We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall and Check Point CloudGuard Network Security 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.
"Its stability is the most valuable."
"The web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"Its user interface is good, and it is always working fine."
"The technical support is great."
"We were looking for the VPN feature and controlling the inflow and outflow of all the traffic within the site and across the sites. We are also using it for the VPN and VLANs."
"Fortigate is very scalable to serve our customers' needs. We have scaled already from fifty to more than a hundred instances of Fortinet FortiGate. Around 20 staff are required for deployment and maintenance, mostly engineers."
"It's very fast and easy to configure."
"It is simple to manage, and there are a lot of functionalities in the same box."
"All its features are good. That's why we recommend it."
"Azure Firewall's feature that I have found most valuable is its scalability."
"We use the solution for application and server deployment."
"The solution is very stable. When comparing it to other environments, it's actually quite impressive."
"The firewall policy control, URL content control, and antivirus are all the most valuable aspects. Threat prevention is as well quite good."
"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."
"The solution is stable."
"Azure Firewall is a cloud-native solution that removes the pain of load balancers."
"The ease of administration with the cloud management extension and the cloud licensing model is valuable."
"The most valuable features are the ease of administration with the cloud management extension and the cloud licensing model."
"What's most valuable to me is that it's a contiguous solution that aligns well with the components that we've relied on and trusted from a traditional hardware, firewall, and unified threat management system. My engineers and analysts don't have to learn another platform. We have already entrusted our security controls to Check Point for perimeter and physical security, and now we can do so at the virtual layer as well, which is key to us."
"CloudGuard's intelligent tools help us automate many manual security tasks, guaranteeing our customers' environments will be secure."
"It is dynamic and agile, and its features and utilities continuously improve and evolve."
"The VPN features in CloudGuard Network Security have been the most valuable for us."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring. We can easily monitor what kind of stuff comes over to our network and we can then check the dashboard and work accordingly."
"Additionally, the centralized reporting and management, accessible through a single pane of glass, offer consistency and efficiency across multi-cloud environments."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"Its filtering is sometimes too precise or strict. We sometimes have to bypass and authorize some of the sites, but they get blocked. We know that they are trusted sites, but they are blocked, and we don't know why."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"The cloud features can be improved."
"Fortinet could improve the windows opener or the virtual IP solutions for opening windows. The virtual IP settings need improvement as firewalls are trending in new development directions."
"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 needs a lot of improvement, especially on intruder detection. They are working hard on that."
"It's a little heavy compared to a FortiGate or other firewalls."
"Azure has new versions including a premium firewall. But I would like to see them not put the premium features on Azure Firewall Premium alone because it is quite expensive."
"For larger enterprises, they need to adjust the scalability."
"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."
"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."
"The business and product development team should introduce a high-end feedback collection mechanism and analyze the customer requirements constructively."
"We did not use the AWS Transit Gateway, and that's one of the things that we're currently using. I believe we will be working with Check Point again, in the near future, to implement it, once they start having proper support for a single customer with multiple accounts. When we were using them, we had to install Check Point on each and every single account."
"The operations require skilled manpower with extended experience of working with networking systems for better results."
"The product needs to improve technical support."
"The price of the solution could be reduced, it is expensive."
"The initial deployment using the ARM template in Azure was straightforward, but migrating to Terraform added complexity, although we managed to make it work."
"The threat scanning system should categorize the level of threats to enhance reliable data interpretation."
"New features have been introduced recently, but they have not yet been integrated into CloudGuard Vsec."
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Azure Firewall is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 8th in Firewalls with 117 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6. 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 Check Point CloudGuard Network Security writes "The solution has good threat emulation, threat extraction, and reporting features". Azure Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is most compared with VMware NSX, Cisco Secure Firewall, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Illumio. See our Azure Firewall vs. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security report.
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