What advice do you have for others considering Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks?

Prisma Access is best suited for enterprise and mid-level customers. It may not be the best fit for the SMB market due to higher pricing. I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.

I typically recommend Prisma Access to private companies, especially small or medium-sized ones. Integrating the product with other tools is easy as it offers APIs. I rate it a seven out of ten.

My company didn't receive any support from Palo Alto to connect securely to our organization's branch offices. The tool is very easy to deploy. Another co-engineer and I in my company completed the deployment task for the solution. The deployment is not very difficult, especially if you have Palo Alto's Next-Generation Firewalls since with it, you can really get the VPN connection for Windows and other operating systems, but my company had faced some challenges with Linux, so we had to purchase another license only for it. For Windows and Mac devices, the tool is free. If I purchase Palo Alto's Next-Generation Firewalls, it is free for Windows and Mac, but a license is required to use Prisma Access on Linux. I haven't used the cloud-based nature of Palo Alto Networks to simplify our company's network security management. I have only used the on-premises version in our company's infrastructure for GlobalProtect. I don't have any idea about the cloud Security in the product. The performance and reliability of the product are good. For the integration process, you first have to configure the firewall with the default management port IP, or alternatively, users can configure it through the console, which includes the CLI mode and GUI mode. Okay. After logging into the firewall from the CLI or GUI, you can configure GlobalProtect by taking into consideration the outside and inside zones, which we want to give access to via the tool. I am experienced with the tool's GUI mode. I configured it through the GUI mode. The first thing you have to learn about Palo Alto GUI mode is how to configure GlobalProtect. In general, I rate the tool an eight and a half to nine out of ten.

Overall, I would rate the solution a seven out of ten.

I rate the overall product an eight out of ten. It reduces the attacks by providing an additional layer of security that inspects all traffic going to the internet. In terms of handling traffic spikes or network demands, the product performs well, but occasional tuning and adjustments may be required, such as changing the connection node. It enhances security protection beyond endpoint and computer security, which is effective when accessing the internet, and it also ensures secure VPN access to your company.

The product is secure for remote workers since it has many cloud-based facilities that can offer protection. The product can provide improved access to those clients who do not directly go to SaaS applications but prefer to use such applications via Prisma Access since it provides security policies to help secure the network traffic. For security needs, the product's security profile is good. I have experience with the product's GlobalProtect VPN feature, and I feel that it works fine. The feature also allows the customer or client to go through a tunnel to Prisma Access. The integration of Prisma Access with Palo Alto Networks can provide a better security posture. The integration of Prisma Access with Palo Alto Cortex XDR is the best, especially when our company sends the logs from Prisma Access to Cortex Data Lake. My company gets a full view of the attack part, consolidation, and timeline of the attacks in Palo Alto Cortex XDR. I recommend the product to those who plan to use it. I rate the tool an eight out of ten.

I rate Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks an eight out of ten.

Those who plan to use the solution should ensure very good user profiling is carried out, after which they should link the product with the corporate security policy. Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks is a very flexible solution, and you need to know exactly what you want out of the solution, which should align with the policies in your company as it is an area that differs from one corporate entity to another. Considering the cost of the solution, I rate the overall tool a nine out of ten.

I recommend people try the product out because it's really good. I rate Prisma Access an eight out of ten.

It is one of the top solutions in the market. I hope that they will continue to tune and optimize their product based on the feedback that they get from the users. This way, it will keep its place among the top ten solutions in the global market. Overall, I would rate Prisma Access an eight out of ten. It is good, but they should improve their support and its integration with non-Palo Alto solutions.

Prisma Access has a lot of features, but we have been using it for only two months. We have not fully used it yet. We have not used the whole functionality. The good thing is that they are providing a proof of concept. You can do a proof of concept and see if it is suitable for you. If you are already using Palo Alto firewalls, it will be better for you. It will be much easier for you to use Prisma Access. If you are familiar with Palo Alto in general, it is easy to use because it is very similar to their operating system of firewalls. If you have previous experience with Palo Alto, it is much easier. Otherwise, it will take a little bit of time, but it is easy. The only thing that can be a bit complicated is the service connection. In Prisma Access, you have two types of connections: service connection and network connection. They do almost the same thing. They can create confusion if you are not familiar with them. Prisma Access can secure not just web-based apps but non-web apps as well, but we are not using this feature currently. Overall, I would rate Prisma Access an eight out of ten. That is because we cannot manage firewalls from the cloud.

