Panorama is Palo Alto Networks' central management platform for administering multiple Palo Alto Networks firewalls, whether they run at the perimeter, in a data centre or in the cloud. It provides a single shared rule base, hierarchical device groups and templates, role-based access control, graphical views of applications, URLs and threats, and a correlation engine for identifying compromised hosts. Panorama is delivered as software that you operate yourself: as a virtual appliance on hypervisors or cloud platforms, or as dedicated M-Series hardware. It can act as a manager, as a log collector, or as both.
Palo Alto Networks is headquartered in Santa Clara, California (US). Panorama is proprietary software, not open source. Because it runs as an appliance or virtual machine in your own environment, you decide where management data and logs are stored, for example in an EU data centre. Palo Alto Networks also offers Strata Cloud Manager as a cloud-delivered management alternative; that is a separate service not assessed here. As a US vendor, the company is subject to US law, including the CLOUD Act.