We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks PA-Series and Perimeter 81 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The payment function for applications is good."
"The product is very stable, easy to troubleshoot, and configure, so it has reduced the time it takes for support."
"It enables our organization to become more productive. Also, it protects our NEtWare from viruses and malware."
"The features that prevent internet connections, the filtering are the most valuable because we did not have any internet protection before."
"What I like the most is the configuration and that it's simple, and straightforward to maintain."
"Reliability is the best feature. We faced some issues when we were setting it up, but the service, portal, and administration are good."
"It is very flexible to use."
"Virtual Domains (VDOMs) are a feature that we found valuable."
"The solution has a three-layer architecture, and it helps customers to deploy the solution quickly."
"The solution provides good customer support."
"The product's initial setup process was simple."
"It is stable when you set up something and put it into production. Once it works, you don't have other tasks or actions to perform."
"Palo Alto blocks the new threats better than other tools."
"A valuable feature that we can consider is the deployment time, which is significantly reduced, almost 90% faster compared to other solutions. This leads to quicker deployment and less downtime."
"The solution is robust."
"App-ID is a really good feature."
"The feature that I have found to be most valuable is the reputation that the company has regarding privacy. Nowadays, this is critical, especially when you do all of your work online."
"It keeps us all accountable and ensures secure internet connections while we all work remotely."
"The setup is really easy...I rate the support team a ten out of ten."
"Even after restarting, it tries to quickly reestablish connection which is very helpful."
"Perimeter 81 provides a very secure and non-disruptive experience."
"Perimeter 81 is very pretty."
"The solution provides us with an easy way to configure and join the VPN with Perimeter 81."
"The benefits are really built into the underlying protocol, however, Perimeter81 makes these available in a user-friendly way."
"The debugging and troubleshooting has room for improvement."
"It is very expensive, and their support is not very good. I hope that their technical support will be better in the future."
"I don't really have anything negative to say as far as Fortinet firewalls are concerned. If anything, they can support a user a little bit better. They can stop being so time-sensitive about how much time the support call has taken, and they can help you do it yourself."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"They sometimes hide some features and if you want to enable them, you have to go in the CLI, enable the feature and configure it through the CLI. Customers, typically, like everything to be done by the GUI."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"We have an issue with hotel guest vouchers."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"The web interface is slow."
"The solution's licensing price could be improved."
"Palo Alto should integrate artificial intelligence for security purposes in the background for well-known threats and new risks coming to the market."
"The product must provide multiple threat detection features."
"Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is complicated to configure compared to one of its competitors."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved because it is an expensive solution."
"The UI definitely needs work. In my opinion, the UI could be simpler and more user-friendly for the average user."
"The SD-WAN feature of Palo Alto Networks is not good compared to FortiGate."
"One of the more negative experiences using Perimeter 81 is the fact that I am logged off after a pre-determined amount of time which cuts off access to some of my company's resources."
"Its initial setup process is complex for a hybrid environment."
"What would be useful would be a notification/warning that a session is due to timeout after exceeding the default connection limit."
"One of our challenges is ensuring the security of our cloud-based operations."
"Currently, I am not able to define a different country or location, which can result in negative experiences as the tool is being recognized by websites and this can make it difficult to access them or force me to disable the program temporarily."
"In order to have to bypass the login using the website, a good feature for Perimeter 81 to have is a login instance in the Perimeter 81 application. I'm using a Mac and we don't have that functionality."
"Perimeter 81 could enhance its reporting and analytics capabilities to provide more detailed insights into network activity."
"I'd love to learn more about all of the features. Maybe a monthly spotlight of features or having a banner that explains more ways certain features could be used would be helpful."
Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 28 reviews while Perimeter 81 is ranked 11th in Firewalls with 22 reviews. Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is rated 8.6, while Perimeter 81 is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks PA-Series writes "Offers trained customer support, stability and ease of use ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Perimeter 81 writes "Great SAML and SCIM support with the ability to deploy site-2-site tunnels with specific IP restrictions". Palo Alto Networks PA-Series is most compared with OPNsense, SonicWall NSa, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Sophos XG and Netgate pfSense, whereas Perimeter 81 is most compared with Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, Cato SASE Cloud Platform, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Cloudflare Access and Tailscale. See our Palo Alto Networks PA-Series vs. Perimeter 81 report.
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