We compared Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform and Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks across several parameters based on our user reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Initial Setup: The duration required to establish Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform varies, with some users reporting longer timeframes for deployment and setup. Users of Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks reported similar timeframes for both phases.
Valuable Features: Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform is known for its robust security measures, efficient network connectivity, advanced analytics capabilities, and reliable customer support. Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks stands out for its advanced threat prevention capabilities, secure remote office and mobile user connectivity, ease of use, scalability, and flexibility.
Room For Improvement: Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform could improve in terms of performance, reliability, user interface, navigation, documentation, and integration options. Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks needs enhancements in speed, connectivity, compatibility, integration, and customer support.
Setup Cost: Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform is deemed affordable and reasonable, with transparent and flexible licensing terms. Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks is also regarded as reasonably priced, with a straightforward and user-friendly licensing process.
ROI: Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform offers increased network security, simplified management, improved performance, and cost savings. Users praise its integrative features and flexibility. Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks also provides positive results and a significant ROI.
Customer Service: Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform stands out for its highly praised customer service and support. Users commend the top-notch assistance and guidance provided by the platform's support team. Palo Alto Networks received positive feedback for its prompt, effective customer service.
Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform is preferred over Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks. The Versa SASE Platform is praised for its robust security measures, seamless integration, advanced analytics, simplicity of use, and reliable customer support. Users also highlight the positive ROI, reasonable pricing, and flexibility of the Versa SASE Platform. User feedback suggests that Prisma Access could benefit from improvements in speed, performance, seamless integration, and support responsiveness.
"The solution is stable."
"The protection offered by the product is the most valuable feature. It detects vulnerabilities or traps on our users' phones and then prompts them to clean up their devices. Tools we used previously would only discover, which required us to gather information on the backend, so Lookout is a welcome upgrade."
"The most valuable features are the antivirus as a whole, the anti-malware, and all of the protection features that scan our enterprise devices."
"On the outside, the main differentiation is because Lookout ingest. They have ingested basically all of the apps for the last ten years and all the versions of all the apps, and we have that in a corporate database that allows us to do very large-scale machine learning and analysis on that data set. That's not something that any of the competitors really have the capability to do because they don't have access to the data set. A lot of the apps you can no longer get them because that version of the app is five or six years old, and it just doesn't exist anywhere anymore, except within our infrastructure. So, the ability to have that very rich dataset and learn from that dataset is a real differentiator."
"Palo Alto Firewall is one of the best firewalls in the world."
"I like it because it's very easy to use. You install the client and you have to know your gateway, but that's something we give to our users. Beyond that, it takes about three seconds to train them on how to use it. And it just works well. That's great for us because it means less administrative time."
"Overall, the cost savings, ease of deployment, and better VPN user experience and performance are valuable."
"The performance is good."
"The solution's most valuable features were the model's reduced complexity on the client side and its capability to provide security."
"The protection for web-based applications was helpful for my colleagues who didn't want a particular application on their devices. And the non-web access protection was more for our developers because they were writing and building code on their computers. Prisma Access was able to protect them."
"The always-on feature is fantastic for the users. They don't have to think about it. When they go to a coffee shop to do work, there's no need to remember to toggle the VPN on. We'll protect them. URL filtering is the same at home as it is in the office."
"It has predefined or preconfigured rules, which are getting periodically updated. They are providing continuous improvements and periodically updating all search queries that they are looking for. That is one thing that helps us to stay vigilant and focused. If we query our AWS account for any breaches or vulnerabilities with any of the cloud tests, and it alerts us based on these predefined rules. It also provides an option to configure our own rules, and based on these rules, it can query the cloud trail logs, pull the information, and trigger alerts in real-time. I haven't explored this feature much because there are multiple accounts, and we don't have enough time to explore this feature. It also provides multiple integrations. When vulnerabilities or breaches are happening, you should be aware of them immediately. It provides integration with tools such as Slack, PagerDuty so that you can get alerted as soon as the high severity stuff comes up. For example, you have a security group that has allowed public traffic on port 22. As TechOps, you should be aware of this immediately. You cannot scan each machine or look into all security groups to identify it. So, Prisma helps us and alerts us when this kind of high-priority stuff comes up. It has different statistics, analytics, and graphs for data. The description of alerts is also pretty good. They describe what are the possible causes for this and what are the solutions. From Prisma Cloud, you can directly go to the AWS account. When you click on an alert, a resource, or a resource ID, it takes you to the AWS console where you need to log in. If you are already logged in, it will take you to that instance directly, and you can fix the issue there. I have found this feature very useful."
"Our customers are very satisfied with this solution. They have not mentioned any areas for improvement."
"It's very powerful, especially for engineering teams."
"The product has a dynamic VPN feature for SD-WAN."
