We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Stormshield Network Security 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 solution has very good threat and content filtering switches."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"It's a user-friendly firewall. Most of the tasks are very simple. It's simple to configure and troubleshoot this firewall."
"FortiGate has a strong security topic which allows all of the Fortinet devices to communicate and share information which makes their security more powerful."
"Its user interface is good, and it is always working fine."
"I am "headache free" that I don't have to categorize all the websites and that security has been pre categorized by the people, and that the services are getting updated. At least one part of my problem is over."
"The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series has everything centralized. You have the VPN solution, firewall, routing, UDR, flexibility, updates, and full visibility of your traffic."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series's most valuable feature is the visibility of the environment."
"Using Palo Alto Networks Panorama, we were able to deploy a single point of management and visualization of the firewall infrastructure in cloud, on-premise and integrated with Azure to automate scale up. Its security features, i.e. anti-malware, threat prevention, URL Filtering, VPN, and antivirus are the most valuable. The ID-User integrated with AD and 2FA features are also very useful to provide secure access to servers and some users in the company. "
"In AWS, Palo Alto provides us a better view than flow logs for network traffic."
"It gives us the ease that we are secure. We have set up the proper things that help make our data safe."
"What I like about the VM-Series is that you can launch them in a very short time."
"It is reliable and the support is very good."
"It allows us to see all our traffic to properly secure it and only allow what is needed through the firewall."
"Our organization's main concern is stability, and this is a stable solution."
"I like that it works fine. Stormshield is a very good solution."
"The scalability of the solution is good."
"The solution has improved my organization because I can see what traffic is happening and I can use it to block and prevent attacks."
"It's an easy, straightforward management platform to use."
"A very robust product."
"I can see what traffic is going on. I can easily block any programs from attacks."
"The most valuable features are the IPS, the firewall function, and the price."
"Sometimes you do need to know some CLI commands, so it's a bit harder for technicians or new people that don't know it."
"I would like to see more advanced developments of a wireless controller in the future."
"FortiGate support could do some improvements on their IPv6 configuration. Right now it's still in the very early stage for utilizing in an enterprise level network environment."
"The user interface could be improved."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"Cisco Meraki products are rising very quickly in the cloud and the connected era. Meraki products offer much better ROI, upgradability, and manageability."
"Some of the filtering is not robust, you can escape it with a VPN. Some of the users bypass some of the filters. It catches some but it also misses some, that area could be improved. It's functioning reasonably but there's room for improvement in that area."
"They are doing good, but they can improve the distributor assignment. The availability of the product and the timeline of delivery are the main things. The distribution should be swift, and the distributor should not reach out to end customers directly. They should work as a distributor. There should also be one more local distributor. Currently, there is only one distributor in Pakistan, and the rest of them are in UAE. It is difficult to work with only one distributor. Sometimes, you don't get along with the same distributor, and that's why they should have one more distributor. Their licensing should also be improved. The activation or renewal of the product should be done from the date of renewal, not from the date on which the license expired."
"On the cloud side, they need to come up with more HA solutions to support the multi-region."
"The user interface could use some improvement."
"Palo Alto is that it is really bad when it comes to technical support."
"There could be dynamic DNS features similar to Fortinet in the product."
"AWS doesn't integrate well with third-party firewalls."
"Palo Alto should update their documentation to make it more readable and provide easier-to-follow instructions through videos."
"I would like to see a more thorough QA process. We have had some difficulties from bugs in releases."
"The command-line interface is something that some people struggle with and I think that they should have an option to go straight to the GUI."
"With Stormshield, there are difficulties joining things, and it can be complex depending on the architecture."
"Improvement is needed in terms of the technical support of the manufacturer."
"Not all the fields are activated yet and we were informed that it will take at least one month."
"The biggest issue was their support department was not able to help us, then everything stops. This is a no-go area for me."
"The filtering configuration could be better. We have some difficulties with the filtering configuration and the filter extension. It's not that easy. It's not that straightforward. In the next release, I would like to see a reporting system. Stormshield doesn't have any tutorials on how to do the configuration and things like that. They just have documentation on the website. If you want to configure, for example, Cisco or Fortinet, you can find tutorials on YouTube. They show you how to configure the features, and so on. In Stormshield, there is nothing on social media or the internet on how to configure different things. The lack of documentation or the lack of material makes it difficult for others to adopt this solution."
"The SD card could be more secure."
"Stormshield Network Security is quite expensive."
"A more user-friendly interface would be helpful."
Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 52 reviews while Stormshield Network Security is ranked 9th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 16 reviews. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6, while Stormshield Network Security is rated 7.8. 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 Stormshield Network Security writes "Handles monitoring, collection, analysis, and reporting of data in our HQ and branches". 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 Stormshield Network Security is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and WatchGuard Firebox. See our Palo Alto Networks VM-Series vs. Stormshield Network Security report.
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