."
"The technical support, and how they provide it to the client, needs to be improved."
"The licensing cost is a typical complaint with many clients. The solution is expensive."
"I'd like to see more data protection on the system."
"Higher levels of support are excellent but new users may need additional options."
"If we have issues, they take anywhere from two days to a week to respond. I even wrote to their CEO because there was no response. When it comes to support, this is the worst company."
"The level of control and granularity in terms of rule customization could be enhanced. However, compared to our previous solution, Palo Alto provides much better drill-down capabilities."
"I would like to see some Machine Learning because I have observed new types of attacks that are able to bypass existing security rules."
"Its scalability for on-prem deployments can be better. For an on-prem deployment, the hardware has to be replaced if the volume goes up to a certain level."
"Once in a while, they have new features being released that can be buggy. My criticism is more general to all sorts of network or security devices. In general, everybody is releasing less-tested software. Then, it usually ends up that the first few customers who get a new release need to end up troubleshooting it."
"The solution would benefit from having a dashboard."
"Palo Alto should improve their support. It's sometimes difficult to get the right technician or engineer to fix the problem as soon as possible."
"I think visibility can be improved."
"Palo Alto could do better with integrating the Palo Alto Next-Gen Firewall with SD-WAN. The biggest issue with Palo Alto is that they are expensive. They are very expensive for what they offer. They should improve their pricing."
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Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 29 reviews while Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is ranked 6th in Firewalls with 164 reviews. Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is rated 8.4, while Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks K2-Series writes "Easy to implement and manage, and the documentation is good". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls writes "We get reports back from WildFire on a minute-by-minute basis". Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is most compared with , whereas Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is most compared with Check Point NGFW, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Netgate pfSense. See our Palo Alto Networks K2-Series vs. Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls report.
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In the best tradition of these questions, Feature-wise both are quite similar, but each has things it's better at, it kind of depends what you value most.
PA is good at app control, web filtering and such like, they have always been top of the pile there. The GUI is very good, and their product is very user-focused.
Fortinet is good for scalability and predictable high throughput (ASICs in the hardware), and useful things like authentication flexibility, CLI config (if you have any networking/Cisco people, they always seem to prefer CLI over GUI) and have better OT features, maybe relevant to your manufacturing use?
Fortinet seem to have a broader integration offering with their security fabric than PA do, plus they can do Fortinet-based wifi, switching, etc. Depends if you are prepared to go all-in with a single vendor.
Hi,
Both FT and PA have compelling features for large Enterprises. I would like to add a few good points about Fortinetwhich might be helpful ( from my 13 years of engagement with them as Distributor and Partner)
Fortinet:
Have higher throughput; which comes with competitive rates
Wide range of models to select to meet your requirement, without spending heavliy
Outstanding customer support and very active customer care team
Easly available skilled resources from the channel for deployment and post-implementation support
Regards
Abhilash
Hello. The question is what you are going to have as a result of application