We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall and Check Point CloudGuard Network Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The SD-WAN is the most valuable feature."
"It is useful for protecting and segregating the internal networks from the internet. Most of our customers also use the FortiGate client to connect to their offices by using the VPN client, and of course, they usually activate the antivirus, deep inspection, and intrusion prevention services. They are also using it for web filtering and implementing various policies dealing with forwardings, NAT, etc."
"In terms of security, we have not experienced any security flaws or loopholes, and it has proven to be quite stable."
"Web filtering and two-factor authentication are great features."
"We use a southern institution that's audited for IT security and the reporting that automatically comes off the unit makes it much easier to meet compliance standards and makes it easier as far as the amount of time that has to be spent to compile that information. If you get your reporting set up correctly when you initially set it up, you just select the one you want and hit print. The auditing trail on it is the best feature."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"We can use our devices to check all of the perimeters. It secures email websites."
"The Fortinet FortiGate local partners were good. I did not have direct contact with Fortinet support."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is the control over the network permissions and the network."
"We secure the entry point to the virtual data center with the firewall."
"Performance and stability are the key features of this product."
"We use the solution for application and server deployment."
"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."
"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."
"The solution is very stable. When comparing it to other environments, it's actually quite impressive."
"It's auto-scalable, which is a great feature."
"The tool's most valuable features for us are threat prevention, HTTPS inspection, and the Anti-Bot blade. Threat prevention helps to protect our assets from threats. HTTPS inspection ensures secure communication, and the Anti-Bot blade is particularly helpful in detecting C2 servers, enhancing our ability to identify malicious activities and protect our network."
"It improves the availability of engineers to carry out projects."
"The solution provides a centralized management console for easy administration and monitoring of security policies and events, making it easy for the security team."
"Workflows across the company ecosystem have can flow smoothly without experiencing any challenges."
"All the features that we subscribe to from CloudGuard NGTP are valuable. All the threat prevention and access control features give us the network security that we expect."
"The most valuable feature of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is the increased mail protection including spam."
"Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has a beautiful threat emulation different from the market."
"The central management feature is a big plus, allowing us to manage both local and cloud gateways from one platform."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"WAN load-balancing could be a lot better at detecting when a link is poor or inconsistent, and not just flat out dead."
"FortiGate is really good. We have been using it for quite some time. Initially, when we started off, we had around 70 plus devices of FortiGate, but then Check Point and Palo Alto took over the place. From the product perspective, there are no issues, but from the account perspective, we have had issues. Fortinet's presence in our company is very less. I don't see any Fortinet account managers talking to us, and that presence has diluted in the last two and a half or three years. We have close to 1,500 firewalls. Out of these, 60% of firewalls are from Palo Alto, and a few firewalls are from Check Point. FortiGate firewalls are very less now. It is not because of the product; it is because of the relationship. I don't think they had a good relationship with us, and there was some kind of disconnect for a very long time. The relationship between their accounts team and my leadership team seems to be the reason for phasing out FortiGate."
"Its reporting capabilities can be improved. It should have some out-of-the-box reporting capabilities and some degree of customization. The basic reporting that it currently has is not sufficient to create more usable reports. It needs some sort of out-of-the-box reporting. They try to make customers purchase FortiAnalyzer for this kind of reporting, which is an additional cost. Other firewall vendors, such as SonicWall and Sophos, provide this sort of reporting without any additional cost."
"The solution can have more features in a single box that can be multi-applied to integrate everything."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"If I had any criticism that I would give FortiGate, it would be that they need to stop changing their logging format. Every time we do a firmware upgrade, it is a massive issue on the SIM. Parsers have to be rebuilt. Even the FortiGate guys came in and said that they don't play well in the sandbox."
"The UI could be improved."
"The solution should incorporate features similar to competitors like split tunneling."
"Azure should be able to work better as a balancer also, instead of just being a firewall. It should have a wider mandate."
"There are a number of things that need to be simplified, but it's mostly costs. It needs to be simplified because it's pretty expensive."
"The threat intelligence part could be better. I don't see why our customers have to get an additional solution with Azure Firewall. It would be great if they made it on par with Palo Alto."
"They can improve the pricing of Azure Firewall."
"There should be better monitoring and logging. Currently, it is put in Sentinel. It should be more seamless and from the interface."
"The product could be made more customizable."
"The reporting, logging, and monitoring features, as well as the flexibility of the policies, need to be improved."
"Check Point Virtual Systems is a complete solution, but pricing can be better."
"In future releases, I would like to see the data loss prevention (DLP) feature could scale along with the virtual machine scale sets."
"The business and product development team should introduce a high-end feedback collection mechanism and analyze the customer requirements constructively."
"The documentation could be much better."
"Its architecture and user interface need improvement. The user experience for this solution also needs to be improved, particularly in implementation, management, and operations."
"The solution needs to improve the interruptions that happen during gateway upgrades."
"The deployment phase takes too much time."
"The product needs to improve technical support."
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Azure Firewall is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 8th in Firewalls with 119 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6. 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 Check Point CloudGuard Network Security writes "The solution has good threat emulation, threat extraction, and reporting features". Azure Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Netgate pfSense, whereas Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is most compared with VMware NSX, Cisco Secure Firewall, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Illumio. See our Azure Firewall vs. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security report.
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