We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and ShieldX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."It is quite easy to handle."
"We use the FortiGate Sandbox to detect zero-day vulnerabilities, such as anomalies or malware, that are unknown and have not yet been discovered."
"This product is definitely scalable."
"The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"Fortinet FortiGate is stable. It's used across all the countries, this is the way most multinationals run their system."
"The IPS is good. It protect my network from attackers."
"We can detect any attack of viruses or malware at the first point of contact."
"What I like the most is the configuration and that it's simple, and straightforward to maintain."
"We have reduced the number of configuration lines by 90%. We need fewer number of admins right now because of it."
"We use the product on our Azure network firewalls."
"The most valuable feature is the CLI."
"I have not actually called their support line, because we have a direct contact to a senior engineer in the company for any issues that we handle with them. I will say they are very responsive, and they do give you the information you need when you need it."
"It has a good performance which helps you with the stability of your virtual environment."
"The solution enables organizations to enforce policies."
"The interface with Panorama makes it very easy to use."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series's most valuable feature is the visibility of the environment."
"We were able to see what devices are talking to each other, giving us more visibility."
"The most valuable feature is the automatic scaling. With its microservices, it scales both up and down, depending on traffic and throughput."
"It has helped us tighten our security posture. Now, staff can only access things that they should be accessing."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It would be nice if backups could more easily migrate between different models."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the protection, it did not prevent us from being attacked. Additionally, Fortinet FortiGate could provide more features for WAF devices. I should not have to purchase two solutions, it would be a benefit to combine these features into one solution."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"The solution can have more features in a single box that can be multi-applied to integrate everything."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having a frequent ask questions(FAQ) area for people to receive quick answers to popular questions. Additionally, it would be beneficial to have an SMS notification feature. For example, if you cannot access your email you could receive an SMS message."
"To some degree, it's almost a question as to why some of this stuff isn't simpler. For example, for an AP deployment, while it's integrated, the number of steps that you have to go through in order to get the AP up, seems like a lot."
"The customization could be improved. Cisco, for example, is much better at this. They need to work to be at least as good as they are."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"The solution needs to have more easily searchable details or documentation about it online, so it's easier to Google if you have queries."
"It has to be more scalable for the deployment of VMs on the cloud."
"Palo Alto should update their documentation to make it more readable and provide easier-to-follow instructions through videos."
"It can definitely improve on the performance."
"The product could provide protection above Layer 3, which gets into the application layer and provides better visibility into those aspects of application security."
"The disadvantage with Palo Alto is that they don't have a cloud-based solution that includes a secure web gateway."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series needs to improve its order process."
"The current licensing model can be a sore point as we're paying for features we're not fully utilizing."
"I would like better reports and in-depth reporting."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"We are having some issues with their LDAP and integrating it with the Active Directory. We can't seem to set it up."
Earn 20 points
Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 52 reviews while ShieldX is ranked 47th in Firewalls. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6, while ShieldX is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". 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 VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Juniper SRX Series Firewall, whereas ShieldX is most compared with .
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