I rate the solution nine out of ten. It's important to us that Prisma Access provides all its capabilities in a single, cloud-delivered platform. We previously used different firewalls with a Zscaler proxy for particular purposes, but now we don't have to purchase dedicated hardware. Prisma offers most of the features we need in one solution, so it's like getting three or four products in one; we don't have to go for extra tools to secure our apps or get a VPN because it's already provided. That Prisma Access provides millions of security updates daily is significant for us; there are new challenges and threats every day. Palo Alto Networks must keep its security up to date to protect against new and developing threats, as this security is essential to our operation. We don't use the solution's Autonomous Digital Experience Management (ADEM) features, and it doesn't allow us to deliver better applications; instead, it makes our applications more secure. The biggest lesson I've learned from using Prisma Access is how easy management becomes; we don't have to log into multiple devices, and everything is accessible from one GUI. The product comes with a helpful guide, and I recommend reading that before using Prisma Access. It's pretty simple.

At the end of the day, Prisma Access is nothing but a firewall that is hosted in the cloud. It depends on your capacity, the users that are connecting, and the VM you are running in the backend. It has all the capabilities and subscriptions that we were using on-premises. I don't see any challenges in terms of security. It is secure. They haven't compromised on anything with Prisma Access. It tries to protect us as much as possible. It's crucial for us and is helping us a lot if you look at it from a business perspective. We can do a lot with it and use it for eight to nine use cases. It supports your data and voice and, as I noted, I haven't seen any other product support both. Prisma Access is the best product. It depends on what you're looking for. But if you have a lot of requirements, you should go with Prisma Access.

I rate Prisma Access a four out of ten. There are many tools out there that can do the same actions. This is not the best tool to use if you're only looking for an allowlist for production.

I would rate this solution as nine out of ten.

The crux of why we're using the product is because of the automations. We are very confident that the product will keep us secure at all times. We are able to inject Prisma into our build jobs without it really affecting our build times or the developers. The solution has reduced alerts investigation times by 60-70%. I would rate this product as a nine out of ten.

If you have a company with branch offices, you do not need to have your own data center. You can simply connect your branch offices as well as your remote VPN users to the Prisma Palo Alto data center. You do not need to maintain your own data center. It will save your LAN cost, electricity cost, and labor cost. Make sure that you are familiar with your company's network design and your design is compatible with Prisma Access. Make sure that the design is properly done and every use case or scenario is properly discussed. After that only go for the Prisma Access solution. I would rate Prisma Access an 8 out of 10.

If you are planning on using the SASE model for your organization, I would recommend Palo Alto Prisma Access. It works well, based on my experience. I have come across many firewalls and I have hands-on experience with various devices, but Palo Alto is the best for everything. It is the best device for infra security. It not only has security, but it works well when it comes to routing and switching. Overall I would rate Prisma Access at 8 out of 10. It gives us centralized management and reliability, scalability, and ease of configuration.

In the same way a customer manages their on-prem firewalls that are not on Prisma Access, they can manage Prisma Access infrastructure through Panorama. That makes it easy for them. The customer is already familiar with how to manage things with Panorama, so there isn't much that is new. There are little changes but that's it. If a customer is already using Palo Alto, we recommend going with Panorama. Overall, the security provided by Prisma Access is top-notch. It is the same firewall that Palo Alto provides for a local setup. It's the best firewall, per the industry review ratings.

If it is a natural transition from a purely on-premises model to a hybrid model where you have a significant number of sites or you are moving towards Zero Trust Network Access for providing a decentralized VPN solution, you should definitely go for it. It provides the entire security stack, so you don't have to keep on adding different solutions and then try permutations to make them work together. Prisma Access does everything beautifully. You don't need a lot of training or develop a lot of skills to manage the solution because it has evolved from Palo Alto Next-Gen firewalls. For DLP, we are not using Prisma Access because it is a network DLP. Being a semiconductor company, we needed a couple of controls to ensure that the entire flow of the communication is very well defined. Therefore, we are using different tools that auto-discover, and then we put controls. For example, we have endpoint DLP, network DLP, and email DLP. We don't want to rely on Prisma Access because it sits outside of our perimeter. We want to have as much close control over the source as we can. It didn't enable us to deliver better applications because this implementation was done in a silo. This project was not done very sequentially. It has been quite sporadic. The way the solution was built, applications were not at the center. We built it with a top-down approach. It was our first cloud-deployment model, and we haven't faced any problems with any of the standard applications. All the custom apps that we are bringing from the original plan are working the way they're supposed to. So, we never faced any challenges with regards to the performance or the security after deploying these applications. The entire setup is fairly agnostic to the types of applications that we already have, and a couple of them are not standard applications like Office 365, Workday, etc. They are fairly custom apps that you use in your lab environment or manufacturing utilities, and it works with them. I would rate it a nine out of 10. Except for the visibility part, it is great. I am taking a few other client projects that are for Fortune 100 companies, and I am doing a lot of refreshes for them. Prisma Access is definitely going to be at the top of my list. It is not because I know this product inside out; it is because of the experience that our clients are getting with it, the security it provides, and the proactive updates that Palo Alto is pushing for Prisma Access.

