We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center and Palo Alto Networks Panorama based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewall Security Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"The solution is useful and powerful."
"Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is scalable."
"The most valuable feature of the Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is the UTM."
"The most valuable features are the Virtual Private Network and the Electronic Control Lists."
"The solution is quite scalable."
"My clients have never contacted me with any issues, so I believe the solution is stable."
"The most valuable aspects are the antivirus and URL filtering."
"One of the most valuable features of Cisco Secure Firewalls is their seamless integration with other Cisco products."
"It allows administrators to manage all firewalls from a single interface, reducing the time and effort required for configuration."
"The compliance features are very effective at identifying things that need to be properly hardened."
"The telemetry visibility is really good as well as the automated workflows for creating policies. The overall solution is quite intuitive to use."
"I would improve the management. I need to view charts and traffic statistics, but the management console doesn't share that information with me."
"It provides a quicker response time to vulnerabilities and more visibility into traffic flows."
"The dashboards are very good on Palo Alto. They offer a centralized dashboard for managers as well."
"The solution is very stable. It's reliable. We don't experience bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash. It works as expected."
"The most valuable aspect of Palo Alto Networks Panorama for me is the centralized management of multiple firewalls."
"It takes five to seven minutes to push one policy."
"The interface is an area that could be improved."
"The solution could improve the number of ports available and load balancing."
"The product's setup could be easier."
"Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center could improve by being less expensive."
"It's not very user-friendly and can be somewhat disorganized."
"The solution should improve the user interface."
"Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center's logging functionality could be improved."
"An area for improvement would be the connectivity, which sometimes means logs can be slow to display."
"There were a few bugs a couple of years into it. There was a big bug where it had trouble communicating with the two main boxes."
"The pricing is quite high."
"The ease of use of Palo Alto Networks Panorama is an area for improvement. Another downside is that you need a lot of comprehension to understand what it is."
"I would like to see remote VPN, like the Cisco client."
"Storage in Palo Alto Networks Panorama needs improvement. My company also experienced deployment issues when the product was first installed, particularly when binding with the firewall. It's not as user-friendly because not everyone can deploy it without some knowledge."
"The initial setup requires expertise and can be a bit complex."
"We have experienced a few bugs which the team at Palo Alto don't have solutions for."
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Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is ranked 7th in Firewall Security Management with 19 reviews while Palo Alto Networks Panorama is ranked 3rd in Firewall Security Management with 81 reviews. Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is rated 8.0, while Palo Alto Networks Panorama is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center writes "A stable and reasonably priced product that protects organizations from malware". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks Panorama writes "Built-in proxy with the ability to maintain your own policies". Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is most compared with AWS Firewall Manager, FireMon Security Manager and Cisco Defense Orchestrator, whereas Palo Alto Networks Panorama is most compared with AWS Firewall Manager, AlgoSec, Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Tufin Orchestration Suite and FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall (FortiGate CNF). See our Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center vs. Palo Alto Networks Panorama report.
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