Palo Alto VM-Series Reviews

User friendly GUI along with fast processing of packeta

So far not experienced any major issue during operation

Being a nextgen FW it's eleminiating so many layered devices and providing infra security under one roof

It is beneficial for our cloud production environment, especially when isolating our DMZ and Core environment.

None, as of now. We fully utilize our Palo Alto VM firewall on our environment, especially on our AWS Cloud infrastructure.

We used Palo Alto VM-Series firewall when securing the connection between our DMZ and Core VPC.

It's the best and most secure solution for protecting my virtual environment. I, till last month, was using a different product; due to a security breach, we moved to Palo Alto.

It has no flaws, so there is no dislike at all.

It protects the virtual environment; in my case, I have integrated it with my Gateway load balancer on AWS. It is indeed a cost-saver and the most secured solution.

Palo Alto VM-Series apart is its ability to provide advanced security capabilities such as threat prevention, application visibility, and user identification in virtualized environments. Its granular visibility and control over application traffic and the ability to apply security policies consistently across physical and virtual networks are particularly valuable in multi-cloud environments.

Cost: The VM-Series can be more expensive than other virtualized firewall solutions, and organizations may need to invest in additional licenses and hardware resources to fully utilize the product's capabilities.

Resource-intensive: Running Palo Alto VM-Series requires significant CPU and memory resources, which may not be available on smaller virtualization hosts or cloud instances. This can result in performance issues and increased infrastructure costs.

Learning curve: As with any advanced security solution, there is a learning curve associated with deploying and managing Palo Alto VM-Series. Administrators will need to familiarize themselves with the product's user interface, policies, and configurations, which can take time and effort.

Vendor lock-in: Because Palo Alto VM-Series is a proprietary solution, organizations may be locked into using it for their virtualized firewall needs. This can limit their flexibility and ability to adopt other security solutions that may be a better fit for their needs.

Limited integrations: While Palo Alto VM-Series integrates well with other Palo Alto Networks products and a variety of third-party solutions, there may be some integrations that are not available or require custom development work

Advanced Threat Prevention: One of the biggest challenges in securing virtualized environments is detecting and preventing advanced threats, such as malware and zero-day attacks. Palo Alto VM-Series offers advanced threat prevention capabilities, including network-based malware detection, behavioral analysis, and sandboxing, which can help organizations detect and prevent advanced threats before they can cause damage.

Application Visibility and Control: Another challenge in securing virtualized environments is gaining visibility and control over application traffic. Palo Alto VM-Series provides granular visibility and control over application traffic, enabling organizations to create policies that enforce application usage and protect against data exfiltration.

Palo Alto VM-Series Firewalls is a widely used firewall, especially in the public cloud environment. I have done multiple deployments for various customers in Qatar with high customer satisfaction

They can improve their XFF feature compatibility with HA deployment scenarios. Apart from this, this is one of the best in the market now.

public Cloud services protection, various use cases for clients as I work for a systems integrator. They have realized many different benefits, including consolidation of services, the greater granularity of inspection at the edge and in the data center, etc.

We did not find any difference between hardware product and VM series appliance of PAN in terms of functionality and performance. We are getting same level of performance and also able to use all the PAN OS feature that we can use on Hardware appliance. VM product always have great advantages as compare to hardware product e.g. easy installation and deployment, no physical wiring, easy backup, easy recovery are some examples. We also like its support to various hypervisors as well as cloud integration.

I personally do not find any technical dislike, but yes PAN should work on their VM licensing and make it easy, currently it is so complicated and hard to understand. Apart from them I do not have any dislike from the product as we are using it from last 5 years are very happy with the performance of product.

Well no doubt PAN products are very expensive products because of their best in class technology so first evaluate your business need and conduct POC, work on the ROI then decide you should go for PAN or not. Without working on all such factors it maybe a case where you will not get any ROI from PAN product.

In some scenarios Hardware products can not be deployed or not suited best e.g. cloud and areas where we do not have much space to have many hardware devices. So it helps alot to deploy at our cloud network as well as in some plants where we have very limited IT infra due to space issues.

It has a very good documentation.

This vendor are used by the most professional IT industries.

No open source release for this software.

Understanding the way of working for the future implementation.

La solución de palo alto nos permite brindar protección a entornos de nube privada y de nube publica, permitiendo tener todo el poder de identifación de aplicaciones y de amenazas, incluyendo las caracteristicas de logs y reportes dentro del mismo appliance virtual.

Uno de los detalles que tenemos, es que el costo puede ser un poco alto para pequeña empresa, sin embargo la oferta de suscripciones de seguridad es muy completa.

Ofrece una solución de Next Gen Firewall robusta e inteligente para la identificación de aplicaciones y amenazas que pudieran viajar dentro de cada app.

Así mismo el poder identificar las amenazas desconocidas por medio de la plataforma de Wildfire.

Palo Alto have very wide coverage for support on all major clouds

Some Important document misses important details like API plugin Support

It provides following

1. perimeter security which giving best of breed secuity

2.easy administration.

3. Very wide and Deep Details of Traffic

4. Increased performance due to its single pass architecture

he Palo Alto VM-Series is a comprehensive and versatile solution for securing virtualized and cloud environments.

nothing so far to dislike. if i found so definitely contact support

The VM-Series can be deployed in a high-availability cluster to provide scalability and ensure that security is maintained even during periods of high traffic or attacks.