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What is Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall?

Palo Alto Networks' VM-Series Virtual Firewall is the industry’s leading cloud security software, delivering the world’s most effective network security to any cloud or virtualized environment. It is a virtualized form factor of Palo Alto Networks' next-generation firewalls, built to protect your applications from zero-day threats, providing consistent security and easy deployment across all clouds and virtualized environments, including technologies from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, VMware, Cisco, KVM, Nutanix, OpenStack, and more.

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Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall is a cloud security software that allows businesses to prevent data loss and threats with this virtualized firewall for private and public cloud environments. VM-Series is a virtualized form factor of our next-generation firewall that can be deployed in a range of private and public cloud computing environments based on technologies from VMware, Cisco, Citrix, KVM, OpenStack, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google.

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Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, is shaping the cloud-centric future with technology that is transforming the way people and organizations operate. Our mission is to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. We help address the world's greatest security challenges with continuous innovation that seizes the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, analytics, automation, and orchestration. By delivering an integrated platform and empowering a growing ecosystem of partners, we are at the forefront of protecting tens of thousands of organizations across clouds, networks, and mobile devices. Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. For more information, visit www.paloaltonetworks.com.

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Habib F.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
2.5 out of 5
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It was informative and I like how it protects people
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4.5 out of 5
"Great VM series Virtual firewall by Palo Alto Networks"
The integration with various cloud providers is really amazing. I use AWS, it helps me integrate with it. But it’s not limited to AWS- we can work ...
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What do you like best about Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall?

Palo Alto Networks VM-Series has evolved into a powerful security tool which is flexible when deployed in a virtual environment or in the cloud. Following are some of high level features and benefits as per my experience:

Cloud-Native.

Multi-Cloud Feature.

Scalability and Flexibility

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What do you dislike about Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall?

Overall this is one of the perfect and scalable solution, however everything comes with improvements, instead of dislike I wanted to call few improvements as of Setup should be easy, Lack of Support and Cost need to be optimised Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?

Palo Alto VM helps to solve few of the key challenges as of securing hybrid and multi-cloud environments, preventing advanced threats which is one of the biggest challenge in this evolving CyberSecurity world, and microsegmentation really helps for availability and redundancy. For users it really helps with automated security policies across diverse platforms, ensuring compliance, and reducing attack surfaces in dynamic cloud infrastructures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall?

I have worked with global enterprise clients using different Network VM solutions and Palo Alto worked for us for two main aspects: having PA deployed universally on all our firewalls facilated the internal management of our naas by our team and the support from PA when needed was always spot on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall?

VM firewalls can only have 9 DP interfaces that's a limitation that this kind of product has Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?

For our Naas architecture we benefited in terms of automation of the policy and device management, cost efficiency and scalability. In fact having several customers we often need to modificate policy and configuration and to rather migrate, change the architcture or install or dismiss new firewalls. So having an unique system like the PA solution is huge benefit for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall?

The integration with various cloud providers is really amazing. I use AWS, it helps me integrate with it. But it’s not limited to AWS- we can work and integrate with Azure, GCP etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall?

The complexity while setting up the VM series virtual firewall is bit tricky and time consuming. Also with Infrastructure as Code tools it’s not really great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Terraform in my daily work, so it really helps me in automating my deployments with secured way. Moreover the security is stand out point I’ll say when we compare with other tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall?

Well, there are many positive aspects of this virtual FW. The majority ones are - quick and easy deployment, features go beyond layer 3/4, Integration with other third-party softwares for enhanced monitoring and off course user friendly GUI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall?

High cost is the major drawback when compared with other competitors in the market. All firewall features are not bundled being said that need licensing for some advanced features. As virtual VM it consumes high amount of resources and need a larger appliance to run VM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?

App based filtering, IDS and IPS, enhanced monitoring etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall?

The WildFire analysis for detecting zero-day malware is impressive. It quickly flagged a test malware file I uploaded, and I could see real-time analysis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall?

The syntax isn’t intuitive for a new user. The logs are detailed but lack context for beginners. I had to refer to external documentation to understand why a session was blocked Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?

Other firewalls struggle to detect unknown or zero-day threats that don’t have existing signatures. WildFire analyzes suspicious files in a cloud-based sandbox and generates new security signatures in real-time

In most cloud environments, security teams lack clear insights into blocked threats, making incident response slow. After enabling Threat Prevention, I saw multiple intrusion attempts targeting exposed SSH ports.

The logs showed attack patterns (e.g., brute-force attempts from suspicious IPs in Russia & China). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall?

I really like the advanced threat protection it offers, it is a stand out feature for me. Also it integrates really well with all cloud providers like AWS, Azure, GCP etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall?

The Terraform support is not that much good I'll say. Also costing is bit higher. And the initial setup seems complex to me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?

It actually enhances security beyond typical firewalls like Azure or AWS ones. It automates deployments using Terraform scripts which is helpful for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall?

It is providing advanced threat protection with deep packet inspection, application based control, and zero-day threat protection through wildfire. it integrates seamlessly with major cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and google cloud, ensuring consistant security policies across hybrid and multip-cloud environmnets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall?

I don't have anything i dislike. Everythins looks perfect for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?

It addresses key problems such as inconsistent security across hybrid and multi-clous environments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall?

It is very helpful especially for the organizations using cloud environments. It simplifies usage by providing various tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall?

It is difficult to set up and time taking. Also price is high which makes it difficult to afford for individual usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps in building firewall integrating with google cloud. And also helps in providing security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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It was informative and I like how it protects people Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall?

I think it’s abit expensive , and I’m sure there are many cheaper alternatives Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Secure my endpoints Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall?

I like that Palto Alto VM-Series is simple to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall?

I am not a fan of the high pricing of the Palo Alto VM Series. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is helping by detecting potential malware by investigesting the signatures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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