VM-Series Virtual Next-Generation Firewall - ARM (BYOL)
Palo Alto Networks | PAN-OS 11.2.5Linux/Unix, Other 11.2.5 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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My Review of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Firewall
What do you like best about the product?
My role as a Cyber Security Engineer in the Caribbean's leading MSPs has had me involved with all sorts of technoliogies and after testing this vm for myself left me astounded with the Strong Security and Threat protection including Deep pack inspectopon, threat prevention against the latest vulnerabilites is a strong backing for any firewall. Along with the Cloud Integration for the different platform like Azure and AWS make deployment so much easier.
The UI that is built into the Palo Alto Firewall is a breeze to use and makes implementation less of a hastle.
The UI that is built into the Palo Alto Firewall is a breeze to use and makes implementation less of a hastle.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is minimal things I personally dislike about the Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall but it was noticed that during peak traffic the performance has seen a drastic dip once a lot of traffic is transversing the network. Also tied with the high cost of licensing will add to the cons.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The Palo Alto Networks VM-Series virtual firewall solves problems related to securing virtualized and cloud environments by providing advanced threat prevention and network security
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Good experience- have used it across environments
What do you like best about the product?
Superior threat protection. Is able to block known and unknown threats quickly and accurately. Detects any abnormality and has a proper scalability option.
What do you dislike about the product?
Certain configurations can be tricky and complex. Networking knowledge may be required to complete the setup across different environments. Cost management is also required.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The problem of cloud security is huge as far as cybersecurity is concerned. This product has helped deal with these challenges and has helped us get better results.
Full comprehensive protection, user friendly
What do you like best about the product?
Most helpful thing is being able to have 360 degrees view and protection of all my network. A thing that I am really pleased is that is it user friendly and very intuitive.
What do you dislike about the product?
Something that I believe to be improved is the customisation. I would like to add some buttons and change layout however I am not able to have it in my way.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Full prevention and protection. Detecting malitious files and activities, able to in put security policies and mitigate and security risks.
As an admin I am please on the interface and the use of the day to day
As an admin I am please on the interface and the use of the day to day
Palo Alto vm solution fitted perfectly to Us
What do you like best about the product?
I have worked with global enterprise clients using different Network VM solutions and Palo Alto worked for us for two main aspects: having PA deployed universally on all our firewalls facilated the internal management of our naas by our team and the support from PA when needed was always spot on.
What do you dislike about the product?
VM firewalls can only have 9 DP interfaces that's a limitation that this kind of product has
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
For our Naas architecture we benefited in terms of automation of the policy and device management, cost efficiency and scalability. In fact having several customers we often need to modificate policy and configuration and to rather migrate, change the architcture or install or dismiss new firewalls. So having an unique system like the PA solution is huge benefit for us.
Easy deployment to secure Cloud workloads
What do you like best about the product?
Well, there are many positive aspects of this virtual FW. The majority ones are - quick and easy deployment, features go beyond layer 3/4, Integration with other third-party softwares for enhanced monitoring and off course user friendly GUI.
What do you dislike about the product?
High cost is the major drawback when compared with other competitors in the market. All firewall features are not bundled being said that need licensing for some advanced features. As virtual VM it consumes high amount of resources and need a larger appliance to run VM.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
App based filtering, IDS and IPS, enhanced monitoring etc
New user experience for threat prevention and Logging
What do you like best about the product?
The WildFire analysis for detecting zero-day malware is impressive. It quickly flagged a test malware file I uploaded, and I could see real-time analysis.
What do you dislike about the product?
The syntax isn’t intuitive for a new user. The logs are detailed but lack context for beginners. I had to refer to external documentation to understand why a session was blocked
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Other firewalls struggle to detect unknown or zero-day threats that don’t have existing signatures. WildFire analyzes suspicious files in a cloud-based sandbox and generates new security signatures in real-time
In most cloud environments, security teams lack clear insights into blocked threats, making incident response slow. After enabling Threat Prevention, I saw multiple intrusion attempts targeting exposed SSH ports.
The logs showed attack patterns (e.g., brute-force attempts from suspicious IPs in Russia & China).
In most cloud environments, security teams lack clear insights into blocked threats, making incident response slow. After enabling Threat Prevention, I saw multiple intrusion attempts targeting exposed SSH ports.
The logs showed attack patterns (e.g., brute-force attempts from suspicious IPs in Russia & China).
Overall a good experience.
What do you like best about the product?
Scalability:
Designed to scale from small to very large environments with flexible throughput options.
Designed to scale from small to very large environments with flexible throughput options.
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost:
For smaller environments or those with tight budgets, this might be a significant barrier.
For smaller environments or those with tight budgets, this might be a significant barrier.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Security:
Threat protection, application control, URL filtering, VPN support, and much more.
Threat protection, application control, URL filtering, VPN support, and much more.
Pros and cons of Palo Alto VM-Series
What do you like best about the product?
Helps to have smooth communication with clouds like AWS, AZURE, Google cloud.
To maximize efficiency at more traffic situations, you can use technologies like Intelligent Traffic offload.
To maximize efficiency at more traffic situations, you can use technologies like Intelligent Traffic offload.
What do you dislike about the product?
The initial steps of setting up a VM series are difficult.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helped to prevent data loss and data treats for different clouds.
Experience
What do you like best about the product?
Learning more things from her had helped me
What do you dislike about the product?
I dont like anything here i am able to satify about this
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is helping solving firewall
My Experience using Palo Alto VM-Series
What do you like best about the product?
Good for for DNS security and accessing remote VPNs. Easy to set up and deploy. Nice user interface.
What do you dislike about the product?
Above average license cost. Needs more documentation and user guides. Shaky performance in Azure
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Palo Alto VM-Series is great for protecting and securing projects that use Amazon Web Services.
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