We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall and Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."There are lots of features and most of them are deployed for internet security. Users are protected if they accidentally go to some malicious sites."
"The most valuable feature is the FortiManager for centralized management."
"We have found it to be very reliable and that's why our teams and various users in our company use it as our main firewall every day."
"The integration with Active Directory is one of the good features. Most of the customers are now looking for the Single Sign-on feature. So, being able to integrate Active Directory with the firewall is useful. It is also easy."
"UTM/NGFW features and FortiCloud for logs and backups are awesome."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"All of the features of Fortinet FortiGate are useful and the security protection is good."
"The web filtering feature and the intrusion protection system are the most valuable. It is a resilient appliance. I never had an issue with it in terms of any security breaches."
"We secure the entry point to the virtual data center with the firewall."
"It's auto-scalable, which is a great feature."
"Microsoft's technical support is very good. They're quite knowledgable and responsive."
"Azure Firewall is a cloud-native solution that removes the pain of load balancers."
"We use the solution for application and server deployment."
"One of the notable advantages of Azure Firewall is its user-friendly interface, which closely resembles or shares similarities with other Azure components."
"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 solution has many useful features. For example, the solution allows users to create virtual IP addresses."
"The solution is very robust."
"The most outstanding feature is being able to centralize each of the functions in a single device."
"The filtering was very good."
"Firewalls help us a lot in controlling traffic on our network and preventing unauthorized access."
"It provides visibility and drives organizational security."
"The most valuable feature for us was to implement negligent functionality, to direct functionality to viewer control and application control so we could disconnect, and at the same time, we installed checkpoints. We disconnected our proxy."
"The databases and its signatures are its most important features."
"We can create a domain to separate and segregate some functions, some services."
"Maybe they could make some features more accessible, such as a way to translate directions between two networks that share the same subnets."
"In the next release, I would like to see the interface simplified to be more user-friendly."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"We would like to see a better training platform implemented."
"MTBF: Hardware failure is more common when compared to SonicWall or Cisco ASA."
"With FortiGate, the main complaint that I have heard is about the technical support."
"There are some problems that support cannot give you a logical reason as to why it happened. For example, I had a case where I was dealing with a WhatsApp application that was giving issues. Technical support gave more than one reason it could be giving issues, but none of them solved the problem. Eventually I solved the problem, but it was far from the solutions that support had given."
"Its reporting capabilities can be improved. It should have some out-of-the-box reporting capabilities and some degree of customization. The basic reporting that it currently has is not sufficient to create more usable reports. It needs some sort of out-of-the-box reporting. They try to make customers purchase FortiAnalyzer for this kind of reporting, which is an additional cost. Other firewall vendors, such as SonicWall and Sophos, provide this sort of reporting without any additional cost."
"The development area and QA area could be improved. With those improvements, we can improve projects and take even less time to implement them."
"The interface could be improved, it's not very user friendly."
"You have to have a defined IP range within your network to associate it with your network. The problem is you have to plan ahead of time if you expect to use the firewall in the future so that you don't have to reconfigure your subnets or that specific IP range. Other than that, I don't any issues. I use it for basic configuration for a single application, so I really don't try to leverage it for multiple applications where I might find some complexity or challenges."
"An Azure firewall is not a real firewall."
"The product could be made more customizable."
"Azure Firewall should have a free trial version for new users so that they can evaluate it before deploying it."
"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 would be nice to be able to create groupings for servers and offer groups of IP addresses."
"The solution should be more user-friendly."
"I am not able to see a demo."
"The solution could be improved if there was a better way to report. The reporting functionality is not really good. Even though it's not the major function. Maybe adding a way to make a custom report."
"Technical support was very bad because the supplier who sold it to us, wasn't very supportive, and he wouldn't giving us direct links to the OEM."
"While the technical support is good, the Indian level technical support could use an upgrade."
"Specifically on the user experience, sometimes the set up of things, such as the VPN SSL, takes a lot of time to load and a lot of time to get up and running on every session."
"Some features that could be improved are advanced threat protection, sandboxing, and vulnerability management."
"As we don't have a representative of Check Point in Mozambique, this makes it very difficult when we have some issues to resolve."
Earn 20 points
Azure Firewall is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 19 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while Check Point UTM-1 [EOL] is rated 8.2. 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 UTM-1 [EOL] writes "Great firewalls, VPN, and Intrusion prevention capabilities". 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 UTM-1 [EOL] is most compared with .
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