Palo Alto Panorama

Panorama is Palo Alto Networks' own management console, centralising oversight of its firewalls across on-premise infrastructure and multiple clouds. Being vendor-native is both its strength and its limit: configuration depth and feature parity with the firewalls themselves are far better than any third party can offer, but the estate it governs is Palo Alto's.

For an organisation standardised on Palo Alto, that is the right trade, and the migration guidance published alongside it suggests consolidation from device-by-device administration is a common path in. Palo Alto notes it has been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls for eleven consecutive years, which speaks to the underlying platform rather than the console specifically. Mixed estates should compare it against the vendor-agnostic managers in this category, which trade configuration depth for breadth of coverage.