Re: Firewall Vendors

[Ben Parker <BParker () CHICORPORATION COM>]

Shayne,
Like several others mentioned, it would be interesting to know what GUI issues you had.

To address the training portion, you can certainly pay for training, but they do have some free web based training 
available as well. If you go to the live.paloaltonetworks.com site and look for the Learning Center link it will take 
you to their training portal where you can sign up for some of the online training. It is basically flash based slides, 
so not perfect but better than nothing.

Probably more useful if you are trying to learn the Palo Alto product is the following document “A Day in the life of 
Packet” https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/docs/DOC-1628 It discusses how a packet flows inside the Palo Alto firewall 
and will help you gain a technical understanding of how the firewall works. This was what the instructors at a partner 
SE certification bootcamp drilled as the most important thing to understand.

-Ben Parker, CSNE
- System Engineer
- @ A Palo Alto VAR
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Shayne Ghere
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Hello,

We just moved from Cisco FWSM’s to two PA 5050 firewalls.  We’re having some issues with the GUI, which is what they 
recommend using, but we’re used to the CLI.  When you purchased them, did they offer any type of training or offer 
training?

I’d appreciate any information you could provide.

Thanks!
Shayne
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+1 for Palo Alto.   We’ve been using their 5020’s and are very happy with them.   Threat protection and the free 
wildfire feature works great.  We’re also using Procera units for bandwidth management and haven’t considered 
eliminating them, at least not yet anyway.  HTH.


Regards,
Manny
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Manny Amaral
Associate Director of Information Technology
(781) 292-2433

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Palo Alto Networks.  We have had a pair of their next generation PA 5050s and have been very happy with them.

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Ronald King, CISSP
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Greetings,

At Maryville we currently use a Sonicwall firewall that is rapidly reaching end of life and are starting to explore 
alternative vendors.  Curious which vendors and models others are using for your firewall solution.  We also use 
Packetshaper as part of our solution and we would consider a single firewall device and eliminate the use of 
Packetshaper if we can find the right solution.

Regards,

Rick.

Rick Kubb
Director of Technology Services
Maryville University
314-529-9606
Gander Hall, Room 215
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