"I have access to the web version of Cisco Talos to see the reputation of IP addresses. I find this very helpful. It provides important information for my company to obtain the reputation of IP addresses. The information in Talos is quite complete."
"Provides good integrations and reporting."
"There are no issues that we are aware of. It does its job silently in the background."
"The implementation is pretty straightforward."
"If configured, Firepower provides us with application visibility and control."
"It has a good security level. It is a next-generation firewall. It can protect from different types of attacks. We have enabled IPS and IDS."
"The customer service/technical support is very good with this solution."
"It's got the capabilities of amassing a lot of throughput with remote access and VPNs."
"The most valuable feature is threat intelligence. It is based on filtering and can identify multiple threats."
"I think that one of the best features is definitely the premium version, along with the IDPs in terms of the intrusion detection and prevention system."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is the control over the network permissions and the network."
"Among the most valuable features are the DDoS protection that protects your virtual machines, the threat intelligence, and traffic filtering."
"It's auto-scalable, which is a great feature."
"The most valuable feature is the integration into the overall cloud platform."
"In terms of the reporting, it's beautiful. It integrates with Azure monitoring and with Azure policies. That piece is a big help. You can set governing policies and you can use the application firewall, as well as the Azure Firewall, to enforce those policies."
"The solution should be capable of self-scaling, which is one of the features we like about it."
"The most valuable features are security and support."
"The VM series has an advantage over the physical version because we are able to change the sources that the machine has, such as the amount of available RAM."
"It has excellent scalability."
"The most valuable features are web control and IPS/IDS."
"What I like about the VM-Series is that you can launch them in a very short time."
"The most valuable feature is that you can control your traffic flowing out and coming it, allowing you to apply malware and threat protection, as well as vulnerability checks."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the Posture Assessment."
"The visibility for VPN is one big part. The policy administration could be improved in terms of customizations and flexibility for changing it to our needs."
"In a future release, it would be ideal if they could offer an open interface to other security products so that we could easily connect to our own open industry standard."
"The intelligence has room for improvement. There are some hackers that we haven't seen before and its ability to detect those types of attacks needs to be improved."
"There is limited data storage on the appliance itself. So, you need to ship it out elsewhere in order for you to store it. The only point of consideration is around that area, basically limited storage on the machine and appliance. Consider logging it elsewhere or pushing it out to a SIEM to get better controls and manipulation over the data to generate additional metrics and visibility."
"Cisco makes horrible UIs, so the interface is something that should be improved."
"The change-deployment time can always be improved. Even at 50 seconds, it's longer than some of its competitors. I would challenge Cisco to continue to improve in that area."
"I would like to see improvement when you create policies on Snort 3 IPS on Cisco Firepower. On Snort 2, it was more like a UI page where you had some multiple choices where you could tweak your config. On Snort 3, the idea is more to build some rules on the text file or JSON file, then push it. So, I would like to see a lot of improvements here."
"The initial setup can be a bit complex for those unfamiliar with the solution."
"It would be nice to be able to create groupings for servers and offer groups of IP addresses."
"It is a cloud service, but the lending speed for each region is not always the same. For example, in China, the speed is slow. They need to think about how to make sure that the service pace or speed is always the same in all regions. It would be a great improvement if they can provide the same pace worldwide."
"They can improve the pricing of Azure Firewall."
"You have to have a defined IP range within your network to associate it with your network. The problem is you have to plan ahead of time if you expect to use the firewall in the future so that you don't have to reconfigure your subnets or that specific IP range. Other than that, I don't any issues. I use it for basic configuration for a single application, so I really don't try to leverage it for multiple applications where I might find some complexity or challenges."
"For larger enterprises, they need to adjust the scalability."
"The product could be made more customizable."
"It has fewer features than you can get from other firewalls, like anti-spam and anti-phishing. Those kinds of things are not included. It only includes IDS and IDB."
"It needs a lot of improvement, especially on intruder detection. They are working hard on that."
"The disadvantage with Palo Alto is that they don't have a cloud-based solution that includes a secure web gateway."
"They made only a halfhearted attempt to put in DLP (Data Loss Prevention)."
"Its web interface is a bit outdated, and it needs to be updated. They can also improve the NAT functionality. We have had issues with the NAT setup."
"The user interface could use some improvement."
"The command-line interface is something that some people struggle with and I think that they should have an option to go straight to the GUI."
"Integrative capabilities with other solutions should be addressed."
"I would like to have automatic daily reporting, such as how many users have connected via SSL VPN."
"The solution needs to have more easily searchable details or documentation about it online, so it's easier to Google if you have queries."
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Azure Firewall is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 20 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 16 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure Firewall writes "Good value for your money, good URL filtering, supports intrusion prevention, and is stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "An excellent solution for the right situations and businesses". Azure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Check Point NGFW, Cisco ASA Firewall and Sophos XG, whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Cisco ASA Firewall, Juniper SRX, Fortinet FortiGate-VM and Check Point NGFW. See our Azure Firewall vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series report.
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