Palo Alto Networks K2-Series Reviews

The existing solution is primarily provided for cloud vendors or cloud customers who typically request an external firewall for various scenarios. For these cases, I provide this same cloud-based solution. They often want third-party solutions, and we cater to those needs for our customers.

There is a feature called granular application controls, which I liked. Instead of relying on ports and IP addresses, they use AMP ID. This kind of solution is very good. Another valuable feature is the prevention of evasive threats, which is one of the best tools I've encountered. 

SSL decryption and app ID-based SSL decryption are also impressive, along with the integration with user ID. Identity-based policies ensuring only authorized users can access specific resources are excellent features. Normally, there is something called SIM or SCIM in IDA IDM, but this feature is provided on the box, which is exemplary.

It is a very user-administration-friendly solution. They are always upgrading their solutions. They were the first ones to come up with the sector solutions. They are always updating their solutions and proactively giving solutions updates as well.

Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is a more secure solution nowadays. It provides all these solutions from a single point of view. It provides security, networking, SIM solutions, and cloud-based solutions. It has all the bundle solutions right now.

We are a system integrator and the Palo Alto K2-Series is one of the network solutions that we implement for our clients.

Many of the implementations that I am part of are for the banking sector in Egypt and generally, they are not interested in cloud-based solutions. The K2-Series is well-suited for this use case.

This Palo Alto firewall is easy to manage. You just implement it and forget about it. The Panorama management tool is very easy to use.

The documentation is good.

We are using Palo Alto Networks K2-Series to have security for one of the leading educational institutions.

The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is the performance which is above their competitors. The throughput they have delivered is good. When we used other solutions they failed the deployment when we were using different rules. They have a theory perform performance light and performance degradation. However, Palo Alto Networks K2-Series never fails in that scenario.

The solution was a firewall that bridged the internal systems with their DMC equipment and/or restricted systems access that wasn't generally available to anyone outside of the organization.

The solution gets the access controls down to an even more precise part of the network traffic. It's not just any user going to an IP address or going to a port to get on the network. It's very thorough.

I support the Palo Alto firewall that is already installed. We have the Palo Alto in the data center, and we just have to put access within most various VLANs and permit some type of service or access.

I have found the threat profile feature valuable.

It would be really helpful to have dashboards that provide information on IOC blockings such as where and how many. It will also be good to know how many hashing files have been reported. It would also be nice to have easy access to this information. Otherwise, it's a painful, manual task.