We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Symantec Web Isolation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."This version is stable. I don't have any issues with this solution, in our environment, it works well."
"The payment function for applications is good."
"We are using the FortiGate 100D series. VPN, firewall, anti-malware, OTM, and intrusion prevention are useful features."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"This solution has solid UTM features combined with a nice GUI."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"Valuable features include the Web Application Firewall, and it even has DLP (data leak prevention)."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the different types of profiling. It has been the most effective for me. The WAF and the antivirus profile are the most effective in network protection."
"We use the product on our Azure network firewalls."
"The solution enables organizations to enforce policies."
"In terms of security breaches, the product aids in categorizing and monitoring traffic, allowing for the identification of potentially malicisous or incorrectly formatted applications."
"Centralized management is valuable because it allows us to configure settings in one location and apply them across all three locations."
"It has a good performance which helps you with the stability of your virtual environment."
"It allows us to see all our traffic to properly secure it and only allow what is needed through the firewall."
"In Palo Alto the most important feature is the App-ID."
"The most effective features of the solution for threat prevention are Layer 7 inspection, SSL decryption, IPS, and the web filtering profile."
"The most valuable feature of Symantec Web Isolation is the user-friendliness of the solution."
"The firmware needs improvement because there are bugs when a new release comes through. Sometimes, the configuration changes, and it's a bit harder to see where the fail is. The first time that you have the firmware, it tends to have some issues, and it's better to wait a bit to update the equipment."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve the integration with Active Directory. Additionally, I would like to have a Cloud Controller, such as they do in the Cisco Meraki solution."
"The biggest "gotcha" is that if the client purchases what they call the UTM shared bundle, which has unified threat management on both, it's not as easy to manage if you have more than one firewall."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a firewall solution and once it's deployed, you can rest assured that your system is secure."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"It should be more stable. There should be full integration within Fortinet products themselves as well as with other third-party products. Especially when you're not dealing with SIEM and the correlation of the security box, we want Fortinet to be able to share that information with as many other products as it can."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"The improvement is related to logs. Instead of the CLI, we should be able to have more insights into the logs of the firewall in the GUI."
"It has to be more scalable for the deployment of VMs on the cloud."
"I would like a way to do everything programmatically, or be able to copy the configs from different prices at different levels."
"The product's AIOps process needs improvement."
"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."
"From time to time, they have released some content updates that have some issues, maybe twice a year."
"There's room for improvement in terms of integration with the load balancer. It isn't like Fortinet, which has a load balancer built into its firewall. It is effortless to integrate within the load balancer-plus-firewall solution."
"The solution's licensing could be improved, and training should be included before installation."
"There is no proper support channel to follow up on cases."
"Symantec Web Isolation could improve by reducing licensing costs."
Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 52 reviews while Symantec Web Isolation is ranked 24th in Anti-Malware Tools with 1 review. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6, while Symantec Web Isolation is rated 9.0. 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 Symantec Web Isolation writes "User-friendly, reliable, and good support". 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 Symantec Web Isolation is most compared with Menlo Security Secure Web Gateway.
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