We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks K2-Series and ShieldX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"The solution is very, very easy to use."
"I appreciate FortiGate's flexibility, which allows for centralized management through FortiManager."
"The user interface (UI) is very, very good."
"The initial installation is very straightforward."
"The next-gen features, the unified threat management capabilities are something that just about everybody is interested in at this point."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"The main reason why I purchased the particular unit was that it had good reviews and what other people were saying as far as its completeness and its leading capabilities in terms of endpoint security was very good."
"The company is inventive and always adds a lot of great features."
"The most valuable features are the intuitive user interface, ease of use, and reporting."
"One of the most valuable features is Palo Alto's firewall management. We find it easier to manage the firewall centrally."
"I have found that Palo Alto Networks K2-Series has the best security. They are more user-friendly, older firewalls used to have to be configured using the command-line interface, but in this solution, it can be done in the GUI."
"Simple integrations with the domain controllers and other inventories"
"I have found the threat profile feature valuable."
"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."
"This firewall is very good for our customers because they don't have to write their own rules for adding an application."
"The Adaptive Intention Engine is fantastic. It allows us to develop security policies using the language of our internal customers. It's machine-learning applied to security workflows. That allows us to much more easily construct the policies that will protect those workflows."
"It has helped us tighten our security posture. Now, staff can only access things that they should be accessing."
"We were able to see what devices are talking to each other, giving us more visibility."
"The UI was also one of the huge selling points. My web development manager was blown away with the detail and the granularity that you can get out of the UI. It is a very strong and informative UI, with the amount of data it provides."
"...It takes the exact same policies that you would apply to your on-premise environment and enables you to simply apply them to the cloud. It becomes one policy for both on-prem and for the cloud."
"ShieldX has been designed from the very beginning to work well in cloud environments. It understands autoscaling, automation, and auto-configuration. These are the things which are important in today's operating environment."
"The most valuable feature is the automatic scaling. With its microservices, it scales both up and down, depending on traffic and throughput."
"There are some complex administration tasks in their administration portal. That needs to be improved."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"There are problems with the custom reporting of the unique traffic. The data is there, but it is too difficult for us to extract."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"The security of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"There are a lot of bugs in this solution."
"It would be nice if it could easily be integrated with Elasticsearch or Nagios."
"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."
"Palo Alto has many other products. It would be nice for these products to be centralized under one tool"
"Some users do not accept cloud-based data processing. They prefer on-premises functionality, especially for advanced threat analysis. While the general trend is moving towards cloud, specific customer needs should be considered. Perhaps certain functionalities, particularly in advanced threat analysis, could be offered as an on-premises option for those clients."
"The reporting functionality in GlobalProtect needs to be improved."
"They should implement the features that the other firewalls have."
"There should be a bit more customer care, with regular review meetings on it or regular reports. It would be nice to have a quarterly or biannual review of what ShieldX has blocked."
"With any kind of tool like ShieldX, where you're in the cloud instead of a traditional firewall, you're using CPU resources in those environments to provide the protection. So there's a cost associated with CPU resources. I'm pressing upon them to make the product much more efficient and use less CPUs to do the same thing."
"I would like better reports and in-depth reporting."
"They need to be consistent in performance and capabilities over time, given the fact that this is new and I want to see where this goes in the next year or so. As the vendor continues to evolve and add future functionality, we want to make sure that we are still keeping up with the integrations, etc. Time will be the key factor here. The proper support for some of the latest technologies, Docker containers, etc. They need to keep up with threat landscape, so we will see how the security get layered. This is what we are going to be keeping an eye on."
"We are having some issues with their LDAP and integrating it with the Active Directory. We can't seem to set it up."
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Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 29 reviews while ShieldX is ranked 47th in Firewalls. Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is rated 8.4, while ShieldX is rated 9.2. 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 ShieldX writes "Proactively monitors, blocks, and reports what it has blocked; and self-updates meaning there is zero maintenance". Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas ShieldX is most compared with .
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