We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall and Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Microsoft Security Suite solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Among the most valuable features are the DDoS protection that protects your virtual machines, the threat intelligence, and traffic filtering."
"The SIEM that Azure Firewall provides us is very robust."
"The most valuable feature is the integration into the overall cloud platform."
"The solution is stable."
"One of the notable advantages of Azure Firewall is its user-friendly interface, which closely resembles or shares similarities with other Azure components."
"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."
"I can easily configure it."
"We use the solution for application and server deployment."
"I value how Threat Intelligence integrates with the different platforms in Microsoft."
"The product’s most valuable feature is the ability to provide threat detection and protection simultaneously."
"It is very scalable. There are approximately 2,000 endpoints and up to 200 servers in our company."
"Microsoft collects trillions of signals from all over the world, which is incredibly valuable. It helps us identify zero-day vulnerabilities and global threats."
"The tool can proactively detect potential incidents."
"The user interface is pretty user-friendly."
"It just runs in the background. I don't have to worry about, making sure it's Intelligence. So, you know, this kind of makes it very easy, have to worry about installing. It is easy to use."
"The technical support services are excellent."
"It's a little heavy compared to a FortiGate or other firewalls."
"Azure Firewall should have a free trial version for new users so that they can evaluate it before deploying it."
"The solution doesn't offer the same capabilities of Fortinet. It should offer intrusion prevention and advance filtering. These are two very useful features offered on Fortinet that Azure lacks."
"It would be nice to be able to create groupings for servers and offer groups of IP addresses."
"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."
"It would be much easier if the on-premises, firewall rules, had some kind of export-import possibility in place, which is not the case right now."
"Azure Firewall has limited visibility for IDPS, no TLS inspection, no app ID, no user ID, no content ID, no device ID. There is no antivirus or anti-spyware. Azure Firewall doesn't scan traffic for malware unless it triggers an IDPS signature. There is no sandbox or machine learning functionality, meaning we are not protected from Zero-day threats. There is no DNS security and limited web categories."
"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 price of the solution is an area of concern where improvements are required. In general, the solution's price needs to be reduced."
"The tool's onboarding of users that use on-premise or hybrid environments needs to be improved."
"The price point is something they can improve slightly for those who don't have an M 365 E5."
"It would be beneficial to enhance the pricing structure and make it more affordable."
"It's a bit complicated to manage because you have many dependencies of servers, many dependencies in queue, and so on. Entries or different endpoints, and you make different configuration topics for each one. So that's a major problem."
"I would like for there to be extra confirmation that there aren't viruses. Even if the virus detection software is always running there could be hidden applications that are using the computer."
"Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence is evolving and needs to fix and enhance numerous issues like stability and licensing. The continuous rebranding and licensing changes are confusing."
"Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence should integrate with different platforms."
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Azure Firewall is ranked 14th in Microsoft Security Suite with 33 reviews while Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence is ranked 16th in Microsoft Security Suite with 24 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence 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 Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence writes "A tool that offers endpoint protection with low maintenance costs". Azure Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Fortinet FortiGate, whereas Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence is most compared with Microsoft Sentinel, STAXX, Cisco Threat Grid, ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) and VirusTotal. See our Azure Firewall vs. Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence report.
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