We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall and WatchGuard Firebox 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 pricing is great and very reasonable."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the SD-WAN and their IP4 policy."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of configuration."
"Consolidated our network environment at all locations, but mainly at our datacenter."
"The IPS is good. It protect my network from attackers."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"The signature database and zero-day detection are Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"It's auto-scalable, which is a great feature."
"The most valuable feature is threat intelligence. It is based on filtering and can identify multiple threats."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution is very stable. When comparing it to other environments, it's actually quite impressive."
"We use the solution for application and server deployment."
"The Layer four features are okay and meet my business needs."
"The SIEM that Azure Firewall provides us is very robust."
"The solution has many useful features. For example, the solution allows users to create virtual IP addresses."
"Easy to change the model if you need more performance, with good cohesion in the whole lineup of devices."
"The solution simplifies my business. Normally, for administration, we are using NetApp System Manager on Window since it's easy to create new policies. In a short amount of time, you can create new policies based on new requirements. For example, in the last few months, many requirements changed due to the coronavirus, adding the use of new services, like Office 365, and eLearning tools, like Zoom."
"I could still keep the data rates really high, up near the two gigahertz data speeds, without compromise on the security perimeters being acted simultaneously."
"Firebox's best feature is the access portal."
"The most effective and helpful features of WatchGuard Firebox, especially when purchased with the full suite of applications, are its bundled applications and subscriptions for comprehensive protection against various threats."
"The GUI is easy and intuitive."
"The security that is used for defending from the attacks is very good."
"The set up was quite straightforward and we handled it in-house. It took a few hours to deploy the product."
"The reports are very basic."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"There are some tiny bugs that sometimes affect the operations. In the past revision of it, there was a bug. Because of the bug, we had to downgrade the version. It happened only with the last revision."
"Performance and technical support are the main issues with this solution."
"I would like to see improvements in the support from Fortinet. Here in the Philippines, whenever we have problems with a Fortinet product, we mostly ask for support from distributors and resellers and not directly from Fortinet."
"There were quite a few problems with the stability of the system."
"Azure should be able to work better as a balancer also, instead of just being a firewall. It should have a wider mandate."
"The development area and QA area could be improved. With those improvements, we can improve projects and take even less time to implement them."
"We find it's different implementing it region-to-region. It might help if it was universal across all regions."
"There is room for further integration of AI into the system."
"For large organizations, a third-party firewall would be an added advantage, because it would have more advanced features, things that are not in Azure Firewall."
"The solution should incorporate features similar to competitors like split tunneling."
"They can improve the pricing of Azure Firewall."
"The reporting, logging, and monitoring features, as well as the flexibility of the policies, need to be improved."
"There is room for improvement in the threat protection, data packet inspection, and performance of the solution. Generally, it's just a lower-end product. It does the job but doesn't do it very well."
"Make WatchGuard Firebox capable of integrating with third-party vendors like FireMon, Splunk, Tenable, etc."
"The solution's pricing could be improved."
"I would like to have a little more control over access points and the ability to see the bandwidth that is passing through a specific access point. We are not able to see that. We can see what traffic is passing through the Firebox itself, but we can't identify if it is coming from a particular access point or not."
"I don't think I can get a full-blown DNS client from it. I've been trying to have DNS services. It has forwarding, but I don't get the services of a full DNS client. My main difficulty with it is that I can't run a complete service. I need NTP. I need DNS. I need DHCP for my domain, but I only get forwarding. As far as I can tell, I don't get caching and the kinds of reporting and registration needed to host a DNS for a domain. I have to have a separate solution for that."
"One area for improvement could be making the interface even more user-friendly."
"Once you start getting into proxy actions and setting up: "Okay, cool. Once this rule gets triggered, what actions have to happen?" I do know a few people who use WatchGuard and they still have to get assistance when they look at that. So I would file that as a con for WatchGuard. Proxy actions can be a little bit complicated."
"There should be better integration and a way to configure multiple vendors into the same data center in order to offer more flexibility."
Azure Firewall is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 33 reviews while WatchGuard Firebox is ranked 13th in Firewalls with 79 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while WatchGuard Firebox 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 WatchGuard Firebox writes "Offers a streamlined deployment, intuitive interface and robust security features". Azure Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Check Point NGFW, whereas WatchGuard Firebox is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, SonicWall TZ and Stormshield Network Security. See our Azure Firewall vs. WatchGuard Firebox report.
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