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Palo Alto Networks Panorama vs Tufin Orchestration Suite comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024
 

Categories and Ranking

Palo Alto Networks Panorama
Ranking in Firewall Security Management
3rd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
88
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Tufin Orchestration Suite
Ranking in Firewall Security Management
2nd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
183
Ranking in other categories
Container Security (28th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Firewall Security Management category, the mindshare of Palo Alto Networks Panorama is 8.9%, down from 10.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tufin Orchestration Suite is 21.7%, up from 21.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Firewall Security Management
 

Featured Reviews

ManjitSingh - PeerSpot reviewer
Built-in proxy with the ability to maintain your own policies
Our company uses the solution for monitoring and policies. We monitor data, make rules for firewalls, and allow source IPs to destination IPs with respect to ports and services.  We also use UR filtering to allow or block things. We have a Prisma Access Firewall that we allow or block for remote…
Amroy Lumban Gaol - PeerSpot reviewer
A flexible, very secure solution that works well in Layer 2 environments
Integration for Layer 2 devices could be improved because it requires manual scripting. Other layers are very simple to integrate. It would be a benefit to have a form field for firewall names, user names, and passwords which then auto integrate. Licensing options are confusing and require additional fees for high availability. Competitors include high availability with their standard licenses.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The interface is very easy to use. You can do most jobs from one single console."
"The ability to manage a large number of firewalls from a single point is most valuable."
"The solution offers good logging features."
"The solution, especially the latest versions, is very stable."
"Panorama has the capacity for SD-WAN configuration, which is appreciated alongside its capabilities for firewall management and firmware upgrades."
"One valuable feature is centralized management. We are able to manage it centrally for two to three remote offices, our head office and our data centers. So, it is very simple to manage."
"The solution is very stable. It's reliable. We don't experience bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash. It works as expected."
"Panorama integrates security management by allowing easy modification of policy by account, IP, or application."
"It provides a great visibility around the roots: Root implementing which can be done, roots that have changed, and what has been done. So, it's pretty useful when you have an audit going on."
"We use it to clean up our firewall policies, which gives us better security policy and less junk on the firewalls."
"It is an important application for controlling and monitoring firewall rules. It is useful for making and monitoring the changes."
"We use Tufin to clean up our firewall policies. This makes it a lot easier to find out the things that are wrong."
"It is a great solution. If you have all the devices and firewalls in place, the amount of details that you get along with the network topology is very good."
"The features I have found most valuable are its capability to check on the firewall and the routers. Afterwards it checks out all the configs, checks the vulnerabilities, checks the risks - it checks everything that may end up causing our router to be compromised. At the end it recommendations what we should do."
"The product streamlines our change management process."
"It is extremely scalable. It really addresses the scale of a company's firewall footprint."
 

Cons

"Palo Alto Networks Panorama currently lacks the capability of integrating with other software, such as AlgoSec to simplify rule management and schedule management. However, this feature has been requested by the company and it is uncertain if Palo Alto will implement it in the future. Additionally, the UI needs improvement, it is too slow."
"We found a vulnerability where when we have a low flow, like 2.7K, it is not getting fired by the threat prevention. That's something important to improve on. They should have a proxy or some solution to solve the issue. We also found some issues around decrypting the flow. When we have more flow than expected to decrypt, the performance goes down."
"The central firewall management could be better."
"Aside from pricing, I don't have any issues with Panorama."
"It could be more secure."
"The current documentation is not detailed enough."
"I would like to have better analytics."
"Integration between Panorama and the Edge Firewall has a lot of issues, like different configuration assets, configuration object templates, lack of flexibility, and not a good browser."
"It needs better reporting with more graphics and more pie charts, so management can understand details. The reports that are done now are full of data and management would like to have an image to help understand, right away, what the reports are saying."
"I think that the interface could be cleaner, and easier to use."
"The GUI is limited with respect to how much you can develop and visualize the process."
"One of the areas that I've had challenges with is making complicated reports."
"Currently, we have to get different data from different sections of the site. It would be nice if it was all combined into one."
"Our initial setup was complex from two dimensions, because we were deploying it globally and had to have a centralized view, but a distributed approach. We had it in Asia and North America, causing a slightly complicated approach."
"The solution does not have automation with other Firewalls."
"I would like to see the setup of the Unified Security Policy simplified."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product's pricing is high but flexible. It now follows the pay-per-use pricing model. I would rate the tool's pricing a five out of ten."
"The solution is expensive and could be cheaper."
"The price of the licenses could be lower. Still, because we have Panorama with 25 firewalls, Palo Alto gives us a good discount."
"Everyone, I suppose, would like the price to be improved. Price is always a good thing to change."
"The licensing is not cheap. There are always hidden costs. You have support costs, or maybe you need to buy more optics on how the solution fits into the rest of your environment. It is possible some of the rest of your environment will need to change too."
"We have a yearly license. The cost is not that high and not that cheap either."
"Pricing is high compared to other vendors in the same space. Licensing is also fairly high for different functions to be added on."
"Pricing for Palo Alto Networks Panorama is always high. If you're going to sell the product, you always have to talk about the technology because it should be about the solution rather than the price."
"Pricing is quite high. We did compare it with AlgoSec but the pricing is not much different between the two."
"Our licensing costs are three million total and then we pay for maintenance, which is an additional cost for three years."
"While licensing varies greatly, it is about $50,000 a year."
"I suggest talking with Tufin about the flexibility of the pricing structure."
"The licensing costs are a significant amount of money."
"I had a bad experience with the financial department, and the price is too high. The software does work and does the job. The solution is worth the money. If I had a different partner to implement the solution, it would have been worth the price."
"I'm saving 20 man-hours a week, so I am seeing some ROI."
"We did look at less expensive solutions than Tufin, but being a corporation, this solution made sense."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
17%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Retailer
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Palo Alto Networks Panorama?
The most valuable aspect of Palo Alto Networks Panorama for me is the centralized management of multiple firewalls.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Palo Alto Networks Panorama?
In large installations, it can be expensive with hardware appliances, however, virtual Panorama is well-priced and is sold every time there's a solution.
What needs improvement with Palo Alto Networks Panorama?
The integration between Strata Cloud Manager and Panorama could be enhanced to allow customers to stay on Panorama for many years while still utilizing Strata Cloud Manager for deployment.
What do you like most about Tufin?
The most valuable feature of Tufin is security auditing. We are able to check the rules and compliance of the company, for example, what is allowed or not. We are able to check the rules over diffe...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Tufin?
Tuffin is expensive, and we have to explain to our customers the benefit for them to purchase. If we explain the benefits in the correct way they do not mind the price. We typically do costing for ...
What needs improvement with Tufin?
The reporting function could improve in Tufin. For our clients with companies that have strong compliance, reporting privacy data is mostly a problem. In the IT department, private data needs a fun...
 

Also Known As

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Tufin SecureCloud
 

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Sample Customers

University of Arkansas, JBG SMITH, Temple University, Telkom Indonesia
3M, AT&T, Blue Cross Blue Shield, BNP Parabas, ConocoPhillips, Deutsche Bank, GE, IBM, Pfizer, United States Postal Service 
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