Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention Reviews

We are resellers of this solution so we facilitate technical services to our clients. We maintain Palo Alto for what we are responsible for maintaining, on the latest version of the software.

It's a monster, it's got so many beautiful features. We do deal with other firewalls and we've got a better idea of what other firewalls' capabilities are. In any comparison with the Palo Alto, I liked the quality of service on the applications that you can control the amount of bandwidth an application is allowed to consume. The best feature is the quality of the application quality of service.

We haven't had any stability problems. Maybe once or twice the cache was released fairly quickly. There were no stability issues.

There isn't a firewall on earth available at the moment that's more scalable than Palo Alto. It's in the tens of thousands. We are servicing clients and we tally all the users from those clients together and it's in the tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands. We are a reseller, so I can only speak in terms of our clients. We have at least tens of thousands of users. Palo Alto is the most scalable firewall out there by far.

In Africa, the technical support is probably not as good as in Europe and the USA because it's a specific premium support, partner-enabled premium support and all of that. But it's really good, I don't really have any complaints, it's fairly good. I'll give them 80%.

One of the reasons we chose the Palo Alto firewall is because it's probably one of the simplest firewalls to set up, it's very intuitive. We've done probably around 50 deployments and depending on the size and scope it takes around five hours but sometimes an implementation could take five months. It's very difficult to say how long it takes, but if you compare it with other firewalls, the implementation cycles of Palo Alto beat them hands down.

The pricing and the licensing are pretty competitive at this stage. As a reseller, I would like to see the price come down a little bit so I can compete better against other firewalls because we do that all the time. Especially on these smaller firewalls and so on, we need to be a bit more competitive. Palo Alto is a company that focuses more on the high endS, high-speed class type of massive organizations and firewalls and so on, which is why they are the most scalable firewall. In Africa, the organizations tend to be smaller than you would get in Europe, the USA, China and those types of places so we tend to sell more of the smaller firewalls. Palo Alto's smallest firewall at this stage is very expensive which makes it difficult, but then again it's just not the area that they're really playing in. It still outperforms any of the other firewalls.

It's a brilliant product, we periodically look at several other firewalls to stay on top of their capabilities and so on, and it's the best bang for your buck that you can get. Some of the other firewalls are starting to catch up. I implemented a baby, which could be regarded as a baby Palo Alto firewall. We pushed through in a single day with everything switched on, all the capabilities switched on, we pushed through 4.3 terabytes of data per day. Which is phenomenal for such a baby, little firewall, with all the capabilities switched on, it's absolutely mind-boggling that it handled that, and it did. It was at a university that we implemented it. 

The advice that I would give is to partner with somebody that has the necessary skills to implement it. Buy from somebody that has proven skills to implement the product because if you don't have a partner to implement the product, that knows the product, and is qualified, it's pretty useless buying the product.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

Its Wi-Fi feature actually attracted me a lot. Also, sandboxing can be done.

Basically, on the server side, it alerts me to threats. We are working to begin reporting on this. It affects me a lot. 

Some bugs, which will be rectified by Palo Alto in the next update.

Almost one year.

No issues. I do not have issues with stability.

For my organization, there is more than enough scalability for me. It is good for me. Exactly what I want.

Their support is very good. For some features, which I don't know. I used to address these with the technical guys. They support me very well on this. 

I used to use ASA, which is now owned by Cisco. I feel Palo Alto is more advanced and has better features than ASA. 

It is not very complex, actually. Firewalls can handle it. 

Yeah, I checked out other products, like Fortigate and Firepower. When we compared Palo Alto and FortiGate, the word from the community, which I came to know, was FortiGate was not stable. Though Palo Alto is slower than Fortigate. When we consider the long-term brands, Palo Alto is much more stable than Fortigate. 

It is one of the best services out there. 

I have been using Palo Alto Networks Threat Prevention for approximately 10 years.

The stability of Palo Alto Networks Threat Prevention is good.

I have found Palo Alto Networks Threat Prevention to be a scalable solution.

The support from Palo Alto Networks Threat Prevention is good.

Palo Alto Networks Threat Prevention could improve by having consistent pricing at system levels.

My advice to others would be to use Palo Alto Networks Threat Prevention for the perimeter of the network.

I rate Palo Alto Networks Threat Prevention a nine out of ten.