We operate in the automotive industry. Internally we work with computing and networking equipment, concentrated on collecting, storing, processing, and distributing enormous amounts of data. Our company deploys this solution for internal web security purposes.
The Palo Alto solution has improved our organization by providing threat protection across a variety of internet connections. Our company also gets valuable insights regarding threat analysis.
One way Palo Alto can improve is by offering sandboxing. I don't know if they currently offer a sandboxing feature together with the firewall or not. They should provide secure sandboxing with the firewalls.
The stability of the solution is good.
The initial setup and configuration was straight-forward.
The solution was deployed by a small team of about five people in our facility. Their roles included end users, application developers, and system administrators, etc.
I would say it will take another three to four years to realize any significant returns on our investment.
I would recommend using this solution as an enterprise-class security, including a firewall and protection for Microsoft Edge. This solution can also be used as a data center or file storage tool for workloads (small or large).
I would rate this tool as a 7 out of 10.
To add on... Palo Alto just released 9.0, which adds a huge amount of even better functionality. Their Endpoint Security - TRAPS just also released a new version (6.0) and they are incorporating XDR functionality soon, as well as correlation for anomaly detection across the combined data stream from both firewall and endpoint platforms. We have already started testing SSL decrypt months ahead of schedule and incorporated multiple threat feeds. It just keeps getting better with their forward-thinking vision of a modern security platform and ecosystem.