I rate Prisma Access nine out of 10. It has been constantly changing since it was released. Palo Alto is the leader in all these technologies on the Gartner Magic Quadrant. I would advise anyone considering Prisma to look at their endpoint protection and evaluate how it fits in the overall enterprise solution, including integration with operational technology.

There are some encrypted traffic flows that you're not supposed to decrypt and intercept, but even for those we have constructs that give us at least some level of inspection. Once tunnels are established, we have policies to inspect them to a certain extent. We try to make sure that pretty much everything that needs to be inspected is inspected. All of this comes down to accountability and to protecting our users. Organizations with a worldwide footprint and distributed-services architecture require best-in-class security. Health organizations and pharmaceutical companies also do, because they are dealing with highly sensitive patient data or customer data. Organizations like these that have public, internet-facing web applications, need top-of-the-line security. Prisma Access, from an interoperability standpoint, addresses the big question of how well their web-facing applications are protected from potential malicious attacks. And the answer is that it is all integrative, all a part of a fabric with interrelated components. It protects the users who are accessing the corporate network and the corporate network from any potential risk from those users. Prisma Access gives us the ability to design architectural artifacts, like zones and segments, that really make for effective protection for web-facing components and internal applications. In terms of Prisma Access providing all its capabilities in a single, cloud-delivered platform, not everything gets on the cloud. You cannot take a mainframe and put it on the cloud. You have to understand the difference between Prisma Access and Prisma Cloud. Prisma Access is all about user accessibility to enterprise networks in the most secure way possible. Prisma Cloud is the platform to integrate various cloud environments into a unified fabric. As for Prisma Access providing millions of security updates per day, I don't know if there are millions, but it is important. We take advantage of some of the automated features that Palo Alto has provided us. We try not to get into the granular level too much because it increases the administrative overhead. We don't have the time or the manpower to drill into millions of updates.

I have learned that moving operations to the cloud is a good thing. I rate Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks a nine out of ten.

We're just customers and end-users. We are using a SaaS version of the solution. I will definitely recommend implementing this product as it has a very good scalable solution. Considering this work from home scenario in COVID, it is one of the best solutions one can implement. However, my advice would be to make sure you have enough internet bandwidth while implementing and also make sure there is site-level redundancy at your end. If you are a client then you won't implement it. Make sure there are two separate IP set terminals published from the client to your end. That way, if something goes wrong, your internet goes down or something, the VPN will be accessible. One good lesson I have learned is that earlier in my thought process related to VPN was very narrow. I never thought that you can put it across multiple continental gateways and allow users to access it so fast. I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.

I would recommend this solution to others. I would rate Prisma Access a nine out of ten.

We're just a customer. We don't have a business relationship with the company. I'd advise others that the solution is largely based on the complexity of your environment. It's not that deployment's difficult. It's just that you want to put it where it's most efficient. You've got to take the time to figure out where your users are and how they connect and where they're connecting from. Overall, I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

We have to pitch it to smaller customers. When it comes to medium-sized organizations, they are almost dedicated to a VPN solution. This is a good solution and I can recommend it, although it would be improved with better MDM integration. I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

Anyone who is considering working with Prisma Access should go ahead and implement it. This is a product that I recommend. I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

I will give this solution an eight out of ten rating because theoretically, I looked at a lot of other products but Palo Alto seems to be covering all aspects and I'm sure the competitors like to tell everybody they have more features, but I've not experienced it yet.

I would recommend the solution. The solution really depends on your budget, of course. If you have a really low budget it's not a low budget solution, so it can really depend on the budget you have. But if you have a budget for enterprise or best of firewalls I think you should take this solution into consideration. I would rate this solution at 8.5 or 9 out of 10. No product, of course, is totally perfect and a ten is something that I don't think that exists. I think maybe it needs a bit more ease of how applications and dependencies run. Because sometimes you push a firewall rule and you get lots of dependencies so that could be a more manageable thing. Extra guidance in using applications and things like that would be helpful.

We had a very good experience with their solutions, especially with their endpoint protections and the next-generation firewalls. We are a local distributor in Palo Alto here in Egypt. So we propose this technology to our customers and our partners here in Egypt. Palo Alto offers very good technology and hardware. Its very good in this category of solution. You have options of providing or proposing to a customer a small box, or sometimes a mid range. It depends on the model and the deployment. I would rate this solution 8 out of 10.