"The most valuable aspects of the solution are the next-generation firewall features and geo-blocking capabilities."
"Versa FlexVNF is a scalable product because it does not have any hardware dependencies. This makes it a versatile solution that can be easily integrated with any firewall."
"The initial setup is simple."
"It is very easy to deploy. The GUI interface is really good, and the security features are also very good. It is also stable and scalable, and their support is also good."
"The granularity when it comes to configuration and security features are valuable."
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"We just submitted an enhancement request reflecting the main area we want to see improvement in; the APIs. Currently, we're able to build dashboards, but it's somewhat backward because we use our MDM API to create them. Lookout should provide API to customers so we can query our data and use it in our cloud, and this is the only outstanding area for improvement with the product right now."
"Lookout was moving into the SSE space. And so their work on SecureWeb Gateway and SD-WAN is still sort of evolving."
"The stability depends on the service from where you access it. Because sometimes, the place you are in, you have Gateway. You don't have Gateway. The gateway is overutilized. At the end, you need to go through their gateways. And this is the key point here. You have a tracking point. If it's not well orchestrated, and it scales up as you add more to the existing team, you will suffer"
"From the analysis that we've done, they do seem to be maybe a step behind in trying to enter the market with a new solution. But when they do pick up, they do come out with some good products."
"I would like the solution to support a different type of authentication. We can't configure a secondary method for our portal."
"The tools' scalability is subject to some limitations when done on-premise due to the need for additional licenses. However, in other scenarios, increasing scalability involves expanding infrastructure to accommodate more third-party VPN access. It is scalable as long as you pay the money. Also, it needs to improve security."
"We've run into some challenges, having hit a lot of bugs over the past year in the deployment of GlobalProtect. We've had our fair share of issues that I haven't been happy with. We're working with the support organization to remediate them and waiting for updated releases. The response on getting the bugs fixed has not been what I would consider adequate for a product like this."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"Sometimes, we encountered a portal crash. When we told Palo Alto they said it might be the browser or cache, but I think they need to improve it on their side."
"It is a managed firewall. When you run into issues and have to troubleshoot, there is a fair amount of restriction. You run into a couple of restrictions where you don't have any visibility on what is happening on the Palo Alto managed infrastructure, and you need to get on a call to get technical assistance from Palo Alto's technical support. You have to get them to work with you to fix the problem. I would definitely like them to work on the visibility into what happens inside Palo Alto's infrastructure. It is not about getting our hands onto their infrastructure to do troubleshooting or fixing problems; it is just about getting more visibility. This will help us in guiding technical support folks to the area where they need to work."
"The documentation is generally good, but they could provide a more detailed description of all the configuration steps. I have to search for information or call support. Palo Alto could add more knowledge base articles about configuration with screenshots and walkthroughs. That would be helpful. When configuring a product, you want to see examples of how it is done."
"We would like to see improvements in the licensing; currently, Palo Alto provides 500 to 1000 licenses for users, and we want to see 1500 to 2000 licenses for one version."
"The UTM features can be improved. It should offer better functionality."
"The VPN feature is relatively new. It came out two releases ago, and they're still fixing that up."
"SASE is the next big thing that is coming up, and it needs to be developed in Versa. This is the only thing that needs to be adapted very quickly by Versa. With the pandemic going on, I would like to see more features for working from home. They have launched Versa Secure Access (VSA), but it is currently immature. They need to tighten it up for work from home and SD-WAN concept."
"We are thinking about how to make customers consolidate the loads to an SD-WAN network so that the customers can have bigger chunk from the SD-WAN side so that customers can have critical data be transferred with NPS VPN and non-critical data or some labeled traffic can be transferred by the SD-WAN network. I think it's a very important direction for digital transformation."
"There are limitations when you connect from multiple locations. It does not work as expected. If you have more than 400 users, then it will choke. It will not perform as expected."
"The solution's current customer support is not that good. So, they need to improve that. Also, the solution's UI is quite complex, so they need to simplify it."
"The stability of FlexVNF's controller and devices could be improved."
"The solution lacks a mobile version where small, manageable platforms can be developed."
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Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks is ranked 1st in Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) with 56 reviews while Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform is ranked 13th in Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) with 20 reviews. Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks is rated 8.4, while Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks writes "Integration with Palo Alto platforms such as Cortex Data Lake and Autofocus gives us visibility into our attack surface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform writes "A flexible, stable and scalable solution ". Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks is most compared with Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, Netskope , Cisco Umbrella, Zscaler Internet Access and Prisma SD-WAN, whereas Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, Fortinet FortiGate, VMware SD-WAN, Cato SASE Cloud Platform and Peplink SpeedFusion. See our Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks vs. Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform report.
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