We performed a comparison between Aruba Remote Access Points and Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Infrastructure VPN solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution has good performance."
"It's an ideal gateway solution for small and medium businesses, i.e., around 300 devices can be easily handled."
"It is a very stable tool."
"It provides good Spectrum Analysis and troubleshooting."
"What I like best about Aruba Remote Access Points is that it's pretty easy to set up."
"Once configured and operational, they tend to function reliably, with few reported issues from clients or customers."
"The authentication features are valuable."
"Aruba works well in large spaces, especially for manufacturing. That's when you start seeing the effectiveness of Aruba."
"It’s very light."
"Aruba Remote Access Points provide a level of protection for our IPs."
"Palo Alto Firewall is one of the best firewalls in the world."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"You have the ability to create your own expressions for your data. Palo Alto understands that DLP is not the same for all consumers. You might have a particular need to fulfill, and they give you the opportunity to create a custom expression to match the specific format that you have. For a confidential file property that you have in your files, you can add a metadata field. It gives you that opportunity to create that."
"It's very stable. Sometimes after installing the boxes, we leave them for one or two years. We would just touch the box in the case of the customer needing new requirements or changes to the setup."
"There are plenty of features this solution provides and the most valuable would be the complete security protection we are receiving. We are provided with similar security that the Palo Alto AWS solution has. This includes features such as a firewall and machine learning AI."
"The visibility perspective is pretty cool. If I want to know how much data is being used for a specific project, I can look at how much data has been used, from which region, and which users have been connected. That visibility is very good so that I can see how many licenses we have and how many are used."
"The scalability of the solution is excellent."
"Prisma integrates well with Cortex XDR and Cortex Data Lake. My company has been also using Prisma Access in-house for nearly a year, and it integrates seamlessly."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"It would help if the remote APs had some kind of SoHo environment with built-in firewall features. That way it could connect directly in a client-to-site type of environment, or a site-to-site VPN environment. That way users could have a complete office setup without coming to the private cloud."
"The remote access point coverage should be bigger than it is now."
"The product needs an increased level of security for the end user."
"There are some issues, like the VLAN capabilities and support for routing between two VMs."
"The security side of Aruba Remote Access Points could be improved."
"The solution's technical support has some shortcomings that need improvement."
"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing. If they can be more competitive."
"It could have better monitoring features."
"I would like the solution to support a different type of authentication. We can't configure a secondary method for our portal."
"I would like to see support for custom applications."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"It is a managed firewall. When you run into issues and have to troubleshoot, there is a fair amount of restriction. You run into a couple of restrictions where you don't have any visibility on what is happening on the Palo Alto managed infrastructure, and you need to get on a call to get technical assistance from Palo Alto's technical support. You have to get them to work with you to fix the problem. I would definitely like them to work on the visibility into what happens inside Palo Alto's infrastructure. It is not about getting our hands onto their infrastructure to do troubleshooting or fixing problems; it is just about getting more visibility. This will help us in guiding technical support folks to the area where they need to work."
"Dependencies of applications sometimes is a bit confusing."
"The solution needs to be more compatible with other solutions. This is specifically a problem for us when it comes to healthcare applications. They have proprietary connection types and things of that nature that make compatibility a challenge sometimes."
"It applies commits to the firewalls slowly. There isn't an API you can use for anything. We've previously had trouble with the egress IP addresses though we expressed to engineering that those mustn't change. They changed several times without warning, causing a lot of headaches."
"Though the monitoring is fine, the solution should improve its application graphs and interface monitoring."
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Aruba Remote Access Points is ranked 13th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 12 reviews while Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks is ranked 5th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 55 reviews. Aruba Remote Access Points is rated 7.8, while Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Aruba Remote Access Points writes "The solution can be used from home or any remote office to access office resources like printers and servers". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks writes "Integration with Palo Alto platforms such as Cortex Data Lake and Autofocus gives us visibility into our attack surface". Aruba Remote Access Points is most compared with Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, Fortinet FortiClient, OpenVPN Access Server, Check Point Remote Access VPN and Zyxel VPN Client, whereas Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks is most compared with Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, Netskope , Cisco Umbrella, Zscaler Internet Access and Prisma SD-WAN. See our Aruba Remote Access Points vs. Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks report.
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