We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall and Fortinet Fortigate VM based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Azure Firewall seems to be the more favorable choice. It is priced more fairly than Fortinet Fortigate VM; it includes more features; its survive and support ratings were much better than Fortinet’s; and PeerSpot users found Azure Firewall to have a greater ROI.
"What I like the most is the configuration and that it's simple, and straightforward to maintain."
"The next-generation firewall is great."
"It's very easy to set up, it's very easy to make policies and, for an organization, that means you don't need IT expert in firewalls. You just need to have somebody who knows a little bit of IT, and that's it. With other products, you need someone with a "Masters" degree in firewalls."
"I think that the UTM features are the most value, as it truly protects my infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"The base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"FortiGate is flexible and easy to use."
"I think that one of the best features is definitely the premium version, along with the IDPs in terms of the intrusion detection and prevention system."
"The SIEM that Azure Firewall provides us is very robust."
"We secure the entry point to the virtual data center with the firewall."
"It is easy for me to protect certain ports or even the IP addresses, as well as do whitelisting, blacklisting, and the FQDN when we want virtual machines connected and to protect certain websites."
"The solution is very stable. When comparing it to other environments, it's actually quite impressive."
"It provided ease of maintenance. If a new firewall was needed, we only had to run the pipelines for this. So, the maintenance was very easy."
"One of the notable advantages of Azure Firewall is its user-friendly interface, which closely resembles or shares similarities with other Azure components."
"The solution has many useful features. For example, the solution allows users to create virtual IP addresses."
"The interface is decent."
"The dashboards are a good feature."
"It offers the same robust features and functionality in virtual, on-premise, and traditional data center environments."
"Technical support has been super responsive and dedicated to getting any challenges resolved."
"The most valuable feature is the WAN optimization."
"It’s easy to integrate the solution with our network infrastructure."
"I've found the UTM features and the SD-WAN to be most valuable."
"It is easy to set up the solution."
"We would like to see better pricing."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"The support system could be improved."
"The cloud management and automation capability could be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve to be on par with its competitors, such as Palo Alto and Sophos. They are the market leaders. Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve its capabilities. However, we are happy with Fortinet FortiGate."
"The scalability could be better."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"The Web-filter in this solution is not very good."
"Azure Firewall definitely needs a broader feature base. It should be able to go all the way up to layer 7 when looking at applications and things like that."
"It would be nice to be able to create groupings for servers and offer groups of IP addresses."
"It has fewer features than you can get from other firewalls, like anti-spam and anti-phishing. Those kinds of things are not included. It only includes IDS and IDB."
"Azure should be able to work better as a balancer also, instead of just being a firewall. It should have a wider mandate."
"It is a cloud service, but the lending speed for each region is not always the same. For example, in China, the speed is slow. They need to think about how to make sure that the service pace or speed is always the same in all regions. It would be a great improvement if they can provide the same pace worldwide."
"The solution should incorporate features similar to competitors like split tunneling."
"You have to have a defined IP range within your network to associate it with your network. The problem is you have to plan ahead of time if you expect to use the firewall in the future so that you don't have to reconfigure your subnets or that specific IP range. Other than that, I don't any issues. I use it for basic configuration for a single application, so I really don't try to leverage it for multiple applications where I might find some complexity or challenges."
"There should be better monitoring and logging. Currently, it is put in Sentinel. It should be more seamless and from the interface."
"The stability of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Sizing can be challenging for customers interested in using Fortinet FortiGate-VM."
"It would be useful to have integration with different reporting tools. This is something we are sorely missing. It would be a plus to have reporting integrations. It would be good to have more integration with the identity suites, such as Office 365 and Azure Active Directory, of different providers that we use. Integrations are already available, but it would be nice to have some more advanced options."
"Improvements are needed for the responsive UI and JIT traffic reporting."
"The GUI could be improved."
"The stability could be improved. I find Cisco to be more stable than Fortigate, which is I major differentiator between the two."
"his is not a good solution for enterprises. It's better for smaller companies."
"There are certain GUI features that should be present but are not."
Azure Firewall is ranked 22nd in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Azure Firewall writes "Easy to use and configure but could be more robust". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate-VM writes "An easy-to-manage and configure tool that provides ample documentation to help with the setup phase". Azure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Check Point NGFW and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense. See our Azure Firewall vs. Fortinet FortiGate-VM report.
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