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."Centralized firewall management and update management are the most valuable features."
"It's helpful that the solution allows us to control all the firewalls from one device."
"The reporting is great."
"Especially for big, worldwide clients, one of the most valuable features is being able to create some rules to place on the security groups."
"The ability to manage a large number of firewalls from a single point is most valuable."
"The initial setup isn't very complex, it's user-friendly."
"The interface is very easy to use. You can do most jobs from one single console."
"The firewall rules and policies are the most valuable aspects of the solution."
"Aside from Firewall Assurance, we are using Network Assurance and Change Manager for an overview of the whole network and for documenting requests and the recertification of the ruleset."
"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 has a good policy management feature and can provide customers with good quality outputs."
"It's given us more visibility in terms of what are the kinds of configurations that are on these devices, and how many of these are stale rules. So it's helped greatly in terms of cleaning up of rules, for sure. And it has definitely given us a more secure way of backing up the configuration on these devices."
"We are currently working on rule review and compliance. The logging features are good."
"Overall, the tool has helped us reduce risks. If any step is missing, it's easier for my team or engineers to identify it. The tool provides accurate recommendations based on the data. Its integration is easy, and I have integrated it with Fortinet firewalls."
"It shows me a client's or an organization's entire network. I can see everything."
"Skybox allows organizations to reprioritize the vulnerability they attempt to patch and mitigate, based on the contextual awareness of the network."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"Aside from pricing, I don't have any issues with Panorama."
"We have had some issues in the past because integrating a new device is not intuitive."
"There could be more integrations with third parties."
"It would be beneficial to improve the capabilities of Panorama to handle logs more efficiently, potentially reducing the need for additional local collectors. Adding more predefined dashboards as features would enhance the monitoring and reporting capabilities."
"An area for improvement would be the connectivity, which sometimes means logs can be slow to display."
"There is room for improvement in the integration within endpoint detection. They need to do some integration between endpoints and the firewalls."
"The solution's utilization of network ports makes things as complex as possible."
"There are multiple dashboards but no custom dashboard. It would be good to include a custom dashboard so that we can actually choose which field and what kinds of things we want to look at."
"The initial setup with Skybox Security is hard. You need one or two strong security engineers on your team."
"If anything could be improved it would be staying on top of the collector scripts, but I understand that's a very tough challenge."
"The stability is something that is questionable. I don't know whether it is because of the kind of infrastructure we have or because of the product in itself. We're running it on a virtual machine right now. Maybe once a month, or once in every 45 days, it requires a restart because the application fails to connect. So I have to restart the whole Skybox Manager itself, the Skybox server itself, and then connect to it from our Skybox Manager."
"Change Manager can be improved. If they can improve Change Manager so that whatever we want to do on a firewall, we are able to do it through Change Manager, it will be helpful for us. Whenever we are doing a change, it only does them at an L3 and L4 level, but all the firewalls are at the application layer. So, whatever needs to be done on the firewall, we aren't able to get it done through Change Manager. Currently, this functionality is not there because of which we are sometimes losing customers. I can create a role on Layer 3, Layer 4, but when it comes to the application layer, such as configuring and defining URLs or other things at the application level, it can't be done through Change Manager. Customers demand that they should be able to do everything through Change Manager. They don't want to do it through some other mechanism to accomplish their complete change management policy. They don't want to use a firewall manager because sometimes, they don't have any manager. They ask if they can use our solution so that a manager is not required. If Change Manager can do all the management automatically without involving any other manager, it will be great. They can also provide better integration with other managers so that everything can be done through a central point."
"The vendor's support is terrible."
"The price is costly, and I hope they can reduce the cost."
"They are not satisfied with the complexity of the solution and the price."
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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