What do you like best about the product?

Ease of Use
Palo Alto SD-WAN excels in its intuitive interface, which simplifies policy management and traffic prioritization. Leveraging my experience with CheckPoint and Stormshield NGFW platforms, I found Palo Alto’s centralized dashboard particularly streamlined for configuring QoS policies and monitoring application performance. The visual topology mapping reduces complexity in troubleshooting, aligning with my work in global WAN environments (MPLS, IPSEC, SSLVPN).

What do you dislike about the product?

Cost and Licensing Overhead
The platform’s premium pricing model and feature-tiered licensing (e.g., advanced security modules, cloud integrations) may strain budgets for small-to-medium enterprises. This contrasts with open-source or cost-flexible solutions like pfSense or Fortinet, which you’ve likely encountered in past roles at smaller firms.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Deploying Prisma SD‑WAN at the Hungarian State Treasury has given me a single, cohesive platform to manage thousands of encrypted tunnels, enforce uniform security postures, and deliver predictable performance to all branches—without the typical silos, manual overhead, or visibility gaps of legacy WAN architectures.