We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks Panorama and Skybox Security Suite 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 product can scale."
"The solution, especially the latest versions, is very stable."
"Using this solution means that you can store logs for longer periods, up to perhaps two years, depending on your attached storage."
"Our team has the option to make configuration changes at any given time."
"Networks Panorama has improved our organizational security"
"The dashboards are very good on Palo Alto. They offer a centralized dashboard for managers as well."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks Panorama is its ease of use."
"The initial setup isn't very complex, it's user-friendly."
"The solution's most valuable and unique assets are the vulnerability management and change management solutions because they identify mistakes in the network before implementation which reduces risks."
"The way that it's built with three-tier architecture, it makes it very horizontally scalable, so I can have multiple fallbacks. If one machine does fall offline, there are four other machines that are doing the exact same job to pick it up"
"Security review is the most important feature, because it offers a single pane of glass to analyze multiple firewalls."
"The most valuable features are the rule compliance and the OS vulnerability checks."
"It's given us more visibility in terms of what are the kinds of configurations that are on these devices, and how many of these are stale rules. So it's helped greatly in terms of cleaning up of rules, for sure. And it has definitely given us a more secure way of backing up the configuration on these devices."
"The solution offers very nice dashboards and they've recently added a very good Java-based web interface."
"When you import all the assets that you have, like desktops, servers, networks, devices, routers, and then firewalls, and other products, then Skybox makes like, a model of the network, but with context. So, it is not just a model in VIZIO. Or something like it like that. You get the model with context, and, like, it looks like a real network in a real-time. So you can check your network and the security of your network on that model."
"It shows me a client's or an organization's entire network. I can see everything."
"The central firewall management could be better."
"In the future, it would be beneficial if Panorama could include a firewall assurance feature similar to Skybox."
"In our version, there is no feature to transfer or upload a database of third-party vulnerabilities or signatures so that Panorama can convert them into its own database. This kind of feature might already have come in version 10."
"It would be beneficial to improve the capabilities of Panorama to handle logs more efficiently, potentially reducing the need for additional local collectors. Adding more predefined dashboards as features would enhance the monitoring and reporting capabilities."
"The solution should improve the speed at which they make changes on the system. Historically, they've been a bit slow in that respect. They should apply changes to the box quicker and more often."
"My pain point is the automation process is not well-documented. There are some things that they could improve on there."
"It is an expensive product."
"We found a vulnerability where when we have a low flow, like 2.7K, it is not getting fired by the threat prevention. That's something important to improve on. They should have a proxy or some solution to solve the issue. We also found some issues around decrypting the flow. When we have more flow than expected to decrypt, the performance goes down."
"The only place where Skybox has room for improvement, and they're working on releasing this, it's just a slow-go, is the UI. The user interface has historically been via a locally installed thick client. They are moving to a web-based console and it's slowly coming out."
"The Network Assurance, which helps to create the network model, is not so rich."
"The primary room for improvement would be to enable a web interface, which is not something which is there in the product. This is supposed to have come a year, a year and a half ago, but still has failed to come out. It still needs a client application to be installed on a workstation to be able to access that server and then run these reports. So I cannot extend that access to anybody. It has to be one administrator all the time. So unlike a web interface, where you can give multiple users simultaneous access and generate the various reports, that isn't a possibility at the moment."
"The solution needs improvement in firewall configuration checks. I would also like to see more configuration checks for Forcepoint and for other non-supported firewalls."
"Modifications and the deletion of existing policies are currently unavailable."
"Reporting. A lot of the reports, out of the box, are limited to a certain number of either configuration violations or access rule violations. So when you first set up a new firewall to be monitored by Skybox, you don't get a real full report. You have to really tweak it to get everything."
"The solution needs to move improve its interface to a full web browser version that is more accessible and doesn't require installation for use."
"The stability is something that is questionable. I don't know whether it is because of the kind of infrastructure we have or because of the product in itself. We're running it on a virtual machine right now. Maybe once a month, or once in every 45 days, it requires a restart because the application fails to connect. So I have to restart the whole Skybox Manager itself, the Skybox server itself, and then connect to it from our Skybox Manager."
Palo Alto Networks Panorama is ranked 3rd in Firewall Security Management with 80 reviews while Skybox Security Suite is ranked 6th in Firewall Security Management with 34 reviews. Palo Alto Networks Panorama is rated 8.4, while Skybox Security Suite is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks Panorama writes "Built-in proxy with the ability to maintain your own policies". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Skybox Security Suite writes "Efficient in vulnerability management, stable and easy to use ". Palo Alto Networks Panorama is most compared with AWS Firewall Manager, AlgoSec, Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Tufin Orchestration Suite and Azure Firewall Manager, whereas Skybox Security Suite is most compared with AlgoSec, Tufin Orchestration Suite, FireMon Security Manager, RedSeal and Balbix BreachControl. See our Palo Alto Networks Panorama vs. Skybox Security Suite report.
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