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."The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"It is easy to use and performs very well."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is the control over the network permissions and the network."
"I think that one of the best features is definitely the premium version, along with the IDPs in terms of the intrusion detection and prevention system."
"All its features are good. That's why we recommend it."
"Among the most valuable features are the DDoS protection that protects your virtual machines, the threat intelligence, and traffic filtering."
"It's helped us improve our security posture."
"I can easily configure it."
"The solution should be capable of self-scaling, which is one of the features we like about it."
"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."
"FortiOS's best features are its function as an internet gateway and how easy it is to manage."
"It's simple to use in terms of inbound and outbound traffic management."
"The most valuable features are the intrusion prevention system and the anti-virus."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are the SD-WAN, SSL inspection, and IDS/IPS functions."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are the ease of use and user-friendly interface."
"This is an easy means of setting up high-availabilty firewall protection."
"There are many useful features, such as web security and advanced threat detection."
"The classification of the websites is helpful."
"There are a lot of bugs I have found in the solution and it is difficult to upgrade. These areas need improvement."
"One of the features that I would like to have is to do with endpoint production, it should be integrated. For example, the firewall gets notified of any kind of forensic event that needs to be done, such as if there is a ransomware attack and how it originated, all those records have to be available from the firewall, which is not."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having a frequent ask questions(FAQ) area for people to receive quick answers to popular questions. Additionally, it would be beneficial to have an SMS notification feature. For example, if you cannot access your email you could receive an SMS message."
"It would be a benefit if Fortinet would release a one-stop solution that is better integrated with other products and an automated emergency response system."
"In the balance between links feature normally you can just choose one option to balance. It would be better for the solution to have more than one option, preferably three."
"The firewall engine is not so strong as of now, in my opinion... My second concern is that, while they have Zero-day vulnerability and anti-malware features, the threat engine needs to be strengthened, its efficiency can be increased."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"This solution is not mature when it comes to handling perimeter traffic like internet browsing."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Azure should be able to work better as a balancer also, instead of just being a firewall. It should have a wider mandate."
"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."
"For larger enterprises, they need to adjust the scalability."
"Fortinet FortiOS's integration could be improved."
"There is no flexibility."
"I would like to see more statistics in the monitoring part."
"I can only compare it with SonicWall, and it is missing many advanced features that SonicWall has."
"It should also manage the local DSCP network."
"The reporting and monitoring could improve, they have a lot of limitations. The monitoring is not easy compared to the other firewall."
"The solution could improve the log retention and reports."
"Lacks flexibility for different scenario configurations."
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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