We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks Panorama and Skybox Security Suite 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 installation process is very simple."
"Palo Alto Networks Panorama has good stability. I didn't see any instability from it, and its initial setup was straightforward."
"The firewall rules and policies are the most valuable aspects of the solution."
"Technical support is helpful and knowledgeable."
"The most valuable aspect of Palo Alto Networks Panorama for me is the centralized management of multiple firewalls."
"Centralized management is a valuable feature."
"Technical support is quite helpful."
"Panorama enables you to provision all your firewalls and other things as a cluster. It is quite useful for that."
"We use Network Assurance for network visualisation and troubleshooting."
"We are currently working on rule review and compliance. The logging features are good."
"Skybox allows organizations to reprioritize the vulnerability they attempt to patch and mitigate, based on the contextual awareness of the network."
"The revalidation and policy recertifications are most valuable."
"instead of asking for firewall rules which may or may not be relevant, or could already be there, or could be over-permissioned, Skybox can be used to map out the resources that that application is going to use and provide the exact rules that an application would require to function correctly. If the traffic isn't able to flow for the application, if it's erring out, Skybox can be used to troubleshoot that and say, "All right, where is the traffic being stopped and why, and how do I fix that.""
"It can be integrated with a vulnerability management solution. When a client comes, apart from pitching network and firewall change management, we are recommending having vulnerability management. So, rather than just having the audit of the firewall, they can integrate it with their vulnerability management solution, which could be Rapid7, Qualys, or any other solution. This provides them the most value out of the platform. That is the way we are approaching our customer base."
"The port division management was the solution's most valuable aspect for our organization."
"Skybox deployment is simple, and it's very useful."
"At times we have noticed that we get into issues where Panorama is going too slow or has other little problems. The performance can suffer occasionally."
"They can improve its cloud integration."
"As the cybersecurity threats have become more aggressive these days, Palo Alto Networks Panorama can still be improved, particularly on the security side, for example, more network management, and penetration test. Improving the security feature for internal endpoints is needed in the solution."
"A potential improvement for Palo Alto Networks Panorama could be a more competitive pricing structure."
"It can take a few minutes to test to see if any changes are successful or not. This needs to be improved. A commit change should take a second, not a minute or more."
"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."
"It's difficult to implement."
"It should have more connection with Threat Intelligence Cloud. They can also include features related to SecOps and automation API."
"I've had issues with licensing where, when they were expiring and I asked for the updated licenses, I would the wrong ones. I think their process needs to be straightened out a little bit - I don't know if they fixed it already, it has been awhile. It wasn't as straightforward as it could have been."
"The primary room for improvement would be to enable a web interface, which is not something which is there in the product. This is supposed to have come a year, a year and a half ago, but still has failed to come out. It still needs a client application to be installed on a workstation to be able to access that server and then run these reports. So I cannot extend that access to anybody. It has to be one administrator all the time. So unlike a web interface, where you can give multiple users simultaneous access and generate the various reports, that isn't a possibility at the moment."
"Skybox Security Suite can improve the change management module. It is the one part of the tool that is used with the firewall devices and you have a change management module that is used to record changes of all firewalls in the company. It's not compatible with all brands, this is where they can improve the solution."
"The price is costly, and I hope they can reduce the cost."
"Modifications and the deletion of existing policies are currently unavailable."
"During implementation, we realised approximately 30 devices were not supported by the Skybox platform."
"The setup documentation needs a lot of improvement."
"The solution does not support certain devices or vendors in some regions or countries due to regulations."
Palo Alto Networks Panorama is ranked 3rd in Firewall Security Management with 80 reviews while Skybox Security Suite is ranked 6th in Firewall Security Management with 34 reviews. Palo Alto Networks Panorama is rated 8.4, while Skybox Security Suite is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks Panorama writes "Built-in proxy with the ability to maintain your own policies". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Skybox Security Suite writes "Efficient in vulnerability management, stable and easy to use ". Palo Alto Networks Panorama is most compared with AWS Firewall Manager, AlgoSec, Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Tufin Orchestration Suite and Azure Firewall Manager, whereas Skybox Security Suite is most compared with AlgoSec, Tufin Orchestration Suite, FireMon Security Manager, RedSeal and Qualys VMDR. See our Palo Alto Networks Panorama vs. Skybox Security Suite report.
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