"The dashboard is the most important thing. It provides good visibility and makes management easy. Firepower also provides us with good application visibility and control."
"Firepower has been used for quite a few enterprise clients. Most of our clients are Fortune 500 and Firepower is used to improve their end to end firewall functionality."
"You do not have to do everything through a command line which makes it a lot easier to apply rules."
"I like the firewall features, Snort, and the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)."
"IPS and Snort are very important because they also differentiate Cisco from other vendors and competitors."
"It's got the capabilities of amassing a lot of throughput with remote access and VPNs."
"Since the product is stable, we do not have to spend additional money to buy other firewalls. Once deployed, we can use the product for a long time. Thus, it is cost effective."
"Web filtering is a big improvement for us. The previous version we used, the AC520, did not have that feature included. It was not very easy for us, especially because the environment had to be isolated and we needed to get updates from outside, such as Windows patches. That feature has really helped us when we are going outside to pull those patches."
"The only firewall able to monitor traffic from a CCTV network. Can detect unauthorized devices plugged into the network, which standard firewalls can't do."
"It has been stable so far."
"The company is inventive and always adds a lot of great features."
"One of the most valuable features is Palo Alto's firewall management. We find it easier to manage the firewall centrally."
"We've found the solution offers us good stability."
"As long as the solution is kept updated, it's pretty stable."
"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."
"Everything I could possibly want has already been implanted in the new version."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is the performance which is above their competitors. The throughput they have delivered is good. When we used other solutions they failed the deployment when we were using different rules. They have a theory perform performance light and performance degradation. However, Palo Alto Networks K2-Series never fails in that scenario."
"The application detection feature of this solution could be improved as well as its integration with other solutions."
"FlexConfig is there as a bridge for features that are not yet natively integrated into Firepower. It is a way of allowing you to be able to configure things that wouldn't otherwise be possible until the development team can add them into Firepower's native capability. There is still some work that needs to be done around FlexConfig. There are still quite a few complex things, like policy-based routing, that have to be done in FlexConfig, and it doesn't always work perfectly. Sometimes, there are some glitches. It is recommended that you configure FlexConfig policies with Cisco TAC. It would be good to see Cisco accelerate some of those configurations that you can only do in FlexConfig into the platform, so that they are there natively."
"The reporting and other features are nice, but there is an issue with applying the configuration. That part needs some improvement."
"The initial setup can be a bit complex for those unfamiliar with the solution."
"My team tells me that other solutions such as Fortinet and Palo Alto are easier to implement."
"It's mainly the UI and the management parts that need improvement. The most impactful feature when you're using it is the user interface and the user experience."
"The maturity needs to be better."
"The price and SD-WAN capabilities are the areas that need improvement."
"Licensing is not cheap."
"They have a very good technical support team, but I think there are some communication issues due to language differences."
"It would be really helpful to have dashboards that provide information on IOC blockings such as where and how many. It will also be good to know how many hashing files have been reported. It would also be nice to have easy access to this information. Otherwise, it's a painful, manual task."
"It would be nice if it could easily be integrated with Elasticsearch or Nagios."
"It is recommended that the Palo Alto Networks K2-Series be implemented step by step for the Panorama. Sometimes we can't overwrite the configurations because it fails."
"When it comes to renewing the solution, they tend to try to jack up the pricing."
"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 scalability of Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is good. It is good for larger environments over smaller ones."
"Palo Alto has many other products. It would be nice for these products to be centralized under one tool"
"The licensing cost is a typical complaint with many clients. The solution is expensive."
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Hillstone T-Series is ranked 32nd in Firewalls with 2 reviews while Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is ranked 20th in Firewalls with 13 reviews. Hillstone T-Series is rated 7.0, while Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Hillstone T-Series writes "Customizable reports with advanced threat protection". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks K2-Series writes "Stable with great deep inspection functionality and good scalability". Hillstone T-Series is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Hillstone E-Series, Cisco ASA Firewall, Sangfor NGAF and Palo Alto Networks WildFire, whereas Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is most compared with Juniper SRX, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Meraki MX and Stormshield Network Security. See our Hillstone T-Series vs. Palo Alto Networks K2-Series report.
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