We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks K2-Series and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The customization potential is quite impressive."
"I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"The product is easy to use and is stable. The SV1 functionality is a benefit."
"It is easy to use and performs very well."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is security. They are known for efficiency and are on the top of Gartner Quadrant reviews. Fortinet FortiGate has an easy-to-use platform with a good graphical interface. The configuration is simple and the solution provides an overall good layer of security."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"The product offers very good security."
"The FortiGate controls the user's activities and maximizes my bandwidth use overall."
"Palo Alto has an approach that makes the configuration easier not only for the customers but also for the IT help for the customers."
"This firewall is very good for our customers because they don't have to write their own rules for adding an application."
"Overall, this is a very simple and very effective firewall, and I am satisfied with it."
"I have found that Palo Alto Networks K2-Series has the best security. They are more user-friendly, older firewalls used to have to be configured using the command-line interface, but in this solution, it can be done in the GUI."
"It's easy to configure."
"Palo Alto has better and finer controls than, say, Cisco or Check Point."
"We've found the solution offers us good stability."
"I like the tool's WildFire feature."
"We have not had to replace hardware routers nor purchase additional hardware. So, that has provided a little bit of an ROI."
"It's very important that Palo Alto NG Firewalls embed machine learning into the core of the firewall to provide inline, real-time attack prevention. That increases our security posture... The firewall is able to capture it and flag it and it is easy to mitigate as soon as we see something like that happening, to secure the environment more, in real time."
"Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls saves us time."
"Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls have a Single Pass Parallel Processing (SP3) Architecture, which has a different kind of code doing the work. It increases the packet processing rate. Whereas, without the SP3 Architecture, you are waiting for each job to complete, even if you have 100 jobs assigned."
"The application control portion of the solution is its most valuable aspect."
"From my experience, comparing it to other products, the granularity you can have in the application is very good. The application detection is excellent. It's certainly one of the best."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"The stability of the product has been good over the years."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"The visibility of the network can be better. The GUI can be improved for better visibility of the network flow. Other solutions have better GUI in terms of network visibility."
"Fortinet doesn't provide multiple virtual firewalls which would facilitate end users and customers."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"The support we receive when we need to upgrade is not satisfactory and has room for improvement."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"FortiGate should have a better way of detecting and managing the system memory because otherwise if the memory is too low, a system restart is required."
"The reporting functionality in GlobalProtect needs to be improved."
"The solution needs a series of OS changes."
"Palo Alto has many other products. It would be nice for these products to be centralized under one tool"
"The ease of management and configuration should be improved."
"Higher levels of support are excellent but new users may need additional options."
"I'd like to see more data protection on the system."
"It is recommended that the Palo Alto Networks K2-Series be implemented step by step for the Panorama. Sometimes we can't overwrite the configurations because it fails."
"The URL Filtering module needs to have more categories added to it."
"Unfortunately, Palo Alto Networks products aren't cheap, but you have to pay the price for good security technology. I don't know the exact price, but it's about $10,000 to $15,000 without a subscription. Cisco is priced similarly. FortiGate is inexpensive in Poland, so a lot of customers prefer that."
"I would like the option to be able to block the traffic from a specific country in a few clicks."
"We have not taken Palo Alto's firewall management solution because it's too expensive and we don't feel it delivers significant value."
"The solution doesn't support routing in virtual firewall creation, and we want that to be enabled."
"The stability, scalability for enterprise-level organizations, and technical documentation have room for improvement."
"The only problem that I see with the Palo Alto NGFW being an all-in-one appliance is that because of the different features that are being put into a single appliance, the OS tends to be beefier. Over the eight years, we have seen that the number of features or analyses being put into the appliance itself has a tendency to slow down the appliance, especially at the time of bootup. So, any time we are doing maintenance work, the time required for the appliance to boot up and be fully functional again is significantly longer than eight years ago. They could find a way to make this all-in-one appliance faster."
"The functionalities are limited."
"The advanced manual protection needs to be improved a little bit because they used to make a cloud manual analysis for the cloud."
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Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 29 reviews while Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is ranked 6th in Firewalls with 164 reviews. Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is rated 8.4, while Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks K2-Series writes "Easy to implement and manage, and the documentation is good". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls writes "We get reports back from WildFire on a minute-by-minute basis". Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is most compared with , whereas Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is most compared with Check Point NGFW, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Netgate pfSense. See our Palo Alto Networks K2-Series vs. Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls report.
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In the best tradition of these questions, Feature-wise both are quite similar, but each has things it's better at, it kind of depends what you value most.
PA is good at app control, web filtering and such like, they have always been top of the pile there. The GUI is very good, and their product is very user-focused.
Fortinet is good for scalability and predictable high throughput (ASICs in the hardware), and useful things like authentication flexibility, CLI config (if you have any networking/Cisco people, they always seem to prefer CLI over GUI) and have better OT features, maybe relevant to your manufacturing use?
Fortinet seem to have a broader integration offering with their security fabric than PA do, plus they can do Fortinet-based wifi, switching, etc. Depends if you are prepared to go all-in with a single vendor.
Hi,
Both FT and PA have compelling features for large Enterprises. I would like to add a few good points about Fortinetwhich might be helpful ( from my 13 years of engagement with them as Distributor and Partner)
Fortinet:
Have higher throughput; which comes with competitive rates
Wide range of models to select to meet your requirement, without spending heavliy
Outstanding customer support and very active customer care team
Easly available skilled resources from the channel for deployment and post-implementation support
Regards
Abhilash
Hello. The question is what you are going to have as a result of application