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."Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is load balancing. It can provide central management and VPNA. Additionally, it has enhanced our security environment."
"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."
"The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is URL filtering."
"Easy to use support and licensing portal as well as activation process."
"Fortinet FortiGate is scalable for our users. Right now, we have almost 70 users. We do not have any plan to increase our usage of FortiGate. For maintaining the firewall solution, one staff member is enough."
"The features that prevent internet connections, the filtering are the most valuable because we did not have any internet protection before."
"The solution can autoscale."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature is threat intelligence. It is based on filtering and can identify multiple threats."
"One of the best features is that it natively integrates with Azure Services and tools. When you have a third-party offering, that is not the case. But Azure Firewall provides a comprehensive and seamless security solution for your Azure resources."
"Performance and stability are the key features of this product."
"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."
"Great security and connectivity."
"The Layer four features are okay and meet my business needs."
"For ten to 12 years it has been quite secure."
"For my organization, it has become much easier to scan the firewalls because the solution is more user-friendly than competitors."
"I have found the most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiOS is the low maintenance."
"The most valuable feature of this solution would be the caching feature."
"Compared to other firewalls, the segmentation is much easier in FortiGate."
"Fortinet has optimized the WAN environment for connecting users to the application."
"Their classification inside of that database of the various threats is typically very, very good."
"Has a very simple OS and a good price point."
"There are just some services that aren't available. For example, the Ethernet or point-to-point protocols. They could add these services to their product offering - especially services for ISPs."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve by integrating the web application firewall and the DDoS protection part of the solution. Having a WAF feature, web application firewall, and proxy together would be a good benefit."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding FortiAnalyzer to its solution, we should not have to use another solution. FortiAnalyzer can provide more detailed information."
"I don't like that anything more than very basic reporting is not included."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"Application management can be improved."
"The threat intelligence aspect of this particular firewall is not at par with other providers."
"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."
"An Azure firewall is not a real firewall."
"The solution should incorporate features similar to competitors like split tunneling."
"They can improve the pricing of Azure Firewall."
"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."
"The interface could be improved, it's not very user friendly."
"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."
"Fortinet FortiOS can improve by limiting the need for the CLI and GUI combination. The more functions they can have on the GUI and less on CLI would be helpful."
"You can enable and disable certain modules in it. However, with disabling, nobody can really tell us if that module is disabled."
"Could be improved by supporting an allocation of quota base management regarding user data."
"The solution needs improvement with DDoS protection."
"The support is not very good, but the product is stable so it is not so much of a problem."
"The signature discs, compared to Palo Alto, aren't as good. It takes more time to get the signature updates."
"Their first-level support is often poorly trained."
"It should also manage the local DSCP network."
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 FortiWeb, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection and Darktrace. See our Azure Firewall vs. Fortinet FortiOS report.
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