We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall and Fortinet FortiOS 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."Some of the key features of the solution is that it has good reporting, you can receive many details from the connection, for example, clients and website information."
"One of the valuable features is a standardized OS."
"The technical support is great."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is the simple configuration."
"Reliability is the best feature. We faced some issues when we were setting it up, but the service, portal, and administration are good."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"The license management is very valuable. You can get a new license each year, or you can enroll every two to four years. You can get the logs, and you will get the information on the risk in your network and the entire organization. With this information, you can take action on your actives, computers, or devices. You can bring your own device as an SSE."
"In terms of the reporting, it's beautiful. It integrates with Azure monitoring and with Azure policies. That piece is a big help. You can set governing policies and you can use the application firewall, as well as the Azure Firewall, to enforce those policies."
"We secure the entry point to the virtual data center with the firewall."
"I like its order management feature. It doesn't have the kind of threat intelligence that Palo Alto has, but the order management makes it much simpler to know the difference."
"The firewall policy control, URL content control, and antivirus are all the most valuable aspects. Threat prevention is as well quite good."
"Microsoft's technical support is very good. They're quite knowledgable and responsive."
"The solution has many useful features. For example, the solution allows users to create virtual IP addresses."
"I can easily configure it."
"The Layer four features are okay and meet my business needs."
"FortiOS's most valuable feature is a next-generation firewall that can be used as the APT solution in advanced threat protection."
"The solution constantly adds features that are useful and user-friendly such as the ability to tweak firewalls through the CLI."
"Fortinet has optimized the WAN environment for connecting users to the application."
"All networks are security-driven, we get throughputs and security. We feel that the people at Fortinet are easy to deal with from a support standpoint. If they need to jump in and help us, they're very willing to do that. Their email filtering, their data loss prevention, their intrusion prevention, type of products in the newest OSs has been outstanding."
"All of the features in this solution are effective and efficient."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiOS network segregation, UTM, and antivirus, freight management protection, such as DDoS. Additionally, the CLI and the GUI are easy to use. The architecture makes sense, and the command in the CLI are organized well. They have quite a lot of features are easy to use, and are user-friendly. Any novice can use Fortinet FortiOS without an issue."
"We found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"The most valuable features are the ease of use, and the overall simplicity, everyone can use it with a small introduction."
"Its reporting and pricing need improvement."
"One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"There aren't really any negative aspects to discuss."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"Sometimes you do need to know some CLI commands, so it's a bit harder for technicians or new people that don't know it."
"I feel that the reporting needs to be improved."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve the integration with Active Directory. Additionally, I would like to have a Cloud Controller, such as they do in the Cisco Meraki solution."
"Currently, it only supports IP addresses, so you have to be specific about the IPs that are in your environment."
"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."
"There is room for further integration of AI into the system."
"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."
"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."
"The product could be made more customizable."
"It needs a lot of improvement, especially on intruder detection. They are working hard on that."
"Right now, with Azure Firewall, we cannot have a normal inbound traffic flow. For inbound, Microsoft suggests using application gateways, so the options are very limited. I cannot use this firewall as an intermediate firewall because of the limitations, and I cannot point routing to another firewall. So if I want to use back-to-back firewall architecture in my environment, I cannot use Azure Firewall for that type of configuration either."
"In the future I would like to see more user-friendly dashboards and a drop in the price."
"Their first-level support is often poorly trained."
"The solution's graphic interface could be a bit more responsive and include notations when changes are made."
"We had assistance from one person from our local vendor for the implementation."
"I would like to see smaller and more frequent updates."
"The central management can improve in Fortinet FortiOS. It is sometimes difficult to manage all the devices."
"SD-WAN configuration could be easier."
"The signature discs, compared to Palo Alto, aren't as good. It takes more time to get the signature updates."
Azure Firewall is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while Fortinet FortiOS 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 FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". 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 Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Fortinet FortiWeb, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection and Darktrace. See our Azure Firewall vs. Fortinet FortiOS report.
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