We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiPortal and Palo Alto Networks Panorama based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewall Security Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The firewall and site-blocking features are valuable."
"I am very comfortable with it, including it's reporting on threats and through its activities."
"The documentation has been satisfactory."
"I like the product's asset management which gives clear hardware details."
"The customer likes it for the graphs, the dynamics and the reporting functionality it offers."
"The role-based access controls give us granular control over what features to present to a customer, and the integration into FortiAnalyzer is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is application control."
"It does a little bit better than some of the other products health-wise and updates-wise. It is really clear that a firewall is getting the signature updates in this timeframe. In some of the other products, usually, you have to go a couple of screens in to see that, but not so much in this product."
"It provides a quicker response time to vulnerabilities and more visibility into traffic flows."
"Overall, the functionality was very good."
"Palo Alto Networks Panorama has good stability. I didn't see any instability from it, and its initial setup was straightforward."
"I like the quality of this product, and it performs. It's the best solution in the IT business."
"Compared to all of the other firewall vendors, Palo Alto is very secure."
"The product was great, and whenever there was a bug or issue, they released updates quickly. Additionally, their support was very good."
"It's easy to deploy any software or policies."
"What I like most about this solution is that it allows me to push multiple policies on multiple followers at the same time."
"Fingerprint access security would improve this solution."
"The product must have in-built SD-WAN connectivity."
"If you are a very small company or a person on your own, it's harder to get any response from technical support."
"So if it's more than a thousand, there could be some scalability issues. It becomes more complex as you go."
"The solution is more expensive than other products."
"The tool should provide a 10-15 days extension for customers when their license expires."
"There can be defects in Fortinet FortiPortal when functioning at high temperatures."
"I find their logging a little bit trickier to manage. The logging of events is broken up into a lot of different categories. Instead of breaking up my logs into several different places, I personally like to have all the events in one spot and then filter them down. In particular, I find that troubleshooting on Fortinet takes a little bit longer just because of those functional breakups in the logs."
"My pain point is the automation process is not well-documented. There are some things that they could improve on there."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"It should have more connection with Threat Intelligence Cloud. They can also include features related to SecOps and automation API."
"Price is probably one of the biggest things that we struggle with, specifically with Palo, and that's across their whole portfolio."
"My company's getting whatever it needs from Palo Alto Networks Panorama, but in the cloud, there's an issue with CPU management, and that's an area for improvement. Though the normal data traffic doesn't go through the management interface, whenever there's an increase in the throughput, CPU management becomes high. If you increase the load, CPU management spikes, and it's what needs to be taken care of in Palo Alto Networks Panorama."
"Aside from pricing, I don't have any issues with Panorama."
"It is very hard to understand the platform. It is not easy and user-friendly. You need a lot of experience to use Panorama. It is very complex, and you must know exactly what to do. I would like to have a more user-friendly product. FortiManager is comparatively very easy to use. It would be good if Panorama improves in terms of user-friendliness. It is also harder to use than Palo Alto Firewalls."
"The solution could improve by having a true single pane of glass environment for unified management. At the present time, you still have to use three or four different solutions to bring everything together."
Fortinet FortiPortal is ranked 10th in Firewall Security Management with 10 reviews while Palo Alto Networks Panorama is ranked 3rd in Firewall Security Management with 80 reviews. Fortinet FortiPortal is rated 7.8, while Palo Alto Networks Panorama is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiPortal writes "Suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and offers role-based access controls for granular control ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks Panorama writes "Built-in proxy with the ability to maintain your own policies". Fortinet FortiPortal is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, vCloud Director, VMware Aria Operations, CloudStack and VMware Aria Automation, whereas Palo Alto Networks Panorama is most compared with AWS Firewall Manager, AlgoSec, Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Tufin Orchestration Suite and ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer. See our Fortinet FortiPortal vs. Palo Alto Networks Panorama report.
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